Some Favorite Book Dedications

This week's Top Ten Tuesday is Books with Geographical Terms in the Title (Submitted by Lisa of Hopewell) but I'm not doing that. I'm listing some favorite book dedications. There aren't that many creative dedications since most authors just named names. I have read every book on the list aside from #7, #9 and #10. For more Top Ten Tuesday, visit That Artsy Reader Girl here.

01 -

For my housekeeper Mrs. Cuttlefish who I buried in the garden (Book 1)
For my grandfather Plantagenet Krisp, who never saw it coming (Book 2)
For my benefactress, Gwendolyn Greystoke, who was kind enough to vanish at sea (Book 3)
—  Ivy Pocket Series by Caleb Krisp, Barbara Cantini (Illustrator)

02 -

To the monkey and the frog. For an eternity of ten thousand tales.
— My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologies (aka My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry) by Fredrik Backman, Translated by Henning Koch

03 -

For Boots and Sally and Alice and Gandolf, four very adventurous cats
— The Girl Who Sailed The Stars (aka The Girl, the Cat & the Navigator) by Matilda Woods with illustrations by Anuska Allepuz

04 -

To the heroine who saved me
— The Library of Ever by Zeno Alexander

05 -

For all my students
past, present, and future
May we all meet in heaven café
writing for eternity.
— Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

06 -

For Larry and Danae
With apologies for using their swimming pool as the scene of a murder
— The Hollow by Agatha Christie

07 -

This book is dedicated to the voices in my head, the most remarkable of my friends. And to my wife, who lives with us.
— Anxious People by by Fredrik Backman, Translated by Neil Smith

08 -

For Sophie: look what you started.
— Premeditated Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 1) by Elizabeth C. Bunce

09 -

To my cat-loving son and his sister, whose first word was "rock." And, of course, to my husband, who applied to be an astronaut. See you on Mars.
— The Lions of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm

10 - 

To everyone who would rather sit in a corner petting the dog than make conversations at a party: this one's for you
— Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson

Do you have any favorite book dedications?

Fiction: Mrs. Blake and the Ugly Immortal

This August Words for Wednesday prompts are provided by David M. Gascoigne and is hosted at Elephant's Child over here. This week's prompts are happen, truck, hollow, daffy, tired, joke and/or relationship, nature, true, home, aphorism, dragged.

Fiction: Mrs. Blake and the Ugly Immortal
Immortals are dreadful was what Mrs. Blake had to say about her experience though she really meant the opposite. She remembered things all too well but now and then, she would wonder if her mind had gone soft that night.
    It happened long ago or so said Mrs. Blake. That Friday evening, Mrs. Blake was walking home carrying three paper bags of groceries because Mr. Blake had been too lazy to have the car fixed and too lazy to go with her. As she walked, Mrs. Blake had thoughts. One was when she get home, she will call her lawyer to draw up papers to divorce her husband. Another was what to cook for dinner that Horace didn't like. A third was why was it the grocery store didn't offer free deliveries unless you spent 100 dollars or more. Mrs. Blake was three dollars short and she offered to pay it but the checkout girl insisted that's not how it's done. She gave Mrs. Blake a look of utter impatience while drumming her fingers on the cash register. There were ten or so people behind Mrs. Blake who were also looking impatiently at her. Mrs. Blake was too timid to go back and get another item which would have only taken her a minute or two but people, she believed, were impatient and more so, they were rude if you so much as delay them even for a second. She had a lot of unwanted experiences in that.

Reasons why I would purchase books for my library

This week's Top Ten Tuesday is Books I loved so much I had to get a copy for my personal library (Submitted by Alecia @ The Staircase Reader) but I will tweak it a bit to Reasons why I would purchase books for my library. When I say library, I meant one skinny bookshelf and I usually like to get paperbacks or occasionally, when the paperback has a really awful cover, then hardcovers. For more Top Ten Tuesday, visit That Artsy Reader Girl here.

Reasons why I would purchase books for my library:

01 - To re-read them in paper form —  I do re-reads when I don't want to read my current books or if I'm feeling particularly wanting to read a book in paper form since I now mostly read ebooks. I definitely prefer to re-read books in paper format rather than in ebook format.

02 - To love them — I don't know if that's true. Can you be loving a book if you just look at them on the shelf once in a while? Or if you flip through them thinking you might read them but end up not doing so?

03 - So I can have them — Yes, it's a real reason. I do have books that I have never re-read, I just have them after reading them only once. I don't particularly love them and yet, I don't know why I can't give them up.

04 - To display them — No one sees the books but me but I guess it gives me a certain satisfaction to see certain books around me. I suppose this is probably the same as #3. But I do only like to surround myself with books I have read and loved.

05 - To read them later — I would purchase books in paper format of books I haven't read before but I am sure I would love them which is a gamble because if I didn't love them, well, I guess it would be a pity. It's very easy to believe you would love a book even without reading them. I don't do this often because it can get very expensive.

06 - Impulse purchases — With impulse purchases, whatever reason I had when I'm at the store, somehow becomes different when I got the books home. Strangely, I haven't any impulses to buy books these days. I guess since I can borrow books from the library, there is no real reason to buy books unless I just go and make up a reason because who needs a reason to buy a book?

07 - 10 — Because they are books — So I really don't have ten reasons to list but for reasons I can't really explain, I just love owning books (in paperbacks or  hardcovers). My collection is small but it's better than not having any books at all. I think I saw in a movie or perhaps read in a book about a girl with a small collection of books that she kept reading over and over because that's all she have and yet, she enjoyed reading them which kind of makes me wonder if everyone has a small collection of books (even if it's just two or three books), then life would be wonderful but sadly, we can't consume books and live on them.

Do you purchase books to put them in your library because you love them or maybe you don't need any reasons to do so?