Also, Claudia Grey's Evernight will hopefully be good - she's a TERRIFIC fanfic writer (under another name, natch). The premise is rather too familiar, but I've adored her fanfic for years, so I'll certainly be buying the book as soon as it's available in my bookshop.

REALLY? Nancy Collins?! Color me surpised. That seems a weird...turnaround. I mean, usually an author goes from the frothier stuff to the edgier stuff later.

We're talking "Sunglasses After Dark" Collins, right?

Yep, same author. It's really strange. Vamps reads like a Nancy A. Collins book, just with the edges wrapped in fluff and a thick coating of Vogue magazine on top.

Nancy Collins and her partner performance artist Joe Christ at one time had one of the greatest voicemail messages of all time. "The Whore of Babylon and the Anti-Christ can't come to the phone by now, but if you leave a message we'll be happy to return your call."

Skipping to see if anyone else had The Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature when you were young: [link] I"m writing a (fun) paper for my YA Lit class about my reading history. I had forgotten about this book. I loved it like whoa as a kid. I remember seeing it at the bookstore and begging for it. If I recall correctly, I got it as a Christmas gift. Anyway, just cruising down reading memory lane.

Oh, wow, GC-- I had that book. I think it was given to me as a third birthday present. In fact, that's the book I taught myself to read from because I'd pestered everyone to death and they wouldn't read to me anymore, so I decided fie on them and started reading to myself.

Wow-- talk about a trip down memory lane.

OMG I did! I haven't thought of it in ages.

Oh yay! I remember reading The Match Stick Girl over and over and over (sob). Also there was a story about a fisherman who caught a fish that granted him a wish. He made a modest wish but his wife was greedy and unsatisfied so she made him go back and ask the fish for another wish (grander). This happened a few times until the fish finally took it all away. Remember that one? Remember the name by chance? Was it The Fisherman and His Wife?

I still have a copy of it.

I wonder if my parents still have mine. I'd love to have it.

Dude! I was right: [link]