books and more books

[threeplusfire]

There is this awesome blog, Fashionista Piranha, that I have only just now discovered. (If you knew of it and didn't tell me, no pie for you!) There are book reviews every week, and right now there's a Neil Gaiman contest with most excellent prizes. I encourage you to check it out.

It also led me to a brilliant, thorough review of Twilight that highlights all the reasons the sparkling Mormon vampires and sleep walking characters make me want to retch.

I have not been reading as much lately. I think it is all the craziness of packing and moving. I am so looking forward to finally building a library though. Especially because I won't have to move it again for a really long time.

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[twilight.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know about these Twilight books until 14 year-olds started trying to add me in droves on here & Myspace. And then recently someone noticed my nickname and asked me if I was a fan of the books, and I said no, I've had this nickname for 16 years. Yikes, that's before or when most Twilight fans were born.

Well, thanks for posting this because now I really have no desire to read them. The dialog alone sounds inane; reminds me of teenage lolspeak. Instead, for teenage vampire characters, I'll finally get around to reading Sunshine in my queue and hope it's better.

[alteredhistory.livejournal.com]

What exactly is the competition? The blog does not specify. I get that submissions must write *something* but I'm not sure what they're asking a write up of. Is it a review of anything that Gaiman has written?