March 20 (two weeks ago): Winter looks at the calendar and drops several inches of snow on Des Moines, thinking we might forget what it looked like after three solid months of the stuff. It is very cold
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I have not read any of Twilight at all, but I have read Sunshine, which is by far the superior vampire book. It taught me that vampires live wherever the hell vampires want to live, which is apparently underground mansions of some sort. But it could have been at the North Pole!
OMG YOU CAN HAZ READ SUNSHINE!! Did I already know that?? Maybe I did. Anyway, I am eternally in love with that novel. One of my friends wrote a Sunshine fanfic for NaNo (don't tell Robin McKinley!), which led to MANY awesomely nerdy conversations about the Sunshine-verse.
Hah, I don't know if we talked about it or not. I've read all of her books except the compilations she did with her husband. Did you read Dragonhaven? I adore that book, but everyone on Amazon is like "She perfectly captured the voice of her protagonist, but since he's a boy this book sucks!" ::sigh:: And Chalice was really good, too!
Apparently her next book is about a pegasus. I wonder how that one'll go? At the very least, I think she'll win back the people clamoring for more stories about girls and their horses. :P
I have not yet read Dragonhaven, but it will happen eventually. I've read everything else of hers - like you, except those compilations. Actually, I think I've read one of them. I picked it up because there was a Damar story in it. And I enjoyed Chalice a lot too, but The Blue Sword is my favorite YA novel of hers so far. I'm excited for Pegasus - yay more girl and horse stories! Hers are the first girl and horse stories I've really enjoyed.
Vampires have always lived wherever the hell they wanted, in underground mansions. Or at least mansions with boarded windows or heavy drapes. Or castles. Point is, dark scary residences are nothing new.
Yes, but what if they suddenly want to get a breath of fresh air and take a stroll outside? Hey, if a vampire lived at the North Pole and saw the northern lights, would that cause him or her to fry? Or is it like the moon, and once the light bounces off of something they're good to go? Because the northern lights are a refraction, not a reflection, right...? Vampire lore is so confusing.
I didn't get far enough to see where sparkly vampire guy migrates to during the sunny season.
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Apparently her next book is about a pegasus. I wonder how that one'll go? At the very least, I think she'll win back the people clamoring for more stories about girls and their horses. :P
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Vampires have always lived wherever the hell they wanted, in underground mansions. Or at least mansions with boarded windows or heavy drapes. Or castles. Point is, dark scary residences are nothing new.
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Yes, but what if they suddenly want to get a breath of fresh air and take a stroll outside? Hey, if a vampire lived at the North Pole and saw the northern lights, would that cause him or her to fry? Or is it like the moon, and once the light bounces off of something they're good to go? Because the northern lights are a refraction, not a reflection, right...? Vampire lore is so confusing.
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