Hello, dear reader!! We switching things up on Fridays and so we’ll have a few new, non-review posts coming up. Here’s one of them:
Playing off the theme that a picture’s worth a thousand words, Picture This is a post that deals with the visual behind the books we love. In these posts we’ll share an image or two, talk about why we shared them and then we’ll leave the floor open to you to share your thoughts! So, without further ado, this post’s Picture This theme is….
Mermaids
I’ve been re-reading The Syrena Legacy series for my offline book club and between that and summer, mermaids have been on my mind. I love their grace and beauty, their mystery and allure. For me, mermaids have more darkness to them than our friends at Disney would show, and there’s something so completely intriguing about them for me.
What do you think? Are you a fan of mermaids? What’s your favorite mermaid book in YA or elsewhere?
Let us know!
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I think mermaids are kind of creepy… I’m not a big fan of fish in the first place. I mean wow they breathe underwater and all that, I guess that’s cool. But their “skin”? It’s soo slippery that I can’t deal with it. Same goes for snakes. Eeek.
Mermaids? I feel so weirded out just knowing they are half fish! And then I always have this questions swirling around in my mind: how do they procreate? How do they go about doing their business? The whole topic is just a big “no” area for me I try to stay away from. I liked the Disney film “Ariel” when I was little but that’s about it.
Also, isn’t the first picture from GNTM? 😀
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I was never a fan of mermaids as weird, dark creatures. I’ve always preferred to keep them as Ariel in my mind. 🙂
Also, I love book blogs, but I also love it when they incorporate non-book reviews, so I think this will be a really fun meme!
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I think Mermaids are beautiful! My favourite Mermaid book is FLORENCE by Ciye Cho. Nice pics above btw. I love the charcoal one on the bottom left.
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OMG!! Look at how cute your “Picture This” button is! And I love this idea — I’m such a visual person that this thrills me to no end. 🙂
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I love the first mermaid picture isn’t that from the movie SPLASH with Tom Hanks? Loved it when i was young.
So funn y you feature mermaids today I just recently posted a mermaid drawing I did on instagram seee
http://instagram.com/p/piO5iNQ_Y5/
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I’m in the middle of the Syrena books right now and loving them for summer. I love the mermaid story in that one!
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I’m not really sure what to think of mermaids actually. I prefer to picture them as Ariel swimming around with Flounder and Sebastian, but numerous movies and TV shows have debunked my mermaid fantasies. Making them appear more like savage monsters. So I guess you could say I’m a fan of mermaids like in The Little Mermaid.
I haven’t read any mermaid books, but I have heard about Of Poseidon, and I’m interested to see what all the hypes about. Though I’m a bit hesitant to be honest.
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I’m all for mermaids like Ariel, who swim around with their fish friends and daydream about human princes. However, numerous movies and TV shows have made me question whether or not mermaids are what they say they are, and in truth, are savage beasts. I prefer, to go with the former though, Ariel.
To be honest, I’ve never read a mermaid book. I have heard of Of Poseidon, but I’m not sure. I’m a bit iffy about it.
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sorry about the dual post, it wasn’t showing the first time, and it left the page so I had to rewrite it.
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I love mermaids!!!! But there aren’t any good mermaid books…how sad. Anna Banks’ series isn’t THAT good and Deep Blue is kinda childish so… there still aren’t any good mermaid books. *Cries
Is it that hard for an author to write a book underwater?!
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have you tried monstous beauty by elizabeth fama
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I’ve actually never read a book featuring a mermaid! I guess it’s time for me to look for my first one. I like this new post idea!
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I absolutely adore the graphic for this feature button, adore it!!
For some reason I’ve never been a fan about books all about mermaids or sirens, but last year I read one that had a mix of werewolves and sirens and loved it!
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i love the merfolk. I love the cutesy and dark side of these mysterious creatures. some ya books ive loved are: monstrous beauty by elizabeth fama and the vicious deep by zoraida cordova. i really hope that more merman based ya books come out in the future.
ps. the last picture is my favorite. so sneeky . evil grin.
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I love mermaid stories, but haven’t read any good ones yet. And these images are gorgeous!
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I haven’t read many mermaid stories and sadly, all the ones that I HAVE read have been rather terrible. :'( I love the images though! And this feature is going to absolutely amazing. I’m really excited to see more. 😀
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I love mermaids! I have read the Syrena Legacy series but am waiting to buy the third one and finish off the series 🙂 I really enjoyed this new meme!
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