A Little Bit More

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?  It came without ribbons.  It came without tags.  It came without packages, boxes or bags.  And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.  Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.  What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.  What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.  
~ Dr Seuss

 Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
~ Richard Crashaw

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas or a wonderful holiday season.

My 2010 List of Fave Books

This is a list of books I enjoyed reading in 2010 - not all of them came out in 2010 though.

I read a lot of Dystopian this year. I read more than this list, but these were the ones I liked:
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Matched - Ally Condie
Scorched Trials - James Dashner
The Adoration Of Jenna Fox - Mary Pearson
Life As We Knew It  - The Moon Series - Susan Beth Pfeffer
Birthmarked - Caragh M. O'Brian
Candor - Pam Bachorz
Incarceron - Catherine Fisher

These books are a mixture of Contemporary, Fantasy and Paranormal, but they all have a magical feel to them:
Paranormalcy - Kiersten White
Cinders - Michelle Argyle
Spells - Aprillyne Pike
Forest of Hands and Teeth and The Dead-Tossed Waves - Carrie Ryan
Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson
The Way He Lived - Emily Wing Smith
I Am Not A Serial Killer - Dan Wells
The Girl Who Chased The Moon - Sarah Addison Allen
The Sky Is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson
The Miles Between - Mary Pearson
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
Prayers For Sale - Sandra Dallas
Wrong Number - Rachelle Christensen
Eyes Like Mine - Julie Wright
My Double Life - Janette Rallison
Marcelo In the Real World - Francisco Stork

This year I discovered Audio-books:
Leviathan - Scott Westerfield
Heist Society - Ally Carter
Speaker For the Dead and Xenocide - Orson Scott Card

Hope you enjoy my list. Did any of you read some of these books - how did you feel about them? What are some of your favorite books read this year?

Winner and Giving Good Voice

And the Winner of Matched is:

Lindsey from Dangerous With A Pen

Yay!!! E-mail me your address Lindsey and I'll get that out to you.

I'm totally stealing this video and the title of the post from my friend Kristi from the Hoontah blog, but it's so funny I decided it needed to be shared.

Does Anyone Want An ARC of MATCHED and An Extraordinary Contest

The League of Extraordinary Writers are having an awesome contest with all kinds of swag and a giveaway of all five of their books.

Spread the word and you could win:

XVI

Across the Universe

Memento Nora

Possession

The Eleventh Plague

and this:

On Saturday I had an awesome time at the Matched signing. Ally Condie is so gracious and her book is fab. Have you read it yet? I was lucky enough to win an ARC of Matched, but I liked it so much I decided I wanted it in hardback. So if anyone would like to win a signed ARC of Matched, please leave a comment. I'll announce a winner Wednesday.

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 Here I am at the book signing. Can you see me?

So how was your weekend?