Title: Deadlocked

Author: Charlaine Harris

336 pages, Published by Ace

Charlaine’s Info: Website

Buy The Book: Amazon

Summary:

It’s vampire politics as usual around the town of Bon Temps, but never before have they hit so close to Sookie’s heart…

Growing up with telepathic abilities, Sookie Stackhouse realized early on there were things she’d rather not know. And now that she’s an adult, she also realizes that some things she knows about, she’d rather not see—like Eric Northman feeding off another woman. A younger one.

There’s a thing or two she’d like to say about that, but she has to keep quiet—Felipe de Castro, the Vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), is in town. It’s the worst possible time for a human body to show up in Eric’s front yard—especially the body of the woman whose blood he just drank.

Now, it’s up to Sookie and Bill, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks that, at least this time, the dead girl’s fate has nothing to do with her. But she is wrong. She has an enemy, one far more devious than she would ever suspect, who’s set out to make Sookie’s world come crashing down. (Summary provided by Ace.)

My Thoughts:

Warning! The Following contains lots of spoilers pertaining to Deadlocked including how the book ends. Do not read this if you haven’t read it yet. Also, this will probably not make any sense unless you have read the book already. So read Deadlocked. Then come back and read this.

I’m calling this a book reaction rather than a book review because I have become emotionally invested in the Sookie Stackhouse series. I feel like it’s hard for me to give a review based on anything other than how I feel about what happened to the characters I have grown to care so much about. I have the utmost respect for Charlaine Harris as a writer. Before I started blogging (and had more time to read) I followed and loved every single one of her many series. So this “book reaction” does not pertain to her skill as a writer. As a writer with Deadlocked (book twelve in the Sookie Stackhouse series), Harris’s writing is still tight, her characterizations are still vivid, and Bon Temps still remains a place that feels like home.

With that said, I had a couple of issues with this installment of my favorite (yes I said favorite) series. First, there is no sex in this book. Unless I missed something, there is nary a sex scene in Deadlocked. With each book I have come to expect Sookie to have a couple of hot sex scenes. There isn’t one in this book. Maybe it’s wrong of me to expect a sex scene or two in this book since part of the plot is that Sookie is having relationship issues with Eric. But by golly, I expected some nookie.

I know I sound like an idiot. I almost didn’t write about the book because I sound like one of those weirdos that thinks fictional characters are real people. But I think that’s part of the problem. The citizens of Bon Temps have become all too real to me over the last twelve books. I have come to know and love them like old friends. And just like with friends I have hopes and expectations for how I want their lives to turn out.

This leads to my other issue with the book. In this book Sookie is in possession of a magical fey object called a cluviel dor. The cluviel dor will grant one wish to the person who posseses it. So there is much talk of the cluviel dor throughout the book. Sookie wonders what on earth she should wish for. Then something happens. Sookie finds out that Eric’s maker signed Eric over to the queen of another state before he was killed. Since Eric is married to Sookie, he would be the Queen’s consort and not an actual king. I find this tragic. It was a last laugh from his abusive maker. I mean he basically signed Eric over to be this woman’s whore and enforcer from the way I read it. For those of you who only watch True Blood, in the books Eric’s maker is a total a-hole. Anyway, Sookie finds this out and expects Eric to say no to the vampire queen whom he’s supposed to be bound to by an unbreakable contract his maker made without his knowledge. Sookie is mad because she found out about it from the queen not Eric. (See there are so many spoilers in this. Stop reading now if you don’t want to know how the book ends.) Eric finds out Sookie is in possession of the cluviel dor. He basically begs her to use it on him. And by begs her I mean he vaguely implies she should use it which for Eric is begging. Then there are what seemed like pages of Sookie thinking, I wonder what Eric meant? I wonder what Eric meant? Meanwhile I’m reading the book giving it my bitchface look screaming, “Use the cluviel dor on him Sookie!!!”

