Friday, February 6, 2009

Right when I'd told myself I was going to go back to not spending any money on books, something happened to change my mind. Back when I was in High School I read these sort of silly but fun teenybopper books. I read a lot of other stuff too, but I enjoyed the kind of teen angst books too, even while I laughed at myself for reading them. In 1991 I read these 3 books called "The Vampire Diaries", which were quick reads, that made me laugh and cry and I enjoyed them for exactly what they were. These books were promoted as a trilogy, but they did so well that a 4th volume was released in 1992, which I snapped up and enjoyed as much as the first 3 (though there was a slight continuity flub, which was never explained away - though it could be rather easily). After they'd done a 4th one I kind of expected more, and anytime I've seen the books in stores I've looked to see if more had been released, but there hadn't been. Actually, about a year ago I was at Borders and I thought I saw a new one, but it was just the old books with new covers, and combined into 2 volumes instead of 4. I guess what happened was that the Twilight books were doing so well that they repackaged the Vampire Diaries to capitalize on that success and it worked - with the Vampire Diaries jumping on to the bestseller lists. This inspired them to order 3 new books in the series, the first of which comes out on Tuesday in hardcover (the original 4 were all paperbacks). And, the CW Network has ordered a pilot script based on the books. Wacky. Also, I just found my old first edition copies of the books when I was getting my Robotech books out and thought I might reread those too. Now I'm planning on reading the whole series again, and continuing in the 5th. I find this all rather amusing. Maybe I'll get around to reading those Twilight books too, as I now have a reason to be grateful for them.

My doc appointment is at 12:45pm.

11 hours from now I'll hopefully be getting ready to watch the new Battlestar Galactica, 4x15: "Blood on the Scales".

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