Meeting Adjourned!

Howl's Moving Castle has come to close. The final chapter read, the back cover closed. So much to talk about and share, yet no one to share it with. Because no one who attended the meeting read the book, except Sara, who actually went ahead and read the sequel! Thank you so much, by the way.
However, it was a surprising turn out since there had been no posters in the store. They were made and printed and handed over, but got lost somewhere I suppose...oh well, better luck next time.
Well, since no one read the book (which is fine, my job is to also inspire someone to read the novels I choose, it is not necessarily required to read the books, only highly recommended since the point of a book club is to share ones experience while reading the novel. Has no one seen the movie The Jane Austen Book Club?) Anyway, I digress, my lack of questions was just fine and my plan for comparing it to the movie worked. Hopefully I did convince them to read Howl's Moving Castle, they did know of Miyazaki, the genius he is!
To compare the two, I printed a Bunch! of pictures and screen caps and whatnot. I had hoped to then discuss the differences between the two, but, once again, no one knew what I was talking about, so I simply told them.
We discussed Anime/Manga, a fellow there did not know what it was. I expanded on Miyazaki's creativity and listed some other movies (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Ponyo, etc.) Within this discussion I had a brain-fart (pardon the image) to, in the future, hold a meeting where we talk about novel's turning in to Mangas (Maximum Ride, Twilight, Cirque Du Freak, etc.) and Manga's in to Animes (InuYasha, Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note, Naruto, Bleach, etc.). I look forward to that. Expect it in the future.

Next Meeting:
December 5, 2009
2:00 pm
Big Borders
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Recommendation!

Do you just want a book that is simple, non-committal, and sequel-less?

Well, your reading the wrong blog post, my friend!

I have become OBSESSED! with The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith and I must share it with you!

I started reading them because I heard it was going to become a new CW series with strange parallels to Twilight, so naturally I was curious. I watched the first show. OH MY GOD! was it a good show! I was sucked (for lack of a better word) in immediately! I wanted to watch it over and over again and I needed to see more! So how else could I get what I wanted then to read the novel?

The next day I had bought the book and was several chapters into it. I couldn't put the book down! I saw the similarities between it and Twilight which angered me a little, but this book was first published in 1991, there's no way it was copying Stephenie Meyer. And don't get me wrong, I'm not judging her creativity by any means either. It was just interesting.

However, my obsession was only increasing. I finished the book quickly as well as the second. And soon found fellow followers at school, passing on the books I had completed. Now I am finishing the fourth (final? not sure) novel. I still can't put it down. And am sad it could possibly be ending. But on the bright side, I still have the show!!!!

The show and the novels are completely different! Same characters and whatnot but very different. Hard to explain how, you'll just have to trust me.

So obviously, I very highly recommend this series and the show (Thursday at 7 pm on the CW).

This entire series has so many ups and downs, I promise there's no way your letting go of this book until you've finished all of them.

Heres some pictures!!!

The Awakening

and

The Struggle

The first and second novel in one!

The Fury

and

Dark Reunion

The third and fourth novel in one!

Here's the cast for the CW series:

Damon, Elena, and Stefan in the flesh!