Wishlist Wednesday #3

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First of all, before I begin, I would like to wish all of you guys a HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Some of you may not celebrate it, but I think most all will. So may you guys have a wonderful time celebrating and dressing up and gather with friends. Also, congratulations to dentists. You'll get a boost in income soon. If anyone would like to spare going to the dentist, you can forward your candy to me! 

So for this Wednesday, in honor of Halloween, I tried to come up with a spooky book. But there was one book that actually kept popping up in my mind. 

She won’t rest until she’s sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.

Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that’s all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone.

Her father was right. The monsters are real….

To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn’t careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies….


I wish I could go back and do a thousand things differently.
I'd tell my sister no.
I'd never beg my mother to talk to my dad.
I'd zip my lips and swallow those hateful words.
Or, barring all of that, I'd hug my sister, my mom and my dad one last time.
I'd tell them I love them.
I wish... Yeah, I wish.

It feels like I saw this on every blog before I came out. It was forever popping up on every other blog in the Spooktacular Giveaway Hop (which is still going on, I believe). Just for the fact that I was always seeing it and for the whole zombie thing, I refused to want to read it. I haven't been too interested in the whole zombie plot trend. So why is this on my Wishlist Wednesday? 

I actually read the back cover at Walmart. When I usually wait for my dad to get done grocery shopping every week, I wander through the (now pretty pitiful) book section, searching to find something good to pass the time away. I saw it and thought, "Is this really as good as all the hype I see?"

I read the back cover and was hooked. I then read a chapter or two before I had to go find my dad since I already wasted a good chunk of time beforehand reading magazines. Three words that went with me: 

I WANT THAT. 

I couldn't put it down for that short of time and was so disappointed that I had to. So now I'm going to push my procrastinator self into searching it on the library. 

What are you wishing for? If you've read Alice in Zombieland, did you like it? 

Are you excited for the Halloween festivities? 

So what do you need to do to join in? 

• Follow Pen to Paper as host of the meme.
• Please consider adding the blog hop button to your blog somewhere, so others can find it easily and join in too! Help spread the word! The code will be at the bottom of the post under the linky.
• Pick a book from your wishlist that you are dying to get to put on your shelves.
• Do a post telling your readers about the book and why it's on your wishlist.
• Add your blog to the linky at the bottom of this post.
• Put a link back to pen to paper (http://www.pentopaperblog.com) somewhere in your post, and a note saying that Pen to Paper is the host of the meme.
• Visit the other blogs and enjoy!