Vampires
Starting a Vampire Book Club, a guest post by Carrie (The Sunnydale Project Year 3)
Back when Edward Cullen was at his very sparkliest, I was teaching English at an all-girls high school. I have never seen anything like it. Spontaneous character debates broke out in class and my pro-Jacob leanings earned me some enemies (I make no apologies. He was WARM and could FIX THINGS). Whispers of “Team Edward” […]
Why The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa is an Important Banned Books Week Read
1984. Fahrenheit 451. Brave New World. These are all great, classic reads that highlight the dangers of censorship. Two of them happen to be among my favorite books of all time. Brave New World is not. But sometimes, authors can slip in powerful statements against censorship in the most surprising of places. Exhibit A: The […]
Booktalk This! When You’re Tired of Emo Vamps (by Kearsten)
Burned out on vampire romances? Wish the creatures lurking in the dark were a little more bloodthirsty (or possessing more of a sense of humor)? Me, too! I spent the week rereading Justin Cronin’s The Passage, an epic, sprawling novel of the build-up to and the aftermath of a completely terrifying vampire-virus apocalypse. Cronin’s vamps are deadly and truly […]
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Take 5: Vampire Books with Bite
There are no shortage of YA Vampire books, many of them extremely popular. So here are 5 that are not wildly popular that I think should be – and as an added bonus, there are no sparkling vampires. Peeps by Scott WesterfeldThis book rocks! In this universe, vampirism is a disease. And every other chapter […]
Book Review: The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa
So I am starting a new list, 10 MORE books you should read if you are a Buffy fan. And the first book that goes on that list you ask? The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa. (You can read the original list of Buffy related reads here.) At this point, I am only interested in […]
Top 10 YA Books that Buffy fans will want to read . . .
As you know, we are in the midst of our Sunnydale Project here at TLT, where we are discussing all things Buffy blah blah blah. Today I share with you some of my favorite must reads that will definitely satisfy Buffy fans.Rotters by Daniel Kraus Buffy has spent her fair share of time hanging out […]
TRW: Bram Stoker’s Dracula vs YA Vampires
First published in 1897, Dracula by Bram Stoker is the godfather of everything vampire in today’s culture. As history tells it, Stoker was a business manager for the Lyceum Theater in London during a time when Sherlock Holmes, The Time Machine, and The Jungle Book were all the rage. Stoker’s Dracula would not gain cult and then critical […]
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