Christmas Gifts - 2010

My boyfriend gave me the complete Death Note box set!!! *_*

Soooo beautiful!! This is the manga that I have been dying to read since the minute it came out, and haven't had the chance yet!!!

I already started reading it, I'm on the first volume yet, but it is already so good! The story is very inteligent and interesting, it catches you from the minute you start reading it!

It's a shame I'm leaving tomorow and won't be able to read it for a few days!! ♥
Goodreads: 4.56stars

Pretty Little Liars + The Shutter Island (A Ilha do Medo)

Yesterday I finished Unbelievable, the fourth book from the Pretty Little Liars saga. I really enjoyed it, it's an easy read and has an interesting and well developed plot. The mystery is unfolded slowly and you get really curious to know what is going on! I talked more about these saga here, when I said that I got interested in the books after seeing the first episodes of a series of the same name, which I mention here. Now I know who A is!

Plot from the first book: Three years ago, Alison disappeared after a slumber party, not to be seen since. Her friends at the elite Pennsylvania school mourned her, but they also breathed secret sighs of relief. Each of them guarded a secret that only Alison had known. Now they have other dirty little secrets, secrets that could sink them in their gossip-hungry world. When each of them begins receiving anonymous emails and text messages, panic, sets in. Are they being betrayed by some one in their circle? Worse yet: Is Alison back? A strong launch for a suspenseful series. (Goodreads: 4.01stars)

Having read this first four books one story came to its closure, so I decided to go read something else... Now I started reading: The Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. The Shutter Island was made into movies this year, and it was only after I've watched the movie that I learned that it was based in a book. Since I really liked the movie, and that I love reading, I got interested in the book and went after it...

Plot: Summer, 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems.And neither is Teddy Daniels. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry? An approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing... The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive them insane... (Goodreads)

Goodreads: 3.86

*Click here to learn about the movie (older post).

The Complete Calvin & Hobbes

It's here!!!!!!! *________________* 

My Complete Calvin and Hobbes collection!! Beautiful books!!!! Already started reading them!!

Calvin and Hobbes is unquestionably one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his real-only-to-him tiger was first syndicated in 1985 and appeared in more than 2,400 newspapers when Bill Watterson retired on January 1, 1996. The entire body of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons published in a truly noteworthy tribute to this singular cartoon in The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. Composed of three hardcover, four-color volumes in a sturdy slipcase, this edition includes all Calvin and Hobbes cartoons that ever appeared in syndication with an introduction from Bill Watterson himself. This is the treasure that all Calvin and Hobbes fans seek. (adapted from Goodreads)

Goodreads: 4.83 stars

Scott Pilgrim

Today my boyfriend got me the first and second volumes of Scott Pilgrim, that were released here in a single volume... It already hit my "currently reading" list, as I am playing the XboxLIVE game and intending to watch the movie as soon as it comes out!

Scott Pilgrim is 23 years old, living in the big city with his gay roommate, just trying to get by in this crazy world. He's in a band. He's lazy. He likes video games. Scott Pilgrim likes the new girl in town, Ramona Flowers, but to win her heart, he has to defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends. Seven! Evil! Ex! Boyfriends! Lucas has muscles! Todd plays bass with his psychic powers! The Twins are twins! Matthew Patel is an Indian guy! AND MORE! (official site description)

Goodreads: 4stars

Movie trailer!