D.H. Lawrence certainly wrote some of the greatest English novels of the last one-hundred years. Originally published in 1913, his novel, Sons & Lovers, was considered his first masterpiece. The semi-autobiographical novel tells the story of Paul Morel and his mother, Gertrude, and is an examination of working class life, artistic ambition, and the lasting hold a maternal relationship can have on a child.
I've been a fan of vampire fiction since I first discovered Anne Rice in high school. Since then, I've read vampire fiction of all kinds. I've devoured vampire romance (which was... interesting, to say the least), and enjoyed the YA dark fantasy that has been flooding the teen section of my local bookstore since Twilight first found fame.
I like most of what I read, but it's all different. From the angst of Twilight to the monsters of 13 Bullets, the epic storytelling of The Passage to the quirkiness of the Sookie Stackhouse books, every author has a different idea of how vampire fiction ought to be.
A year and a half ago, I discovered Charlaine Harris.
It started with True Blood, of course. Hubby convinced me to try watching it with him, and we got hooked. After tearing through season 1, and later season 2, thanks to Netflix, I decided to give the books a try.
I loved them -- even more than the show, though I initially didn't think that would be possible. At the time there were only 10 books out, and I read all 10 even faster than we'd finished the available TV episodes. I think it took me a week and a half to read all 10 books.
As much as I loved the Sookie Stackhouse series, I had been meaning to try Charlaine Harris's other series. A couple of weeks ago I noticed my library had added the first book of one of her newer series, Grave Sight, to their ebook catalog, and I decided to finally give it a try.
As an avid reader, I usually have a pretty long list of books I want to read. When I was a teen, I had a bookshelf dedicated to my "to be read" books: I would shelf my library books and the books I bought, and as I finished reading each book, I would wander over to the shelf to pick out my next read.
Unfortunately, as I have added years to my age, I've also added books to my reading list -- a LOT of books.
Pirates infest the E-book waters. One wonders why.
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