Anyone here remember L.J. Smith's The Vampire Diaries series? It's getting turned into a TV show. Awesome. These are among my favourite YA books.

However, I resent the implication in the title that The Vampire Diaries is anything like Twilight, let alone a Twilight copy cat. First of all, these books came out when Stephanie would have been a teen ( Read more... )

I have been listening to this song over and over again the past few days. Thanks for the link, prettyh!

ETA: This explains a lot ( Read more... )

I just finished Pride & Prejudice today, and I loved it. I have seen various P&P interpretations, and perhaps even the original BBC mini-series (if so, it was a long time ago). Once I realized, about a year ago, that P&P was the foundation of a lot of movies I enjoyed (Bridget Jones' Diary, Bride & Prejudice, etc), I decided I should read the ( Read more... )

"[I]n our time, cooking from scratch and growing any of your own food qualify as subversive acts."

- From Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food, which is definitely the best book I have read in a long time. I highly encourage you all to read it. In the meantime, his tenets on healthy eating:

( Eat food, mostly plants, not too much. )

( TV shows )

TV Shows: 434/500 (that may change after today, but not by much) (list)
Books: 39/50 (up from 26 in 2007) (list)
Movies - Theatre: 12 (list)
Movies - Total: 79/50 (Beat my goal in June!) (listTV Shows I want to start/finish in 2009 ( Read more... )

Is that supremely dorky of me?

I first was enchanted by Jo Wyatt's voice while listening to the first book in Libba Bray's trilogy, A Great and Terrible Beauty. I was devastated that someone else voiced the following two books, and missed her light, lyrical voice deeply. (Apparently I get sophomoric after listening to British audiobooks ( Read more... )

Finally!

( Breaking Dawn spoilers. )

The explanation: I was testing a theory which all of you soundly rebuked. Okay then ( Read more... )

Feel free to link to this poll. I would love as large a sample size as possible. Many thanks ( Read more... )