I find it horrific! You can't pretend to be consensually oppressed (yes, I think it can be a thing) me! Aiee.

Yes, they told me. Right around the time one of them was describing all the code in the slave collar, and I was like "and you know this how?...oh. Oh. Huh. Is your master really a guy?"

But it's sort of a rule ofnthumb that if the fem a,e avatar's boobs are bigger than her head, she's being run by a guy.

Skipped a bunch of posts, but I just noticed this book, and needed to say WTF? [link]

Book: The Vampire and the Vegan

Book I: Food

Pearl, a temptress vampire living in Washington, DC, discovers that the blood of her next would-be victim, Salaam, lacks that certain something she craves -- necromantic energy that comes from eating meat. Yet he may offer her something that she needs even more...

Through fast-paced prose peppered with surprises, The Vampire and the Vegan explores the complex relationship between a carnivore and her food.

180 pages.

This book contains adult language and content.

I haven't figured out yet whether this is just a really weird story or if it's the newest idea for books to get teenagers to go vegan.

It has a website! [link] Which seems to support the "book to get teenagers to go vegan" theory.

Oh I found a pretty. Genevieve Valentine. [link]

I've been meaning to pimp three non-fiction books, some of which I've already mentioned.

1. Secret Historian is a biography of Samuel Steward, who had a very fascinating life:

The novelist and professor at a Roman Catholic university who was born in 1909 into an austere and puritanical Methodist household in Ohio was Samuel M. Steward. But as the author of gay pulp fiction, he went by Phil Andros and a half-dozen other pseudonyms; Hells Angels in Oakland, Calif., who used him as their official tattoo artist, called him Doc Sparrow; readers of his articles in underground newspapers and magazines knew him as Ward Stames. To a close circle of artistic friends like Wilder, Cadmus, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Christopher Isherwood, the photographer George Platt Lynes and others, he was simply Sammy.

He kept detailed accounts of all of his gay sexual experiences in the pre-Stonewall era and was a major resources for Kinsey's research. Most of the book draws from his own letters and journals and he's a very witty and thoughtful writer creating a secret history of what was then a gay underground as a sexual outlaw.

2. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand - which probably doesn't need much pimping as it topped the NY Times Bestseller list. But if you know somebody that gobbles up histories and WWII stories, she's a fantastically vivid writer and Louie Zamperini's story is incredible.

3. The Lampshade by Marc Jacobson. What's interesting about the book - which concerns the author coming into possession of a lampshade made out of human skin that's found in New Orleans after Katrina - isn't so much the finding of the mythical Nazi horror object, but the weird underworld of Nazi memorabilia collectors, holocaust deniers, New Orleans grave robbers, DNA specialists and cantors he interviews as he tries to track down the origin of the thing. It's an oddly shaped and sort of shaggy book, but its compelling because it has a serious moral question at its core: how do you respond to real horror? When you face the fact of human evil and suffering, what is right action? Katrina, 911, the Holocaust and a sleezy underworld worthy of your favorite crime novelist.

The Lampshade by Marc Jacobson.

I heard a piece on NPR about this, some months back. Definitely creepy, but also intriguing.

I heard a piece on NPR about this, some months back. Definitely creepy, but also intriguing.

It's kind of like Treme or a Carl Hiassen novel, an Elmore Leonard. It's a bizarre mix of characters, and it makes for an interesting story beyond the lampshade itself. It's very digressive and goes off on long sections about Ilsa Koch and the NYC coroner who is also a cantor and the NOLA graverobber. But that's actually what makes the book interesting.

Has anyone here read Room by Emma Donoghue? I couldn't put it down last night until it was finished. It was just too compelling, and I HAD to know what happened to the characters. The author did a wonderful job with the voice of the 5 year old narrator.

I loved Room , sj!

Lisah, wasn't it just amazing? I haven't been able to stop thinking about the characters all day today.