Saturday, August 18, 2012
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
They'll publish anything with Vampires in it these days...
From the latest Pulp Fiction catalogue...
DRINK, SLAY, LOVE
DURST, Sarah Besth
After 16-year-old vampire Pearl Sange is stabbed through the heart by a were-unicorn, she develops non-vampire-like traits that lead her to save her high school classmates from the Vampire King of New England. “Combining a sense of humor with dark appeal of supernatural romance, this book is funny, scary and thought provoking all at once... Even jaded fans of the supernatural will find fun in this one.” - Kirkus Reviews
YA vampire
PBK $16.95
DRINK, SLAY, LOVE
DURST, Sarah Besth
After 16-year-old vampire Pearl Sange is stabbed through the heart by a were-unicorn, she develops non-vampire-like traits that lead her to save her high school classmates from the Vampire King of New England. “Combining a sense of humor with dark appeal of supernatural romance, this book is funny, scary and thought provoking all at once... Even jaded fans of the supernatural will find fun in this one.” - Kirkus Reviews
YA vampire
PBK $16.95
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Friday, September 09, 2011
Monday, August 08, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Bureaucratic Stupidity
So, despite it making little, if no sense, Australia Post in it’s wisdom, have decided to close my local post office. So anytime that I’m sent a letter or package that doesn’t fit into a standard mailbox, I’m stuck with the job of having to retrieve the little red piece of paper and trudge off to my nearest post office – a position even Australia Post can’t make up their mind about.
So in the space of a week – I get two of these. Two packages – two different post offices to collect from. One doesn’t open before 9:00am in the morning. The other doesn’t open on weekends. Really great if you’ve got a city job which means you don’t have the opportunity to meander around the suburbs of a week-day.
Australia Post and customer service – two things that don’t go together.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Friday, December 04, 2009
Best WoT review
From http://community.livejournal.com/aarondouglas/202548.html - Aaron Douglas (BSG's Chief Tyrol)
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Let's get off healthcare and talk some sci-fi (not syfy) stuff.
Has anyone read Robert Jordan? I am specifically talking about the Wheel of Time series. I am not sure if he has written anything else but I am on book 4 The Shadow rising right now.
I blame my friend Tony Gowell for getting me onto this series.
Has anyone finished it? Is it a satisfying ending? Please no spoilers but .... I am... well... deciding whether to keep going or to find something else.
I find it painfully descriptive at times, pedantic, boring and repetitive.
It does have its drama and fun but mostly I skip the 8 paragraphs dedicated to the smallish leaf hanging grumpily from the westernmost tree in the courtyard between the building of solid white stone surrounded by men in armored gear holding swords with ducks on the hilt and the large market of traders wearing purple laced sequin gowns appropriate for the ball they went to with their grandmothers in another age and time when the world seemed to turn more slowly and the wheel weaved as the wheel weaved around them and their trained dogs who were much larger than the dogs Egwene was used to in three rivers where.......ugh!!! shut up!!!
Tell me what happens!!!!!
Am I alone here? Is this not Lord of the Rings but not nearly as good?
Has anyone read Robert Jordan? I am specifically talking about the Wheel of Time series. I am not sure if he has written anything else but I am on book 4 The Shadow rising right now.
I blame my friend Tony Gowell for getting me onto this series.
Has anyone finished it? Is it a satisfying ending? Please no spoilers but .... I am... well... deciding whether to keep going or to find something else.
I find it painfully descriptive at times, pedantic, boring and repetitive.
It does have its drama and fun but mostly I skip the 8 paragraphs dedicated to the smallish leaf hanging grumpily from the westernmost tree in the courtyard between the building of solid white stone surrounded by men in armored gear holding swords with ducks on the hilt and the large market of traders wearing purple laced sequin gowns appropriate for the ball they went to with their grandmothers in another age and time when the world seemed to turn more slowly and the wheel weaved as the wheel weaved around them and their trained dogs who were much larger than the dogs Egwene was used to in three rivers where.......ugh!!! shut up!!!
Tell me what happens!!!!!
Am I alone here? Is this not Lord of the Rings but not nearly as good?
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
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