Frequent Commenter Award

Gabriel Reads has just won its second award...from the same blogger. Nonners at Ridiculous Reviews has given me the Frequent Commenter Award.

As a recipient of this award, I have to pass it on to at least two other people and then recommend four books and four book blogs.

My two recipients are Karen from Book World in My Head and pwb of Curiosity Killed the Bookworm.

My four book recommendations are:
1) Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn (Dear gods, I hate the new cover!)
2) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
3) Imajica by Clive Barker
4) The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Edwards (aka the Julie Andrews)

My four book blog recommendations are:
1) Fluidity of Time
2) A Muggle's Magical Book Blog
3) Reading Lark
4) Ridiculous Reviews

Thanks for the award, Nonners! I promise you I'll get around to making yours...once I'm done with my backlog of reviews.

-Gabe

And the Award Goes to...

Me. Thanks to Nonners at Ridiculous Reviews who awarded me the Stylish Blogger Award. She was one of my first followers and has been a frequent commenter on my site, which already makes her awesome in my mind. She just did a redesign and it looks great. You should definitely go check out her blog and follow her as well.

As the recipient of this award, I have to link to the person who awarded it to me (Nonners), post seven things about myself, and then pass the award on to seven other bloggers.

Seven Factoids about Gabriel:

1. I am a giant history nerd, specifically ancient Greek history. In fact, I consider The Landmark Thucydides to be one of my top ten favorite books of all time.
2. I name my pets after book and television characters. At one time I had a fish named Severus Snape (Harry Potter), one named Michael Vaughn and one named Sydney Bristow (Alias), and a cat named Selmak (Stargate SG-1). Currently I have a cat named Teyla (Stargate: Atlantis).
3. I am fascinated by the anthropomorphic personification of Death and/or Grim Reapers (e.g. Discworld, Dead Like Me, etc.). 
4. I once wrote a novel in two weeks. I then spent over a year and a half editing it. It's probably the biggest piece of crap that I've ever written and I will never, ever publish it. 
5. I love sushi and Chinese food, but mostly I just like eating with chopsticks. I get cravings to use them from time to time.
6. I'm a theater geek, especially musical theater. My favorite musicals/musical movies are Sweeney Todd, Les Miserables, and Reefer Madness. I've seen three shows on Broadway: Hairspray, Les Mis, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
7. I organize my bookshelves by Dewey Decimal.

And now, the seven blogs I'm awarding (in no particular order):

1. The Perpetual Page-Turner
2. The Little Bookworm
3. A Muggle's Magical Book Blog (formerly Quick Quotes Quills)
4. BookHounds
5. Crazy-for-Books
6. Fluidity of Time
7. Reading Without Restraint

Go and check these blogs out. They're definitely worth reading. 

-Gabe