Dead Until Dark

Dead Until Dark is the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris. This is the series that the HBO series True Blood is based on. In fact, the reason I began reading this book was because I enjoyed the tv show so much. If you're not familiar with the storyline here's a little to entice you:

Sookie Stackhouse is waitress in Bon Temps, a small town in Louisanna. She is also a mind reader. When a man comes into the bar where she works one day, she realizes immediately that he is a vampire. This is fairly exciting for Sookie for a couple of reasons. One, she's never met a vampire before. Two, she can't hear his thoughts. This is welcome relief from the many thoughts of other people constantly floating into her head all day everyday. Soon she is wrapped up in a world of vampires, shape changers, and a serial killer. Will she be the next victim?

Ok, wanted to try my hand at writing a blurb instead of using the back of the book. What do you think? :))

It was little weird reading this since I had already finished season 1. There isn't much difference between the first book and season 1 except a few extra storylines in the show that aren't in the book. That seemed a little backward to me. Normally there's more in a book but this is a tv show and not a movie. I guess they can do more. I started watching season one but when I realized how close they were, I decided I wanted to read the books first and will wait until season 2 comes out on DVD. I like that Bill and Sam in the book are less intense than they are in the show. They both have a bit of a sense of humor about their lives that is not shown in the show. What I didn't like is that apparently Sookie's best friend on the show, Tara, is completely made up! She's not in the book anywhere! I really like her and whoever made her up for the show did a good job of fitting her into the storyline. I'm still holding out hope that maybe she shows up in one of the later books, so if I'm wrong please tell me so I'm not waiting around for her.

TV Show Meme

Ok, I'm home sick today so I'm bored. Here we go...

1. Name a TV show series in which you have seen every episode at least twice: This is so easy I almost hate to say it. I've seen every episode of Buffy at least 4 times!

2. Name a show you can’t miss: Currently and for the last 4 years, it's Lost. I became addicted on day 1 when I saw the plane crash on the beach. The rest is history.
3. Name an actor that would make you more inclined to watch a show: This is hard. I'm likely to watch anything that has actors who were on Buffy. But then I'm more likely to watch anything created by Joss Whedon. Can we pretend he's an actor for the sake of this meme?4. Name an actor who would make you less likely to watch a show: Richard Dean Anderson. He will always be MacGyver. I loved the movie Stargate but can't make myself watch the show because he's in it. I just don't take him seriously.

5. Name a show you can, and do, quote from: Buffy. Sensing a theme?

6. Name a show you like that no one else enjoys: I loved Firefly but no one else must have watched it at the time because it only lasted one season. I;ve heard others say they loved it after watching it AFTER IT WENT OFF THE AIR. Where were all you people while it was on?

7. Name a TV show which you’ve been known to sing the the

me song: Cheers, Growing Pains
8. Name a show you would recommend everyone to watch: Dollhouse. This is Joss Whedon's new one and the first episode was really good.

9. Name TV series' you own: Buffy and Rosswell. They're so expe

nsive that I've stopped buying them and started renting them through Netfliz. I've rented Alias (which I watched while it was on but I got my mom addicted to it and we had to watch all the episodes in order), Supernatural (because it comes on at the same time as Grey's now and I love both!), Gossip Girl, Firefly (because I loved it so much), and I'm currently going through Dark Angel. I wish I'd watched that one while it was on. It's really good.

10. Name an actor who launched his/her entertainment career in another medium, but has surprised you with his/her acting choices in television: I'm going to say Sarah Michelle Geller because I consider Soap Operas another medium! I watched when she was on ALl My Children, that's why I didn't watch the first season of Buffy until someone else got me into it the summer after.

11. What is your favorite episode of your favorite series? I have a lot of favorite episodes but I have to go with the Prom episode in season 3 of Buffy. It makes me cry every time.

12. Name a show you keep meaning to watch, but you just haven’t gotten around to yet: Weeds. I don't have cable but I plan on renting the seasons through Netflix someday.

13. Ever quit watching a show because it was so bad? I stopped watching Heroes this season because it's just awful now. I really liked this show too. So very disappointing.

14. Name a show that’s made you cry multiple times: Buffy, Grey's, Friends, Lost (they keep killing off my favorite characters!)

15. What do you eat when you watch TV? Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner if I'm by myself. Nothing if I have company.

16. How often do you watch TV? A couple times a week for Grey's and Lost.

17. What’s the last TV show you watched? I watched Dollhouse online yesterday.

18. What’s your favourite/preferred genre of TV? Science fiction.

19. What was the first TV show you were obsessed with? Don't remember but I'm sure there was something before Buffy.

20. What TV show do you wish you never watched? Doesn't bother me so much I wish I'd never watched a whole show but there's an episode from the early days of CSI that still haunts me. It's about some teenagers that do some kind of drug and two of them eat a third ALIVE. I still have nightmares.

21. What’s the weirdest show you enjoyed? Roswell? Is that weird?

22. What TV show scared you the most? See #20

23. What is the funniest TV show you have ever watched? hmmmm, Friends, or Fraiser. Why did they stop making funny shows?

24. What show was cancelled too early? My so called life. I really loved that show and it ended without any kind of resolution. Is it too late to bring them all back for another season?