Interview with the Vampire

   So, I have wanted to read Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice for a while now. I enjoyed it very much. The premise of the novel is that a vampire named Louis recalls his life as a vampire to an unnamed news reporter. It was a very fast paced story. I was never bored and hated to put it down. Since this is a vampire book there was a lot of blood and gore. Any sex that is in the story is merely implied. Everything is up to your imagination. I felt that all the different relationships could be interpreted different ways. There was not a whole lot of cussing, which I appreciated. The last book I read, The Gunslinger, had several cuss words on every page. This book might bother you if you don't like violence, because there was a whole lot. Also, if you don't like vampires you won't like this book. Also, if you like vampires that appeared in Twilight, you probably won't like this book either. These vampires are not vegetarians. They feast on blood and some enjoy torturing people.
    If you enjoy books about myths,supernatural activities, or like real vampires (not ones with spiky hair) then you will like this book. I want to see the movie with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise; however, I want to wait a while. There are a lot of other books in the series. I want to read those as well.

The Gunslinger

    So, I decided to branch out and start a new series. Last week I read a book called, Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King. It is the first book in the Dark Tower series. I have wanted to read it for a while. I have an aunt who has talked about it a good bit. I thought it had an interesting premise, so I decided to give it a try. It takes place in a world that is somewhat similar to our own. The story is about a gunslinger (kinda like a knight), named Roland Deschain, pursuing an evil man referred to as the "Man in Black". Roland is also trying to get to the Dark Tower. I don't want to say too much about it for fear of giving away too much information. This book is a mixture of fantasy and western genre. I felt that the book was very clever and entertaining. However, it was really confusing. I am willing to give the series a chance, since there are many books in this series. Perhaps, it will make since as I read into it. I will say that this was an easy book to read. I knocked it out in a weekend.

Where are the Spaceships?

    So, this month the Adult Book Club at Vestavia Hills Library in the Forest are reading a book called gods in Alabama.  This summer the adult program has a theme of Alabama. Anyways, the book is about a girl who returns home after so many after leaving Alabama. I hated it. I hated it alot. I thought the characters were unbelievable, unrelateable, and plain jerks. The only character I liked was Lena's (the main character) boyfriend's mother.  She was only in the book for about three or four pages, but she made an impression.  I thought it was awful.  The characters never lifted off the page for me. They were very two dimensional. The book was very jumbled. The plot wasn't very exciting in the least bit.
    Of course it may not be the book. Maybe it is just me. I like science fiction/fantasy, history, and Christian theology/religious books.  I didn't care for this book.  I just don't like this type of fiction. It wasn't very exciting. I need dragons, vampires, tormented hero, or anything of that sort. This book did not strike my fancy at all.

Reflections on my Internship

     So far I am really enjoying my internship at Vestavia Hills. They have me doing everything imaginable. I find the books that are on hold, replace the new magazines, helping put together a new computer lab, work with the children, and work with the teens. I have enjoyed learning about putting the computers together. I have to admit that it was pretty intimidating working with these at first. I have very little knowledge about hardware. But I have been hooking computers up and recording their serial numbers on an i-Pad (i-Pads are cool, but they are a little awkward at first.) I have really enjoyed working in the children's department. I spent several days making paper passports (each week the kids learn about a new continent). The other day I helped issue the passports. This week I have helped out with the the teen department a little bit. I helped the teen librarian, Terri, do read alikes for the library. A read alike is a suggested reading list, for example if you liked Harry Potter then you might want to try the Pendragon series. I had a fun time doing that. This Tuesday I will be working with the Teen department again as week kick off for summer reading with a Sumo Wrestling Tournament. It is going to be fun.

Dracula: The Undead

     So, I decided to do another short review on a book I read. This book was called Dracula: The Undead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. This was the official sequel to the original Dracula which was written in 1897. Dacre Stoker is a decedent from the legendary Bram Stoker. It was a pretty good book over all. If you liked the original Dracula, you will probably like this one. There were things in this book that contradicted the original novel. But this book explains those contradictions very well.  This book does a pretty good of tying in a lot of historical characters and weaving them together. Bram Stoker was even a character which was kind of weird, but it worked for this book. This book is set in 1912. Mina and Jonathan Harker have a son named Quincey, who was named after Quincey Morris (one of the main characters in Dracula who died in the fight against the "dark prince"). Quincey is completely ignorant of the events that happened before his birth. After people involved with the death of Dracula start being killed one after another, Quincey starts investigating and uncovering the truth. As he seeks answers he wonders, "Did his parents hunt down a vampire called Dracula? Is Dracula still alive? And if not who is trying to kill all of his parent's friends and his family?" If you like horror or Dracula you will enjoy this novel.