Today’s the last day to vote for the most romantic book. Let us know which book you picked and why, and you could win a copy of Twilight or The Time Traveler’s Wife!

The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Evermore by Alyson Noel
Fallen by Lauren Kate
The Host by Stephenie Meyer

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Don’t forget that if you tell us why the book you voted for is the most romantic, and you could win a copy of Twilight or The Time Traveler’s Wife!

The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Evermore by Alyson Noel
Fallen by Lauren Kate
The Host by Stephenie Meyer

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Voting ends tonight for the January book face-off, and so does your chance to win a copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! Go the forum and let us know which book you picked and why, and you could win! The check back tomorrow for the winners!

Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament by S. G. Browne
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel by Jonathan Maberry
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks
Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection by Don Roff
Zombies: A Field Guide to the Walking Dead by Bob Curren
History Is Dead: A Zombie Anthology by Kim Paffenroth
Eden by Tony Monchinski

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The Twilight Saga News Wrap-up:

TWILIGHT INSPIRES NEW PRODUCTIONS OF BRONTE STORIES
ECLIPSE SECRETS REVEALED!
NEW MOON HELPS GREENE ACHEIVE STARDOM

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ANNE KENDRICK NOMINATED FOR A GOLDEN GLOBE!
A PHOTO FROM ECLIPSE!

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TWELVE REASONS SANTA MIGHT BE A VAMPIRE, AND WHY THAT’S KIND OF AWESOME

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“ASK ROB” ON FACEBOOK
IS THERE A FORKS REALITY SHOW IN THE WORKS?

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CAN ‘THE RUNAWAYS’ MOVIE ECLIPSE ‘TWILIGHT’ FOR KRISTEN STEWART

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Movie News Wrap-Up:

Sigourney Weaver reveals Ghostbusters III spoilers

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20 GREATEST SF MOVIES OF THE PAST DECADE

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‘Creature From Black Lagoon,’ ‘Brood’ remakes due

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11 movies that changed sci-fi (and 9 that didn’t)

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Sam Elliott, Philip Pullman Says Religious Right Blocked Golden Compass Sequel

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Taylor Lautner Entertains an Offer to Star in ‘Vision Quest’

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Author & Book News Wrap-Up:

A GUIDE TO THE 5 MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN OF EPIC FANTASY

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BOOK REVIEW: THE GREAT WAR GETS STEAMPUNKED

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FANTASY BOOK REVIEW OF ‘VAMPIRE SUNRISE’

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WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST SELLERS

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TV Show Wrap-Up:

Reasons The Vampire Diaries Will Suck You In

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‘TRUE BLOOD’ EXCLUSIVE: ‘TUDORS’ STAR IS FRANKLIN MOTT!

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‘Supernatural’ Reruns Begin on TNT in 2010

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2010 GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATION TRUE BLOOD, DEXTER, LOST

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‘VAMPIRE DIARIES’ FIRST LOOK AT THE JANUARY RETURN

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POSTERS REFLECT ON FIVE SEASONS OF ‘LOST’

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True Blood Season 3 Casting News: Meet Crystal Norris
EW’s 2009 Best & Worst – True Blood #1 Series of the Year

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OBS Fun News Wrap-Up:

OBS DECEMBER ‘JOIN THE FORUM’ CONTEST!!!

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SOOKIE STACKHOUSE DEAD UNTIL DARK QUIZ

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VOTING REMINDER: OBS BOOK FACE OFF: FAERIES

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OBS PRESENTS: BOOK COVER CLUSTERS

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OBS SPEAKS OUT: WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE SOOKIE STACKHOUSE BOOK SERIES

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POLL OF THE WEEK: “WHICH WAS YOUR FAVORITE NEW BOOK RELEASE OF 2009?”

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OBS TOP 5/10: SOOKIE STACKHOUSE EDITION

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OBS WANTS YOUR QUESTIONS: EVEN MORE AUTHORS & A PRIZE

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OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS

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OBS PRESENTS: MOVIE POSTERS FOR WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

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OBS PRESENTS: FAN ART MADNESS – SOOKIE STACKHOUSE EDITION 3

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Are any of the stories your favorite, if so, which ones? Have a good week!!

OBS presents the the December Book Face-Off: Faeries! Vote for your favorite (or let us know what your favorite book is!)

Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr. Aislinn has always followed the rules. Her Grandmother has drilled them into her since she was a young child. Don’t stare at invisible faeries. Don’t speak to invisible faeries. Don’t ever attract the faeries’ attention. Aislinn has developed the skill to ignore them. She walks past them without flinching, even when the faeries are pinching or touching others around her like they love to do. Faeries come in many shapes and sizes and Aislinn has seen them all. She’s seen them in the glamours they wear in order to pass as humans and can pick one out of a crowd even when they are trying to blend in. Aislinn has never been surprised by what she has seen them do – that is, until they start breaking the rules.

Wings by Aprilynne Pike. Fifteen-year-old Laurel has led a sheltered, homeschooled life in a very small town, so when her parents decide to move and enroll her in high school, she has trouble getting used to her new life. A life, as it turns out, that’s not at all like those of other kids. One clear sign is a winglike blossom that blooms on her back. Oh, and her new best friend, the scientifically minded David, reveals under a microscope that her cells are more plant than animal. But it takes an encounter at her old home with the handsome but decidedly different Tamani to convince her that she is a faerie. She also learns it’s up to her to save her land from the evil influences that are trying to take it away from her and her family.

