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gwynnegaThis morning I finished reading ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
claudiagray's YA vampire novel, Evernight (the first in a series). It was an excellent antidote to the Sparkledammerung. An interesting take on vampire lore, intelligent worldbuilding, and some truly fantastic twists, as well as a racially diverse cast of characters. It mines some of the same emotional territory as Twilight--i.e., teenage hormones running amok equated with bloodlust--but does so with a non-Mary Sue heroine. It was a bit slow getting started, and I preferred a different guy to the one the heroine fell for, but overall an enjoyable page-turner. (And no sparkling whatsoever.)
Today's mail brought me a copy of Armed and Dangerous: A Writer's Guide to Weapons, which I needed primarily for the chapter on bombs for the Jo book.
This afternoon I returned a couple of things to Old Navy, then briefly scoped out the Glendale bookstores (Borders, Brand Bookshop, and Bookfellows). None of 'em had Diary of a Provincial Lady, darn it--but I did pick up a couple more Amanda Cross titles at Bookfellows (Poetic Justice and The Theban Mysteries). I'm currently reading The James Joyce Murder and The Brontes Went to Woolworths.
In non-book news, I think my dilapidated old car is trying to tell me it really is time to buy a new car: the ceiling upholstery by the rear window is starting to sag. I probably should've gone to the Toyota dealership for a test drive on my way home, but it was too damn hot out.
This evening: noveling, plus Dark Shadows viewing (I'm currently in 1969), and maybe I'll watch Hearts and Minds, the Vietnam documentary I Netflix'd for Jo book research...
And tomorrow is Henna Day!
claudiagray's YA vampire novel, Evernight (the first in a series). It was an excellent antidote to the Sparkledammerung. An interesting take on vampire lore, intelligent worldbuilding, and some truly fantastic twists, as well as a racially diverse cast of characters. It mines some of the same emotional territory as Twilight--i.e., teenage hormones running amok equated with bloodlust--but does so with a non-Mary Sue heroine. It was a bit slow getting started, and I preferred a different guy to the one the heroine fell for, but overall an enjoyable page-turner. (And no sparkling whatsoever.)Today's mail brought me a copy of Armed and Dangerous: A Writer's Guide to Weapons, which I needed primarily for the chapter on bombs for the Jo book.
This afternoon I returned a couple of things to Old Navy, then briefly scoped out the Glendale bookstores (Borders, Brand Bookshop, and Bookfellows). None of 'em had Diary of a Provincial Lady, darn it--but I did pick up a couple more Amanda Cross titles at Bookfellows (Poetic Justice and The Theban Mysteries). I'm currently reading The James Joyce Murder and The Brontes Went to Woolworths.
In non-book news, I think my dilapidated old car is trying to tell me it really is time to buy a new car: the ceiling upholstery by the rear window is starting to sag. I probably should've gone to the Toyota dealership for a test drive on my way home, but it was too damn hot out.
This evening: noveling, plus Dark Shadows viewing (I'm currently in 1969), and maybe I'll watch Hearts and Minds, the Vietnam documentary I Netflix'd for Jo book research...
And tomorrow is Henna Day!
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Date: 2008-08-17 11:55 pm (UTC)I'm about 70 pages into Brontes. It's great--and so odd, the way it keeps veering from real life to fantasy life. I'd be further along, but those Amanda Cross books are like popcorn and keep dragging me away...
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Date: 2008-08-18 01:39 am (UTC)