are engaged. Cute! I can hardly wait to see her wedding gown.

The 52nd Grammy Awards will take place January 31st at The Staples Center in LA. It will air on CBS.

Lady Gaga, Green Day, Dave Matthews Band, Black-eyed Peas, and Taylor Swift are all scheduled to perform.

As I so often ask myself, WWLGW. What will Lady Gaga wear?

Hey Alice people. You probably don’t know this about me but I’m a huge book nerd.   I read, on average, a book a week. One of my new year’s resolutions is to read more and to share with you guys what I’ve finished recently.  Maybe we can even chat up books in the comments section!  (See, I told you - NERD!)  I read all kinds of stuff, but young adult fiction - YA as the cool kids call it - is my favorite. 

If you’ve decided to read more in the new year, but don’t know where to look for suggestions you might try the Publishers Weekly Top Ten Of 2009 or Best Children’s Books Of 2009.

These are a few of My Favorite Reads Of 2009.  They are in no particular order and may or may not have actually been published in 2009.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Mennonite In A Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen

Everything Beautiful In The World by Lisa Levchuk

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

The Evolution Of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

Going Bovine by Libba Bray

This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

Big Machine: A Novel by Victor Lavalle

These are a few of the books I’ve read lately.  I would recommend any or all of them.  Discuss in the comments or leave suggested reading for me.

Happy New Year and happy reading in 2010!

I want one!

Lady Gaga in Miami is the hottest show for this New Year’s Eve.  No surprise there.  What are you doing for NYE?  You can win tix to fantastic bay area celebrations when you hear the secret word to text on Alice.  Good luck and happy 2010!

John Mayer told Ellen he’s planning on having a datingless peaceful 2010.  Let’s hope he doesn’t give up Twittering.

Wait. What?

According to the tabs the Smashing Pumpkins frontman is stepping out with Daisy Duke.  That is just weird.

There have been multiple sightings of a monkey in Novato.  He or she is described as being brown and roughly the size of a soda bottle with a long long tail.  Cute!  I hope he or she is located and given an appropriate place to live. 

The crash occurred last night near Albany, NY when the bus hit a patch of black ice.  Broken ribs and frightened passengers, but no major injuries reported.  The latest here.

I think I might actually like a film version of this story even more than the book.  Plus, directed by Peter Jackson!?  Awesome.