February Reading

[postcard_life]

7. Living Dead in Dallas
by Charlaine Harris
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 291

8. Club Dead
by Charlaine Harris
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 292

9. Dead to the World
by Charlaine Harris
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 291

10. Class Matters
by Correspondents of the New York Times
Genre: Non-fiction
Pages: 267

11. The Brief History of the Deadby Kevin Brockmeir

Comments

[suncirkles]

I read all the Charlaine Harris books too.... cotton candy fun reads for sure. I took several of them on vacation with me. Dead to the World is my favorite. I agree about the love interest cast-of-thousands.... enough already! Eric Eric Eric. ;-)

I believe there is another book coming out in May, which is also (the last time I checked) when the series will start back up again. I could be wrong but I think that's what I read. Can't wait!

[devilwrites]

Heh, DEAD TO THE WORLD was my favorite too! :)

[postcard_life]

I'm wondering how closely True Blood is going to stick to the books, because already Tara in the show is nothing like Tara in the books. The mystery woman who takes in Tara on the show doesn't seem to be connected to anything in the books.

I didn't really get annoyed with the new love interests until Quinn. I'm all about Bill because I think he loves her (and I'm a romantic fool underneath my cynical exterior) but I would certainly settle for Eric as a close second. Vampires are just sexier than werewolves and shape-shifters.

This is completely random, but does anyone ever tell you that you look like Ginnifer Goodwin (she the actress who plays the youngest wife on Big Love)? I was thinking that when I looked at your Facebook pictures.

[devilwrites]

Heh, you did what I did when I read those novels: pretty much read them back to back to back! Technically, they fall under the genre of urban fantasy, not science fiction, though in bookstores they're likely shelved under Science Fiction/Fantasy. There's a difference though

[postcard_life]

I'm glad I read your reviews on the Harris books before I started Definitely Dead, because I would have been really confused as to where I missed Hadley's death. I don't even remember the other books mentioned that Sookie had a cousin Hadley. I felt ripped off that Harris left out such a major plot point, and I wondered why the short story couldn't have been included in the front of the book

[calico_reaction]

Urban fantasy is a fantasy (which usually involves magic or something paranormal) in an urban setting. So basically, it takes place in a city. There's also modern fantasy, which defines any fantasy not set in history or secondary worlds (think Middle Earth).

Science fiction has some degree of science in it. Be it fake-science like spaceships, time travel, and other planets (like Star Wars) or actual science (stories involving biology, chemistry, physics). Harris's books don't qualify for SF by a long shot. ;)

Some urban fantasy CAN be futuristic, but it pretty much has to be obvious that it's in the future. And if it's in the future, then it's SF. Genre-bleeding/blending can be confusing, but if you're reading books set in today's time and it involves werewolves, vamps, fairies, and magic, it's probably going to have an urban fantasy label slapped on it, no matter how big or small the city itself is. :)

[devilwrites]

And I have no idea why I just typed that under my other name. Sorries. :)

[devilwrites]

Oh, and a random recommendation not related to what I was discussing above: THE LOVE WE SHARE WITHOUT KNOWING by Christopher Barzak