I did get to check out Haslam's & unfortunately there were just to many rooms filled with books & I got there really close to closing. I did find two books I liked & I plan on going back this week & coming home with stacks of books.
This month, my name is Mary.
My name is different every month -- Brandy, Honey, Amy...sometimes Joe doesn't even bother to ask -- but he never fails to arouse me with his body, his mouth, his touch, no matter what I'm called or where he picks me up. The sex is always amazing, always leaves me itching for more in those long weeks until I see him again.
My real name is Sadie, and once a month over lunch, Joe tells me about his latest conquest. But what Joe doesn't know is that, in my mind, I'm the star of every X-Rated one-night stand he has revealed to me, or that I'm practically obsessed with our imaginary sex life. I know it's wrong. I know my husband wouldn't understand. But I can't stop.
Not yet.
About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered a reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace, and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust, and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison. As Yelena tries to escape her dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and she develops magical powers she can't control. Her life’s at stake again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren’t so clear!
Monday, July 6, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
I haven’t written much about Independent bookstores here on my blog because, quite frankly, I hardly ever visit them. There isn’t a bookstore in the town I live in, independent or big box, so when I do venture out to purchase books I have the tendency to stop by Borders. This week I ventured out, to Haslam's books. This book store claims to be the largest used new & used book store & I believe it. I found it because I can see it from the interstate as I drive to work every day, it's huge for a indie. This store has one huge room for new & used books, & three large rooms packed with used books. There very mom & pop which i found rather quaint. They've always been family owned & there the cutes tabby roaming there stacks. Mrs Haslam is even their answering phones & cashing people out. Even though this store isn't really local I'm going to try to give this store most of my business.
But what has caused this change of heart? Well, according to Indie Bound, there are many reasons to buy from your local neighborhood bookseller.
Spend $100 at a local and $68 of that stays in your community. Spend the same $100 at a national chain, and your community only sees $43.
Local businesses create higher-paying jobs for our neighbors.
More of your taxes are reinvested in your community–where they belong.
Buying local means less packaging, less transportation, and a smaller carbon footprint.
Shopping in a local business district means less infrastructure, less maintenance, and more money to beautify your community.
Local retailers are your friends and neighbors—support them and they’ll support you.
Local businesses donate to charities at more than twice the rate of national chains.
These all seem pretty reasonable reasons to shop locally. I especially like the idea of helping the environment and the fact that local businesses are more inclined to give money to charity.
Do you buy Indie? Is there any specific reason why (or why not)?
Thursday, July 2, 2009
I've never read these books but I have see the trailer for the show & it looks peaty good. With the show premiering Sept 10 I have just a little over two month's to get the series read so its cramming time. Fell free to join me if you would like.
1. You will have between July 1 and September 10 to catch up on the series
2. Comment to let me know your joining
3. Have Fun
Book 1: The AwakeningA Love Triangle of Unspeakable Horror...
Elena Searching for the ultimate thrill, she vowed to have Stefan.
Stefan Haunted by his tragic past, he struggled to resist her passion.
Damon Driven by revenge, he hunted the brother who betrayed him.
The terrifying story of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.
Book 2: The Struggle
Damon, the evil vampire brother is detemined to make school beauty Elena his queen of darkness. Even if it means killing his own brother to possess her. Stefan, Damon's brother and Elena's boyfriend, is desperate for the power to destroy Damon - but knows that means succumbing to his thirst for human blood. Elena, irresistibly drawn to both brothers, knows her choice will decide their fate. But who will she choose...?
Book 3: The FuryElena, believing she was helping her boyfriend, Stefan, is tricked by his brother Damon into exchanging blood with him - not realizing that this will transform her into a vampire too. Now crazed with her own wild craving for blood, it is up to Stephan to save her.
Book 4: Dark Reunion
Elena, brought back from the dead, calls on Stefan and Damon to recreate their powerful vampire trio. Together they must face incredible evil and battle against it with their combined strength, cunning and charm - only then can they find peace, and save the friends they have left behind.
Book 5: The Return: NightfallElena Gilbert is alive - again.
When Elena sacrificed herself to save the two vampire brothers who love her - the handsome, brooding Stefan and the sleek and dangerous Damon - she was consigned to a fate beyond death. Until a powerful supernatural force pulled her back.
Now Elena is not just human. She has powers and gifts that were bestowed on her in the afterlife. What's more, her blood pulses with an overwhelming and unique force that makes her irresistible to any vampire.
