Paging Jilli! What were the YA vampire novels you recommended as antidotes for the Twilight series? I have a bunch of 14-year-old girls who really need another book to grasp onto that doesn't include a whiny, needy protagonist and sparkly!vampires.
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Pix - Oct 02, 2008 10:23:45 am PDT #7642 of 28404
The status is NOT quo.
Atropa - Oct 02, 2008 10:29:06 am PDT #7643 of 28404
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Paging Jilli! What were the YA vampire novels you recommended as antidotes for the Twilight series?
Vampire Kisses, by Ellen Schreiber! The bestest YA vampire novels ever!
I thought Silk was nicely done and oogy (and I'm amazed you read it, Jill1!)
It was Caitlin's first novel and I really wanted to support her. She was amazed that I read it, too. I will state that I haven't RE-read it. I want to, but ... um, no. I don't think I can bring myself to do it.
Barb - Oct 02, 2008 10:41:06 am PDT #7644 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
Oh dear, I was just quoted in mediabistro with respect to the Nobel flap.
Well, at least they left out the part where I called the secretary of the Swedish Academy a douchenozzle.
Steph L. - Oct 02, 2008 11:08:05 am PDT #7645 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Vampire Kisses, by Ellen Schreiber! The bestest YA vampire novels ever!
Is the the author who was appearing at something in Columbus? Because if so, she's doing an event/signing at my local library in a couple of weeks (the branch of the library that's literally 5 minutes from my office). Maybe I should read her books.
sj - Oct 02, 2008 11:09:54 am PDT #7646 of 28404
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Vampire Kisses, by Ellen Schreiber! The bestest YA vampire novels ever!
I'll second this recommendation. I love this series.
Atropa - Oct 02, 2008 11:14:24 am PDT #7647 of 28404
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Is the the author who was appearing at something in Columbus?
Yes. She's going to be part of a group signing tour at a bookstore near me at the end of this month, so I'll finally get to meet her and geeble about how much I love her books.
(The problem is going to be that one of the other authors on the tour is someone who started out as a very good horror/splatterpunk author, and is now writing vampire YA books that seem to be very ... Gossip Girl. Private schools, lots of brand name fashion-y references, and not a lot of what I would expect from this writer. Which means I'm going to have to bite my tongue when I see her, and am also trying to decide if it would be Bad Form for me to take my copies of her earlier work to be signed.)
Miracleman - Oct 02, 2008 11:16:04 am PDT #7648 of 28404
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Does anyonw have some suggestions for some really actually creepy horror novels?
World War Z creeped me right the fuck out.
Atropa - Oct 02, 2008 11:18:05 am PDT #7649 of 28404
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
World War Z creeped me right the fuck out.
YES. Oooh, I should re-read that.
Pix - Oct 02, 2008 11:39:50 am PDT #7650 of 28404
The status is NOT quo.
Thanks, Jilli! And my girls thank you, too.
Strix - Oct 02, 2008 12:43:46 pm PDT #7651 of 28404
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, Merricat! Yep, I like all Shirley Jackson, although WHALATC, while a great story, is nowhere near the fleshcrawling GAAAAAAHHHHH-ness that THoHH inspires.
Now I'm trying to figure out the other author at the signing. Hmmm.
I had bought World War Z for my students last year. It's worth a look, then?