There's some content I just avoid because it's become too much anymore.

My list of topics to avoid keeps getting longer! There is enough awful in the world that I would prefer to not have it in my literature. For example, sick violence doesn't seem to bother me in Science Fiction, but in "real" world settings it is more difficult. It's a random line in my brain, but so much to read and so little time, so I try and stick with reading that brings joy, distraction, and even wonder from time to time.

I used to tease my mother that she created a monster by reading the Valachi Papers(Testimony about the Mafia) while she was pregnant with me. Sometimes we do what people expect, you know, "Not the holidays without "The Holiday", etc.but we've had a few girlie movie nights over, like, Serpico.(Time-machine oosting, seriously)

sj, this is my usual recommendation for the Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire. And depending on how cotton-candy fluff she likes her books, the Vampire Kisses series is adorable.

And depending on how cotton-candy fluff she likes her books, the Vampire Kisses series is adorable.

Oh, it really is!

I have already given her my copies of Vampire Kisses. She is not interested in anything cotton candy or fluffy or really any romance. Although she will make an exception for a really adorable lgbtq couple. Straight couples give her watch from the hall feelings. The girl wants violence and dragons.

She finished the original Hunger Games trilogy yesterday and cried her eyes out. She was a little distressed by the other books in the series but no tears. The end of Mockingjay finally got to her though. I have not read the Wayward Children series, is it okay for a soon to be fifth grader? I thought the series was more for high school kids.

I finished the second Dungeon Crawler Carl book today and it was so so so much better than the first one.

No spoilers for the show, but let me tell you: the cognitive dissonance and discourse in the Interview with the Vampire/The Vampire Lestat fandom from the fans who've only seen the show, not read the books, is WILD. Not just around some of the larger plot points, but that everyone is an unreliable narrator.

I'm not getting involved in the discourse because I don't need the pointless frustration, but I'm still reading some of it and boggling.

What do you mean, one group doesn't recognize the unreliable narrator thing, or is only slowly picking it up? Something like that?

I haven't watched any of Season 2 yet so I have been staying out of online discussions (actually did re-read TVL pretty recently but can I remember what happened in that particular book? No. But not worried about plot spoilers, just looking forward to reacting to the show's choices myself when I get around to watching) but I am curious about what people are saying in general

It's more of a case of "How dare the writers make my favorite character an unreliable narrator, it's the other characters that are, HOW DARE."

And I've seen this sort of thing said about every one of the main four characters.

I've also seen book fans loudly flounce from the show fandom because the show is "disrespectful to Anne Rice's works" and "They just wanted to make a version of True Blood with Anne Rice's name slapped on". (Mostly because those fans are offended that vampires have sex.)

Which, if you've ever read any interviews with Anne Rice, it's pretty apparent she'd love the show.