♥ Brain candy.
Our trip to chapters today was successful, to say the very least.
I bought three books! Well, four if you count the double I bought for my mom. My mom & I decided to make our own little book club. So we are going to read the same book & give ourselves a month deadline, & once we finish, we're going to go for lunch or dinner & discuss. How cute & fun!
I had to be careful in choosing the book for my mom & I, as she isn't sick & twisted like me.
Here are the books I bought.
Blood Is The New Black by Valerie Stivers (for my mom & I's pseudo book club)
Review - My newest read Blood is the new Black by Valerie Stivers, was interesting and wickedly-chic, combining both vampires with the fashion world. The main character Kate, joins the newest and most fabulous "it" magazine company, and soon realizes that her co-workers are somewhat different. When bodies start turning up and anyone is the suspect, it's up to Kate to save the day, while finding out a secret from her past. A really good book.
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk (though I don't find he is as excellent a writer as the scene may say, I love that he writes about what no one else would)
Review - “Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must-have movie for every discerning collector of things erotic.”
Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room. This wild, lethally funny, and thoroughly researched novel brings the huge yet underacknowledged presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction at last. Who else but Chuck Palahniuk would dare do such a thing? Who else could do it so well, so unflinchingly, and with such an incendiary (you might say) climax?
Kill Your Friends by John Niven
Review - The 1990s British music industry is the setting for the novel, which uses months as its chapters and begins each with a report on successful records and professional movements.
Niven’s narrator is one Steven Stelfox, an A&R man for a big record company. Despite mounting debts and a lack of successful acts, Stelfox is moved to do very little actual work to change his situation. What he is willing to do is to drug and murder those who threaten to make him look bad. Despite the title, Stelfox is no one’s friend.
Scott bought two books also. Conversations With The Devil by Jeff Rovin & Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris.
& I love the fact that this is such a book reading type of day. It's dark, windy, chilly.
We're making fajitas for dinner, then will engage in some wicked brain candy. I'm totally reading Snuff tonight.
Mmm, we even got reading snacks for later. Blueberry & brown sugar cookies, as well as shortbread cookies. The Peak Freans kind. Low cals, woo! They will go great with some tea :)
I bought three books! Well, four if you count the double I bought for my mom. My mom & I decided to make our own little book club. So we are going to read the same book & give ourselves a month deadline, & once we finish, we're going to go for lunch or dinner & discuss. How cute & fun!
I had to be careful in choosing the book for my mom & I, as she isn't sick & twisted like me.
Here are the books I bought.
Blood Is The New Black by Valerie Stivers (for my mom & I's pseudo book club)
Review - My newest read Blood is the new Black by Valerie Stivers, was interesting and wickedly-chic, combining both vampires with the fashion world. The main character Kate, joins the newest and most fabulous "it" magazine company, and soon realizes that her co-workers are somewhat different. When bodies start turning up and anyone is the suspect, it's up to Kate to save the day, while finding out a secret from her past. A really good book.
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk (though I don't find he is as excellent a writer as the scene may say, I love that he writes about what no one else would)
Review - “Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must-have movie for every discerning collector of things erotic.”
Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room. This wild, lethally funny, and thoroughly researched novel brings the huge yet underacknowledged presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction at last. Who else but Chuck Palahniuk would dare do such a thing? Who else could do it so well, so unflinchingly, and with such an incendiary (you might say) climax?
Kill Your Friends by John Niven
Review - The 1990s British music industry is the setting for the novel, which uses months as its chapters and begins each with a report on successful records and professional movements.
Niven’s narrator is one Steven Stelfox, an A&R man for a big record company. Despite mounting debts and a lack of successful acts, Stelfox is moved to do very little actual work to change his situation. What he is willing to do is to drug and murder those who threaten to make him look bad. Despite the title, Stelfox is no one’s friend.
Scott bought two books also. Conversations With The Devil by Jeff Rovin & Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris.
& I love the fact that this is such a book reading type of day. It's dark, windy, chilly.
We're making fajitas for dinner, then will engage in some wicked brain candy. I'm totally reading Snuff tonight.
Mmm, we even got reading snacks for later. Blueberry & brown sugar cookies, as well as shortbread cookies. The Peak Freans kind. Low cals, woo! They will go great with some tea :)