Creature Feature #6
Story time!!!
So, I am the most ridiculously easy person to shop for ever (don't worry - this rambling anecdote IS going somewhere), and since I was about eight or nine years old, my little school-chums have been giving me gift certificates to Barnes and Noble or the now defunct Borders, or Amazon gift cards.
Some people give me bags or boxes of their old books. THIS IS AWESOME TOO. Books are books. They don't have to be new - as long as they're new to me. You know what I mean? (One of the best birthday presents I ever got from a friend was a bone china teacup, a bag of said friend's old books, and a box of organic tea!) (Okay, that tangent had nothing to do with the creature feature. BUT IT WAS STILL FUN, HUH?) (Back to business.)
Usually my family drops me off at the local used bookstore on Christmas and my birthday and lets me go nuts (the books are so cheap, it's ridiculous). However, I have weird tastes in books, and a lot of the ones I REALLY want are obscure, esoteric, or out of print (worse case scenario, all three. Boo). This means they aren't sold there. It also means they aren't at the library due to the lack of interest, the lack of knowledge that they even exist, or the fact that they were banned because the conservative book-banners in my town suck and I don't like them telling me what I can and can't read so POOP.
ANYWAY.
This creature feature special features my wishlist-in-progress. It is called, appropriately enough, YES I NEED IT DAMMIT.
It features vampire books written between 1970-1999, vintage gothics, contemporary gothics, vintage sci-fi with cyberpunk bents, chess-themed stories (are you surprised? Nah, of course not), fairytale and classic literature retellings between 1940-1999, creepy love stories, family epics, and really gritty romantic suspense.
If you, like me, are a fan of these things, you should definitely check out this list and give them some love. Most of them have under 1,000 ratings on Goodreads, and a few of them have under 100. I think one or two of them might have under 10! When you consider the popularity of books like Twilight and Fifty Shades of Poop, that is seriously unfair.
Happy reading!
xNenia
So, I am the most ridiculously easy person to shop for ever (don't worry - this rambling anecdote IS going somewhere), and since I was about eight or nine years old, my little school-chums have been giving me gift certificates to Barnes and Noble or the now defunct Borders, or Amazon gift cards.
Some people give me bags or boxes of their old books. THIS IS AWESOME TOO. Books are books. They don't have to be new - as long as they're new to me. You know what I mean? (One of the best birthday presents I ever got from a friend was a bone china teacup, a bag of said friend's old books, and a box of organic tea!) (Okay, that tangent had nothing to do with the creature feature. BUT IT WAS STILL FUN, HUH?) (Back to business.)
Usually my family drops me off at the local used bookstore on Christmas and my birthday and lets me go nuts (the books are so cheap, it's ridiculous). However, I have weird tastes in books, and a lot of the ones I REALLY want are obscure, esoteric, or out of print (worse case scenario, all three. Boo). This means they aren't sold there. It also means they aren't at the library due to the lack of interest, the lack of knowledge that they even exist, or the fact that they were banned because the conservative book-banners in my town suck and I don't like them telling me what I can and can't read so POOP.
ANYWAY.
This creature feature special features my wishlist-in-progress. It is called, appropriately enough, YES I NEED IT DAMMIT.
It features vampire books written between 1970-1999, vintage gothics, contemporary gothics, vintage sci-fi with cyberpunk bents, chess-themed stories (are you surprised? Nah, of course not), fairytale and classic literature retellings between 1940-1999, creepy love stories, family epics, and really gritty romantic suspense.
If you, like me, are a fan of these things, you should definitely check out this list and give them some love. Most of them have under 1,000 ratings on Goodreads, and a few of them have under 100. I think one or two of them might have under 10! When you consider the popularity of books like Twilight and Fifty Shades of Poop, that is seriously unfair.
Happy reading!
xNenia
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