Top Ten Tuesday: Dear Santa...

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the girls over at The Broke and The Bookish. This meme feature features a different theme every week, showcasing book-related lists. And hey, who doesn't love a good list?

This week's Top Ten:

Books I Wouldn't Mind Santa Bringing Me

1. Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
3. By The Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julia Anne Peters
4. Newsflesh Trilogy by Mira Grant
5. Stardust: The Gift Edition by Neil Gaiman

Santa can do anything, right? Let's see him do some magic.

    6.   Detergent by Veronica Roth- To be published 26 Sep 2013.

    7.   Untitled (The Raven Cycle #2) by Maggie Stiefvater- Expected Publication Sep 2013. 

    8.   Untitled (Gallagher Girls #6) by Ally Carter- To Be Published 01 Jan 2013.

    9.   Scarlet by Marissa Meyer- To Be Published 05 Feb 2013.

    10. The Runaway King by Jennifer A. Nielsen - To Be Published 01 Mar 2013

What's on your list?

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Library Loot (2)

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Marg from The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library.

I know it says 'weekly event' but for me, it's been 'whenever-I-can event'. Sorry.

This week, I've got:

• The Ghost and Goth - Stacey Kade (Can't believe I'm reading this)
• Bad Girls Don't Die - Katie Alender
• Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater
• Stardust - Neil Gaiman (Whoop!)
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
• Storm - Brigid Kemmerer

It is the holidays and I am free. I'm just going to read...

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Cover Release -- Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Title: Stardust
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: 1 July 1999 (first published)
Date Read:

Hopelessly crossed in love, a boy of half-fairy parentage leaves his mundane Victorian-English village on a quest for a fallen star in the magical realm. The star proves to be an attractive woman with a hot temper, who plunges with our hero into adventures featuring witches, the lion and the unicorn, plotting elf-lords, ships that sail the sky, magical transformations, curses whose effects rebound, binding conditions with hidden loopholes and all the rest.
(from Goodreads)


Neil Gaiman and his publishers, William Morrow, has released a mock up cover of the new edition of his beloved children's novel Stardust. The hardcover will be released on 30 October 2012 as a gift edition.
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The cover looks amazing. It's like one of those hardcover gems hidden away in the library; leather-bound and golden lined with  yellowy, musty pages aged by time.

I've only seen the movie adaptation of Stardust and I loved it. It's one of my favourites. But I'm a bit hesitant to read to the actual book, not because it might not be good, but because i know it will be. I don't want to tarnish my love for the movie by critiquing and judging it, complaining about all the parts that they left out. I know, I know. That's a pathetic excuse and I'm robbing myself of an amazing read but I love the movie.

Then again, how can I resist that cover? It's calling me.

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