Entertainment has arrived!!!!!!!!

After a relatively short wait of a few days, my book order from Amazon.com has arrived! Great Googly Moogly, I'm almost beside myself with bookwormish glee!

I had ordered "Sense and Sensibility and Sea monsters by" Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters, published by Quirk Classics. It is a spoof of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility". I had recently completed "Pride and Prejudiced and Zombies" and "Dawn of the Dreadfuls", both based on stories by Jane Austen and extremely entertaining. I assure you, if I had to read either story the way they were originally written, I would have burned my eyes out with a soldering iron and a hot spoon ...just not my cup o' tea, lads and lasses.

I also received "The Undead World of Oz" by L. Frank Baum and Ryan C. Thomas. This book is published by Coscom Entertainment. I'm curious to see if they portray the flying monkeys as I hope. Ideally they will be flinging zombie-flying-monkey poop at the group. We shall see. (....Clever little unintentional rhyming going on here. Sweet!)

Next on the manifest was "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim" by Mark Twain and W. Bill Czolgosz. This was published by non other than Coscom Entertainment. I did not realize I had two books from the same publisher. Kind of an interesting coincidence, I guess.

The last book is "The War of the Worlds plus Blood, Guts, and Zombies". Written by H.G. Wells and Eric S. Brown. *Eh!?* ...AND published by Coscom Entertainment! Well how about THAT!? (Brief jaunt to Coscom's website)......It appears Coscom has several other books that I may have to look into depending on how these three go. Here is Coscom's website if y'all would like to look also:

http://coscomentertainment.com/index.html

I have to admit I am very excited about these books and have high hopes for their entertainment value. I could barely put down the last three spoofs I read. *Oooop!* I almost forgot to mention "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" by Seth Grahame-Smith and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was based on Lincoln's secret diaries and was a very educational AND entertaining read. Not only did the author write believable encounters between Lincoln and vampires, he also jogged my dusty, cobwebbed memory of American History and tied in events throughout Lincoln's historical life....and made it very enjoyable to relearn some of America's history I had forgotten!

See, if stories about history had a few mentions of zombies, werewolves, vampires, aliens, and robots, kids might be more willing to tuck into the less-than-thrilling history books and required reading material. Yes, yes, yes, I know, I KNOW!!! It's not what really happened (as far as we know, anyways), but adding some spark and fire to the lesson plan shouldn't be too damaging, I would hope.

Of course later in the tot's lives we would have to clear the myths up about Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and other mythological beings anyways...what's wrong with dispelling the myths of vampires, zombies, werewolves, aliens, and robots to the mix at the same time. We tend to tell lies to children to keep them in line and subservient throughout their childhood. We know a telling of "The Truth" is going to happen eventually. Let's cross that bridge when we get to it and set it ablaze with the little ones still trudging across, shall we? (BwaHaHAHAaaHahAHaHaaaaa!!!!!!)


 Of course I jest, but the visual is amusing to me. 

Dear GOD!!!!!! I am flumoxed by formatting! The pictures being arranged all on the left of the blog are perfect give-aways to me being a freaking NOOB!

Screw it.... they stay where they are and I will acquire further skills for doing stuff all neat-like in the future.




Enjoy the books if y'all decide to get them before I post my thoughts here. I promise my book reports won't be terribly long. More like "Yup. I liked it and I laughed until I shat myself." That'll pretty much be the extent of my review.

You'll just have to deal with the weird spacing until I figure out how to get these damned pictures to fit the way I want them to in my posts. I'm hoping to put more visually entertaining things in my blog since my skills at verbal and written communication are so...well...grossly inappropriate and almost as bad as a bear eating mashed potatoes and honey with it's paws. It's not a pretty sight.

Well, back to mindless self-indulgence on the Internetz. :)