Vampire Vocab

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 [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; < L convulsus ptp. of convellere to shatter, tear loose, equiv. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

All right! As promised, here’s a book review, but all ye who read here, be thou warned: it’s sooo vamp romance. Bit the Jackpot by Erin McCarthy is my first book review, because I like that she doesn’t assume that vampires always live in cold, remote areas, and that all they want is blood, blood, [...]