Vampire Vocab

Denise has recently told me of a librarian that complained that very few childrens books these days had strong or main male characters to which I replied: “She must not read enough. Plenty of books I read have main male characters, and the only reason that it’s not written from their perspective is so that [...]

First, Halfway To the Grave. Now, Once Bitten Twice Shy by Jennifer Rardin. In Halfway to the Grave, Bones the Bounty Hunter has Cat as his assistant who can sense vampires because she’s half-vampire herself. So along comes this book about a CIA agent who is working with an attractive, to say the least, and [...]

Comparing  Zen and the Art of Vampires By Katie Macalister to other, better, vampire books I’ve read is like comparing a guinea pig to a lion. The origons of this book are dismal: the O’hare airport, I couldn’t stand how intense Ironside by Holly Black was at that moment, so I head down to the [...]

How to describe Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead? It’s a Fantabulous book  (Fantastic and fabulous combined)! I’ll start with the basics: The protagonist is Rose Hathaway, half-vampire guardian of Lissa Dragomir. After running away for three years, the pair is forcefully returned to the Academy where Rose will learn to fight the Strigoi, the evil [...]

Today’s word is… Adamantly! The definition is: Ad-a mant  Adjective Unyielding in attitude or opinion despite all urgings. Today’s excerpt is from Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead, in a conversation between Rose and Lissa on page 187, “They Know.” “Know what?’ “About us. About how you…youknow, how I fed you when we were gone.” She [...]

I’m so proud of Alice-marie. She’s writing a book! So I’m just taking this space to do “writing prompts” like you get when your teacher wants you to write about something specific. Sometimes, to find a really good idea, something has to really strike you, like true love. Does anybody believe in love at first [...]

Blue is for nightmares by Laurie Stolarz is a book that I was reminded of when I was watching the episode Killed by Death (From Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Click the link to watch on Hulu). Anyway, this is a really wonderful series which is fantasy despite a lack of vampires, zombies, or the undead [...]

Those who haven’t realized yet that I’m a total Sookie Stackhouse fan are about to get a lot of proof that I am. Along with awesome vampires, Charlaine Harris makes some pretty awesome weres and shifters. I mean Jacob Black is all right, but the Sookie books have shown me the most incredible shapeshifters ever. [...]

Today’s word is… Convulsing! The definition is: con⋅vulse // // “, “6″);interfaceflash.addParam(“loop”, “false”);interfaceflash.addParam(“quality”, “high”);interfaceflash.addParam(“menu”, “false”);interfaceflash.addParam(“salign”, “t”);interfaceflash.addParam(“FlashVars”, “soundUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.lexico.com%2Fdictionary%2Faudio%2Fluna%2FC08%2FC0815300.mp3&clkLogProxyUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fdictionary.reference.com%2Fwhatzup.html&t=a&d=d&s=di&c=a&ti=1&ai=51359&l=dir&o=0&sv=00000000&ip=6332b41b&u=audio”); interfaceflash.addParam(‘wmode’,'transparent’);interfaceflash.write(); // ]]>[kuhn-vuhls] –verb (used with object), -vulsed, -vuls⋅ing. 1. to shake violently; agitate. 2. to cause to shake violently with laughter, anger, pain, etc. 3. to cause to suffer violent, spasmodic contractions of the muscles. Origin: 1635–45; [...]

My dad seems to have decided to make a habit of, whenever he goes to a different country, bringing one of the twilight saga back in the native language. After his recent trip to Paris, I now have two of the saga. Twilight in French and New moon in Swedish. I wonder what language the [...]