The way the new Eragon book was selling on Saturday, a bunch of us bookstore workers were agreeing that the biggest selling book in the world right now would be one that had teenaged vampires flying around on dragons. I added that the vampires had to sparkle, which confused the non-Twilight readers but got a laugh from those that did read them.

huh. i look the book to fit the promised tone. and the romance angst should fit . Personally, I hate lies in romance novels.misunderstandings -- and well you can't always tell some one you are a vampire right away - I get .But Lies where someone is pretending to be some thing they are not -- I get all anxious.

In paranormal romances I don't like a lot of romance angst -- there should enough real danger to push those kinds of things aside.

In light contemporary romances -- I like it when the problems are more things people just need to talk about ,but they aren't sure they can or should presume that the other person cares that much.

I know what I like. But I can't believe that I would presume to tell an authour -- I love everything, but can you change X( major part of the story). That might tell me I don't like it.

Kay Hooper is a good example -- I've loved some of her books and not so much with others. I don't like her physically fragile do to strong paranormal skills heroines . It is legitimate, well-done, just not to my taste.

Kay Hooper is a good example -- I've loved some of her books and not so much with others. I don't like her physically fragile do to strong paranormal skills heroines . It is legitimate, well-done, just not to my taste.

I loved her wizard book, where they went to Atlantis to change their society and its attitudes towards witches. That was a really good book, as were her "Hagen Wins Again" books for Loveswept.

I don't mind characters having dreadful things happen to them if it makes sense in the book and it achieves something. In a series, though, I get tired of the protagonist always being beaten up, dumped or full of angst. After a while, I begin to wonder why I'm spending so much time with such a loser.

a bunch of us bookstore workers were agreeing that the biggest selling book in the world right now would be one that had teenaged vampires flying around on dragons.

Maybe I should dig out and try to make publishable that novel I wrote as a teen where the vampires can go out in the daylight and turn into dolphins.

Maybe I should dig out and try to make publishable that novel I wrote as a teen where the vampires can go out in the daylight and turn into dolphins.

Only if they sparkle.

Actually, I'm sorry, Laga, that came out very snarky and I certainly don't mean for it to. At least, not against you. Anything that can turn a mythos onto its ear in a really creative, fresh way I think is fantastic.

In case you need reminding of where I come in on this debate, one of my favorite books involves a detective standing over a body wishing he had a patch kit. Dude had a "slow leak".(I'm sick. I still laugh. Oh, that Landsman!) But I do have those moods, too. That's what "Raymond" and "King of Queens" are for. Although even K of Q gets people fired sometimes. And there was a surprisingly touching miscarriage ep once.

Speaking of detective books, I've only got two books (well, sets of books) on my Amazon wish list--the Complete Annotated Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes, and the Complete Annotated Novels of Sherlock Holmes. They're on the list because I can't afford to buy them myself right now--totaled up, they're over $100.

Oh please, snark away. I think I started the book when I was 13. Every once in a while I dig it out and try to read it but it hurts too much and I put it away again. It would be perfect for one of those angst fest things where people read stuff they wrote as teens on stage for the amusement of others.

Has this been posted?

Lucy Maud Montgomery's granddaughter revealed that the author committed suicide:

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In an essay in the Globe and Mail on Saturday, Kate Macdonald Butler said Montgomery committed suicide. She said there was a note, which she's never seen, but she was told it asked for forgiveness.

Macdonald Butler said it seemed appropriate to lift the secrecy on the 100th anniversary of the publishing of Montgomery's first and most famous book. She was inspired to reveal the truth because of a series published in the Globe on mental health, and she hoped it would help get rid of the stigma of mental illness.