Ballad (and Lament) by Maggie Steifvater. James Morgan has an almost unearthly gift for music. And it has attracted Nuala, a soul-snatching faerie muse who fosters and then feeds on the creative energies of exceptional humans until they die. James has plenty of reasons to fear the faeries, but as he and Nuala collaborate on an achingly beautiful musical composition, James finds his feelings towards Nuala deepening. But the rest of the fairies are not as harmless. As Halloween—the day of the dead—draws near, James will have to battle the Faerie Queen and the horned king of the dead to save Nuala’s life and his soul.

Tithe (A Modern Tale of Faerie series) by Holly Black. Sixteen-year-old Kaye Fierch is not human, but she doesn’t know it. Sure, she knows she’s interacted with faeries since she was little–but she never imagined she was one of them, her blond Asian human appearance only a magically crafted cover-up for her true, green-skinned pixie self. The novel begins in a bar in Philly, where Kaye’s alcoholic rock-singer mother’s boyfriend tries to kill her. For their own safety, mother and daughter quickly move back to grandma’s on the New Jersey shore where Kaye grew up. This ugly turn of events was all rigged by the Faerie world, as it turns out, a world Black describes in deliciously vivid, if rather overblown, detail. Kaye, a drinking, smoking, foul-mouthed high school dropout in the land of mortals, soon finds herself embroiled–as a human sacrifice, no less–in a battle between Faerieland’s Seelie and more malevolent Unseelie courts.

Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner. It has been 20 years since the war between faeries and humans destroyed everything. Liza, a teenager living in what was once the Midwest, has always been taught that magic kills. When Lizas mother gives birth to a faerie baby with hair clear as glass, her father abandons the infant on a hillside to die; Lizas mother then runs away, and Liza begins to have magical visions of her own. Petrified that her powers might cause death, Liza flees into the woods with her friend Matthew, only to be attacked by deadly trees and rescued by a woman with magic. The plot quickens as Liza realizes that the woman is connected to her mothers past, knowledge that propels Liza into a dangerous journey into the land of Faerie, in search of her mother.

Faery Rebels: Spell Hunter by R.J. Anderson. The faery world is crumbling. During a disaster called the Sundering, these small, fragile, winged creatures lost all of their magic save that which allows them to fly, and they live inside a great oak tree, fearful of people and animals. True friendship and love are foreign to them. Worse, they are falling victim to a kind of dementia they call the Silence, and are dying. Into this picture comes Knife: tough, brave, adventurous, and soon taking on the job of Queen’s Hunter. While defending herself against an attacking crow, she is rescued and taken home by a human. Knife becomes convinced that the mystery of their lost magic and the dementia are connected to the faeries’ fear of humans and becomes committed to saving her community. The heart of the book lies in the relationship that develops between Knife and the human Paul, who is a paraplegic. Anderson draws on echoes from countless fairy tales and legends about the relationships between human men and faerie women to enrich this gripping and involving story.

Faerie Tale by Raymond Feist. Feist, author of the popular Magician fantasy trilogy, turns to the horror genre in this slick, only partially successful novel of a very modern family newly settled into a house on the edge of an enchanted woods. Each member of the family, retired actress Gloria Hastings, her novelist and screenwriter husband Phil, his teenage daughter by a previous marriage, their twin eight-year-old boys, and a dog and a cat-is touched in some way by “the Bad Thing,” as the boys call it, which turns out to be a forest spirit out of ancient folklore. Feist builds atmosphere with intimations of the supernatural that soon escalate into outright violence.

Faerie Lord (The Faerie Wars Chronicles) by Herbie Brennan. Henry Atherton has been desperately trying to forget about his friends in the Faerie Realm for the last two years, which is a bit hard considering his responsibility of looking after Mr. Fogarty’s abandoned house and temperamental cat. It is while tending Hodge that Pyrgus and Nymph make a sudden reappearance.
Only…Pyrgus has aged considerably due to a mysterious disease running rampant throughout Faerie that is causing them to grow old at an alarming rate.  With very little persuasion, Henry plunges back into Faerie to aid the realm in the search for a cure. But soon he finds himself far, far away from The Purple Palace and in a desolate land with only an intelligent and primitive blue-skinned boy for company. Now it’s a race against time to find a miracle that will save all of Faerie…

Chronicles of Faerie: The Summer King by O.R. Melling. A story that is lyrical and mesmerizing in subject and scope. In the year since her twin sister’s death, practical and pragmatic Laurel has had dreams filled with fairies, giant birds, and questions about a king. While back in Ireland at her grandparents’ home for Honor’s memorial service, Laurel encounters a messenger from the Fairie realm who tells her that to save Honor, she must find the Summer King to light the Midsummer Fire. Hoping to bring her sister back, Laurel forces herself to share Honor’s belief in Fairie and enlists the help of Ian, the village bad boy. Their relationship is complicated by the fact that she was on a date with him the day Honor died by falling off a cliff wall into the ocean. While trying to complete their task in the allotted time, they encounter a cluricaun who may or may not be telling them all he knows, ravens trying to stop them from freeing the Summer King, and unexpected things about Ian’s true nature.

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The voting for the November Book Face Off: Vampires ends this Sunday, so don’t forget to vote for your favorite vampire book! The winner will be announced on Monday, November 30th and you’ll find out what the December book face off category is.

Right now Interview with the Vampire and Twilight are tide for first place. Think a different book should win? Vote!

Dracula by Bram Stoker
Carmilla By Sheridan La Fanu
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles) By Anne Rice
The Historian By Elizabeth Kostova
Vampire Tapestry By Suzy McKee Charnas
Vampire Diaries By LJ Smith
Twilight Saga By Stephenie Meyer
House of Night Series By PC & Kristin Cast
Sookie Stackhouse Series By Charlaine Harris
Sunshine by Robin McKinley

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