Vampire Vocab

Last night, Liz celebrated her birthday by taking us all and our friends who are in town, to the Build-A-bear at Navy Pier. I carefully picked every part of my bear: The sound, the outfit, the accesories. Here’s how it turned out: Constantine, a panda who roars ferociously when his top left paw is squeezed, [...]

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 [...]

Last night I had a dream that was really weird dream. I dreamed that the vampire Constantine and I were in Paris and…well, let’s start from the beginning.   I went to theater class, mentally reviewing what I might be doing that day. When I stepped into the class room, I knew something was wrong, [...]

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 [...]

You might have noticed that I haven’t blogged for a long time, and I am oozing contrition due to that development. The reason: moving houses. I only just managed to unearth Kakashi (my laptop) from his resting place between a large feather pillow and a rubber alligator and a pair of faux fur lined mittens. [...]

Today’s word is… Nosferatu! The definition is… Nosferatu (noun) a hideously ugly vampire Etymology: Slavonic nosfur-atu I was surprised that this word existed. Is there really a such thing as an ugly vampire? It’s like an imaginary number: it might be out there, but we haven’t found it. Anyway, my reference. From One foot in [...]