Okay, so another plot line in the book is that the Shreveport pack enforcer, Jannalynn, hates Sookie. Jannalynn is dating Sam. A bunch of stuff happens and it ends up that Jannalyn played a big part in the murder that is the central mystery of the book. There is this pack meeting where Jannalyn has to fight another pack member to the death. Sookie, Eric, and Sam are all there to watch. Jannalyn goes to stab Alcide misses and stabs Sam. Sam dies. Sookie uses the cluviel dor to save Sam’s life. At this point I am pissed. Guess who else is pissed? Eric. He just leaves without saying a word to Sookie. So I guess they are done. I have always been Team Eric. I feel like Sam has poor judgement when it comes to women. I feel like Sookie used the cluviel dor rashly without considering what she was doing. Most of all, I feel like an idiot for saying what I think fictional characters were thinking when they are puppets being animated by the author, but that’s how real these characters have become to me.

After all of that, I wouldn’t say I did not enjoy the book. I’m just sad about the outcome. Unless Charlaine Harris has a huge twist in store for the next book, I’m willing to bet Sookie either ends up alone or with Sam. If it comes to Sam or being alone, I hope she ends up alone. Sookie is a strong woman and she doesn’t have to end up with anyone. Although, I think we all want to see her have a fairytale ending. For me that ending was with her and Eric being together. I will read the next book regardless because despite my disappointment in the outcome of Deadlocked it was still entertaining as hell.

So, have you read Deadlocked? What did you think? Are there any Team Sam people out there who are thrilled with the ending? Any other Team Eric peeps like me who were disappointed? Let me know in the comments section.

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Here is a link to a couple of articles I wrote for the Family/Parenting section over at Blissfully Domestic this past week:

How To Make A Kite: A Fun Spring Activity

What’s Your Mom Salary? Calculate Your Mom Salary and Win With Salary.com!

Posts on The Well-Read Wife From The Past Week

If You Like Mad Men, You’ll Love This Print By Flapperdoodle

Guest Post: Lyon’s Bride and The Price of Love by Cathy Maxwell

Photo: I Love The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty

Book Review: The Chaperone By Laura Moriarty

Cool Stuff Other People Wrote:

Boggle The Mind: NYT Review of  Imagine by Jonah Lehrer

The Founder Of Mother’s Day Later Fought To Have it Abolished

So You Wanna Read About Comedy?

The Time Magazine Breast Feeding Cover: Its art historical images and what makes the cover so sensational

Personal Note:

Today is Mother’s Day and I’m sitting in my living room taking it easy. I hope everyone’s having a great weekend. I’ve had a jam packed week. Between reading and writing up a storm for The Well-Read Wife & Blissfully Domestic, I have attended a party, a fundraiser, and went to the spa twice to get ready for the parties. This sounds insane to write, but it’s all f*cking exhausting sometimes. I also got eyelash extensions this week too (see above picture). All of the spa stuff and the eyelash extensions were happies from my husband, because I’ve been working super hard on my diet. I’ve lost 32 lbs so far on the Paleo diet, and every pound has been a struggle.

I’m also working on a book which was sorely neglected while I did all of the other stuff this week. However, I did write a really weird, extremely detailed essay about the possibility of my one day having a half Sasquatch baby. I’m not sure if it’ll ever see the light of day on this site, but I sure did waste all of my free time this week writing it for no reason at all. I procrastinate in the oddest ways.

I am super excited for BEA Bloggers in New York this June. I am speaking on a panel about Creating Community and Driving Engagement. The other people on the panel with me are all SO awesome: Michelle Dunphy from Authors Are ROCKSTARS!, David Lee King Digital Services Director at Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, and Stacey O’Neale of Entangled Publishing. Please take time to stop by each of their websites. We have already started working together to produce what I think is going to be a stellar presentation.

