It's sad, I check the library every other day to see if the 3rd volume is in the catalog yet.
Don't I get a cookie?
Spike ,'Never Leave Me'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
megan walker - Jun 05, 2010 7:55:54 am PDT #11568 of 28343
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Atropa - Jun 07, 2010 1:21:36 pm PDT #11569 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, Jilli. I tried to read the Ellen Streiber YA vampire novel, the first one, and my dear, I just couldn't get through it.
It's okay, I understand. It is not everyone's sugary cup of tea. I think part of the reason I adored it is that I see a lot of Wee!Jilli in Raven.
Volans - Jun 07, 2010 2:38:17 pm PDT #11570 of 28343
move out and draw fire
NPR reviewed two vampire books today - The Passage and Blood Oath - and gave them both good marks. The premise of Passage sounds only vaguely vampirey (more contagion than anything), while Blood Oath just sounds goofy.
Still, I'll probably read both of them.
Connie Neil - Jun 07, 2010 2:53:22 pm PDT #11571 of 28343
brillig
The Passage was the featured YA book on the Unshelved webcomic this past Friday as well.
Ginger - Jun 07, 2010 3:04:19 pm PDT #11572 of 28343
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Have any of y'all read the three Georgia Evans books set in rural wartime England? A friend recommended them and I was charmed by the first one. Nazi vampires! Pixies! (Those are not spoilers unless you have the magical ability to not read any of the cover text.)
Dana - Jun 07, 2010 3:11:50 pm PDT #11573 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
You beat me to it, Raq.
while Blood Oath just sounds goofy.
Yeah, it sounded very...familiar.
Volans - Jun 07, 2010 4:22:57 pm PDT #11574 of 28343
move out and draw fire
Like fanfic familiar?
Dana - Jun 07, 2010 4:23:35 pm PDT #11575 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm not sure if it's that as much as vampire tropes. Like, he goes to AA? That's not new.
Volans - Jun 08, 2010 9:03:28 am PDT #11576 of 28343
move out and draw fire
Yeah, and the whole "wears a cross so that the pain reminds him" is in Astro City, and probably other places.
Kate P. - Jun 08, 2010 1:00:57 pm PDT #11577 of 28343
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
We gave The Passage a big interview in our June issue, and everyone I know who's read it is pretty excited about it. (It's actually being marketed as an adult title, though of course there's a huge amount of crossover with the YA market when it comes to vampires.) I'm hoping to read it, and I'm pretty burned out on vampires these days.