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Join us live TONIGHT ! (after the final episode of The Pacific) for our discussion of the latest Sookie Stackhouse book, Dead in the Family.
I will be joined by my lovely co-host @SookieBonTemps and Tina from the Sookieverse blog and our own BillOhBill / Mary Kay from the wiki and twitter.We want to hear from you !
Call-in Number: (646) 929-0825- 9pm central Sunday May 16th
Chat room opens at8:45 !
*** There was a little glitch at the beginning of the show ala Blogtalk Radio so be a little patient and keep listening the rest of the show is fine ! Thanks to everyone especially all the old gang from the HBO wiki !
Below is the chat room transcript ...
Blogtalk Dead in the Family Show May17 Chatroom transcript
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Talk Blood: "Dead in the Family" show tonight 9 pm central
Vampire Diaries: First Season Reflection
I figure if you've made it past the headline of this piece you are either a supporter of the vampire entertainment movement or a secret lover of things that bite in the night. Regardless of which side of the bloodline you fall on (OK, I'll quit using the puns!), I'm sure you can agree that not every vampire experience is created equal.
I've seen both Twilight films and, at the risk of losing several friends, I'll admit I wasn't enamored with either of them. There are only so many forbidden romance clichés I can take in an hour and a half time period. However, thanks to my appreciation of True Blood, by the time The Vampire Diaries rolled around last September I wasn't completely turned off by the genre. Plus it starred Ian Somerhalder, alum of my favorite TV show of all time, so why not give it a shot?
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New Zealand Blood Service uses vampires to lure donors
The New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) is out for blood, using the current vampire phenomenon to encourage donations.
NZBS teamed up with the New Zealand broadcaster of the show and publishers behind the True Blood television series and novels to boost its donor numbers among vampire fans.
Hachette New Zealand, the publisher of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels - on which the show is based - has added stickers to the covers of books in the series to encourage donors.
Harris was pleased her novels and the show could help inspire New Zealanders to support the cause, NZBS said.
Tickers will be added to the bottom of the screen during the show promoting the blood drive.
New Zealand actress Anna Paquin played the character of Sookie Stackhouse in the show, and won a Best Performance Golden Globe for the role last year.
NZBS marketing manager Paul Hayes said less than 5% of New Zealanders gave blood and the number was declining by 1,000 people each year.
Unlike Harris' vampires, who could survive by drinking synthetic True Blood, there was no alternative for the 3,000 donations needed each week to save lives, he said.
Dead in the Family' book review from Tina of Sookieverse blog
My friend, Tina of the Sookieverse Blog will be joining @SookieBonTemps and I tonight on the 'Dead in the Family' Blogtalk Radio show ...
Please read Tina's excellent book review! Yes, she will be speaking for "the Sheriff", the lovely BillOhBill will join us for a take from the Bill side of the aisle !
DISCLAIMER: I’ve only read DITF through once, and I’m in the middle of a slower paced reread at the moment. The following started out as a review, and ended up being infiltrated with random bits of analysis and god knows what else. I conclude from this that I am too opinionated to write wanky book reviews, and also completely incapable of shutting myself up. So for better or worse, here’s what I’m thinking after my first read.
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The very first thing I need to say about Dead in the Family is that I liked it – alot. It was certainly a change of pace from the last few books, as we were told it would be. It was also a “transitional” book, but in saying that I don’t mean to call it series filler. Harris has finally decided to start addressing some long lingering issues that have become distracting. And she has also started to lay – very subtly – some groundwork for the ending of Sookie’s story. I cannot tell you how relieved I am about that.
Dead in the Family is very much a character driven book. Not since Dead to the World has this series seen an instalment focused so heavily on character development, and at this point in the story a closer examination of the characters was certainly due. By her own admission, Harris is much better at drawing characters than she is at keeping track of her numerous plot lines and after the upheaval of the last two books, I really didn’t mind that this one meandered plot wise a little more than usual.
SPOILERS AHEAD AND YOU MIGHT WANT TO GO PEE FIRST.