I’m taking a two week hiatus from my If You Like Mad Men series for a couple of reasons: Today is Mother’s Day and next Sunday I’ll be on my way back from Disney World. So the series will pick back up in a couple of weeks. I am so excited to go to Disney with Nate and the boys. My youngest Brucie is two and a half years old, and I think he’ll finally really enjoy Disney. (He doesn’t remember his previous trip to Disney World.) If any burglars are reading this, we will have a house sitter this week. We have an awesome alarm system, and we have security cameras all over the place.

I’ll probably post a couple of reviews this week before I leave for vacation. I hope everybody has a great week!

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Title: The Chaperone

Author: Laura Moriarty

384 pages, Published by Riverhead

Laura’s Info: Website | Twitter | Facebook

Buy The Book: Amazon

Summary:

 I am thrilled to be part of the TLC Book Tour for The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty. I loved Moriarty’s novel about Louise Brooks and Cora Carlisle’s trip to New York City from Kansas. It takes place in 1922, so I thought it would be fun to dress up like a flapper and pose with the book. Also, I never pass up an opportunity to make an ass out of myself. Check back tomorrow for my review of The Chaperone. Spoiler Alert: I LOVE it!

I cannot stress enough how much I loved this book!

This is as Clara Bow as I get.

The Chaperone will make you want to do the Charleston!

Check back tomorrow for my review of The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty.

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How important is love?

That is one of the questions I ponder if my latest book, LYON’S BRIDE, the first book in the Chattan Curse trilogy.
The curse is that when a Chattan male falls in love, he will die.  Powerful incentive to not love, no?
Then again, how do we, as humans created for love, refuse to love?
I believe that who we love and how well we love are the only true measures of a fully lived life.  I, personally, could not imagine a life without love and I’m not talking about just romantic love.  Love itself has no such boundaries—we can love a country, ideas, causes, and so much more.
Love is treacherous to a man like Lyon.
It has also proven to be treacherous for Thea Martin, a woman who has suffered an unhappy marriage, one she had entered because she was in love.  Now the question becomes, can she trust love?
Certainly love has risks.  When we love, we are at our most vulnerable.  If you had been hurt by love, would you, should you risk loving again?

Such weighty matters!

Let’s not forget that LYON’S BRIDE is a romance.  Of course, love will be triumphant.  You and I both know that it.  But it doesn’t come without challenges, which is true in real life.

So share with us, what challenges have you overcome to love?  Or to love again? – Cathy Maxwell

About Cathy Maxwell:

New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell has lived a full and adventurous life. Her resume includes years as a naval officer working with Security Group, to time spent managing a watch factory, with a stint as a news broadcaster and work designing costumes for theater productions thrown in for good measure. Today, Cathy spends hours in front of her computer pondering the question, “Why do people fall in love?” It remains for her the great mystery of life and the secret to happiness. She lives in the Richmond, Virginia, area surrounded by kids, dogs, cats, and horses. (Author bio provided by HarperCollins.)

Cathy asked a very intriguing question at the end of her beautiful post: What challenges have you overcome for love? Or to love again?

Leave a comment and let us know! 

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I’m doing my If You Like Mad Men post differently this week. I’m featuring a cute Mad Men inspired 8×10 print by Flapperdoodle. It features Betty, Joan, and Peggy. Click here to check out Flapperdoodle’s Etsy shop.

This print is the perfect gift for the Mad Men lover in your life!

This is part five of an eight part Mad Men inspired series. Click the following links for the other posts in the series:

Part One: Joan Harris reads The Receptionist: An Education At The New Yorker by Jane Groth

Part Two: Betty Draper Francis reads Jack 1939: A Novel by Francine Mathews

Part Three: Peggy Olson reads Sex and The Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown

Part Four: Trudie Campbell reads Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams by Tina Cassidy.

Part Five: Mad Men inspired 8×10 print by Flapperdoodle

Coming Soon: Megan Draper reads, but you can only watch. Jane Sterling reads The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based On The Tibetan Book Of The Dead by Timothy Leary. As Jane Sterling is the grand finale of this series, that post will be interesting.

