Princess Sparklefists

As if the Twilight phenomenon hadn't brought about enough lulz already, there is an amazing article about "real" vampires in today's Washington Post.

VAMPIRES CAN FEED ON YOUR POSITIVE PSYCHIC ENERGY. AT APPLEBEE'S!!

The writer, Monica Hesse, seemed to have a lot of fun writing the story. (Just as I had lots of fun reading it.) Here's her problem with vampires being normal people, just with a strange "energy deficiency":

It's all so borrring, so very borrring. Deep down, deep way down, we don't really want vampires to be just like us, because we are pretty lame.

While we're on the subject of vampires and lameness... I need your opinion, flist. True Blood: lame or not? As cracktastically awesome as Moonlight? Or just sadly lacking in Jason Dohring being hot and Sophia Myles being a BAMF?

Some time earlier this year, I watched the first episode of Doctor Who, but I never really got into a it. I caught parts of a few episodes on one of the French cable stations this fall, and it seemed interesting enough, even in a language I don't understand, to warrant another go. This fall I watched the pilot of Moonlight and confirmed that Jason Dohring is still hot, but I wasn't completely sold on the series. Then I read an article a couple weeks ago that reported that Moonlight was one of the few new shows this season to gain viewers during October and November. That had to mean that the show got better over time, so I decided to give it a second chance as well.

Well, this is my reading week after all! I’m sure I’m meant to be reading about something excruciatingly boring for my “Information and Society” class, not reading novels, but oh well. I’m just preparing for Reader’s Advisory! With that in mind, here are some recommendations of two great books I read this week:

In the final weeks of August, right before my move, I did a lot of shopping therapy to ease my nerves. On one of my frequent outings, I picked up a copy of The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, which I had been wanting to re-read, for a mere five dollars! The Time Traveler’s Wife is essentially a love story, but a highly unusual one. Henry, the time traveler, and Clare experience the milestones of their relationship in a different order, so reading the novel is a bit like piecing together the puzzle that is their lives. I really love this book; it’s clever, it’s engrossing, and it makes me cry.

My second recommendations is another extraordinary romance, Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. I started this one Thursday night after I got home from Ottawa, and I only intended to read a chapter or two before I fell asleep. Around 5:30 am I finally forced myself to put the book down because I could hardly keep my eyes open. Twilight has high school angst, romance, suspense… and vampires. There are two sequels, which I’m now quite eager to read.

On Friday I went to the Grande Bibliothèque, which is a giant library run by Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Quebec. Now that I have some bills with my Quebec address, I was able to get a library card. There was a pretty decent sized English collection, but there are even more French books. If my French reading skills ever progress beyond reading street signs, I’ll have plenty to read. In the meantime, now that I’ve got a library card I definitely don’t have to worry about running out of reading material in English anytime soon either.