From the monthly archives: February 2009
This Place is Death, Episode 5 of season 5 of Lost aired on Feb 11th in the US and it was a VERY good episode full of fangirl goodness. Picking up where we left off with Jin and Rousseau and Sun and the O6ers….
Sun gets the gun and is ready to go all [...]
We have come to the end of another Appreciation Week and it is time for a confession. When Thea first came up with the idea of a Zombie Appreciation Week quite a few months ago, I wasn’t very enthused. Unlike her, I was (note the past tense here?) not a fan of zombies and never [...]
Zombie Appreciation Week: Interview & Giveaway with Mark Henry
By Thea On February 27, 2009 · 24 Comments · In Chat With an Author, Giveaways, Joint Review, Smuggler Specialties, Zombie Appreciation Week
To cap off our Zombie Appreciation Week, we bring you an interview and giveaway with the fabulous Mark Henry, author of the recently reviewed Happy Hour of the Damned and Road Trip of the Living Dead. Although it took us a while to read these bad boys, we absolutely loved Amanda Feral’s bitchy, [...]
Title: Road Trip of the Living Dead
Author: Mark henry
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Zombies, Comedy
Publisher: Kensington Press
Publication Date: February 2009
Trade Paperback: 288 Pages
Stand Alone or Series: Book 2 in the Amanda Feral series
Why did I read the book: We had been saving Mark Henry’s books for our [...]
Title: Happy Hour of the Damned
Author: Mark Henry
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Zombies, Comedy
Publisher: Kensington Press
Publication Date: March 2008
Trade Paperback: 288 Pages
Stand alone or series: Book 1 in the Amanda Feral series (currently 2 books strong).
Why did I read this book: I’ve actually had this on my [...]
Zombie Appreciation Week – Book Review: Zombie Haiku by Ryan Mecum
By Thea On February 25, 2009 · 3 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Smuggler Specialties, Zombie Appreciation Week
Title: Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry For Your…Brains
Author: Ryan Mecum
Genre: Poetry (Haiku), Zombies, Horror, Humor
Publisher: How Books
Publication Date: July 2008
Paperback: 160 pages
Stand alone or series: Stand alone collection of haiku in a purported journal.
Summary: (from Amazon.com)
What you are looking at is a document from [...]
Title: The Walking Dead Volume 1 – Days Gone Bye
Author: Written by Robert Kirkman/ Art by Tony Moore
Genre: Comics / Horror / Zombies
Publisher: Image Comics
Publishing Date: May, 2004
Paperback: 144 pages
Stand Alone/ Series : On-going monthly series.
Why did I read the book: It was part of [...]
Zombie Appreciation Week – Book Review: Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
By Thea On February 25, 2009 · 9 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Smuggler Specialties, Zombie Appreciation Week
Title: Generation Dead
Author: Daniel Waters
Genre: Speculative Fiction, Young Adult, Zombies
Publisher: Hyperion Books (DBG)
Publication Date: May 2008
Hardcover: 400 pages
Stand alone or series: Book 1 in the Generation Dead series. Book 2, Kiss of Life, releases in May.
Yesterday we gave you a good long look at the evolution of zombies in the film genre, highlighting some pivotal films. I could wax poetical all day about Romero’s movies, but the zombie movie has a lot of other goodness to offer. Instead of repeating what I talked about yesterday (or during Halloween [...]
When it was decided that this Zombie Appreciation Week was going ahead I was sent an email by Thea with the subject line: Ana’s Zombie Homework with a list of stuff I had to watch and read for the week. I trembled inside. I had no problems with reading the books – heck, I was [...]
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