The Phantom Paragrapher

                  Today's Top Ten is the Top Ten Characters you would like as your best friends : Elena Gilbert from The Vampire Diaries- Then she can introduce me to the Hottie Damon Salvatore : Sookie Stackhouse from True Blood Series  - Though she'd know what you were always thinking she is the type of friend that would do anything to save another friend. Jane from Sunday at Tiffany's - She just seems overall the type of person I could get on great with. Hanna, Aria , Spencer and Emily from Pretty Little Liars - They would make a good group of friends Minus the A Part . Alex Cross - James Patterson Series "Alex Cross" - He just seems like a good older guy who would always make sure you were safe and would make a great mentor in the law enforcement. Cinderella - As she always seems like she needs a friend and a helping hand. Serena , Blair, Nate, Dan, Chuck, Jenny and Eric - The cro...

                  In for another sweet Vampire treat with author Susan Hanniford Crowley.                                                             The Stormy Love Life of Laura Cordelia - 2009         From the cover , you expect this to be another usual Vampire tale , but as you get into it from the very first page, we know that it definitely won't be as life has gotten tough for main character Laura Cordelia. Her husband to be has left her for another women and now her mother has passed away and she is alone in her life. However, they d...

Remember the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving , if not then the movie with Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. The Haunted is book #2 of the series - The Hollow also the title of the first book by Jessica Verday which has a modern loose take on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - one of my favourite Halloween reads.                                                           Synopsis - The Hollow - Jessica Verday - 2009 - Review Piece featured originally on                                          ...

I always find myself admiring people who have the ability to write such amazing stories and be published at such a young age , as for myself - I'm not exactly the creative writer type but I find myself able to write lengths etc if I have a topic to structure myself around -which though in a way , that's what novelists do, so maybe there is still hope for me one day. Until then, I'll stick to my writing book reviews and assignments. The author of today's book is 16 years old and has just had her first book published :) and as I was reading it , I was like WOW - you wouldn't even guess that the person who wrote this was young.                                                             ...

                                                                                         Synopsis : Yves St Laurent Colouring Book - November 2010 Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008) founded the eponymous fashion brand in 1961; he is one of the greatest couture names of the late 20th century. His revolutionary designs have inspired many pieces of clothing and the house of YSL managed to single-handedly bring couture back. He was an extraordinarily creative man and has been celebrated as one of the most influetntial designers of our time. This stylish colourin...

Today's featured book contains ghosts - though these ghosts are not what we have sensed before -these ghosts attach themselves to hosts, they remind me a little bit of the "shadows" in Season Five of Ghost Whisperer.                                                                            Review: A Certain Slant of Light - Laura Whitcomb - September 2005 Grabbing this book , I wasn't exactly sure what to expect but as I am about to show you - being a judge by the cover type person isn't all its cracked up to be as sometimes more often than not it can lead us to pick up a book that looks extremely good but fails to amaze...

Coming up to Christmas , I thought I would read a Christmas tale and what better to read than one with a Vampire in it.                                                                                    Review :A Vampire For Christmas - Susan Hanniford Crowley - December 2009 All I want for Christmas is A Vampire - Hmmm imagine waking up and receiving for Christmas your very own hunky vampire lover. For Georgia , this years Christmas was going to be a struggle to make ends meet as she had been laid off her main source of income and down to her last savings of pennies and barely mak...

                                                                  Today on the site , we have author "Debbie Patten" and her book "Hearts without Knowledge". For readers, today we have an blurb of her book and for those who wish to get to know the lady behind the book we have a short Bio and an Interview with the lovely Debbie Patten herself. Synopsis of Hearts without Knowledge : How to Be Free and Made Whole  In Your Life - November 2009 Is your heart free? Are you battling anger, fear, jealousy, lust, addictions, depression, or judgments? Are you asking yourself why you can't stop this madness? Is your family a mess? Do you think you have to fix them...

Today's read not only celebrates the love of Scrapbooking but it also welcomes my new Rating System - The Phantom Paragrapher's Fiery "P" 's .                                                                                                             Review : A Page out of Life - Kathleen Reid - April 2008 Are you a fan of Scrapbooking, created numerous albums and wasted hundreds of dollars on Scrapbooking equipment, embellishments, paper and stickers like mys...