Friday Book Blogger Hop (on Saturday) - January 28, 2011

It's that time again!  Time for the Book Blogger Hop hosted by Jennifer over at Crazy for Books!

What is it?  Well, it's a way to for bloggers and readers to find each other.  You write a little post about the subject of the week and link it up.  THEN (and this is the important part), you hit a few of the other linked up blogs (take your time; you can spread it throughout the weekend), visit, comment, follow if you like what you see, and make new friends.

Each week, to encourage participation, we get to answer a different question.  This week's question is:

What book are you most looking forward to seeing published in 2011?  Why are you anticipating that book?

The Remembering - Book 3 of The Meq by Steve Cash

For thousands of years the Meq have existed side by side with humanity—appearing as twelve-year-old children, unsusceptible to wounds and disease, dying only by extraordinary means. They have survived through the rise and fall of empires and emperors, through explorations, expansions, and war. Five sacred stones give a few of them mystical powers, but not the power to understand a long-destined event called the Remembering.

In the aftermath of the nuclear bombing of Japan in 1945, Zianno Zezen finds himself alone, while the fate of the other Meq and his beloved Opari, carrier of the Stone of Blood, is unknown. But Z’s archenemy, the Fleur-du-Mal, survives. In the next half century Z will reunite with far-flung friends both Meq and human, as American and Soviet spies vie to steal and harness the powers and mysteries of the timeless children. With the day of the Remembering rapidly approaching, Z must interpret the strange writing on an ancient etched stone sphere. In those markings, Z will discover messages within messages and begin a journey to the truth about his people and himself.

Lyrical and mesmerizing, The Remembering spans the world and history, from the first humans to a secret that has never been told before. The Remembering is the moving saga of the Meq—their purpose, past, and future among us

For FOUR years, we've been checking Amazon every now and then to see when this one would be published.  As soon as we saw it, it went on pre-order (it releases February 22nd).  Are there other books that we're looking forward to here?  Definitely - Book 4 of The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels) is one of them.  Are there other books that we've been waiting forEVER for?   Umm .. no .. and this is not high literary fiction; it would probably even be deemed YA or fantasy .. but the first two books were so compelling that my Not-So-Bebe-Girl Autumn, my bff and myself BLEW through them and now we just want to see how the story ends.

How about you?  Feel free to leave a link to your post or simply comment in the comment box about which book you are most looking forward to this year.