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"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." -Dr. Seuss

Thanks for stopping by. I really hope that you take something away from this blog, even if it's just a book recommendation that leads you to a new series or new author that you will enjoy. I know that by keeping this blog, it's encouraging me to try new genres and to expand my horizons as far as reading new books, rereading old, and I'm even inspired to read the classics that I've missed. Because I'm a mom of four, I'll also be adding children's books into my reviews as I try to spend time reading with my kids on a regular basis. So why not review those as well and share them with you?

Books, for me, have always been great escapes. I remember being stranded on the island with the Swiss Family Robinson when I was 10 years old and it was a great place to be as I was having a rough childhood at the time. I flew away with Peter Pan and traveled with Meg through wrinkles in time, in Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. Now that I mostly read 'grown up' books, I don't travel to islands but I do live in someone else's world (or mind) for a while and it's a great way to get away from it all even if for a short time every day.

Enjoy my blog and as always, happy reading!

Karen

New England is home

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris



Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris




This is the second book in the Sookie Stackhouse series (HBO's True Blood is based on this series). I liked this book better than the first believe it or not. I am trying to enjoy the books separately from the HBO series and am doing so but think it's important to compare the two as well. The True Blood, the second season is based lightly on this book, and for that, I'm quite glad. This book was entertaining, surprising, a light read. There are a few spots where I would say this was a page turner but I am finding that the subject matter though filled with vampires and murder and other "creatures" is not heavy nor scary...though a few pages are a bit 'thrilling.' The best way to describe these is just an enjoyable story filled with likeable/loveable characters. Sookie, by herself, keeps you coming back for more as the stories are told from her viewpoint. She is just so interesting, brave, innocent, loveable, intense, passionate, cute and leads a very event filled life.

I won't give away too much...but some characters you may love in the TV series don't make it past the first chapter in this book...so there are definite differences that show up immediately. Some characters are the same...Andy Bellafleur is one (I may be misspelling his last name because I'm too lazy to look it up at the moment...lol).

I give this book four out of five stars...the only reason I don't rate these five stars is because I have to save that extra star for really deep stories and these are GREAT, fun stories...but definitely aren't deep.

A fabulous read and highly recommended!

Happy Reading!
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