Vampire Vocab

Today’s word is: Littoral (adj.) A seashore or coastal region, pertaining to such. And the sentence: The vampire’s love of littoral scenes compounded his depression as he realized he would never see the sun, so often associated with the sea, again.

I’ve been reading. The dictionary, that is. Along with Rare Words. Which has led me to a point in my life where words like “hedonistic” and “astute” which are the most interesting words one finds in most vampire novels, are no longer interesting. So let’s go “off book”. I’ll take a word I like, and [...]

     Delight in Cruelty is one of those subtle books. We’ve all encountered them. Like candy that just tastes like candy until you take a breath and find it to be flavored with rose water. Like standing on the beach for a long time, and not realizing your feet are buried in sand from the [...]

River Marked by Patricia Briggs is the most Recent Mercy Thompson book (the sixth in the series), so I beg that you read the first five first. Not only is it EVIL to read books out of order, but also, it would make no sense. If you read this one first, here’s what would happen: [...]

This is an anthology of vampire stories that I read recently. In my defense, I did not buy it because it had vampires…or, at least not just because it had vampires. I bought it because it had not just Libba Bray, not just Cassandra Clare, but Holly Black also. And a whole bunch of other [...]

Geez, every time I write a  book review now, it feels like I haven’t made one in forever. So…Silver Borne… well. The series is really interesting, and I actually really liked how Silver Borne ended. Patricia Briggs is really good, but she might not be my favorite author ever, or at least, not for a [...]

On my nice little laptop at my dad’s house, I’ve had a problem for a while. My default  page (Google) turned into something called “mywebsearch”. Umm…just for the record, I, being most likely the only computer illiterate blogger EVER, do not even know HOW to change such a thing. Also, a folder called “homework” popped [...]

I call you guinea pigs, my devoted or not-so-devoted readers because you are about to be subject to a short story. My short story. It’s not too late to turn back. …No? Brave soul. You see, my drop-dead gorgeous mother was talking to me the other day and she informed me that she had noticed [...]

Well, here it comes, another fluff review. Maybe I should change my domain name to “fluffybeachreads.com”. Yeesh. It’s not like I don’t read anything but fluff, it’s just that EVERYONE knows what Pride and Prejudice is about. Or at least, I desperately hope you do. So here goes. Undead and Unwed by Mary Janice Davidson [...]

My history teacher has assigned us a project in which we first have to ask ten people what their favorite invention is and why. It can be anything: toilet paper, popcorn, books, whatever. Anything you think is important. PLEASE, comment with favorite inventions and a few words why you think it’s important. Examples: Eric-the-invisible-vampire, “My [...]