Vampire according to... (3)

Twilight Saga (Stephenie Meyer) – 2005-2008
- Nomads and hunt people, except The Cullens who live in Forks and hunt animals
- Gods-like human
- Don’t sleep in coffin, even don’t sleep at all
- No need ordinary food though they can
- Sunlight doesn’t hurt them but make their skin sparkling. Not afraid of cross and garlic
- Live forever
- Pale, cold and hard skin
- Can run fast and have strong power
- Don’ turn into bats
- Charmed people without purpose and they don’t even know they do that
- Many of them has special ability. Mind reader like Ewdard and precognition like Alice
- The color of their eyes change according to their mood
- Werewolves are their enemies ... End

The Tales of Beedle The Bard (J.K. Rowling)

Out Now!

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers’ attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to Hermione Granger’s new translation from the ancient runes, we present this stunning edition with an introduction, notes, and illustrations by J. K. Rowling, and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. Never before have Muggles been privy to these richly imaginative tales: “The Wizard and the Hopping Pot,” “The Fountain of Fair Fortune,” “The Warlock’s Hairy Heart,” “Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump,” and of course, “The Tale of the Three Brothers.” But not only are they the equal of fairy tales we now know and love, reading them gives new insight into the world of Harry Potter.

The stories are accompanied by delightful pen-and-ink illustrations by Ms. Rowling herself, featuring a still-life frontispiece for each one. Professor Dumbledore’s commentary—apparently written some eighteen months before his death—reveals not just his vast knowledge of Wizarding lore, but also more of his personal qualities: his sense of humor, his courage, his pride in his abilities, and his hard-won wisdom. Names familiar from the Harry Potter novels sprinkle the pages, including Aberforth Dumbledore, Lucius Malfoy and his forebears, and Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (or “Nearly Headless Nick”), as well as other professors at Hogwarts and the past owners of the Elder Wand. Dumbledore tells us of incidents unique to the Wizarding world, like hilariously troubled theatrical productions at Hogwarts or the dangers of having a “hairy heart.” But he also reveals aspects of the Wizarding world that his Muggle readers might find all too familiar, like censorship, intolerance, and questions about the deepest mysteries in life.

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Vampire according to… (2)

The Saga of Darren Shan (Darren Shan) – 2000-2003
- Have organization with princes as the leaders and have many generals
- Almost look like human (not always good looking)
- Sleep in coffin
- Cut the victim’s skin (not only human, but animals as well) and drink their blood they need to then seal the wound with their saliva. Still eat ordinary food
- Have marks in finger tips. They change human to vampire with flowing their blood into human’s and vice versa
- Afraid of sunlight, but not cross and garlic
- Live longer than human but still can be killed with knife, wood stake, guns or fell from high ground
- Have human-sized canines
- Strong and can move fast, have better senses
- Can’t change into bats although bats (and rats) like them
- Vampaneze is vampire’s enemy. Vampaneze is vampire’s counsin with purple skins, red eyes and love killing people for blood ... Continued

Star Craving Mad, a novel by Elise Abrams Miller

Maddy Braverman is addicted to celebrities. She spends her free time (at thirty and single, she has a lot of it) reading and fantasizing about famous people. A teacher at an elite Manhattan private school, Maddy nearly falls in a faint when she finds out that Lola Seabolt, daughter of her biggest movie star crush, Nick Seabolt, will be a student in her class this year. Maddy manages to keep her wits about her most of the time because she knows she doesn't have a chance - Nick is happily married to another Hollywood superstar, Shelby. With help from her scruffy but handsome teaching assistant, James Wilkins, Maddy is able to separate doing her job from her celebrity passions. Then Nick begins to make moves toward becoming more than just friends. Will Maddy achieve her dreams of landing a celebrity lover? Or will she realize that true love is closer than she imagined?

The book tell us Maddy’s madness about celebrities. She dreams life (and fall in love with celebrity) that she can’t have. She searched too high and fell from above. She doesn’t see what’s in front of her: friends (and a man) that care for her. They give her pure love, not fake one and vanish after the director said “Cut”.

Ms. Miller is author, actress and ex- elementary teacher. She wrote this story according to what she felt and faced. She really knows how to teach 5 years old kids. She really knows what happened behind the scene of films. And she really knows the power of copyright. Maddy Braverman faced those and I can feel I almost know those. At least, I’m writing novel. So I try to save my stories well.
I know how hard to publish books through publishing house. We have to wait few months for response. If they accept, we’re happy. If they say “No”, we have to send other story or try again to other publishing house. But Maddy is very lucky. Publishing house published her first story after she faced complicated conditions. Even without her sending it.

I want that too. Not the complicated conditions, but my story being published. My books are displayed in book stores. What a long way to see that…

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Love, Hate and Hocus-Pocus, a novel by Karla M. Nashar

Hate at first sight. Exactly those are words to describe Troy Mardian and Gadis Parasayu. They are good partners – as good as their rivalry.

According to Gadis: Troy Mardian is a perfect human figure who forgets his roots. He is Indonesian, but why he acts like western people? Brunettes, speaks English, brand-minded and do whatever he can to show himself as metrosexual people so The Indonesia Most Eligible Bachelor is still him.

According to Troy: Gadis Parasayu is the funniest name he ever heard. He spent most of his life in America and there are no crazy parents named their daughter Beautiful Face Girl. So narcissistic! Yeah, her face is exotic and her body is as perfectly as JLo, but she is local minded, isn’t she? Come on, that’s not cool!

They have one in common. Don’t believe in hocus-pocus, fortune telling, psychic, astrology, tarot card, feng shui or whatever in world of fortune reading.

But what happen when they woke up in a sunny Sunday and got themselves in the same bed like Adam and Eve expelled from Eden – naked, ring in their fingers and blurry memories from their marriage 13 days before?!

It’s very funny story. I can’t just smile. I laughed a lot at Gadis’s and Troy’s life after their sudden marriage. They are so different. One of them is Indonesian minded, the other is western-style minded. The woman doesn’t care with body treatment while the man do care so much. He has his own cosmetic bag. Ckckck… All I say is “Oh. My. God.” I can’t imagine there is a man like him. So narcissistic and he do realize he has the look and brain to get fans.

It’s an interesting and amusing story. After reading this, I guarantee tears come out of our eyes because of too much laughing. Unfortunately, I read this book after incidentally, I watched TV movie few weeks before. That film had the same theme and plots. I think it is “Jamu something” with an old man as medicine man instead of gypsy woman in the book.

Actually, it’s decreasing my 4-star rating into 3-star rating. If he production house wanted to make this book into film, why didn’t they ask the writer or the publishing house? Why they imitate the story? This is plagiarism, isn’t it? *shake head* But, maybe the production house had asked permission and Ms. Nashar or the publishing house didn’t say OK. So they did this. Who knows?

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