What I read this month Hallow Wood (Furyck Saga #4) by A.E. Rayne, 4 stars The Heart Forger (The Bone Witch #2) by Rin Chupeco, 5 stars Once Ghosted, Twice Shy (Reluctant Royals #2.5) by Alyssa Cole, 5 stars DNF’ed: 1 book Total: 3 books 5 stars: 2 books 4 stars: 1 book Favorite Read […]
Interview With the Vampire and red wine Personally, I would pair red wine with just about any vampire novel for the aesthetic of it. But Interview With the Vampire works especially well with this because the aesthetics of Louis and Lestat drinking blood from wine glasses and goblets is so appealing! Practical Magic and tea […]
A reporter gives a vampire the chance to tell his story. Louis describes his distraught mortal years, tortured by the death of his family and goading death for himself. His transformation into an immortal being. His afterlife, and struggling with what immortality would mean for him. Louis tells the reporter how he learned to be […]
Monday: 9/28 Personal: I’ll be working…a lot haha. I have my first shift at 5:45 AM and I’m not expecting to be home until about 8:30 PM so I’m not optimistic that there’ll be much activity from me Blogging: If I’m smart, I can get an archive review scheduled to post today Tuesday: 9/29 Blogging: […]
Yup, it’s almost the end of September folks! I think this month is the first one this year that’s actually gone by rather quickly. A lot of stuff is happening, though… On a personal level, I’ve got big changes coming up. This month I really hit the lowest for not liking my current job and […]
What is a “twisted romance?” A twisted romance is a romantic plotline in which the romantic relationship is not a good relationships. It’s twisted in some manner, usually due to the lifestyle of one or both of the love interests. These plots generally appear in paranormal romances and in thriller/mystery type stories where the plot […]
What am I reading? The Shadowglass (The Bone Witch #3) by Rin Chupeco Knight in Paper Armor by Nicholas Conley The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman The Wolf and The Water by Josie Jaffrey Ninth House (Alex […]
Introduction Vampires themselves are very interesting when used as tropes, but today I specifically want to address when vampires are placed in a “romantic” place. Generally this is in a paranormal romance story where the vampire is the primary love interest, or a rival love interest. Different tropes continue to feed into the trope of […]
So I’ll admit, I’ve already experienced a pretty awesome bookish job. When I was a sophomore in college the Rare Books Room in my undergrad library was transferred to the Archives Department, since nobody had known what to do with the Room and its collection for some time. The archivist, knowing nothing about rare books, […]
Drawn in and trapped by a mysteriously impenetrable fog, your party finds themselves guests in Barovia–a land ruled by the mysterious Strahd von Zarovitch. A world of vampires, ghouls, ghosts, and other dark creatures faces the party. Will you make it through the Death House and begin to unravel the story of Strahd and his […]
Cups and Cards and Books 