Top Ten Tuesday!

Books I Could Re-Read Forever

1. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

What year is complete without the annual pilgramage through the Harry Potter series? In all honesty, I have probably read it through 6 times by now.

2. The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

I'm sure everyone knows by now that this is my all-time favorite series. Between re-reads and reading like, everything published on AO3, a measurable percentage of my life is dedicated to reading about these nerds.

3. All For the Game by Nora Sakavic

I love these broken children to little tiny bits. I'll pull up my e-books for frequent re-reads, and I recently bought the whole series in paperback. Just to hold them, and gaze at them fondly sometimes. You know, important reasons to spend $40.

4. The Mediator by Meg Cabot

I grew up on this series. Legit. As a pre-teen I'd re-read the series in a week maybe a couple times a year. I recently had the trip down memory lane because there was a sequel to the series oh my goood. So another re-read occurred, of course!

5. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

I feel like this one was published in that small window where YA wasn't cool, so the amount of people who haven't read this breaks my heart! Where is the fandom for Dustfinger or Farid or Moe? Give! Me! Fan! Content!

Honorable Mention: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

The more Maas I read, the more I'm honestly a little bit over her. But dead in the middle of a fairly mediocre series is this gem. It's over 600 pages and I've read it cover-to-cover three times! Why was the rest of the series not this perfect?

What books could you re-read into eternity? Let me know in the comments!

Weekly feature courtesy of That Artsy Reader Girl.

Character Spotlight: Dustfinger (Inkheart)

"She'll tell it to you. Just go to her and...and tell her I've had to go away. Tell her I'm going to find out if the story is true." 

- Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

Dustfinger is quite possibly my favorite literary character of all time. Cornelia Funke, who has woven a dark and complex young adult world with the Inkheart trilogy, pits Dustfinger at the heart of most tragedy and turmoil that befalls his world. 

At best, Dustfinger is a self-loyal, cunning, talented yet selfish man. Layer in some of the most complex character relationships I've ever seen including a married woman he falls in love with, his remarried wife whom he never thought he'd see again, his bratty apprentice, the man who alternates between destroying and saving his life, his own author, and, of course, the series' main character Meggie.

Among those relationships, that between Dustfinger and his apprentice Farid is one of the most beautiful I've seen in YA literature. In fact, I've never seen a relationship with the same dynamic--it isn't friends, bros, romance, or father-son, it simply is what it is.

Bonus points: even though the movie was awful, Paul Bettany portrayed him perfectly.