Generally, if you confess your sins and an earnest wish to make amends, the library will be forgiving. Lost books they will probably fine you for (maybe $20-$50 each, depending on what they are), but mere late fees may be waived at this point. And yes they will probably make a payment plan if the fine is substantial.

Most libraries have a cap on fines -- X dollars per item. They do so they can charge a replacement fee. Basically after so many days they assume lost.

Sophia, I thought they generally stopped charging once they reached the cost of replacing the book?

I haven't been in so long, I don't remember. When I was young, the library was pretty much next door, so I lived there. The library ladies loved me and my reading habit so much that they always waived my fines and the book limits, and I got in the habit of taking out 20 or more books at a time like it was my own personal library. Then, in my twenties, I got too depressed to return the books and now it is sort of the last place I have to make amends with as I have paid off all the creditors that I didn;t pay due to depression. I would love to give them thousands of dollars just because the library and the "library ladies" (we only had one librarian, the rest were staff) was so important to me growing up.

I am hoping it is like flea says, and that the honest desire to make amends and pay what I can helps.

The library book that I didn't find until I moved the dresser it fell under cost me the library's official cost, which was pretty much the new hardcover cost.

Tanya Huff's Blood Ties was published in 1991, two years before the first Anita Blake by two years. Yarbro's first Saint-Germain novel was published in 1978.

I've lost several library books in different cities/states and the policy always seems to be you never owe more than the cost of the book. So late fees up until you reach the cost of the book, then you effectively buy it. I suspect that if you are willing to even consider paying the replacement costs, you will be restored in good library standing. It's not like they're in it for the $$.

The whole point of Lugosi's breakthrough performance as Dracula was that it was sexualized. That's where it changes from the previous Nosferatu presentation.

Actually, part of the novel's appeal to its Victorian (and modern-day) audience were the sexual overtones. The vampire brides? The sexual overtones of all the men giving their fluids to Lucy? Racy, racy stuff, especially for that era.

I would say that Anne Rice helped popularize a certain glamourous, romantic view of vampires, and I would have to agree that her books were more of a phenomenon than the Addams Family. (As much as I don't want to.)

Also, yes, Dark Shadows, Hotel Transylvania, and The Vampire Tapestries all came out before Interview, but the only one that came close to grabbing pop culture attention in the same way was Dark Shadows.

Things I Never Knew:

Neil Gaiman named his daughter after a drag queen in a Lou Reed song.

Made. Of. Awesome.

I finished The Strain this morning.I was expecting something different from Del Toro. Maybe more magical realism. However, I really ended up enjoyiong it. As was mentioned upthread, I liked the mixing of the vampire/zombie traditions, and I am skepitcal that it can be stretched out to 2 more books. I wish more of the book had been like the last big section of hunting and fighting.

I am still reeling at the thought that LKH is suggesting that her books and Meyers' books are in the same genre.

That's like saying that 'The Princess Diaries' is following in the footsteps of 'Debbie Does Dallas.' Or, well, probably a flawed analogy, but SWEET ZOMBIE JESUS, the only connection between Twilight and LKH's books, other than the fact that both sets of novels are excruciatingly bad, is that they feature attractive men with pointy teeth. Which, okay, is a similarity, I'll grant you - but NOT ENOUGH OF ONE.

thinks

...okay, I take it back. Although LKH writes terrible porn sans plot, and Meyers writes terrible plot sans porn, they're both writing Mary Sue self inserts (albeit different flavours of Mary Sue) and they're both writing books that have lashings of misogyny in there, along with the attractive men with pointy teeth. And werewolves.

LKH writes terrible porn sans plot, and Meyers writes terrible plot sans porn

Best summation ever.