Vampire Vocab

First, to those who don’t know anything about Anne, she’s my dad’s girlfriend and is far too nice. Second, she is, like a depressing amount of people, brutally Vampire Illiterate. Vampire Illiteracy is a growing plight on culture, born of the idea that, If you’ve read Twilight and Dracula, you’ve read it all. Even I, [...]

I know its been a while since my last book review, but trust me, it’s not for lack of reading. Kiss Of Fire by Deborah Cooke is the first of her Drogonfire series. It’s a “paranormal romance” supposedly, but really, it’s a book about dragon shape-shifters. It begins with independant bookstore owner Sara almost immediatly [...]

Well, to those who do not know, I really love vampires. You would never guess that from the name of my blog. I also love making lists, and reading, and press ganging people into reading. Hey, it’s for their own good. Some of you may not like vampires, but I am about to list my [...]

I love this book. It doesn’t even have Vampires, but I still love it. Truly exceptional, with amazing plot twists, vivid characters, a unique plot. I can but hope that one day I can write as well as Lisa Mcmann, the author. But I’m seriously ticked off at her for not writing the sequel to [...]

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 [...]