I just added sooooo many titles to my library queue! Thanks to everyone. I should add but I'm not organized enough to remember everything I read this year, thought I have been on a Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant bender the last few months, reading (or re-reading in anticipation) the entire Newsflesh trilogy as well as the entire October Daye series. And almost done with Discount Armageddon right now.
Also had a recent John Green bender with The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns, and An Abundance of Katherines. Love them all. That's what I've been reading the last couple months, at least, before that is a blur.
And totally unrelated, I had a (potentially squickey) story idea last night. It always bugged me that vampire stories involving human females seem to completely ignore menstruation. Why? It's like a buffet of blood that doesn't harm the donor at all...we just gush it out for days every month. I suppose that it's compositionally different from arterial blood so maybe it wouldn't taste as good? But seems like a non-discerning vampire could have a rotating stable of ladies of fertile years. Plus, for the sexy times scenes, orgasm leads to uterine contractions so a vampire adept at cunnilingus could reasonably view menstruating women as walking treat dispensers.
edited to white font the part that folks might find squicky.
I, uh, wrote a fanfic about that years ago. No, really.
Great minds think alike ;P Link?
Ask her. I didn't save it. I just read it. A few times.
Um, good question. Let me see if I can rustle it up.
I think Theodore Sturgeon - or someone writing when he was - did something along those lines.
And with all the zombie stories around now, how would a zombie apocalypse affect Christian celebrations of the eucharist? transubstantiation and all that ....
I don't think it was Steph's, but I read a long Buffy/Spike that used that premise some time ago.
