I'm so shallow

My daughter insisted I needed to read the Sookie Stackhouse book series by Charlaine Harris, so on my week and a half break between spring semester ending and summer semester starting I read the last seven books in the series. (I'd already read the first two.) No, I'm not a speed reader, we're not talking War and Peace here; they're very quick reads. It was nice to imbibe in a little light reading after two semesters of text books. While reading, I pictured the Eric character as looking like Vladimir Kulich who played Buliwyf in the 1999 movie The 13th Warrior. Look at him! He's 6'5" of delicious, viking hotness! And, hey, this time I'm not a dirty old lady ogling SYT's because this dude is even older than me.

The HBO series Trueblood is based on these books. I don't have HBO so I went poking around on YouTube to see who they picked to play the Eric part. Okay, so Alexander Skarsgård is nota bad, but I think they should have called me to help cast the show. (Anna Paquin wasn't how I pictured Sookie either.)

My daughter urged me to read the Twilight series too. We're suckers for vampires. nyuk nyuk nyuk. If you think about it, it's really weird how we have romanticized something that wants to suck the life out of us and leave us for dead. (reminds me of my ex-husband) I liked the Stackhouse series better than the Twilight series but not as well as I liked the first few books in Ann Rice's vampire chronicles. I also think The Twilight series author (can't remember her name) might possibly have stolen ideas from Harris. I'd recommend the Stackhouse series for its goofy campiness and I am looking forward to the release of next book in the series.