Sookie Stackhouse novels

Ok. I was just looking at the last few posts on the blog...been a while huh? Can anyone tell that I've been home sick for A WEEK! And it's probably obvious that I'm feeling some better, since I'm updating the blog (reduced to that! oh heavens, say it isn't so :)).

Anyway, I was looking at my post (from 2008?!) on the Anita Blake novels (which I did enjoy but have become a tad disenchanted with) and I figured I'd mention the Sookie Stackhouse novels this time. I was introduced to them, as many have been, through HBO's series, "True Blood".

Now, I really do enjoy "True Blood". I like the characters, the settings, the filming (LOVE the camera angles, cuts, and lighting). It's good. I got a little bored with the Jason/V story line but, I still enjoyed it. Sookie, Tara, Lafayatte, Eric, Pam, Terry - clever concepts.

And, when I found it was based on a series, of course (me being me) I went and read them all - in about two and a half weeks. I enjoyed the books. They are lighthearted even though some really gory violence runs throughout. They have a good sense of the comedic and they have wit about them. Obviously, I enjoyed them, I read all eight (I even went and got the newest from the library - special trip). And I was relieved (spoiler coming) that Jason didn't even DO V in the books.

And, thus far, they haven't gone the overly pornographic route of the Anita Blake novels (who am I to knock gratutious sex? But Anita...well...shark? jumped?).

So, I probably should update my reading list.

Especially since, right now, I'm reading "Taming of the Shrew" and Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.