Stefan wants to find a way to keep Elena safe so that they can make a life together. Damon, however, is driven by an insatiable desire for power, and wants Elena to rule as his princess. When Stefan is lured away from Fell's Church, Damon seizes his chance to convince her that he is the brother she is meant to be with. . . .
But a darkness is infiltrating the town, and Damon, always the hunter, is now the hunted; he becomes the prey of a malevolent creature that can possess him at will, and who desires not just Elena's blood but her death.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
I was lucky enough to find to copy's of the movie & the show , so I snagged a set for myself & to giveaway. To win a copy of the 1983 movie The Hunger & Season 1 of showtimes The Hunger just leave a comment about your favorite cult classic movie, & or TV show (1 pt each).
**For extra entry points**
Follow my Blog (2pts)
Blog about the contest (2pts) **MUST leave me your blog link in post**
Contest ends July 14th
*****
THE HUNGER would like to think of itself as something of a TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED with sex. Half hour stories of the supernatural in which some actress is going to shed her top and simulate having a good time. Sadly, the stories aren't up to the standard of that classic series of tales with a twist and what we are left with is rather sorded soft-porn with only the occasional glimmer of quality coming through. Season opener The Swords has a sense of the surreal and catches the imagination with its mix of sex and pain whilst A Matter of Style injects some much needed comedy into proceedings. The Secret Shih Tan has an interesting concept and plays it through to a twist ending that is quite predictable. High points, though are the intriguing mental patient meets vampire tale of Fly By Night and the bewitchingly fun tale of Room 17.
Each story is prefaced by Terence Stamp wittering on with some nonsense that may (or may not) have anything to do with the plot at hand and the show is saddled with the most irritating opening sequence we've ever come across.
It aims for style over substance, but there isn't too much of the former and virtually none of the latter. By the end, you're likely not to be hungry for more.(SciFi Freak Site)
Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie are rich, beautiful, and oh-so chic as denizens of the night. Dressed in sleek outfits and stylish sunglasses, they haunt rock & roll clubs on the prowl for young blood, whom they bring home to their impossibly luxurious mansion for a late-night snack. Being a vampire never looked more sexy, but there's a price: Bowie starts to age so fast he wrinkles up in the waiting room of a doctor's (Susan Sarandon) office. The agelessly elegant Deneuve, evoking Delphine Seyrig's Countess Bathory from Daughters of Darkness, is perfectly cast as a millenniums-old bloodsucker who seeks a new mate in Sarandon and seduces her in a sunlight-bathed afternoon of smooth, silky sex. Tony Scott's (Ridley's brother) directorial debut, adapted from the Whitley Strieber novel, revises the vampire myth with Egyptian inflections and removes all references to garlic and crosses and wooden stakes--these bloodsuckers can even walk around in the daylight--but the ties between blood and sex are as strong as ever. Scott's background as an award-winning commercial director is evident in every richly textured frame and his densely interwoven editing, but the moody atmosphere comes at the expense of dramatic urgency. At times the film is so languid it becomes mired in its hazy, impeccably designed visual style. In its own way, The Hunger is the perfect vampire film for the '80s, all poise and attitude and surface beauty. Sarandon talks candidly about the film in the documentary The Celluloid Closet. --Sean Axmaker
Welcome to the Sookie Stackhouse Reading Challenge!
Here's your chance to catch up on Sookie and all her friends -- living and undead, fully human and not.It's easy, it's fun, it's for you! And you have an entire year to complete the challenge.
The Rules:
1. Between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010, catch up on Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire series. No matter if you're starting with book 1 or book 8, you have a year to read all about Sookie. Read Sookie in print, listen to the audio, read an eBook -- format is not an issue.
2. Sign up using Mr. Linky. Put your name in the top box. For the bottom box, please use the URL that links specifically to your blog post about this challenge, not to your blog's home page.
3. After July 4, I'll create a post with another Mr. Linky where you can link your reviews so everyone can read them track your progress.
4. If you don't have a blog and want to join in, sign up in the comments here. Later, let us know about your progress by leaving comments on the review link page.
The Books:
Dead Until Dark
Living Dead in Dallas
Club Dead
Dead to the World
Dead as a Doornail
Definitely Dead
All Together Dead
From Dead to Worse
Dead and Gone
Beth Fish Reads is the one hosting this challenge.
