I'm surprised the Breaking Dawn fans didn't decide to send sparkles.

Perhaps the recipients should be grateful for small favors.

Selections From H.P. Lovecraft's Brief Tenure as a Whitman's Sampler Copywriter.

"What is toffee exactly?"

I finished Wicked Lovely last night -- and I know a couple of people reccomended it - Thank you. Seriously, it ought to hook most of the Twilight crowd because it is so romantic. but with a number of strong female characters

Perfect

Jilli, a review from the latest Publisher's Weekly that might be of interest:

The Dracula Dossier by James Reese

In Reese's scrupulously imagined thriller, told largely through entries from a lost journal kept by the author of Dracula in 1888, Bram Stoker attends an indoctrination ceremony of the Order of the Golden Dawn, at the behest of Oscar Wilde's mum and a young William Butler Yeats. The ceremony goes horribly awry, resulting in one participant—Francis Tumblety, a patent medicine salesman newly arrived from America—becoming a vessel for the evil Egyptian god Set and applying his surgical skills to the slaughter of Whitechapel prostitutes in order to draw Stoker out for a supernatural showdown.

Bestseller Reese (The Witchery) so perfectly pastiches the journal format that initially, his story reads as dry and boringly as most private diaries. With Tumblety's malignant conversion, though, the novel turns into a rip-roaring penny dreadful that compels reading to the end. Dracula fans will apreciate the nods to well-known works that Stoker wrote supposedly follwoing this confrontation. (Oct.)

Has anyone read Tana French's book In the Woods ? I finished it late last night and thought it was frantabulous.

Jilli, a review from the latest Publisher's Weekly that might be of interest:

The Dracula Dossier by James Reese

Hmmm. It sounds interesting, but I'm always a bit wary of books that try to combine Dracula and anything like Jack the Ripper. Because honestly, none of them are going to top Anno Dracula by Kim Newman. But, I'm sure I'll end up picking up The Dracula Dossier. Because I'm predictable like that.

Oh, The Dracula Dossier sounds like fun.

And another PW review on a Dracula tome for Jilli-- this one is starred and look who wrote the introduction:

The New Annotated Dracula Bram Stoker, edited with a foreword and notes by Leslie S. Klinger. Norton, $39.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-393-06450-6

Klinger brings the same impressive breadth of knowledge that distinguished The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes to this definitive examination of one of the classic horror novels of all time. Adopting the conceit that Stoker’s narrative is based on fact, Klinger elucidates the plot and historical context for both Stoker devotees and those more familiar with Count Dracula from countless popular culture versions. Because he had privileged access to the typescript Stoker delivered to his publisher, Klinger is able to note changes between it and the first edition and comment on the reasons for them. Through close reading, Klinger raises questions about such matters as the role of lead vampire-hunter Van Helsing and whether the villainous count is actually dispatched at book’s end. An introduction by Neil Gaiman, numerous illustrations, essays on topics ranging from Dracula in the movies to the academic response, and much more enhance the package. 8-city author tour. (Oct.)

Wow, that sounds cool! And I might need to get that Sherlock Holmes, too, even though I have the original annotated as well.