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Here are some links to articles written by me and others across the web:

Blissfully Domestic

I have a side writing gig that I love over at Blissfully Domestic.

Here is a link to an article I wrote for the Family/Parenting section this past week:

What’s Your Mom Salary? Calculate Your Mom Salary and Win With Salary.com!  FYI -  Salary.com’s Mom Salary Wizard is great fun, and there is an awesome giveaway included in this sponsored post I wrote for Blissfully Domestic about Salary.com. You should seriously check it out.

Posts on The Well-Read Wife From The Past Week

If You Like Mad Men, You’ll Love Jackie After O by Tina Cassidy

#BookBlogHelp: Save and Archive Tweets, Protect Your Ideas

Cool Stuff Other People Wrote:

Only You Can Save Literature: One Story’s Literary Debutante Ball

Book Notes – Lisa Brackmann “Getaway”

A Satirist Goes For None-Too-Subtle Shading

5 Ways ‘Saved By The Bell’ Ruined My Life

The Art of The Heist: Valuing Art Through Its Theft

Review: The Siren

Interview With Charlaine Harris On Her New Book Deadlocked & HBO’s True Blood

Personal Note:

This week has been sad, awesome, and crazy – not necessarily in that order.

I’ve been thinking a lot about intellectual property rights, where ideas originate, and how you go about crediting original sources in this day and age of Twitter streams and Facebook status oceans.The Internet is a strange, strange place. I’ll probably have more ideas (apart from the Twitter archiving post from earlier this week) on the topic at some point.

This week I was pleased to receive the  silent auction items I won from the One Story’s Literary Debutante Ball. I wish I could have been at the fundraiser in person. As it was the night before a local fundraiser I attend every year, I wasn’t able to fly in to attend. It’s definitely on my radar for next year though. I’m so thankful the wonderful Helen Ellis brought the event to my attention. There will be another post about this in a week or two with pictures and more info.

Don’t forget to check out The Directory of Book Bloggers Using Pinterest or this article about how Pinterest can help you promote your book blog. I will be adding more updates to the directory soon. Click here to follow me on Pinterest.

I was incredibly saddened to hear yesterday about the death of Adam Yauch AKA MCA of The Beastie Boys. From 6th grade all the way through my adult years The Beastie Boys have been part of the soundtrack of my life. Click here to watch a classic MTV Week In Rock segment about MCA’s antics at the 1994 Video Music Awards. Nate pointed it out to me this morning. Click here to see the trailer for the “Fight For Your Right – Revisited” long form video.

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Archive Your Tweets, Protect Your Ideas

I’ve been thinking a lot about idea preservation lately. It was pointed out to me by my blog consultant, Megan from VelveteenMind that your original ideas can get lost in the shuffle via crowd sourcing and the general hive mind atmosphere of Twitter feeds and Facebook status updates. So I started thinking about Twitter and how many ideas I’ve had via Twitter and seen pop up later. When I see that happen, I sometimes think, Did that person see my tweet? Chances are no they did not see my Tweet or Facebook status or Google + update or whatever form of social media I’m using at the moment. But every now and then I think What if they did see that Tweet? How would I even prove it?

Every now and then I tweet a real gem on Twitter chock full of useful information.

Something like this:

Or This:

Did you know that Joan Rivers saves every joke she has ever written in a card catalog looking filing system? We should be doing that with our Tweets. Just because  our Tweets are sometimes last minute thoughts or slapdash ideas doesn’t mean they might not be golden to others. We need to protect them just like we do our blog posts.

What if you predicted via Twitter a future release was going to be a NYT bestseller and no one else expected it to happen? Then BAM! the book you predicted is #1. You would probably want to find that Tweet and use it in a blog post.