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Video Charlaine Harris " Dead in the Family" Q&A Dallas Visit May 15th 2010
You won't see her very well, but I tried to position myself near the speakers so you may hear her a little better !
Enjoy
** I'll have some photos up later but the real scoop is TOP SECRET - I'll share that tonight on the radio show! Join me tonight to hear more ...;-)
Charlaine Harris in Dallas "Dead in the Family" Book Event May 15th 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Dallas anticipates Charlaine Harris event Sat. May 15th
What does this tell you I'll be doing this afternoon ?
Charlaine Harris not done with Sookie Stackhouse yet
You might think that author Charlaine Harris, flush with success from her Sookie Stackhouse "Southern Vampire" series, might be ready to hang up her literary fangs and retire to her home in Southwest Arkansas. She's written 10 Sookie books – the inspiration for HBO's smash series True Blood, which returns for its third season on June 13 – including the recently released 10th in th At 58, though, she says she's got at least two more Sookie books to write and a comic-book series in the works, among other projects. We talked to her by phone in advance of her tour stop Saturday in Dallas. What's going on in the new book? Sookie's recovering from the terrible events of the last book, which involved a Faery War. ... This book really deals with a lot of family issues, and different types of families – formed families, blood families. Do you feel like you're living in two separate Sookie-verses now? People who're watching the series and reading the books know that HBO has kept to the books' plots in some ways, but in other ways the show is radically different, so there's no telling what'll happen on the show. ... But even when I'm writing now, as good as those actors are, I don't see them in my head. I still see the same people I've been seeing all along, way before the TV show started. That Season 2 scene with Godrick exploding on top of the Adolphus Hotel was awesome. What did you think? Did they shoot that there? I didn't know that! I love the Adolphus. That's where I usually stay when I'm in Dallas. Charlaine Harris will discuss and sign Dead in the Family at 2 p.m. today at Borders, 10720 Preston Road at Royal Lane, Dallas. Wristbands for admission will be handed out starting at 9 a.m. this morning. 214-363-1977. www.borders.com.
e series, Dead in the Family. She's also written three other mystery series and a whole slew of short stories.
Charlaine does Dallas: Know Your Sookie Books Before You Meet the Author
The author of the book series behind HBO's True Blood will be in Big D Saturday for a book signing.
Charlaine Harris will be at the Borders on Preston Road and Royal Lane to read from and sign the latest Sookie Stackhouse novel, Dead in the Family.
The book is the 10th in the best-selling, genre-transcending Southern Vampire Mysteries about a telepathic barmaid living in the small town of Bon Temps in northern Louisiana.
Not quite a romance, not quite a mystery, yet not quite a fantasy, the series follows Sookie's struggles with her "disability" (telepathy), her first love, her introduction to werewolves, witches and fairies and her tangles in vampire politics. Most of all, the Souther
n Vampire Mysteries is about a young woman coming into her own.
But don't write the books off as just one of the dreary, melodramatic vampire romances that are so in vogue these days -- these books are fun. Critics have described the Sookie Stackhouse books as "delightful" and "riotous."
If you're a True Blood fan who hasn't read the books but want to meet Sookie's creator anyway, we've got you covered.
Five Things to Know About the Series Behind “True Blood”
1. Yes, the TV show is based on a series of books.
The first book in the Southern Vampire Mysteries, Dead Until Dark, was published in 2001, far predating the HBO series. Charlaine Harris doesn't have direct involvement with "True Blood," but she says on her website that she is "delighted" with what showrunner Alan Ball has done with the show.
2. This ain't "True Blood."
Like any screen adaptation, True Blood deviates quite a bit in tone and style from its source material. While you probably don't want to watch episodes of the show on your laptop on an airplane, reading the books aloud in public won't make you blush. And unlike the show, the books are told in the first-person from Sookie's perspective. Her narration is part of what makes the books so humorous; even when she's down, Sookie never stops being amusing.
