Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters!

So, It's been a really long time since I posted, but I've been reading in that time....since my last post I have read:

Monster Island
Monster Nation
Monster Planet  all written by David Wellington

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

Undead and Unwelcome by MaryJanice Davidson

Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris

The Grave Yard Book by Neil Gaiman

ReVamped by J.F. Lewis

'Salem's Lot by Stephen King (I reread this actually because I know I have read it many years ago, but I was interested in reading it again)

And I am now currently reading The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle.

Most importantly though, I found out that in addition to the sequel of P&P&Z, they will be bringing out a P&P with V (ampires).  Should be interesting, but the best part is that P&P&Z was such a success they are going to create twists on other classic novels, the first of which will be Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.  It will be written by a different author than P&P&Z, so I don't know if it will be as good, but it promises to include sea monsters and pirates, things which I enjoy, so even if it isn't written very well I will still probably enjoy it.  Entertainment Weekly says it will be available in September, so I'll be looking forward to that.

One more...

I also FINALLY finished reading Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess.  I had read about a Zombie movie called Pontypool that was filmed in 2008 and was going to be released on video July 21 or so. I was interested because it took place in Ontario, and involved Zombies in Toronto.  A few days later I was shelving books at work and came across Pontypool Changes Everything.

Pontypool isn't a word/name you see everyday so I read the back of the book and sure enough, the  movie I had just been reading about was based on this book.  Excellent (or so I thought), I took the book home and was very excited to read it.  This was about 3 months ago. I'll write my thoughts about it later, but I just wanted to add that I had finished reading that book as well, on top of all the others mentioned in the last post...no matter how hard it was to force myself to finish that particular one.  Now that I did though, I don't even know if I'm interested in seeing the movie anymore...