I screen cap all of my more informative tweets, because I may turn them into blog posts later. I find that screen capping them makes it super easy to find them at a moment’s notice. However, I found an article via the website ReadWriteWeb titled “Ten Ways to Archive Your Tweets.” There are actually services that allow you to archive your personal tweets. Click here to read ReadWriteWeb’s article. After I tweeted about that article, my Twitter friend @SuzannahPaul pointed out that The Library of Congress is now archiving Tweets. Click here to read an article about that. I think it’s great that The Library of Congress is archiving Tweets, but I also think we should be using the personal Twitter archiving services the ReadWrite Web article discusses to make searching our own Tweets easier.

So what do you guys think about protecting your Tweets? Are you doing it? Leave a comment and let me know. If you tweet about this article please use the hashtag #BookBlogHelp.

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If you like the TV show Mad Men, you will love the book Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams by Tina Cassidy. Keep reading after the Mad Men era inspired photos of myself with Tina Cassidy’s profile of one year in the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for more information about this upcoming biography from It Books. It will be available May 1, 2012.

The Mad Men character Trudy Campbell (played by Alison Brie) came to mind instantly when I first heard about the book Jackie After O. Trudy is Married to Pete Campbell (played by Vincent Kartheiser – who I’ve been a fan of since he played Connor on Angel). Pete has been unfaithful to Trudy several times during the course of their marriage, and Pete told Trudy about at least one of his affairs. I think Trudy would have felt some sort of kinship with Jackie O and that inspired me to use Jackie After O by Tina Cassidy for my Trudy post.

Trudy’s dress and necklace are from Modcloth. Modcloth should probably give Mandy Trudy stock in the company by now.

Poor Trudy spends a lot of time reading while Pete is out “entertaining” clients.

About Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams by Tina Cassidy

Summary:

Defined in the public eye by her two high-profile marriages, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis faced a personal crossroads on the eve of 1975. Her relationship with Aristotle Onassis was crumbling while his health was rapidly declining. Her children were nearing adulthood, soon to leave her with an empty nest. Both death and scandal were about to strike yet again. But 1975 would also be a time of incredible growth and personal renaissance for Jackie, the year in which she reinvented herself and rediscovered talents and passions she had set aside for her roles as wife and mother.

In Jackie After O, acclaimed author and journalist Tina Cassidy explores this prolific yet incredibly daunting year in the life of Jacqueline Onassis, including her part in the campaign to preserve Grand Central Terminal in New York City; her pursuit of a real career, in the editorial department of Viking Press; the death of her second husband and her fraught relationship with his surviving daughter; and the London bombing that almost took her own daughter’s life. Cassidy has unearthed new information from archives and original interviews, and reveals intimate stories about the projects and interests of Jackie’s earlier years that would lay the foundation for her life beginning in 1975, from an internship at Vogue to her meticulous restoration of the White House when she was First Lady.

Jackie After O is an exciting and original portrayal of the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis through the lens of one remarkable year, a time of reinvention both personal and public, as she shook the world’s expectations and pursued her dreams in middle age. (Summary provided by It Books.)

About Tina Cassidy

Tina Cassidy, an acclaimed author and journalist, spent most of her career as a reporter and editor at the Boston Globe, where she covered a variety of topics, including business, politics, and fashion. She is also the author of Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and their three sons. (Author info provided by It Books an imprint of HarperCollins.)

Click here to order a copy of Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams from Amazon.

If you are a publisher with a forthcoming book that viewers of Mad Men may enjoy let me know by emailing me at wellreadwife [at] gmail [dot] com.

This is part four of a six part Mad Men inspired series. Click the following links for the other posts in the series:

Part One: Joan Harris reads The Receptionist: An Education At The New Yorker by Jane Groth

Part Two: Betty Draper Francis reads Jack 1939: A Novel by Francine Mathews

Part Three: Peggy Olson reads Sex and The Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown

Part Four: Trudie Campbell reads Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams by Tina Cassidy.

