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New Show Recap: True Blood, 7×02, “I Found You”

“So that dog turned into our mayor… There’s a bigger picture here you all are missing. This town is full of vampers, has a dog for a mayor, being preached out by a telepath!”

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New Show Recap: True Blood 7×01, “Jesus Gonna Be Here”

So I know everyone’s been waiting with bated breath for Slay Belle’s weekly Buffy recap but unfortunately said Slay Belle has been up to her eyeballs in work the last few weeks and will be unable to visit the Scoobies or her TV boyfriend Spike until next Friday. I, her teenaged daughter, jokingly said last […]

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True Blood Recap: S4, E8 ““ “Spellbound”

“Sorry man, I stopped listening about half way through.” You and me both, Jason. You and me both. We are halfway through what should have been the best season of True Blood so far ““ the witch war and Sookie/Eric should have been plenty to propel the storyline ““ and I’m about ready to stop […]

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True Blood Recap: S4, E7 ““ “Cold Grey Light of Dawn”

Since when has any fanatic been held back by the improbability of their righteous mission?

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True Blood Recap: S4, E6 ““ “I Wish I Was The Moon”

Eric, snap the f*ck out of it! You have no loyalty to Bill Compton. You are a Viking vampire and god and you bow to no one! If someone crosses you, you rip out their liver with one fang!  

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True Blood Recap: Season 4, Episode 2 ““ “You Smell Like Dinner”

There are two Sookie Stackhouses. One who still clings to the idea that she’s merely human, and the other who’s coming to grips with the fact that you are better than that.

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True Blood Recap: Season 4, Episode 1 ““ “She’s Not There”

But understand this. Everyone who claims to love you: your friends, your brother, even Bill Compton, they all gave up on you but I. Never. Did.

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True Blood Retro: Season 1, Episode 7, “Burning House of Love”

What I do on my own time is no concern of yours or any of y’all’s. Yes! I had sex with Bill, and since every one of y’all’s too chicken to ask, it was great! I enjoyed every second of it. And if you don’t like that, you can just fire me!

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True Blood Retro: Episode 5, “Sparks Fly”

“If you’re gonna accuse me of lying, be a man and say it out loud, for Pete’s sake. Either way, I’m gonna hear you whether you look me in the eye or not. Let’s face it, there’s not a whole lotta ideas in there. Like mice in a cage.”

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Books with Bite: What to Read While Waiting for True Blood

There’s no True Blood Retro this week because libraries have something called “˜lending limits’ and “˜only two renewals,’ so I’m waiting for my DVDs to cycle back around again. While we’re all waiting for whomever that other person is bogarting the season 1 set to return it, let’s read something!

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True Blood Retro: Episode 1.2, “First Taste”

  “Bill, you were just licking blood out of my head. I don’t think it gets much more personal than that.” We pick up right where last week’s episode ended, with Sookie getting thrashed by the Rattrays. It’s a brutal scene ““ I couldn’t use any stills from it because the images were so gory.

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Kid’s Books I Like: Beyond “Twilight”

Since I’ve written about some books for little kids and some for grade school/middle school kids, we’re up to teenagers.  My tentative plan with this series is to cycle through the age groups each month with room for a miscellaneous post for whatever strikes my fancy.