Ever wish you could be a character in a book?

Now you can! Becca Fitzpatrick, Kiersten White, Janette Rallison, Brandon Mull, Shannon Hale, and Robin Brande are coming together on eBay to help "Kids Need to Read". There they are auctioning off a chance for you, a real person, to have their real name as a character in their upcoming novel(s)! It could be a minor character, a villain, even someone who could *gasp!* die at some point in their books. But this auction won't last forever! *click the picture to go to the...

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IMM (#7)

In My Mailbox is a weekly/monthly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren. It's a great way to showcase the books you've gotten over the week, whether they are bought, borrowed or free. Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (Amazon | Goodreads) Everneath by Brodi Ashton (Amazon | Goodreads) *I received the ARC from a publisher over at HarperCollins! Thank you very much Alison!* document.write(''...

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Snowtober '11

So I was one of those "lucky" people that got hit with snow in October. The last time this has happened in New York was WAY back in 1952! I know, crazy right!? Anyway, below are some pictures I took from outside my window. ...

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Book Icons (#2)

For those when younger, that loved to read 'Goosebumps', here are some icons I found for you!...

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More Books Coming to the Small Screen?

Over on FEARNet, there is talks of a VERY popular YA series being developed and a paranormal series as well: Proving the love affair between the CW and paranormal fiction is alive and well, the network is developing TV series based on Kim Harrison's bestselling supernatural detective series The Hollows and Cynthia Hand's Unearthly. Details after the jump.According to Deadline, The Hollows and Unearthly are two new projects that CSI showrunner Carol Mendelsohn is developing with...

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Book Icons

Found these on a LiveJournal Icon Community all dedicated mostly to books! I'm thinking when I find handfuls each time that I may want to post them for people looking to have some for as their blogger icon, on a book website, for twitter, or anything their heart desires. Some of these have cute quotes from the books and some just have the characters. The books of icons I found come from, in order on blog: "Fallen", "Internal Devices", "Across the Universe", "Beautiful Creatures",...

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Matched by Ally Condie (Book Review, Soon!)

I'm almost done with the book Matched by Ally Condie. In the meantime, here is the book trailer for the book itself...

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Free Reads from NetGalley

Here are some cool ARC's available to read from NetGalle...

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Horror Halloween (#15)

Time to shake it up a bit in regards to this meme. It's been hard to post since I've been busy with my class work at college and reviewing books, but that doesn't stop me to come back. So for a quick post I'm going to share with everyone something cool I've been watching tonight from the History Channel. This is a must watch if you ♥ zombies! So what is this special presentation on the History Channel you might ask yourself? Good question you ask that right now... "Relentless....

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Tune in Tuesday (#4): Halloween Soundtrack Edition!

A weekly meme by Ginger of GReads! In the meme I'll talk about music and showcase it here each week. So being that Halloween is just around the corner, I'm going to pisr some songs that can be found in widely popular horror films. Either they were a theme, a song used to spice up the pace of the film, or were just flat out awesome. So let's get this ball rolling, shall we? *FYI: I apologize if certain songs don't sit well with any of the readers. But most of these songs...

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