I want to read Coraline desperately!!!! & I can't wait for the movie version to hit cinemas sometime this year!! Okay I take it back, Neil Gaiman rocks, and he has a wonderful sense of humour :)

here's the plot :

Before the tale begins, Coraline and her parents move into a new apartment. Coraline's parents are always busy with their work and pay her little attention. Isolated, Coraline goes off to explore. She meets the other inhabitants of the house, two elderly women retired from the stage and an even older man who trains mice, and finds a locked door in the drawing room, though the entrance beyond is bricked up. The next day she takes the key to the door, opens it, and finds a dark corridor leading to an apartment which duplicates her own. This alternate world is inhabited by her Other Mother and Other Father, who are near-replications of her real parents, except they have buttons for eyes. These Other parents first seem more interesting, fun and caring than her real parents. At the day's end, Coraline's Other Mother offers her a chance to stay in this world forever if Coraline will sew buttons over her eyes. Coraline decides she would rather go home, much to the disappointment of her Other Mother.
Upon her return to her flat, Coraline finds her real parents are missing. They do not return by the next day, and Coraline, discovering they were kidnapped by her Other Mother, resolves to rescue them. Coraline travels again to the Other Mother's world. After angering her Other Mother by refusing to accept gifts or love, she is trapped behind a mirror as punishment. There Coraline meets the souls of three children from different eras whom the Other Mother entrapped then tossed aside when she wearied of them. After escaping the room, Coraline challenges the Other Mother in a game to find the children's souls and her parents within the Other Parents' world, using her wits and a seeing stone received from her neighbors. Coraline finds the others' souls and escapes to the real world, forcing the door closed on the Other Mother and severing her hand. Back in her apartment, Coraline finds her parents safe and sound.
The next night, Coraline discovers her task is not done. The Other Mother's severed hand, which is still in Coraline's world, attempts to steal the key so the Other Mother can exact her revenge, but Coraline lures the hand to a well and tricks it into falling in with the key, ridding the world of the danger of the Other Mother forever.

Sounds interesting yet creepy eh? Im game to read it anyway :)

PS : Alexis Grace from American Idol shouldnt have been voted out this week...either Scott or Michael should have gone, because of their song choice this week...though I love the both of them.