My Single Mom Life

I was going through my blog feeds, trying to catch up, when I saw on Charlotte's blog that she posted about my latest love, True Blood.
Well, not the show True Blood, but the books the show is based on by Charlaine Harris, The Sookie Stackhouse Novels.

Charlotte posted that Buy.com had them on sale for $28.97, they are normally $55.93.

I actually have this set of books on my wish list at another online retailer because they also put them on sale, but for $1.79 more than Buy.com has them.
I know, that's not a huge difference in price, but when you are trying to save money, every single penny counts.


















I started watching the first season of True Blood on Netflix because so many of my friends had told me how amazing the show is, and they were right.
We finally finished watching all of season 1, finishing the discs off yesterday.
Yes, even the teens are hooked on this show.
It has pretty much everything that someone would want to watch.
It has action, romance, thrills, horror, comedy, drama, and vampires!
It's a really fantastic show, I can't wait to be able to watch season 2, but I know that it's going to be a long time before season 2 is out on dvd and on Netflix, and because it's such a popular show, it will probably be awhile before I get to see all of the episodes in season 2.

I love all of the characters on the show, but I have to say that Lafayette is probably my favorite so far.
He is just so freaking funny!
They give his character some of the best lines to say, it's hysterical.
I love how you're never really sure what is going to happen next, who is trustworthy, who isn't, and they keep you guessing on a lot of stuff, like who the murderer was.
One of the characters was killing off any woman who had "been with" a vampire, and they were dropping clues here and there, but just when I thought I knew who the killer was, they go and show you something else that makes you change your mind and have to start guessing all over again.
I was really kind of shocked to find out who the killer was, the teens were surprised too.

And probably just like every other woman who watches True Blood, I have to say, the really old Nordic vampire, Eric Northman, played by actor Alexander Skarsgard, is an absolute hotty.

The man is really good looking as a vampire.
I don't think he's that good looking normally, but with the long hair and pale smooth skin, he looks really good.

I love to read, but I don't find myself having enough time to read anymore, especially when I have the internet, but if a book is really good, if it can hold my interest so that I stay reading and not get bored and hop on the net, then I'll read it start to finish in a couple of days.
I love reading vampire books, I read the entire series that Anne Rice put out, and just about every other book about vampires, and everyone raves about this set of books just like they rave about the show.

I'll probably either try to save up money to get this set after our trip, or I'll go to the library and see if they have them, and take out as many of them at a time as I can in series order.
I think our library lets you take out 6 items at a time, so I could take out 6 and then have 1 of the teens take out the last 1, so that I can have all 7 of them at once and I can read them in order from start to finish.
I want to see if the books are better than the show, or if the show is as loosely based on the books as people say it is.
The books are the basis for the show, but they took a lot of liberties and changed things up a bit to make the show, but the books are still a really excellent read people say.