Perils of reading
You know how sometimes you read a book that's so damn good, you just want it to go on forever? And as soon as you finish it, you want more? You rush right off to find out whether there's a sequel?
Yeah, so what really sucks is finding out that not only is there no sequel, but that the book was in fact the last one the author wrote before she tragically died at a far-too-young age. :(
If you've seen my tweets you may have already guessed that I'm talking about Fledgling by Octavia Butler. I finished it this morning and damn, that book rocked my socks. I already knew it was sad and tragic that Octavia died too soon, but now I'm even more bummin'.
I want to write a whole long post about this book, all the things it has to say about race and sexuality and human relationships, and what a genius she was to accomplish all that in a vampire story...but it's late and I still have bread to bake, ack. So it'll have to wait. But in the meantime, get yourself a copy of this book! What are you waiting for? Go!
Yeah, so what really sucks is finding out that not only is there no sequel, but that the book was in fact the last one the author wrote before she tragically died at a far-too-young age. :(
If you've seen my tweets you may have already guessed that I'm talking about Fledgling by Octavia Butler. I finished it this morning and damn, that book rocked my socks. I already knew it was sad and tragic that Octavia died too soon, but now I'm even more bummin'.
I want to write a whole long post about this book, all the things it has to say about race and sexuality and human relationships, and what a genius she was to accomplish all that in a vampire story...but it's late and I still have bread to bake, ack. So it'll have to wait. But in the meantime, get yourself a copy of this book! What are you waiting for? Go!