Not What They Used To Be, Or I’m So Vanilla
I was exploring Amazon.com when I noticed that their bestselling books in the science fiction and fantasy genre is a young adult series involving vampires. Vampires. I remember young adult books. I used to read them when I was, well, a young adult. I don’t seem to remember vampires being involved. Then again, I used to read stuff by Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, and Ellen Conford. They wrote funny, sweet, or sometimes romantic books that dealt with the subject of…