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a reading program of the Monrovia Public Library
321 S. Myrtle Avenue
Monrovia, California

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Click on the “comments” line at the bottom of the post that presents this month’s theme. Tell us what book you’re reading and how it fits the theme. If no one has posted a comment yet, get the discussion going. If the virtual meeting is already underway, add to it: ask questions, make observations, criticize, analyze, chat. You may find librarians joining the discussion too. (Library staff will screen comments before they're posted, but only to keep out spam, not to edit your opinions.)

Monday, October 26, 2009


Reading theme for November 2009

VAMPIRES



Suggested reading...but feel free to choose your own

Novels by:

Nancy Baker - The Night Inside
L.A. Banks - The Awakening, The Hunted
Patricia Briggs - Bone Crossed
P.C. Cast - Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed
MaryJanice Davidson - Undead and Unwed
Melissa de la Cruz - Blue Bloods, Masquerade, Revelations
P.N. Elrod - I, Strahd
Christine Feehan - Conspiracy Game, Dark Curse
Andrew Fox - Fat White Vampire Blues
Heather Graham - Kiss of Darkness, Blood Red
Claudia Gray - Evernight
Laurell K. Hamilton - Skin Trade, Obsidian Butterfly
Charlaine Harris - Club Dead, Dead Until Dark
Kim Harrison - White Witch, Black Curse
Tom Holland - Lord of the Dead
A.M. Jenkins - Night Road
Jeanne Kalogridis - Covenant with the Vampire
Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian
Brian Lumley - Blood Brothers, The Last Aerie
Amanda Marrone - Uninvited
A. Lee Martinez - Gil's All Fright Diner
Richelle Mead - Vampire Academy, Shadow Kiss, Frostbite
Brian Meehl - Suck It Up
Stephenie Meyer - Twilight, New Moon, Breaking Dawn
Christopher Moore - Practical Demonkeeping
C.E. Murphy - Heart of Stone
Kim Newman - Anno Dracula
Kimberly Pauley - Sucks to Be Me
Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat, Memnoch the Devil
Fred Saberhagen - A Sharpness on the Neck
Ellen Schreiber - Vampire Kisses, Vampireville
L.J. Smith - Night World, Vampire Diaries
Justin Somper - Blood Captain
Vivian Vande Velde - Companions of the Night
Guillermo del Toro - The Strain
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Darker Jewels, Writ in Blood



Non-fiction:

In search of Dracula
by Raymond T. McNally

Slayers and their vampires
by Bruce A. McClelland

Vlad the impaler
by Enid A. Goldberg

and of course the original:

DRACULA
by Bram Stoker
Posted by Adult Services at 3:43 PM

3 comments:

Adult Services said...

Maybe it’s the inherent intimacy of the lips-to-neck pose. Maybe it’s the lure of immortality. Maybe it’s the Transylvanian accent. Maybe for you it’s something else altogether--but something is coming together to make vampires into popular reading. Some of these books are romantic, some deadly serious, some light-hearted, some erotic; some are mysteries, some are comedies; some claim to be based on historical fact, some are completely made up. Pick one and sink your teeth in.

October 27, 2009 2:05 PM
Becky said...

It's hard to get your comb-over-the-bald-spot hairstyle right when you can't see yourself in the mirror. The bald man is just a regular guy named Earl who happens to be a vampire. His buddy driving the pickup is a werewolf named Duke. The book is Gil's All Fright Diner, by A. Lee Martinez. The diner has infestation problems, but nothing as easy as cockroaches--the place keeps getting trashed by unrelenting zombies. The book is full of scary stuff but never takes itself seriously. The vampire falls in love with a ghost, the cows turn into zombies, the zombies talk back, the teenagers fool around with each other and with black magic, and the waitress takes everything in stride.

November 5, 2009 8:47 AM
Kiri said...

That's quite a list of vampire literature! I would recommend "Sunshine" by Robin McKinley, which is an urban fantasy about a young woman who works in a bakery and thrives on sunshine -- and the vampire she inadvertently saves one day (since sunshine isn't his strength). There's some sort of mutual attraction, but the inherent awkwardness and inhuman-ness of the vampires is well written and renders this much more than a romantic fantasy.

November 11, 2009 9:47 PM

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