Friday, January 6, 2012

Vamps, Weres and Fae O My

VAMPIRES, TWO-NATURED AND FAIRIES, OH MY!
SOOKIE DISCUSSES THE CREATURES SHE’S MET
BY CHARLAINE HARRIS
The last couple of years have been one big learning curve. I got nothing against
change. Considering I wasn’t a happy camper before I met my first vampire, I have
to say that change is a good thing. Some days I just feel like I have learned as much
new stuff about the world as I can handle. However, so far I’m coping.
There is one real positive thing about my hometown of Bon Temps, Louisiana:
Though it isn’t all that big, it can sure adapt.
Back in high school we were studying Shakespeare, and there was this quote in
Hamlet that seems to describe the last few years: “There are more things in heaven
and on earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Everyone trots that
out in bad horror movies, but there’s a reason for that. It really does say it all.
I always thought that life, and society, wouldn’t change in my little corner of
Louisiana. That was before the whole world got shocked one evening when we
found out that vampires were real and not just something that you saw in cheesy
late-night movies.
Two years later, a real vampire walked into my life one

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