BLOG NUMBER FIVE

I am currently recreationally reading the Sookie Stackhouse series. (It is not one of the option books, (I am starting Lord Of the Flies upon book's completion), but it is the most current book I am reading. )

FROM DEAD TO WORSE - Charlaine Harris

Sookie Stackhouse is a telepathic waitress, living in Bon Temps Louisiana. Her first beau Bill turned out to have been sent by Sophie-Anne, vampire queen of Louisiana, and he pursued her out of orders (but he did fall in love with her), Eric her second love is a powerful Viking vampire, beautiful and dangerous, and had earned her love when he had amnesia and was a completely different person, (which he remembers nothing of), and Quinn is her boyfriend, he's a weretiger. Sookie has had a difficult time ever since a dark, pale, mysterious man went into the bar she worked in, Merlottes, and her life changed....

I'd helped save lives after the pyramid went down, and I was terrified I was now on the radar of people who might want me to spend my time in their service, using my telepathy for their purposes. Some of those purposes were good, and I wouldn't mind lending a hand in rescue services from time to time, but I wanted to keep my life to myself. I was alive; my boyfriend, Quinn, was alive; and the vampires most important to me had survived, too. As far as the troubles Sophie-Anne faced, the political consequences of the attack and the fact that supernatural groups were circling the weaked state of Louisiana like hyenas around a dying gazelle, I didn't think about it at all.

After a trying night of vampire politics, an assassination attempt on her, conflicting emotions, and a fight, Sookie goes up stairs in the hotel to bed. She gets into bed, but sleep does not come. She is waken by a telepathic message from Barry, a fellow telepath being used by vampires, telling her Jake, a Were turned into a vamp, was laying on the floor. The Fellowship of the Sun, a group of anti-vampire activists, placed bombs in the building. Sookie and Barry figure this out, and pull the fire alarm just in time for virtually all the humans to get close to getting out of the building, but not the vampires, it was day time. Sookie raced up to her two friends', Eric and Pam's, hotel room and helped wake Eric enough to cover him in a huge cloak and escape outside. After the bombs went off, many people were hidden and dead. Sookie and Barry used their powers to discover bodies, living, they can hear their minds, dead, there is nothing, and vampire is a space. Sookie didn't want the police to realise her powers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcYJAS5YBcg

Blog Number Four

""You're kidding," I said.
"Why would I joke about something like that?"
"I don't know."
"If you don't believe me," she said, "ask somebody else. Though I should warn you. Popular wisdom has it that only losers ever see him."" - Charles De Lint, The Blue Girl

Imogene, the person narrating, reminds me of people's reactions to the idea of ghosts. In this Maxine and Imogene were discussing the creepy Harry Potter looking guy that Imogene keeps seeing, and then he disappears. Maxine tells her she has been seeing Ghost. No one knows his real name. But he is a ghost. When I say, "Oh my gosh!! I saw a ghost", some non-ghost believers, will be like, "ugh its just your imagination, stop being so paranoid.". Well, this part of the story is similar to when I talk about the supernatural to friends.

Imogene could not tell most people about what was going on in her life. This is similar to the Southern Vampire/ Sookie Stackhouse series. Sookie is a telepahic barmaid in southern Louisiana. She has never out right told anyone of her 'gift'. She hates it. She tries to ignore it until one night in the bar a pale, lone man walks in, and orders a bottle of O Positive. Tru:Blood. Her world changes after that. As does Imogene's when she talks to Ghost. He turns out to have been an outcast, and a little nerdy teen boy named Adrian, died from falling out of the sky, and introduces her to the world of mystery, inside our own. Bill, (the vampire), and others teach Sookie what else is out there. Weres, shifters, fairies, goblins, and more, all inside our little, ignorant society.

Blog Number Three

I am answering:
How do myths survive the passage of time?
Why do people in the 21st Century still know, study and use ancient stories like myths?
When will myths cease to exist?

Myths have been too important to our history to forget about, let alone stop telling. Myths survived through all these time changes because without myths our modern story telling would not be at all the same. We still know about, study and talk about mythology from centuries before, because it is important to us. It is very interesting to hear about how the ancient civilizations, cultures, and peoples believed the world was. Myths survive in books, television, and music. When you hear Hercules, you associate him with Hades, Zeus, Hera, and many of the mythological monsters. Myths will never cease to exist, because they are our history. They are our old ways, giving contrast to our new ways, our old ideas, and explanations. Mythology will never die, because there too many ways it exists.


Unless the Earth explodes, or all humanity dies, and all our books, movies, and records are destroyed.