Comments on: i guess i’m just a sucker for a good vampire love story

By: dear diary pants: NO DATES at Poshdeluxe

dear diary pants: NO DATES at Poshdeluxe — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:05:42 +0000

[...] series, which i found to be spot on, esp. concerning gender roles (as previously discussed on this blog). speaking of that entry, did you guys see that random comment from “carina,” who [...]

By: jessica

jessica — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:58:46 +0000

being critical of best-sellers is the epitome of shallow and common. you’re right, carina, it’s wrong to be critical of a well-loved book. sarah’s a big idiot. keep it to yourself, sarah! delete your blog!

By: talena

talena — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:10:25 +0000

Oh my God I’m laughing so hard! Whoever this Carina person is cracking me up. She completely missed the point that you liked the books despite their flaws. And then she’s blasting you for your opinion after giving you hers simply because you’re “outnumbered at least a thousand to one”. And how is JK Rowling a satanic bitch but a mormon housewife writing about vampires is the epitome of all things Christian? Both are talented, successful writers who hit upon a genre that taps into a HUGE market of readers. Why else would a bunch of late twenties to mid thirties women be reading and discussing it on this board?

By: Carina

Carina — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:28:39 +0000

You, lovie, are an idiot. Twilight is by far the best book I have ever read, and believe me, I’ve read quite a few. So if you read the books only for the ‘hot’ parts then you are in my opinion one of the most shallow and common people I have ever listened too. And then you DARE to say Stephenie has poor writing skills! FYI, J.K. Rowling is a Satan-obsessed bitch who deserve absolutely NOTHING for her books. But you wouldn’t understand that. Because you are shallow and common.
Hello, I just wonder why Twilight spent 143 weeks on the New York Times bestselling list if it wasn’t an absolutely FABULOUS book and people all over the world loved it???
Wake up and smell the roses, geek. You’re outnumbered at least a thousand to one. We all love Stephenie. And if you don’t, keep it bloody well to yourself!!!

By: jessica

jessica — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:03:58 +0000

i noticed that about the cover of “wait til helen comes” too, and it makes me so happy that i’m not alone in spotting this weirdness!

sarah, i can’t believe you’re even asking about the book release party. i’ve been googling to find a book release party in the area for august, so it’s on. i’ll buy the puff paint for our shirts.

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:26:43 +0000

I have to second Becky’s recommendation for Westerfeld’s Uglies, Pretties, Specials and Extras. Dystopian novels that kids will actually read and enjoy. My reluctant readers were always hooked by these books.

I personally love the Twilight series. They are “clean” and I think that helps with their marketability. It is a romantic vampire novel that your mom will be okay with you reading. And at least in my school district, that is still something a librarian has to think about.

Didn’t care for Great and Terrible Beauty-a big disappointment since it came so highly recommended by so many people.

I could go on recommending books to you for days-but I’ll just throw out one. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Seriously powerful stuff.

Ooh and a plug for my lit professor from grad school-she reads YA all the time and blogs about the newest stuff. I think you’d enjoy what she has to say. Someday I want to be her: http://professornana.livejournal.com/

By: MSW

MSW — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:30:44 +0000

I LOVED Wait Til Helen Comes! I was trying to remember the name of that book just the other day.

Anyway.

A friend of my sister-in-law, Richelle Mead, has written a few vampire romances, and I’ve read one so far (v. entertaining). Start with Succubus Blues. It’s not quite tween fiction, since the heroine isn’t in school, but it’s the same sort of idea. And I actually didn’t mind her writing style at all (says the editor .

By: J. Beaman

J. Beaman — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:50:03 +0000

I had a children’s librarian come in to the restaurant last week who was reading that book. She mentioned the mormon author bit and also mentioned that there is absolutely no sex in the books at all but they are highly erotic. Erotic mormon sexless vampires creep me out. Totally.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:35:57 +0000

i totally forgot about how much “wait til helen comes” freaked me out, and i also forgot about the creepy old house, so THANKS A LOT COS NOW I HAVE THE HEEBIE JEEBIES.

erin, i’m sorry, but i read “a great and terrible beauty” and i thought the writing was terrible. the story idea was fantastic but… it wasn’t engrossing enough to get me past the bad prose. with that said, i think you’d find the twlight series to be more riveting, in spite of the unspectacular writing.

By: talena

talena — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:26:41 +0000

I love Wait Til Helen Comes too. It was my favorite ghost story. The crazy little step sister, the scary ghost and graveyard.

Remember, Becky and Sarah, when we took our camping trip senior year and we drove by an old house or church and we kept comparing it to WTHC.