ASK CHERIE PRIEST ABOUT BONESHAKER
Source: io9.com
Cherie Priest, author of io9 book club selection Boneshaker, is joining us here to answer your questions about the book. She’ll be here tomorrow (Thursday, 6/24), from 3-4 PM Pacific Time. Pipe up in comments with your questions.
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WHY HARRY POTTER BEATS TWILIGHT
Source: my.hsj.org
The dark-haired boy with the lightning shaped scar on his forehead holds out his wand towards a pale, sparkly boy with “copper” hair, scowling. This would be an interesting fight to see, literary character versus literary character. Each a legend in their own right, but one much more so.
The “Harry Potter” series was written by British author, J.K. Rowling while the “Twilight” series was written by American author, Stephanie Meyer. Both were their first major book series.
“Harry Potter” describes the coming of age of the title character, a young wizard, whose search for identity leads to some heroic journeys. ”Twilight” documents the life of a teenage girl named Bella Swan who falls in love with a sparkly vampire named Edward Cullen. Over 400 million copies of the “Harry Potter” series have been sold while only 100 million copies of the “Twilight” series have been sold.
The “Harry Potter” series is enjoyed by all ages, sexes, and ethnicities, while “Twilight” mainly attracts adolescent and teenage girls and sometimes housewives who are looking for a little romance. Children, teenagers, adults, and even older readers, male and female, follow “Harry Potter.”
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INSATIABLE’ RIDES THE VAMPIRE SUCCESS STORY
Source: jconline.com
Trouble is brewing in the Big Apple, and Meena Harper is at the heart of it. Barely making ends meet as a writer for a soap opera called “Insatiable,” Meena is told that her show is going in a new direction. To satisfy pop culture demands and compete with a rival soap, she is forced to create a story line where vampires reign in “the cult of monster misogyny.”
Meena is no stranger to the paranormal. She has the gift of precognition and can sense when and how someone will die. Although it has saved her loved ones on more than one occasion, it is an ability that has cursed her throughout her life.
When women start showing up dead and drained of blood in New York, the mysterious Romanian Prince Lucien Antonescu arrives to investigate the killings. Lucien must find the killer before the humans discover that real vampires are walking among them. After saving Meena from a swarm of bats, Lucien is intrigued that he can’t easily read this mortal’s mind. And when their paths cross again, he decides to make Meena his minion.
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Checking In with Dexter Palmer and His Dream of Perpetual Motion
Source: Jeff VandeMeer at omnivocarious.com
Earlier this year, I reviewed Dexter Palmer’s The Dream of Perpetual Motion for the New York Times Book Review. It’s an impressive debut that, as I wrote,”takes elements from Nabokov, Neal Stephenson, Steven Millhauser, and The Tempest, tosses them into a retro-futuristic blender and hits ‘purée.’ The result is….sophisticated, subversive entertainment that never settles for escapism.”
What’s it about? Palmer posits an alternate 20th-century America in which greeting card writer Harold Winslow tells the story of his life while imprisoned on an airship powered by a perpetual motion machine.. He’s been put there by the mad inventor Prospero Taligent due to his involvement with Prospero’s daughter Miranda. Over the course of the novel, Winslow darts back and forth between past and present, creating a powerful story of love, obsession, and cruel invention.
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