Book Crush of the Week: Author Venn Diagram

Another week, another Book Crush of the Week. We dig this Author Venn Diagram from HTML Giant, which categorizes authors into three main writing types (head, heart, mouth) and plots their intersections. We're fans of the concept, although we have a few minor quibbles with some of the author placements.  

And, of course, one of us is just thrilled to see William Faulkner so close to perfection the center of the diagram... while the other would place him on the moon instead of this diagram, if she could. Gold star if you can figure out who's who, although it's probably not too hard. : )

What category (or categories) do your favorite authors tend to fall in to? Do you like a certain mix in your books or do you lean heavily to one specific category? 

Image via HTML Giant.

Two Neurotics Try to Join the Classics Club and What They Found There

It's time to know something about us: we're more than a little neurotic. We obsess endlessly over the tiniest details. The latest manifestation of this? A couple of days ago, we thought it would be a cool idea to join the Classics Club, hosted by the awesome Jillian of A Room of One's Own. Easier said than done, because once we discovered the Classics Club, we wanted to see what everyone was reading. And once we started visiting all of the blogs, we sort of started to count the books we were seeing. And then came a spreadsheet... you see where this is going, don't you? 

Long story short, we made an infographic of the most popular authors and books from Classics Club's lists. These were the authors and books that came up again and again on every blog we visited. It was very interesting to actually weigh them against each other and see the results. So if you're curious about what other people are reading, check out the picture after the jump. (Feel free to grab it if you find it useful/entertaining.)