Yes, I know, I keep posting on these, but hey, it’s a series! As the books move along, we are fortunate enough to find out more and more information on Ash and it’s making me insanely happy. What information we find out, I can’t tell you, though this book and the one that follows go more into detail about Ash and his relationships with everyone in the series in more detail than the previous books combined. That, however, isn’t the main part of the story. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for July, 2007
Blood Price and Blood Trail are the first two of the “Blood Books” by Tanya Huff, which were recently turned into the tv series Blood Ties, which is going to have its second season on Lifetime in October. Having seen Season One of Blood Ties, I was curious to see how closely based the show was on the books. I guess it’s the stickler in me that can’t help but want to find out. After all, Eragon, the movie, didn’t take very much from Eragon, the book. It turns out that Blood Ties is really based on the books by Huff, though from the show’s website, it seems to be willing to involve the author, which mollifies me…slightly.
I have not yet read the last of the series, but after having read the first two books I think I can safely say that the show tries to stay true to the spirit of the books, not the plot. A lot of the characters appear in the show greatly altered from their role in the book, and some characters have disappeared altogether, with their roles either eliminated or meshed into another character’s role.
The first episode of Blood Ties seems to be based on Blood Price, the first book in the series, but I have to say that the two plot lines and the methods of getting information, putting together evidence, and well…almost everything else is quite different. The show took a very scanty outline from the book to put the episode together. Read the rest of this entry »
I read this book the day it came out and it was absolutely wonderful. Rowling rocked my socks off with this one. I loved it!
It was a wonderful way to bring an end to the series. I’ll be more open about the plot later on, but right now I want to give other people the time to read the book before I post any spoilers.
I will say, though, that the best part of the book, for me, was the Epilogue.
As of this writing, it’s about one week until the release of the 7th and Final (?) book of the Harry Potter Series. Here are my decidedly unscientific and un-researched predictions for Book 7:
1. One of the inner-four (Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny) will die. I predict Ginny, because Harry just seems to be a tragic hero, and tragic heroes don’t generally get the girl.
2. Several minor Hogwarts characters will die. I think Neville will die, but not before doing something heroic. We might also see some of the Weasly clan die.
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Blood Ties and The Dresden Files have something in common. Can you guess what it is?
Since this site is called NeoLIBRARIUM, I would hope so. Both The Dresden Files and Blood Ties are tv shows based on a book series. Blood Ties is based on the Vickie Nelson series by Tanya Huff, and The Dresden Files is based on – you guessed it!- The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. One thing that interests me about both of these is that A) it made me want to read the books, and B) it shows the potential of the interpretation of a book series into tv-land.
The Dresden Files, while not completely true to the books, did a great job of interpreting the books series. I grant that there are some things that seem way off base between the tv and the books, but overall, I think The Dresden Files on tv was a job well done. Blood Ties, on the other hand, seems to be better on tv than in the few books in the series. Granted, I have not yet had the chance to read Tanya Huff’s books, but from summaries vs. what I’ve seen of Blood Ties, it looks like they are two very different beasties. That large difference between Blood Ties and its origins, compared to the similarities between The Dresden Files and its origins concerns me. Why?
Well, I’ll tell you. It’s because I “know” two authors who are going to have their books turned into a tv series and I want the people in charge of the tv series to do it right! Both Charlaine Harris, and Terry Goodkind are authors of two different series of books that will be airing in tv-land-format sometime in the forseeable future. I know from Charlaine Harris’ website that her show is already being – or may already have been – cast and the set is under construction. I really hope they can do the books justice. Same for the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. His books are detailed and one-of-a-kind. It would just kill a little piece of me that’s reserved for that particular set of books if they ruined the story on tv.
I’m afraid that it’ll be harder to translate the Goodkind books to tv than it will be to make the Harris series media-friendly. I guess we’ll just have to see what happens.
This book was pretty good. Not great, but good, and enjoyable.
In this book, we are told the entire tale from the point of view of a 17-year-old girl. Our hero has decided to move into a small town, Forks. Why? Well, her father is there, but you have to find out why in the narrative…because the first thing you hear is that she hates Forks. Forks is cloudy, rainy, small, and everything opposed to Arizona, which our main character loves.
On her first day of school, our hero makes it to her new high school in her new-old truck, and immediately becomes the subject of both small-town scrutiny, and a great deal of admiration from the opposite gender. All of these new things are combined with the mystery that our girl notices the first day in the lunch room: a table of quite handsome looking young group of people that sit, unmoving, unspeaking, in front of their untouched food – estranged from every other group. Read the rest of this entry »