I was very happy today to have Vampire Wire win a Beautiful Blogger award from Mountie, aka Jennifer Rayment, of Rayment's Readings Rants and Ramblings. Thanks, Jennifer! And, nope, I can't pick out 15 new blogs to name, because that would take forever, but I will continue to post Blogs to Watch here at Vampire Wire, including yours!
Readers, Jennifer is a library tech and gives her librarian and Canadian perspective on things at her blog. You know what I mean: books and hockey. I'm glad to see that two Dr. Seuss books are on her favorites list.
Scooper Speaks reviews Jennifer Estep's Spiders Bite and says, "I love books with a quick pace, interesting people and endings that don't feel forced which makes Spider's Bite a winner with me, if you couldn't already tell." Good news - Jennifer is going to come back to Vampire Wire soon in a guest blog and contest for her second Elemental Assassin novel, Web of Lies.So a Vampire Wire reader chided me for criticizing Muse just because I have Issues with Stephanie Meyer's books. She mentioned that I don't usually criticize other authors, and she was disappointed in me. Yes, I've made it a practice not to criticize other writers, because 1) being an author is difficult enough as it is; 2) I don't expect others to share my taste in books; and, 3) one of the purposes of my blog is to encourage reading. However, I reserve the right to snark at things that really rankle me in books by wildly successful authors, since my comments won't interfere with their careers one bit.
My Issues with Meyer is what I consider her very twisted portrayal of love and sex and childbirth. This comes from one seriously repressed mind and that repression is probably what makes her books so compelling. It's that fervid pubescent fantasy of passionate love.
Well, I never liked Wuthering Heights for the same reason. (Ha, when I just looked for a graphic of this gothic novel, I saw new book covers touting that it's Edward and Bella's favorite book. Seriously, what guy has ever liked Wuthering Heights?)
The reader who contacted me was absolutely right in that I should not dismiss a band because I assume its most famous fan must have bad taste in music. And especially when I have Muse songs on my playlist. (I just buy music and play it in the background while I work. I've been oblivious for years now.)
I'm making amends by having Muse-themed Gratuitous Videos of the Day. I did take a pass on videos with songs that were too bombastic and whiny.
9 comments:
I love Muse.
I like much of their music, but would prefer the vocals if they didn't veer into the high ranges.
I'm actually adding a "music component" to Mondo Vampire. I am wondering how that will go over.
I also really like a lot of Muse's music, but not so much when it ranges to the higher vocals. That's definitely not my favorite.
Is it bad that I've never heard of Muse before?
Hi, Amanda, exactly.
Scooper, no, although the band got tons of press when Stephanie Meyer said she wanted them to do the soundtracks for the movie adaptations of her books.
Derek, tell us when the music is up! I put a music list on my left sidebar with some of the fab songs that Chris Silker has compiled for paranormal fans.
I should add the werewolf songs, but it takes time.
Oh, I love Muse-- Well, most of their songs, that is.
Thanks Marta for the plug on my blog, I am going to post a contest by the end of the week, and I will let Americans enter as well -- even if they did steal our hunky Cdn actors (Nathan Fillion)
You forgot to mention a couple of Canadian perspectives Beer and Tim Hortons coffee - the real reasons I am proud to be Canadian ; )
Thanks again and keep writing, may have to update my favorites with another American author - Marta Acosta (will cost you the safe return of Nathan Fillion)
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