It appears that there is a non-kiddie alternative for werewolf fans (not that Twilight's Jacob isn't peachy keen) on the horizon. The YouTube video featuring the author uploaded by Knopfdoubleday has me very intrigued (see below).
The The Last Werewolf, by Glen Duncan will be released on July 11, 2011 on Amazon.com. Duncan talks a good game, but can his book back him up? We'll see. Bring on Jake Marlowe! Added to my To-Be-Read List - The Last Werewolf.
Waiting with bated breath,
Tallulah
P.S.
Have you read any of Glen Duncan's other books? Any recommendations?
I am chugging through an array of books – currently reading Twilight, Like Water for Chocolate, and The Jane Austen Book Club. And kinda sorta Their Eyes Were Watching God. I have noticed a number of connections to Jane Austen’s works that I had not expected. One of the benefits of reading multiple books at once.
In Twilight, Bella Swan mentions that her favorite Austen books were Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Bella tries to read to avoid thinking about her soon-to-be love, Edward Cullen. Once she gets into Sense and Sensibility, Bella gets annoyed because one of the main characters is named Edward. She switches to Mansfield Park only to realize that there is an Edward in it too.
It seems like Jane Austen uses the same first names in a number of her books. While looking up information on Austen and her books (because of The Jane Austen Book Club), I came across Katherine Cox’s blog November’s Autumn. Katherine is hosting a series called Jane Austen’s Paradox of Names. Join her every other Thursday as she compares and analyzes Jane Austen’s characters who share first names.
Check out The Story Behind Twilightto read more about how Stephenie Meyers chose her characters’ names.
To know me is to know that I don’t do vampires. Movies, books, nada. Outside of the movie Interview with the Vampire and the television series Angel, you can pretty much bet that I haven’t seen or read it if it involves vamps. So of course, I had no interest in the Twilight Saga franchise. On a vampire interest scale between Twihard and Miley Cyrus/Vampires Suck (the movie), I was closer to the latter. I am not a massinhater. Teenage vampire love just didn’t sound appealing.
Fast forward a couple of years and two more Twilight Saga books/movies releases later … I was still not interested. Ha! But then this summer, Burger King launched a big promotional push for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The push included an in-restaurant game, online extensions, exclusive merchandise, and national TV advertisements – yada, yada, yada. What finally sucked me in (no pun intended)? The TV commercials!! It seemed like they were on constantly. Unfortunately for Burger King, they didn’t make me want to participate in their promotion. However, they did make me want to try the books out. It’s sad … I know.
When I told some of my friends that I was going to read the books, they all laughed and said “yeah right.” I am reading Twilight right now AND I got a Twilight t-shirt (75% off at Barnes and Noble – sweet!) to get into the spirit. Who am I down with … Team Edward, Team Jacob or Team Bella? I’ll let you know when I finish Eclipse.
USA Today created its list of the top ten best-selling books of the decade (2000s). These best-selling scribbles (books) were made into flicks (movies). How cool! I was shocked to see that the Twilight Saga and the Harry Potter series dominated the list. The literary decade was marked by two youth market books that crossed over into the adult market. What must the aliens think? The Da Vinci Code is the only “grown up” book on the list. It is the only book on the list that I have actually read. BTW - I do read youth books – just haven’t read these. Clearly, I am behind the times and need to get with it. Massinhater, I am not. On to Twilight.