3. Be prepared for possible "True Blood" spoilers.
Just reading the book jacket for Dead in the Family is likely to give you hints to things that have yet to be introduced in the show. But on the bright side, while the first season of the show actually hewed fairly close to the plot of the first Sookie book, the second definitely went off in its own direction. There's no knowing how much of the books' mythology Alan Ball will leave off the writing table.
4. Look for the short stories for a complete picture of the Sookieverse.
Sookie and a few other characters are featured in short stories that were published in various anthologies. Harris' website lists all of them, along with ISBN numbers. While they aren't all essential, the novella about Sookie's cousin, Hadley, does add quite a bit of backstory to the main series.
5. There is backstory ahoy in this series.
Let's be honest: Harris is on book 10 now. While she is good about trying to include exposition at the beginnings of her books, it's probably not going to be enough to catch you up if you have only seen the television series. Sookie's world in Dead in the Family is completely different from how her life was in the first few books. A lot has happened, and characters have arrived and left Sookie's life. And the books aren't episodic -- they all flow into one another, and that's part of the series' charm. This is definitely not a series where "the more things change, the more they stay the same."
Book Signing:
2 p.m. Saturday
Borders
10720 Preston Road, Suite 1018
Dallas, Texas 75230
214-363-1977
http://www.nbcdfw.com/around-town/events/Know-Your-Sookie-Books-Before-You-Meet-the-Author-93745289.html
Ryan Kwanten True Blood Season 3 Interview
Ryan Kwanten was the recipient of an Australians in Film 6th Annual Breakthrough Award, and the actor who's best known to Americans as Jason Stackhouse on 'True Blood' was well-deserving of the honor.
watch here
True Blood Star Anna Paquin Hints at Split On Screen
True Blood star Anna Paquin has hinted that her on-screen character Sookie will split with vampire Bill in a future episode. The 27-year-old actress plays the role of Sookie Stackhouse in the hit HBO show, and her real-life fiance Stephen Moyer plays Sookie's boyfriend Bill Compton.
Asked if they will stay together, she said to UK newspaper Daily Mirror: "Well, no TV show keeps the main couple together throughout the whole run. That would be boring."
She added: There's got to be some conflict there, otherwise it's not so entertaining ."
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Stephen Moyer in the Trailer for ICE the miniseries
Ice promises to be an explosive and timely big budget miniseries: Unprecedented. Undetected. Unstoppable.
The official synopsis:
Undetected, a giant piece of ice the size of a small country breaks off the Antarctic continent and becomes a major world threat as it heads on an inexorable course north towards the UK, Europe and the US. Swathed in its own fog, and carrying its own devastating weather patterns the frozen colossus triggers a series of disasters and plunges the world’s temperatures into steep decline leaving the world to contemplate the dawning of a new ice age.
Directed by Nick Copus, Ice’s cast lineup includes Richard Roxburgh (Stealth, Van Helsing, The League Of Extraordinary Gentleman, Moulin Rouge), Frances O’Connor (Cashmere Mafia, Three Dollars, Artificial Intelligence: AI), Claire Forlani (The Rock, Meet Joe Black, The Diplomat), Ben Cross (Hannibal, Star Trek), Simon Callow (The Phantom Of The Opera, Rome, Doctor Who), Patrick Bergin (Patriot Games, Smallville), Stephen Moyer (True Blood, Quills) and Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Crusoe).
Ice has been filming since September in Wanaka and Auckland, filming will finish in November. A release date is unknown at this moment.
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''Dead in the Family' Sookie Book #10 Recipes: Spinach Casserole
This recipe is from Gran's old recipe box.
2 pkg. frozen chopped spinach, cooked and drained
1/4 c. chopped onion
6 tbsp. butter
2 tbsp. flour
1/2 c. water
8 oz. Velveeta cheese
3 eggs, well beaten
1/2 c. buttered bread crumbs; optional
Saute onion in butter. Add flour and water and bring to boil. Add cheese; stir in spinach and eggs. Pour into 13 x 9 casserole. Top with buttered crumbs if you wish. Bake in 325 degree oven for 30-35 minutes.
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