Books Read - 2007 Finale
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Well I was able to finish two more books before the year ended. They were:
Bond of Blood by Diane Whiteside which was a vampire romance novel or a romance vampire novel. The author created her own vampire lore (some of the terms resembled vampire customs used in BtVS fanfic) and she translated most of them into Spanish (eg creador for sire) so it felt a bit more exotic. It was a little too "romancey" for my tastes but I believe it was the first novel in a trilogy about Texas vampires and may get better so I may try number two when it comes out in January.
Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby? by Alyson Beatrice. I found this in Tanya Huff's LJ (
andpuff) and thought I'd give it a try. Apparently Beatrice is a bigname fan on the BtVS message boards and chat rooms like Buffistas which is a region of the Buffyverse-on-the-Web that I've never ventured into. She's known to Joss Whedon and Tim Minnear and others at ME so she has a few stories to tell but honestly I don't know why this was thought to be of interest to any but the most ardent BtVS fan (I guess I'm not ardent enough). The best story was how some of her online friends got together and brought Nilly, an Israeli fan, to America for a visit. A book on fandom that I found far more amusing and interesting was Bjo Trimble's On the Good Ship Enterprise published in 1983 though of course fandom has altered considerably with the introduction of the internet.
If I've counted correctly I've read about 28 books this year. There were several more that I started but didn't finish before I returned them to the library. I might take them out again one day but I didn't count them. Nor did I count a couple of anthologies I checked out but only read one or two of the stories in them. I also read two newspapers a day, a half dozen weekly periodicals, several monthlies and of course an uncounted number of fanfics on the web. My icon says it all *g*
Bond of Blood by Diane Whiteside which was a vampire romance novel or a romance vampire novel. The author created her own vampire lore (some of the terms resembled vampire customs used in BtVS fanfic) and she translated most of them into Spanish (eg creador for sire) so it felt a bit more exotic. It was a little too "romancey" for my tastes but I believe it was the first novel in a trilogy about Texas vampires and may get better so I may try number two when it comes out in January.
Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby? by Alyson Beatrice. I found this in Tanya Huff's LJ (
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If I've counted correctly I've read about 28 books this year. There were several more that I started but didn't finish before I returned them to the library. I might take them out again one day but I didn't count them. Nor did I count a couple of anthologies I checked out but only read one or two of the stories in them. I also read two newspapers a day, a half dozen weekly periodicals, several monthlies and of course an uncounted number of fanfics on the web. My icon says it all *g*