Me and Twilight
I'm about to bare my soul here, so if you decide to criticize, please do so gently.I first read <i>Twilight</i> in December of 2007, when it was just on the upswing, but before it became a proper phenomenon.  I was 26, in Florida for Christmas to visit family, away from my then-boyfriend now-husband (who was my boyfriend of 9 years at the time), and for the past several years Christmas-time had been when I was at my most emotionally vulnerable.  My husband would disappear to visit his family, where the internet is slow (meaning infrequent emails from him) and he would stay up until all hours playing video games with his brother, having what sounded like a r

Winter Blog Blast Tour, Day One
It's time for interviews again!  I'm not participating due to having lots of school work, but here are yesterday's interviews.  Many thanks to slayground for the code.Jim Ottaviani at Chasing Ray

NaNoWriMo Day 1
(cross-posted from my personal LiveJournal - originally posted there at 12:39 am)I'm already past my quota for the DAY.What, you don't write 1700 words in 40 minutes?I'll give you a hint:Make no attempt to disguise your character as not yourself, ramble on at length about the history of comic book characters (summarizing other people's work really ups your word count!), pour out everything you know about the supernatural, and talk at length about all three of the mean things you and your sister did to each other as little kids.Current Chapter Title:"Chapter The First: In Which Lauren Grace Vanderbilt Morlock Discovers That Sh

NaNoWriMo
Consider yourself warned.  This reading journal is about to become a writing journal!Here's my MAGNA CARTA I (see No Plot?  No Problem! for details) - a list of things I really like in books.MAGNA CARTA IMagical girlsSmart girlsSistersLove that doesn’t get in the way of adventureLove that isn’t too angstyLove that is funPretty hairHorsesSmart men who have principlesMisunderstood people (mostly because they’re too smart)A few close friendsFantastical elementsCleverly hidden expositionIntricate interweaving of mythologyI

KidLitCon etc.
I didn't get to go to KidLitCon but I'm still learning a lot about it because I've been reading all the posts linked from MotherReader's Round-up.As you might surmise from my last post, I've been reading on average 4 - 6 novels a week for the past few weeks on top of my other assigned readings (articles and such).  One of the things that keeps coming up in the KidLitCon posts is the question of why we blog.  I've looked at that question for lectitans several times and it always comes back to the same answer:I want to share my responses to books.Sadly, when I read at the ra