Furthermore, I was wondering if people had interesting theories about the series and how it will end

Secretly I'm hoping the book will end with some kind of Ragnarok. You know: with giants and hero's and mythical beasts fighting eachother. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if the series would end with the end of the world and I think it would be pretty awesome 

Puss in Boots, which was a little bit of a disappointment. It's a nice movie and all, but not as funny as I had expected.

We did nothing special. Just the delicious diner (gourmet) 

I keep forgetting it's April Fools' today... xD

Bought tickets for Kamelot! 

(too bad the concert is in November... I'm impatient already.. xD)

I like the Seraphina-cover! It has a realy nice atmosphere. The things you mention in your post are very interesting. It was never aware of the fact that there are mostly white people on covers. I think it's annoying when the cover doesn't correspondent with the story.
...and then comes the moment that I realize I don't like covers with (mainly) faces on them very much. They kind of spoil my imagination, I think. You have probably seen a couple of different covers of The Hunger Games (for example): well, I would never have picked that book if it was for that girl looking through a bunch of leaves. The Mocking Jay-cover was much more appealing to me.

I also agree with Lacernella Rubra. I don't like movie-covers either. They give me the feeling I'm reading a book that is based on a movie and that the way characters are portrayed in that movie is the one and only way to portray them... (that's a completely logical sentence.) The best movie-cover I've seen so far is A Game Of Thrones, which didn't remind me too much of the series.

Have I every judged a book by its cover? Yes. Lots of times. Recently I saw a book in the bookshop which had a cover that was nearly identical to the cover of Eclipse (Stephenie Meyer). I hated the book immediately, without having read even the description. (I did pick it up however - and dropped it as soon as I read that it was "even better than Fifty Shades of Grey")

Anyway, here are some of my favourites:

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(The dragon doesn't look very great, but I just love the combination of black and gold.)

Having finished Dickens' Complete Ghost Stories a couple of days ago, I started reading Night Watch by Terry Pratchett today. My expectations are very high.

Best-book. Since you said that you like it when writers aren't afraid to put their characters through hell... and I think Suzanne Collins is that kind of writer (but there are a lot of writers like that, of course xD)