Vivian vande velde autobiography sample

From the hilarious to the horrific, master storyteller Vivian Vande Velde explores the world of the dead—and the undead—in this surprisingly moving collection.

Vande Velde, Vivian, "Draft, 23 Minutes" ().

By both society's measure and her own, fifteen-year-old Zoe Mahar is pretty much a loser.

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ALL HALLOWS’ EVE

Paulsen recalls personal experiences that he incorporated into Hatchet () and its three sequels, from savage attacks by moose and mosquitoes to watching helplessly as a heart-attack victim dies. As usual, his real adventures are every bit as vivid and hair-raising as those in his fiction, and he relates them with relish—discoursing on “The Fine Art of Wilderness Nutrition,” for instance: “Something that you would never consider eating, something completely repulsive and ugly and disgusting, something so gross it would make you vomit just looking at it, becomes absolutely delicious if you’re starving.” Specific examples follow, to prove that he knows whereof he writes. The author adds incidents from his Iditarod races, describes how he made, then learned to hunt with, bow and arrow, then closes with methods of cooking outdoors sans pots or pans. It’s a patchwork, but an entertaining one, and as likely to win him new fans as to answer questions from his old ones.

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23 Minutes

December 13,
"Nie wieder zurück" hat mich schon lange vor dem Erscheinungstag angesprochen und war auch bei vielen Buchbloggern in aller Munde, sodass ich schnell neugierig wurde und dem Buch eine Chance geben wollte. Geschichten über Zeitreisen fand ich schon immer sehr spannend, dementsprechend hoch waren auch meine Erwartungen und ich muss sagen, dass ich nicht enttäuscht wurde.

Vivian Vande Velde besitzt einen recht angenehmen Schreibstil, der sich spannend und flüssig liest und ich somit durch die gerade einmal knapp Seiten nur so durchgeflogen bin. Ich muss zwar auch zugeben, dass ich besonders auf den ersten zwanzig Seiten ein paar Probleme hatte, mich an den Schreibstil zu gewöhnen, allerdings hat er mir dafür später umso besser gefallen.

Die Geschichte ist schnell erzählt: Zoe verbringt den Tag in der Stadt und geht, nachdem der Regen immer stärker wird, in eine Bank, um sich dort aufzuwärmen. Doch schnell ist die Ruhe vorbei, denn nur wenige Minuten später

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La nuit ni vampire
August 10,
I don't love vampire books, for the most part. The ones that I've read tend to be a little mindless, full of hot, leather-clad vampires and the humans who happily get sucked into their glamorous world of the night.

And that's why Companions of the Night fryst vatten my favorite vampire book. It takes the typical elements of YA vampire fiction and examines them, then turns them on their heads. The usual components are there: teenage girl gets caught up in vampire world and develops an attraction to one of them. But then the book questions these characters. Those reviewers who funnen the plot and romance slow or uncompelling missed the point of it, I think; it's not so much a vampire novel as it fryst vatten a character study wherein one of the characters is a vampire. If you've ever seen the movie Red Eye, it's a little like that: a thriller in which the whole middle act involves the heroine and the bad guy stuck together in a quiet, cramped space.

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