BOOKS AND BLOGGING PHILOSOPHY

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NEW VISITORS AND OLD- WELCOME!

NEW VISITORS AND OLD- WELCOME!
Well, I've made it almost 5 years now, so for better or worse, I continue on. I tend to blog in spurts as the urge to be creative erupts. As I don't have an artistic bone in my body, you will see very few changes in the layouts. Hey, I'm a reader not an artist like so many of the awesome bloggers I follow. I know you don't always have the time but if you stopped and looked, take a half a minute and say your piece. Recommend a book that you have enjoyed or hated for that matter. Thank you to all who visit.
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Showing posts with label Charlaine Harris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charlaine Harris. Show all posts

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Special Guest Appearance with Author Charlaine Harris 4/28 6-8 pm CDT at BittenByBooks!

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Please come prepared with some interesting and unique questions. Please limit your questions to one maybe two out of respect for Charlaine’s limited time with us and the other readers so they can get their questions answered as well.  PLEASE NO DUPLICATE Questions. Visit here for a list of questions that are frequently asked of Charlaine: http://www.charlaineharris.com/faqs.html now you have these, no need to ask them tomorrow! :)
This event post goes up at 6pm central daylight time and runs until 8pm. For those visiting from outside of the US, here is the time conversion link. We are in the Chicago time zone: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
 
Charlaine is going to be talking about Dead Reckoning book 11 in the Sookie Stackhouse series.
“With her knack for being in trouble’s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte’s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his “child” Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is much more complicated than she knows…”
CONTEST INFO: The contest portion of the event runs until 11:59 pm Central on 4/29/11.
1st prize winner will receive a hardcover signed (1st ed) Living Dead in Dallas
2nd and 3rd prize winners will receive signed bookmarks

 
Check out Charlaine Harris’ website and get your questions ready for the event.
http://www.charlaineharris.com/

Friday, March 26, 2010

Dead in Dixie (Sookie Stackhouse, Bks 1-3) by Charlaine Harris


Dead in Dixie(Sookie Stackhouse, Bks 1-3)
By : Charlaine Harris
Rating * * * * * 
Review Date: 11/4/2008
Hardcover: 612 pages
Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club(2003)
ISBN-13: 978-0739434710





"Dead Until Dark: Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in 
Bons Temp, Louisiana. You can tell she doesn’t get out much, 
and it’s not because she isn’t pretty. She is. It’s just that, 
well, Sookie has this “disability:” she can read minds. And 
that doesn’t make her too dateable. Then along comes Bill. 
He’s tall, dark, handsome—and Sookie can’t hear a word he’s 
thinking. Just the guy she’s been waiting for all her life. 
But Bill has a disability of his own: he’s a vampire with a 
seriously creepy crowd of friends. So when one of her 
coworkers is killed, Sookie fears she’s next….


Living Dead in Dallas: Sookie is on a streak of bad luck. 
First, she finds a body in the backseat of her car. Then 
she comes face-to-face with a beastly creature that gives 
her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, 
who graciously suck the poison from her veins—like they 
didn’t enjoy it! Point is, they saved her life. So when 
one of them asks for a favor, she complies…and soon Sookie 
finds herself in Dallas, using her telepathic abilities 
to search for a missing vampire. There’s just one condition: 
the vamps must behave, and let the humans involved go 
unharmed. Which is easier said than done….


Club Dead: Sookie’s vampire boyfriend, Bill, has been a 
little distant lately. In another state, distant. He’s 
on a secret assignment for the vampire queen of Louisiana, 
and only his sinister and sexy boss Eric knows where to 
find him. Soon, Sookie is off to Jackson, Mississippi, 
to mingle with the über-underworld at Club Dead—a 
dangerous little haunt where werewolves, shapeshifters 
and vampires go to chill out and suck down some type O. 
But when Sookie finally finds Bill—caught in an act of 
serious betrayal—she’s not sure whether to save him…or
 sharpen some stakes."



I sat down and read this series in two weeks. Could not 
wait to get to the next book. I sat up several nights till 
2 or 3 just to read "one more" chapter. Simply one of 
the best vampire series out there.




Sookie Stackhouse
1. Dead Until Dark (2001)
2. Living Dead in Dallas (2002)
3. Club Dead (2003)
4. Dead to the World (2004)
5. Dead as a Doornail (2005)
6. Definitely Dead (2006)
7. All Together Dead (2007)
8. From Dead to Worse (2008)
9. Dead and Gone (2009)
10. Dead in the Family (2010)