Blood-a-thon The Southern Vampire Mystery Series Charlaine Harris *****SPOILERS***** *****SPOILERS***** *****SPOILERS***** Bill has gone missing, right in the middle of a top secret project for the vampire hierarchy. Eric needs Sookie to find him or the Queen of Louisana will hit the roof and heads will roll. Again, I mean this in the literal … Continue reading Blood-A-Thon Book 3 – Club Dead
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Blood-A-Thon Book 2 – Living Dead in Dallas
Blood-a-thon The Southern Vampire Mystery Series Charlaine Harris Living Dead in Dallas picks up only a few weeks after the first book ends. *****SPOILERS***** *****SPOILERS***** *****SPOILERS***** Once again Sookie is called upon to work more closely with the vampire community, searching for a 'nest brother' in Dallas who has gone missing. She is also caught … Continue reading Blood-A-Thon Book 2 – Living Dead in Dallas
Catherine Cooksonathon II – The Blind Years
You know when you don't watch Neighbours for a while, and they one day you think, 'I reet fancy a bit of Neighbours' and so you stick it on and suddenly Sky's pregnant and Harold's dead and the world has exploded and Ramsey Street has been taken over by Channel 5? That's what starting this … Continue reading Catherine Cooksonathon II – The Blind Years
Catherine Cooksonathon I – The Girl
The first Catherine Cookson I've ever read, this book contains every single stereotype I associate with the writer. It's 1850. Bastard daughter is taken from Newcastle (Howay the lads with a liddle fishy etc etc) to the village of Hexham by her dying mother who presents her to the 'Big Man' in the village who … Continue reading Catherine Cooksonathon I – The Girl
The Cooksonathon
We like our Readathons, we do. N is currently in the middle of her Blood-a-thon, reading all the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Deep South Vampires not being my niche I've declined to join her on this one, instead going back to what BookElf's know best; trashy romantic fiction. Last year's Steelathon might have resulted in hives … Continue reading The Cooksonathon
The Chester Beatty Library
In the heart of Dublin, situated in the gardens of Dublin Castle, a treat for all book lovers awaits. A library, rare book collection, museum and art gallery in one; this much lauded library offers treasures from all around the world for free. (Though the signposting is a bit feeble and you need to know … Continue reading The Chester Beatty Library
Blood-A-Thon Book 1 – Dead Until Dark
Blood-a-thon The Southern Vampire Mystery Series Charlaine Harris As I've wasted more time than I like to acknowledge looking up info on the new season of True Blood on the t'interweb, I've decided to re-read the Southern Vampire Mysteries (otherwise known as The Sookie Stackhouse or True Blood Series) by Charlaine Harris. Inspired by BOOKELF, … Continue reading Blood-A-Thon Book 1 – Dead Until Dark
Guilty Pleasures? I feel no shame!
Totally necessary - topless Eric The fourth series of True Blood has just started in the U.S. Based on the tremendously popular Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris; this bonkers, bloody and barmy series can't make it to our shores soon enough for me! And as I've just finished two 'heavy' reads - The Line of … Continue reading Guilty Pleasures? I feel no shame!
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Oh this is a good book. This is a very good book. There are many many things that are good about this book so I'm going to devide it up as it is so multi layered otherwise I'll get all confused. ***MASSIVE SPOLIERS THROUGHOUT*** Oh shit, it's the vampires Parts of this book are just … Continue reading Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
A Response to ‘Date a Girl Who Reads’- by a Girl who Reads
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who doesn't spend her money on books because she's a member of three libraries, and works in one, and runs three book swaps a month so has money left over for clothes but doesn't spend money on them either, but instead spends it on beer and … Continue reading A Response to ‘Date a Girl Who Reads’- by a Girl who Reads
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