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                  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 crowd of Gossip Girl   as they always seem to have fun and know how to

                  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 do say things happen in threes- So when Laura decides to jump off a bridge one night and end her life , she is rescued by Vampire David Hilliard. The novel then jumps to one year later and Laura and David are arguing and things aren't exactly working out for this Vampire couple. One night Laura is offered a way out of her Vampire deal A) to kill her maker - David or B) to disown all Vampires for the rest of her life. Can Laura make the ha

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                                                            www.paulazone.blogdrive.com The Hollow by Jessica Verday (2009) "Sometimes Love knows no boundaries" Set in the town of the wonderful author Washington Irvine , creator of the tale "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" . This story surrounds the tale of Abbey who has just lost her friend in a tragic accident her best friend and only friend Kristen Maxwell. Dealing with her grief , Abbey decides to spend her days at her friends gravesite buri

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.                                                                                                  Review : Girl Saves Boy- Steph Bowe - August 2010 Girl- Jewel Valentine didn't expect that in her first days back since she was eight years old , she'd have to jump into the lake that her brother drowned in eight years ago when he wa

                                                                                         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 colouring book containing unpublished designs takes you on a journey through the marvellous, creative and revolutionary mind of Yves Saint Laurent. We are given a glimpse of his inspirations, from art and entertainment to countries and culture, alongside his unseen sketches. This is a unique couture colouring book, and is the perfect accessory for the fashion conscious. This colouring book is the perfect present for anybody wanting to s

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 you. However , in some aspects overall I was impressed with A Certain Slant of Light as I think this was due to that I had heard nothing about it, so I didn't have any strong expectations of the story. In a Certain Slant of Light we are presented with a ghostly figure called Helen , whom can't cross over due to the sin or bad thin

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 making enough from her part-time job at the Donut Haven. The other thing on Georgia's Christmas wish-list and letter to Santa Claus, is the gorgeous expensive coat in the window of her favourite shop, if only she could afford it , she would snatch it up right on the spot. Meet Trevor, he's the Vampire and he seems to have his eye on Georgia to become his life-mate for eternal . Though unlike man

                                                                  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? Do you want to be healthy in your body and live in peace? Do you know God has a destiny for your life? Do you know you can trust God even though you can't see Him? Do you want to know who this Jesus is? In Hearts Without Knowledge, Debbie exposes her complete past as she reveals how God picked her

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 myself ? If so , then I welcome you to the fellow Sisterhood of the Scrapbookers. The sisterhood motto is "For every photo taken, their is a million ways to use it and present it in a scrapbook". Myself, I have made two scrapbooks - A wedding one for my parents 20th Wedding Anniversary a few years back and I am halfway through a scrapbook of all photos of moi. In A Page out of Life by Kathleen Reid ,we are transported into the lives of four women as we watch them transform out of their little