Coming Soon: Megan Draper reads, but you can only watch. Jane Sterling reads The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based On The Tibetan Book Of The Dead by Timothy Leary. As Jane Sterling is the grand finale of this series, that post will be interesting.

FTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams by Tina Cassidy from It Books for review. I receive a small commission from any purchases made by clicking the Amazon links throughout the site.

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Above Photo: Me wearing what I like to refer to as my “Dahmers” or as one of my Twitter friends said my Napoleon Dynamites. I love them, but I have been forbidden to leave the house in them. lol Also, I am sans makeup and wearing a side ponytail. I have clearly lost my mind.

This week has been a super busy week for me both on and off the blog. Here are some links to articles written by me, written about about me, or mention me from around the web:

Blissfully Domestic

I have a side writing gig that I love over at Blissfully Domestic. Here are links to the articles I wrote for the Family/Parenting section this past week:

5 Mother’s Day Projects For Kids
5 Easy Butterfly Crafts For Kids

If you comment on, Tweet or Facebook either of the above links, I will capture a unicorn and present it to you with a bucket of gold.

Posts on The Well-Read Wife From The Past Week

Raindrops Make Me Happy
If You Like Mad Men, You’ll Love Sex and The Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown
Dance Like Everyone Is Watching At All Times
Book Review: Girl Unmoored by Jennifer Gooch Hummer

Mentions On Other Blogs:

Imagination Soup: Best Pinterest Users For Parents
Book’d Out: Stuff On Sunday: My Pinboard
I Am A Reader, Not A Writer: Book Bloggers and Authors on Pinterest
A Muggle’s Magical Book Blog: Find Me on Pinterest!
Joy’s Book Blog: Pinterest – Bloggiesta Mini Challenge
Read In A Single Sitting: Bookish News and Publishing Tidbits
La Gatte Di Via Plinio: Pinterest Per Gli Editori 
As the above article is in Italian, I have no clue what it says. I think it probably says that they like the Pinterest Directory, and I have pretty hair. But that’s just a guess.

All of the above articles linked to the Pinterest Directory. Click here to visit the directory and click here to read a guide for book bloggers using Pinterest I wrote back in January.

If you have linked to me in the past two weeks, let me know so I can add the link. I’m going to start doing link roundups more often.:)

Please Note:

I have cultivated the Pinterest Directory since January of 2012. This has been a lot of hard work on my part keeping the directory updated, making sure no one is left out, etc. Also,  I recently spent $300 having Ninjamatics make new graphics and a button for the directory. I am in the process of having Elan Morgan (AKA Schmutzie) of Ninjamatics redesign my entire site, and the Pinterest Directory is going to play a huge part in that redesign. This will cost a quite large sum of money. Please do not start a Book Bloggers Using Pinterest Directory on your site. Since I started the initial directory in January this has happened a lot. Everyone I spoke to about it was understanding, courteous, and took the directories down. So, I don’t feel the need to name names or anything like that. However, I want people to understand that even if it is not outright idea theft or plagiarism (though I highly suspect it is), it is incredibly shady behavior.

Also, if you “write” an article about how Pinterest can help book bloggers and copy and paste the article I wrote about back in January on your site, that is a little thing called plagiarism. If you paraphrase all of the ideas I wrote about in January that is also plagiarism. I have seen my ideas paraphrased in a few places, and it’s upsetting. I haven’t said anything to the bloggers, because sometimes I’m just too nice. I don’t know if they realize what they’ve done, and I don’t want to start drama. I just hope they read this or have it pointed out to them and at least cite me. I was the first book blogger to write about the potential Pinterest holds for promoting our book blogs.The article was posted on my site in January and syndicated on BlogHer in January as well.  I will not tolerate outright plagiarism or theft of intellectual property.

I hope that didn’t sound too harsh, but it’s disheartening and frustrating to see your ideas all over the place with no acknowledgement whatsoever. Also, a big thank you to everyone who has acknowledged my ideas and thank you to everyone who has linked to the directory. I greatly appreciate it.

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