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tvordljNearly done Season 1 of True Blood, a couple of episodes to go. I'm getting right into it now. It's smart, sassy, bloody and a lot more sharp than the Twilight movies. Not that i manage to get through more than a half hour of one of them. But ...you know. If it's holding my interest, it must be better!
2011 books, both short, both ebooks.
5. Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
This is the book that the tv series Dexter was based on. Dexter is a blood spatter analyst who is also a serial killer himself. He only kills people that deserve it, though, people that prey on others. The murderer in this book is killing prostitutes, draining their blood and dismembering them. Dexter seems to be able to "know" the killer more than he usually does and starts to worry he's the one doing the killing but not remembering it. The first season of Dexter had the same killer but the plot has a few different twists. I have three others in the series but have been told the tv series veers off sharply from the books, that is, the rest of the books bear no resemblence to the other seasons of Dexter.
They're from Dexter's point of view, and you really do feel like you're in the mind of a serial killer and his "Dark Passenger", in every dark and dusty corner.
6. Shit My Day Says - Justin Halpern
Based on a blog and twitter feed, it's anecdotes of the author's relationship with his father, memories and quotes. The father is a scientist, but is very blunt and a bit on the crude side. Certainly not the touchy feely sort of father, that's for sure, but loves his children even if understanding communication isn't his strong point.
7. Room by Emma Donoghue
This won a few prizes this year. It's about a woman that was kidnapped and has been held captive in a small room built into a garden shed for 7 years. Her captor comes almost nightly and rapes her and she's had a child that she's raised in confinement for 5 years. That's Jack. The book is told from Jack's point of view so you get the 5 year old style of grammar. Jack is quite intelligent for his age but still naive. His whole world is that one little room though they do have a television to see the "outside" but on the tv, that's not real to Jack, that's tv. Real is what he knows inside the room.
Eventually they get out and the rest of the book describes how Jack copes with the real outside world. The author really hits it on the head and it is a very real story. You can even see the transition from how Jack "speaks" at the start to how he does at the end, though it's only been a matter of weeks between the beginning and the end of the book.
All three of these were short books so they read quickly. All were ebooks. Lovin' the Kobo!
2011 books, both short, both ebooks.
5. Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
This is the book that the tv series Dexter was based on. Dexter is a blood spatter analyst who is also a serial killer himself. He only kills people that deserve it, though, people that prey on others. The murderer in this book is killing prostitutes, draining their blood and dismembering them. Dexter seems to be able to "know" the killer more than he usually does and starts to worry he's the one doing the killing but not remembering it. The first season of Dexter had the same killer but the plot has a few different twists. I have three others in the series but have been told the tv series veers off sharply from the books, that is, the rest of the books bear no resemblence to the other seasons of Dexter.
They're from Dexter's point of view, and you really do feel like you're in the mind of a serial killer and his "Dark Passenger", in every dark and dusty corner.
6. Shit My Day Says - Justin Halpern
Based on a blog and twitter feed, it's anecdotes of the author's relationship with his father, memories and quotes. The father is a scientist, but is very blunt and a bit on the crude side. Certainly not the touchy feely sort of father, that's for sure, but loves his children even if understanding communication isn't his strong point.
7. Room by Emma Donoghue
This won a few prizes this year. It's about a woman that was kidnapped and has been held captive in a small room built into a garden shed for 7 years. Her captor comes almost nightly and rapes her and she's had a child that she's raised in confinement for 5 years. That's Jack. The book is told from Jack's point of view so you get the 5 year old style of grammar. Jack is quite intelligent for his age but still naive. His whole world is that one little room though they do have a television to see the "outside" but on the tv, that's not real to Jack, that's tv. Real is what he knows inside the room.
Eventually they get out and the rest of the book describes how Jack copes with the real outside world. The author really hits it on the head and it is a very real story. You can even see the transition from how Jack "speaks" at the start to how he does at the end, though it's only been a matter of weeks between the beginning and the end of the book.
All three of these were short books so they read quickly. All were ebooks. Lovin' the Kobo!
