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[ceris]

Ugh am bloody ill. Have caught a lousy cold from my kids. They are super generous :-) Plus am suffering somewhat from menopausal symptoms. Girls, it sure does suck to be a woman of a certain age sometimes. Relish your youth while you've got it. OK, bitter old hag moan over

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[oohlaphlegm]

Ooooooooh how interesting! I'd love to start a reading journal. I think it would help me to organise my reading (I currently have 4 books on the go at once). :S However, I'd worry that I'd spend more time writing in my journal than actually reading the books. I've no serious ambitions to become a writer, although I used to, so maybe, for me, the writing should not take over from the reading. I'm going back to uni in September to do my masters in Librarianship, in order to become a chartered librarian, so books are pretty much my life. :D

How can I subvert the genre? That's a tricky one! How about having vampires that aren't immortal? There's lots of theories about vampires actually existing and being people that sap our energy. You know the kind of person I mean--all take and no give. (I think there was a TV drama about this a few years ago. I was trying to find it again, but all I could find was this, which is also quite interesting, although I think the writing is pish LOL. These look better). You could expand on that. Have the

[oohlaphlegm]

I found it! It was called Ultraviolet and you can check it out here. I also seem to remember it being extremely slashy! :D Muahahhaa!

[ceris]

I have Ultraviolet on DVD. Haven't gotten round to watching it yet. Thanks for the rec! Slashy eh? Coool...

[ceris]

Yeah, I'm enjoying doing this, although it can be a bit of a chore. Yep, I've read some of those theories you mentioned - it's interesting. I've already subverted the genre in one way - by writing a contemporary, completely unsupernatural novel about incest, which is a very vampiric trait and a theory that the critics of novels like Dracula love to extol. Basically the human siblings use each other for their narcissitic needs, feeding on each's love for the other, and keeping the bloodline 'pure'.

My latest novel I'm trying to make a little different by using the Lilith myth - since succubi/incubi are said by some scholars to be the original vampiric entities.

Ooooh, I always wanted to be Lestat's mother, Gabrielle. I just loved her independence and cool amorality.