Judge a Book By Its Cover!

Today's Weekly Geeks : Judge a Book By Its Cover!

This week it's all about judging books by their covers! Pick a book--any book, really--and search out multiple book cover images for that book. They could span a decade or two (or more)...Or they could span several countries. Which cover is your favourite? Which one is your least favourite? Which one best 'captures' what the book is about?

I chose "Guilty Pleasures" by Laurell K. Hamilton, so here are the covers I found..

This one is the US 1993 edition

UK 1994

Russian 2000

US 2000

UK 2000

US 2002

Hungary 2003

Greek 2003

US 2004

Spanish 2005

Belguim 2006

Brazil 2006

Czech 2006

Netherlands 2006

German 2006

Poland 2008

My favorite cover is the German one, then the US 2000-2002 then the US 2004.

The least favorite is the Russian!

The one best 'captures' what the book is about in my opunion is the the UK 2000 cover.

Tag You're It !!

I tagged myself after checking out Bella's blog with the little photo meme, since I was the first to comment there AND I do have more than 5 picture folders..

The rules for this meme is:

1. Find your 5th photo file folder,then the 5th photo in that file folder.

2. Post that picture on your blog.

3. Tag 5 others to do the same.

that's it!!

So here is my 5th picture in my 5th folder :) It's a Juicy Couture keychain I saw a picture of somewhere on the Internet, could be Ebay but not sure.. I just liked it and saved the picture.. You could find a lot of these pictures on my computer, actually it was in a folder called (Bags) since I love bags and save the pictures to admire them ;) Some I bought too :)

Ok now the tagging!!

I hate to tag only 5 people but I'll try to pick new people to tag!! here goes..

1. His Sweetheart at His Sweetheart

2. Pabast at reading mama

3. Becky Workman at My thoughts...your thoughts?

4. Marta at Marta's Meanderings

5. Yvonne at Socrates' Book Reviews

My "M" List..!

I saw this meme at Ramya's blog and couldn't help asking her to assign me a letter, so she assigned me the letter 'M'..

So here are my top 10 favorite 'M' things!!

1. Mom: need I explain!!

2. Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him): my beloved prophet :)

3. Makkah: My Kiblah (Qibla) for my prayers :)

4. Movies: I love watching a good movie!

5. Mickey and Minnie Mouse: my favorite mice!

6. Music: I love listening to music on my Ipod or my PC

7. M & M's: specially the chocolate ones, melts in your mouth not in your hand. mmmmmmmm

8. Malaysia: my favorite vacation spot!

9. Mystery Novels: I love reading them what can I do :)

10. Macaroni: one of my favorite foods!

These are the things that came to my mind, I'm sure there are more but this is what I could think of right now..

Anyways if you are interested in this meme, just leave me a comment saying so and I will assign you a letter so you could list your top favorites, don't worry no Q's or X's :)

Friday Fill-Ins #2

This week's Friday Fill-Ins

Questions courtesy of YellowRose this week; thanks, friend! And...here we go!

1. Please don't tell I have to go to a formal party.

2. Can you function without washing your face in the morning?

3. The color Pink makes me want to have fun!

4. I have a craving for Chocolate all the time.

5. If my life had a pause button, I'd pause it on my wedding night.

6. Eyes are the windows to the soul.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to watching TV, tomorrow my plans include blogging and reading and Sunday, I want to go to a family gathering!

A Girl's Guide to Vampires by Katie MacAlister

Year Published: 2003

My Rating: 5 stars

384 pages

Weight: 7 ounces = 0.4375 lb.

This is the first book in the Dark Ones series.

Joy Randall's Top 5 Tips for Vampire Hunters:

1. Location, location, location. Remember, if you wouldn't be there, neither would a bloodsucker.
2. Trust your eyes. You know the handsome, annoyingly arrogant, self-assured man in the shadows with long hair and a cleft in his chin? He's your vampire.
3. No matter how tempting it might be, do not "accidentally" acquire a paper cut and suggest YOUR VAMPIRE kiss your finger to make it better.
4. From here on out, play it cool. Don't offer to accompany your prince of the night on the talk show circuit and whatever you do, don't offer him your heart.
5. And most of all, remember?being a vampire is nothing to laugh about.

Joy and Roxy and two American best friends, planning on going on a dream vacation to Europe together and hoping to find their soul mates on the way.

Before leaving for the trip they meet up with the witch Miranda to ask for the help of the goddess to find their soul mates.. Skeptic as she is Joy doesn't believe any of what Minanda has to say about finding a Dark One in her path that could be her soul mate.. since she does not believe in vampires as Roxy does..

So of they go to the Czech Republic, where they find the castle of their favorite Moravian Vampire series author CJ Dante next to the hotel they are staying in and plan to meet with him. Meanwhile a vampire fair is to start and they get to meet some of the fair people including Raphael the head of security, Christian who becomes a close friend, Arialle, Tanya, Dominic and Milos.

Then the visions start, so joy tries to blame them on the beer but they become more vivid and disturbing. Not knowing who is sending her these images and starting to believe there really might be a Dark One doing this to her, she starts investigating. Could it be the sexy gorgeous Raphael or the cool smooth Christian or fang face Dominic?

While doing so, a murder occurs on the fair grounds and Joy and the love of her life are on the list of prime suspects. But she knows who the murderer is so she is determined to prove to the police who he is and prove her lover innocent!

Although I read this book out of order since I read the second book in the series first I kinda knew who would be with who in the end, but I enjoyed it nevertheless.

The friendship between Joy and Roxy is so adorable and lovable! The love scenes are HOT! The guys are GORGEOUS! I LOVED it!!

I will be continueing in this series very soon!

Sex And The Single Vampire by Katie MacAlister

Year Published: 2004

My Rating: 5 stars

371 pages

Weight: 4 ounces = 0.25 lb.

This is the second book of the Dark Ones series. Actually I didn't realize that until after I finished it and was considering picking up the next in the series that I realized that I have started the series from book 2 and that I did not read book 1. I hate doing this but it was my fault, so now I HAVE to read book 1, I just have to!

Alegra Telford is a summoner from the USA travelling to London since there are a lot of ghosts and paranormal activity there and she has not been successful so far. Although she should be summoning ghosts she has not summoned anything yet and her boss is getting finicky and has already threatened her that if she doesn't change that she would be jobless.

Then she gets the hang of it and starts summoning ghosts here and there.

She meets with the famous CJ Dante, who claims that she is his Beloved, having trust issues of her own she panicks and tries to change his mind.

But love is something that can not be denied and they must unite for them to defeat a very mean demon or else get destroyed.

Will Alegra put her past behind her and trust Christian, or will she turn her back and go back to the USA?

I loved this book, it was fun, fast and so entertaining. I didn't even realize that I was reading the second book in the series since I didn't feel left out. The characters were funny and cute, spacially Christian friends Joy and Roxy they are such a pair you could laugh out loud at there bickering.

The only thing that I didn't really like was the name of the book.. It was the least attracting thing for me and what made me put off reading it for so long.. But now that I read it I don't mind it anymore :)

Now I'll go start the series proper and read the first book..

Friday Fill-Ins #1

I know it's not Friday but I just found this out and liked to try it out at Friday Fill-Ins .. so here goes..

1. I'd really like to read right now.

2. AWWWW is the word you'd most often hear me say if I stubbed my toe.

3. Possession is having your favorite book in your possesion.

4. The best pirate in movies is Captain Jack Sparrow.

5. Marshmallows and fire go together like Ice Cream and Caramel Topping

6. I love to watch FRIENDS on and on.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to reading, tomorrow my plans include reading and Sunday, I want to read!