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Latest Author and Book News – November 15th 2011 – Plus! The Kindle Fire Is Shipping!

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Lots of cool tidbits today… and look. Amazon announced that the Kindle Fire is shipping (I think I read that it started shipping a day early, even)!

  • Oooooh some awesome J.R. Ward updates about Tohr’s book (Lover Reborn – expected release date March 2tth 2012). These are lost in a sea of Facebook posts on her page, but I remembered seeing and thinking “Oh!! I have to immortilize those tidbits on my blog forever.” So I searched and I searched and I found ’em!! First an update on the length of the book:

“Well it’s a official! Tohr is off to New York- on the final count he came in at 194,057 words/813 pages- which is just short of Rehv, but definitely longer than John Matthew by a healthy margin. Balled at the end- just f’in balled even though I knew what to expect- there’s one scene in particular that gets me EVERY time!” read more

Currently Reading…Bullet by Laurell K Hamilton

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Bullet (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Book 19)
I’m only a quarter of the way through…maybe a bit more, so I’m gonna give it a chance, but…I dunno about this one. 😐

Anita feels a little different to me, or maybe I’ve changed? As I mentionned to my friend Lily in our book discussion today:

I’m reading Bullet right now…not sure how I feel about it yet. I’m starting to kinda not like Anita…and well all of them.

  • Gorgeous almost irresistible Asher‘s being a baby (he feels unwanted and instead of talking it out with those he supposedly loves, starts in with some pretty serious threats)…now THAT’S gonna win some hearts 🙄
  •  Richard‘s had a change of heart and is suddenly being really cooperative (which is a nice change) but why am I resentful of him anyway? Too little, too late? There was a time in the series when he could do NO wrong…then he just started becoming angrier and plain scary that he just seems broken to me.
  • …and Jean Claude the absolute most amazing “real” vampire ever, and yet….he just doesn’t get any attention and doesn’t really say anything about it. While he is important (it seems) to this book, he is almost already backburner-ish – he’s there but not ever angry or emotional. Maybe he never really was, and I just projected emotion onto his character because I liked him so much (one of the first vampires I ever loved LOL!). No wait. I swear He USED to be emotional. He’d get jealous, act indifferent, become angry and threatening and scary but now… none of that. He’s just “perfect”. Never overreacts, always polite and completely accepting of Anita and her needs. Oh come on, man!
  • Anita. What can I say? What I hate is I can no longer relate to her. From her extreme public affection with each lover, to their unrealistic overall acceptance of each other (‘cept for Asher – who really only wants JC and is becoming quite resentful of Anita). I mean, I sorta get the “ardeur” thing (well…not really) but whatever – I’ll accept it as an integral part of the series (a side effect of being bonded to the “vampire line” that dominates through their sexuality – something important is bound to happen because of it, right?). And the need to help control her beasts is just so sexually complicated too. But even with her internal musings, she never admits being really in love with any of them. Basically, she loves everyone (equally?) which is almost as bad as loving no one to me. How she acts with her lovers, no real tenderness…no real emotion…no real attachment. Just a bunch of convenient arrangements.

I don’t *feel* any of them anymore. Not even Jean Claude 🙁 Did I ever think this had an aspect of romance in it? I think I keep reading because I’m hoping to connect once again to the characters I’d grown so attached to. read more

Lily’s Book Review of Burnt Offerings by Laurell K Hamilton

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Burnt Offerings
Hey there again. Just kick stuff out of the way to get in here. Ignore the giant 4 toed foot in the Kitchen. Someone has a crappy sense of humor and an obsession with LOST. Don’t look in the backyard either, Stonehenge is back there. I have no idea what I am going to tell the neighbors. Even better freaking Wrath refused to send me clean up help, I guess “That’s what happens when young vampires drink.” *using mocking tone* I guess my nasty hangover put me in a nasty mood and I didn’t use enough “verily’s” to get my way. Also Acheron and his Dark Hunters are on my “kill them and riverdance on their entrails” list. “Just because I can help you clean, doesn’t mean I should.” *used mocking voice again* Shutup! I could SO do without the god act right now. I would pout about it but since you’re here and everything we can talk about my last read. It was “Burnt Offerings” by Laurell K. Hamilton. Don’t judge me. Just cause I’m a vampire doesn’t mean I don’t like Anita. I finished “Burnt Offerings” which is actually book 7 in the series. I know things are going to go downhill from here, I have heard what a big ho bag Anita turns into later but in the meantime I am enjoying the ride. read more

Vampire News of the Day – 06-15-09

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With the release of True Blood’s first show of season 2 last night, I thought it would be fun once again to a compile a list of cool vampire related stuff out there on the net (most will be True Blood related):

Excellent interview with Alexander Skarsgård (Eric) about his upcoming storyline in Season 2 of True Blood. He even discusses his “tin foiled” hair scene when he tears one of his prisoners apart! Read it on PopWrap. New Interview with Nelsan Ellis (True Blood’s “Lafayette”) on MSNBC – a few spoilers so be careful! A funny recap of the 1st episode, 2nd season of True Blood found on Los Angeles Times (made me giggle) Extra has a cool list: 10 Things about the Stars of ‘True Blood’ (quite fun!!) While Vampires may not age with birthdays, it appears that actors portraying them still do. Happy Birthday to Elizabeth Reaser from the Twilight Saga (she plays “Esme Cullen”). Read more at Examiner.com Check out ET’s behind the scenes look at the New Moon movie! Shreveport Times reports that Charlaine Harris attracted hundreds of fans at the Author! Author! event Fanbolt.com interviews Alan Ball about the True Blood series. Laurell K. Hamilton tweets “SKIN TRADE is #1 on-line in the New York Times. We’ll be #1 in the printed paper next weekend. We’re #1 at Publisher’s Weekly, too!” EOnline’s quick interview with

Ryan Kwanten read more