Battles With Boredom

Book: The Mindbody Prescription

At the suggestion of one of my online friends/fans, Forkmantis, I just finished reading The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain. This was a very insightful read, founded on the principle that the mind and body are one, and therefore physical manifestations of pain can controlled, and eliminated, by the brain. The theory is simply that we suppress stress and anger and the brain knows this, and inflicts pain on its own body as an outlet. Continue reading Book: The Mindbody Prescription…

Book Review: Christopher Moore’s “The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove”

Once again, Christopher Moore fails to disappoint. Set again in the little town of Pine Cove (which you’ll remember from his first book, Practical Demonkeeping), Christopher Moore once again brings us a supernatural comedy that made me laugh at least every other page, if not on every page, in The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove. Continue reading Book Review: Christopher Moore’s “The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove”…

The Journeys of Socrates

This week I finished reading Dan Millman’s The Journeys of Socrates: An Adventure. I decide to read it after seeing the movie Peaceful Warrior with my friend Kent last fall. Continue reading The Journeys of Socrates…

“Teacher Seeks Pupil. Must Have an Earnest Desire to Save the World.”

“Teacher Seeks Pupil.

Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.”

It was just a three-line ad in the personals section, but it launched the adventure of a lifetime.

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Christopher Moore’s Blood Sucking Fiends

Just before I left for SANSFire 2008, I decided to down one more of Christopher Moore’s hilarious books, Blood Sucking Fiends. This one, written in 1997, takes place in San Francisco, and centers around Tom, a small-town boy who moves to the city to become a writer, and Jody, who becomes a vampire early in the book and has to cope with her new “life” as an undead.

This book made me laugh, a lot. Moore manages to quickly give you enough background information on the characters that you can get to know them, without losing your interest in the main plot, and every chapter is entertaining. I really liked Moore’s take on the master vampire and his sanctum, which was an interesting spin on Dracula’s ghost ship.

Two thumbs up for Blood Sucking Fiends.