It's a ripping yarn. I just love the characters. I am often a plot-driven reader, I will keep reading because I need to find out what happens next, but I find with ASoIaF that what I need to find out is what happens next to these particular people. And wolves.

The two I got right were the two books I'd read although I thought I recognized DFW (I was wrong) and I thought Naipaul was a woman.

I just finished Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves

I have no clue what I really think of this books. It is real horror. and horrible . but strip away all that and I found the mother/daughter relationship interesting and the boy /girl relationship very true with outh the over written drama of so many teen books

I'm stumped. Most of the people that hated it on Amazon didn't find it readable. I couldn't put it down

Tonight I discovered that Community College of Vermont offers a class " The Vampire in Literature, Culture & Film". I am going to take that class.

Do eeet. And report back.

I got 3 of 10. And have resolved never to read Naipaul. Asshole.

I got 5 out of 10. None of the passages were familiar to me, even the ones from books I'd read.

I finally read Someone to Run With, the book Shir sent me for Secret Santa a couple years ago! It was really good!

By way of 10 notorious author spats [link] I came to this delicious review: [link]

If self-absorption, vague yearnings and a nagging sense of incompleteness are sins, then surely I will burn for all eternity, and I will save you a seat.

In "A Multitude of Sins," the characters' sense of befuddlement comes to infect, but never to enlighten, the reader.

At the top of the story, the protagonist offers an Awkward Pang of Simmering Dissatisfaction, which sounds suspiciously like the A.P.S.D. offered by the character in the previous story."

A man in a wheelchair cannot just be a man in a wheelchair; he must be a vehicle to help a lame metaphor get around."

The fact that modern literary fiction so often consists of an Awkward Pang of Simmering Dissatisfaction, some rhetorical props that indicate something ineffable and a closing Awkward Pang of Muted Epiphany is why I don't read much modern literary fiction.

So if I want to start a "Book Tropes" website for APSE and other things, do I need to stage a pseudo-cide here first?

Unfortunately, Raq is my real name.

"I cannot believe I missed all the Fast Eddie crap. I don't know how I dodged that one."

le nubian, me too. Now I must Google.

Please don't stage a pseudo-cide. You just came back!

You could name the site LAPSE. Literary ... whatever whatever.

I was looking for a good article on the Gus thing and couldn't find one. Is there one out there?