Vampire Vocab

Denise’s daughter and her daughter’s husband have come to visit, and I am very eager to catch up with what has happened recently. Therefore, I start to talk about my favorite subject (besides books, that is.), vampires. After just 30 minutes of compare and contrast Bill Compton and Eric Northman, my mom’s had enough. At [...]

Today’s Vampire vocab word was suggested by my brother, so here it is… Oblivious! The definition is… ob⋅liv⋅i⋅ous /əˈblɪviəs/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [uh-bliv-ee-uhs] –adjective 1. unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually fol. by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration. 2. forgetful; without remembrance or memory: oblivious of my former failure. 3. Archaic. inducing forgetfulness. [...]

Hmmm…perhaps this is an indication that the direction of my blog is starting to lean towards faeries and elves more than vampires. Well, anyway, the Tree Shepherds Daughter by Gillian Summers is really a teen reading book. It’s nowhere near as intense as Tithe. If you have a teenager in your house, or even someone [...]

These are some of my favorite songs, and the last one is just funny as a music video, but you really must hear the first one. To use a Liz-ified word, it’s “zombieliful”. 1. Re:your brains by Johnathan Coultan 2.What if your girlfriend were gone by Carla Ulbrich 3.What if your butt was gone by [...]

When I was younger, i had a Junie B. Jones top-secret personal beeswax journal. There was a page where you wrote a poem about something you love using the “roses are…” format. Here was mine, and I can’t believe I was like this as an eight year old, but these days it probably would be [...]

Another fab recipe from Epicurious. I made these cookies for teacher appreciation week, and my history teacher’s wife really liked them. So I decided to link to them (below) so you could try them. I put crystallized ginger niblets on top of white icing, which was delicious and more classy looking than the colored icing [...]

This is an actual interview with an actual person. I decided that I would interview my sister but at first she was very unwilling. Eventually I persuaded her. (By threatening to interview Coto, our dog, and saying she said his answers. Example: me: Liz, what do you look for in a person? Liz(coto): A very [...]

My brilliant sister actually is a poet! She rocks! Here is her best haiku: I have a sister My sister is weirdliful She is disturbing Isn’t she just darling? Just because she’s referring to me doesn’t make her any less creative. She even made up the word “weirdliful”! She should get her own blog when [...]

Tithe by Holly Black. How to explain it in terms that will somehow show just what an awesome book it is? I could write a love song; no, I can’t rhyme. Perhaps a poem then, after I’ve explained the basic elements. The protagonist is a teenage girl named Kaye who lives with her mother and [...]

“Oh my god, Diana! Your outfit is ah-mazing!” shouted Kiara as I opened the door to step into her house. “Thanks! You look great, too.” I was practically bowled over by the overwhelming smell of chlorine as the other guests of the pool party came over to admire the shimmery, aqua-marine pool coverup that I [...]