Saturday, December 11, 2010

On My Wishlist #10


On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It's where I list all the books I desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It's also an event that you can join in with too - Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own On My Wishlist post. If you want to know more click HERE.

~ On MY wishlist ~

There are numerous books I would love to read, so that my wishlist should be called wishbook instead! But I want to present only two of those numerous books on my Wishlist so I've got many many more weeks of wishlists and great books to present :) 

Here is #1 

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The most contestable part of a society is its children. I am curious to find out more about their role in this dystopian novel and can't wait to get familiar with Ishiguro's writing style.

As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.

Summary by Goodreads



And #2


Goodnight Tweetheart by Teresa Medeiros

Doesn't this cover look cute? This novel is about Twitter and falling in love? I'm in!


Abigail Donovan has a lot of stuff she should be doing. Namely writing her next novel. A bestselling author who is still recovering from a near Pulitzer Prize win and the heady success that follows Oprah’s stamp of approval, she is stuck at Chapter Five and losing confidence daily. But when her publicist signs her up for a Twitter account, she’s intrigued. What’s all the fuss?

Taken under the wing of one of her Twitter followers, “MarkBaynard"—a quick witted, quick-typing professor on sabbatical—Abby finds it easy to put words out into the world 140 characters at a time. And once she gets a handle on tweets, retweets, direct messages, hashtags, and trends, she starts to feel unblocked in writing and in life. After all, why should she be spending hours in her apartment staring at her TweetDeck and fretting about her stalled career when Mark is out there traveling the world and living?
Or is he?

Summary by Amazon.com 


9 comments:

  1. I want to read Never Let Me Go too. I've heard great things about it. Hope you get to read these soon. Here's what I'm wishing for this week.

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  2. I heard about Never Let Me Go. It sounds good. I just read Goodnight Tweetheart and I have to review it. Hope you get both!

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  3. Goodnight Tweetheart sounds too cute! Thank you for stopping by my blog today.
    Chrizette

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  4. Never Let Me Go is such a beautifully written book. You will absolutely enjoy it. Read it! Soon!

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  5. Both books sound great, Love the premise for Goodnight tweetheart. hope you get to read thse soon.

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  6. Goodnight Tweetheart sounds like such a fun read!

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  7. I hope you get your books. I'm posting my wishes late today because I'm under the weather.

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  8. I completely don't get twitter (I know how it works etc but I dont see the appeal - yet!) so I think Goodnight Tweetheart could be a great book to get me into the tweetosphere! :) Great choice!

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