In which I wish you all Happy Holidays and tell you about my very special early Christmas gift!

I will be taking a short break from blogging over the holidays, so I wanted to write this post to wish all the readers of this blog a very Happy Christmas! I hope you all have a good one! Thanks to everybody who takes the time to read this blog and to comment on my posts. I really appreciate it!  I'll be back blogging on the December 27th when I'll be putting up a list of my favourite books of 2010.  Which books will make the list?  You'll just have to wait and see!

I'll also be running two competitions next week - one of which will feature one of my absolute favourite books of 2010 and another on behalf of Puffin Books for an exciting new release they have coming up in 2011, so make sure you stop by for those!

Now, on my my very special early Christmas gift. Well, the good news is - you can have it too! Yesterday I had a major fan girl moment when Kimberly Derting announced that the first seventy pages of  Desires of the Dead, the  follow up to her book The Body Finder is available to read online.  Some of you may know that I am a rather big fan of The Body Finder (and Jay!!). Desires of the Dead is #1 on my wishlist for 2011.  I read the extract last night, and I have to say that it's amazing, and Jay is still totally and utterly dreamy.  I want more now!!  I just can't believe that the extract stopped right in the middle of a paragraph, right in the middle of a sentence. I thought my e-reader had malfunctioned, but no.  :(

Anyhow, if you didn't know about this exciting piece of news, and you want to read the extract, you can find it on The Dark Days of Supernatural website, which HarperTeen have launched.  The website features all kinds of widgets, banners etc for some of their most exciting upcoming releases. There's also an extract of Unearthly by Cynthia Hand available on there. I read the book this week, and I'll be recommending that everyone should read it in 2011. It's amazing!

So, there you have it.  I hope you all have a wonderful time, at Christmas,  eat lots of wonderful food, and watch lots of wonderful festive movies. My favourite movie to watch at Christmas is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the original!). I watch it every year at Christmas!

Happy Holidays! x