I Read Books.

I don't know if any of you watch the show, if you don't you probably should.  If you like vampires, murder, mystery and hot sex scenes, then you definitely should.  For those of you who don’t know, it’s an HBO series that premiered…uh, tried looking it up, but couldn’t get an answer fast enough…so we’ll say some time last year.  It’s based on the popular Southern Vampire novels written by Charlaine Harris.  You can read about them here: http://www.charlaineharris.com/bibliography/bibliog-sookie.html

I personally have already read the first 8 books, mostly because I hate waiting…for anything.  I will tell you though, if you read the books it will spoil what is going to happen on the show, not all of it, but a pretty good portion.  They’re actually quite good at following the plotline of the books, or at least so far.  Obviously there are minor differences, but that can’t be helped when making books into tv/movies.  Season 1 is available on DVD, and I suggest you watch it.  Season 2 is premiering this Sunday on HBO in Canada and the US. 

This actually surprises me, as usually US networks that have a Canadian affiliate make the Canadians wait months to see what is readily available in the States.  Perhaps American networks have picked up on the fact that if a show airs earlier in the US Canadians will just watch it on the internet, which means less $$$$$ for the networks.  Glad it only took HBO a few years to figure this out.  Hopefully other networks will hop on the bandwagon and stop acting like Canada is some third world nation that can’t be kept up to date with popular television (I'm looking at you ABC, CBS and all the other US stations that won't let me watch your videos because my IP address is "outside your region").  We’re not England you know (just kidding).

So, the 9^th book in the sseries, Dead and Gone has just come out.  I didn’t realize this, so now I’m like number 175 out of 200 people waiting to get it at the library.  I have just discovered that the first chapter is posted on her web-site here: http://www.charlaineharris.com/deadandgone.html  so I’ll be reading that when I’m done with this.  But, once I get the new book I will tell you all about it. 

If you do watch True Blood, but haven't seen the trailer for Season 2 here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLkQnotUD7g

This is the first of many things I am waiting to premiere this summer*, the other two that readily come to mind are Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Dead Snow.  I will post about Dead Snow later. 


*not to mention having to wait until November 20th to see the new Twilight movie.