Undead Tuesday: The Vampire Diaries (Chapter 13)

In Which We Learn The Paramount Importance Of Sharing Nicely Honestly, you’ve got to love the contemptuous way Teen fiction treats the police. Chapter thirteen opens with the world’s least convincing attempt to seal off a crime scene and contain all potential suspects / witnesses found at said scene until they can be properly processed. [...]

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Undead Tuesday: The Vampire Diaries by L J Smith (Chapter Twelve)

At Last, Some Action! So, yeah; Elena and the ice-blue Renaissance gown she cleaned out her college fund for. On the one hand, I have a secret (and fairly stupid) belief that the world would be much more fun for everyone if we all dressed up a little more, and wore stuff just because it [...]

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Undead Tuesday: The Vampire Diaries, Chapter Eleven

Trouble In Paradise So, when we last saw Elena, she was flouncing around the school after dark, making some sort of corpse-based decoration with her friends and being accosted by a dude with black eyes and a mocking manner who managed to make her forget Stefan’s existence. And I thought that once you’d had your [...]

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Undead Tuesday: The Vampire Diaries, Chapter Ten

I’m So Ashamed Of It, But Must Admit… Oh, Elena. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love the way you sit in your Trigonometry lesson, artlessly pouring forth the secrets of your heart into you diary. I love the way you decide not to press charges against Tyler for sexually [...]

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Undead Tuesday: The Vampire Diaries (Chapter Nine)

Some Problems Are Just Inherently Really Solvable It’s always good fun, laughing at other people’s wildly purple prose. This may be why, despite the rather irritating teenage swooning we have to sit through, I do really sort of like this chapter. It opens with Stefan having his own personal Road-to-Damascus moment with the realisation that [...]

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Undead Tuesday: The Vampire Diaries, Chapter Eight

I Swear I Will Finish This Even If It Kills Me And Brings About The Ending Of The Known Universe Apparently, Tuesday is officially the most depressing day of the week. It’s too far from last weekend for us to still be happily reminiscing about the fun we had. It’s too far from next weekend [...]

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Undead Tuesday: The Vampire Diaries by L J Smith, Chapter 7

In Which Everyone Gets Angry About The Wrong Things I’m starting to wonder if the problem here is that I’m way, waaay too old for this shit. I mean, rationally, of course I’m too old for it, since this is a Young Adult book, and I’m about two decades past young-adulthood. But maybe it’s deeper [...]

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Zombiepocalypse: Dear God, Won’t Somebody Please Think Of The Children?

INTERIOR, DAY, MY CAR. SOMEWHERE ON THE M5. In the car are Becky, Ben and me. We are playing a seemingly endless game of “What Animal Am I?” BECKY: Are you a mammal? ME: Yes. BEN: Are you friendly? ME: Reasonably friendly, yes. BECKY: Do you live in this country? ME: Yes. BEN: Do you [...]

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Ask a Zombiepocalypse Expert: Nail Guns

Because A Good Zombie Plan Is An Important Part Of Anyone’s Education. (This is a verbatim cut-and-paste from my friend’s Facebook feed. She is a Maths teacher. She also regularly makes cookies for her class, which all by itself makes her the official Best Teacher Ever. The fact that she’s also encouraging them to work [...]

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Zombiepocalypse: The Plan

Because We All Know The Zombiepocalypse Is Coming One Day Soon   Team Z leaders Team Zombiepocalypse is divided into three contingents: Cassandra is in charge of Great Britain Kim is in charge of the US East Coast Heidi is in charge of the US West Coast. Special attention shall be paid to the population of California. With [...]

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