Unraveling Isobel

Unraveling Isobel

Eileen Cook

Isobel’s life is falling apart. Her mom just married some guy she met on the internet only three months before, and is moving them to his sprawling, gothic mansion off the coast of nowhere. Goodbye, best friend. Goodbye, social life. Hello, icky new stepfather, crunchy granola town, and unbelievably good-looking, officially off-limits stepbrother.

But on her first night in her new home, Isobel starts to fear that it isn’t only her life that’s unraveling—her sanity might be giving way too. Because either Isobel is losing her mind, just like her artist father did before her, or she’s seeing ghosts. Either way, Isobel’s fast on her way to being the talk of the town for all the wrong reasons.

母親の再婚で引っ越した先はゴシックな豪邸で私の人生メチャクチャ、そして義理の兄はメチャイケメンで…うんぬん。

そして、そこで彼女はゴーストを見るようになり…。

といった話の、３部作らしいです。

Gemini Bites

Gemini Bites

Patrick Ryan

One of the strangest (and funniest) love triangles ever to hit YA fiction, when a pair of twins (one boy, one girl) both fall for the boy who moves in with them…who may or may not be a vampire.
Judy and Kyle Renneker are sixteen-year-old fraternal twins in a rambling family of nine. They have a prickly history with each other and are, at least from Judy's perspective, constantly in fierce competition. Kyle has recently come out of the closet to his family and feels he might never know what it's like to date a guy. Judy, who has a history of pretending to be something she isn't in order to get what she wants, is pretending to be born-again in order to land a boyfriend who heads his own bible study.


When their parents announce that the family is going to be taking in a fellow student for a month so that he can finish the school year before moving away, both Kyle and Judy can't help but sit up and take notice. Garret Johnson, who is taking temporary residence in the newly finished attic, is a young man who moved into town less than a year ago and who is a mysterious, goth loner . . . and claims to be a vampire. He's not an easy person to get to know by any means, but the twins find him (to varying degrees) both strange and alluring.


ヴァンパイアロマンスもの。
ただ、男女の二卵性双生児とヴァンパイアとのラブトライアングルっていうちょっと珍しいパターンのお話。

Gothic Charm School

Gothic Charm School

Jillian Venters

An essential, fully illustrated guidebook to day-to-day Goth living


There's more to being a Goth than throwing on some black velvet, dyeing your hair, and calling it a day (or a night). How do you dress with morbid flair when going to a job interview? Is there such a thing as growing too old to be a Goth? How do you explain to your grandma that it's not just a phase?


Jillian Venters, a.k.a. "the Lady of the Manners," knows how to be strange and unusual without sacrificing politeness and etiquette. In Gothic Charm School, she offers the quintessential guide to dark decorum for all those who have ever searched for beauty in dark, unexpected places, embraced their individuality, and reveled in decadence . . . and for families and friends who just don't understand.


Jillianによる、ゴスっ子のためのガイドブック。
彼女はNYの墓地でゴスっ子に講義イベントしたりと、素敵なゴスレディーだったりします。

The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites

The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod:

Eighth Grade Bites

Heather Brewer

::シリーズの紹介::

Vlad has to keep his vampire urges under control while dealing with the pressures of middle school.
Thirteen-year-old Vladimir Tod really hates junior high. Bullies harass him, the principal is dogging him, and the girl he likes prefers his best friend. Oh, and Vlad has a secret: His mother was human, but his father was a vampire. With no idea of the extent of his powers, Vlad struggles daily with his blood cravings and his enlarged fangs. When a substitute teacher begins to question him a little too closely, Vlad worries that his cover is about to be blown. But then he faces a much bigger problem: He’s being hunted by a vampire killer.






母に人間、父にヴァンアパイアを持つハーフヴァンパイアの少年Vladの学校生活の１冊目、８年生編目。

読了。

::Review::

ハイスクール USA ～アメリカ学園映画のすべて～

ハイスクール USA ～アメリカ学園映画のすべて～

長谷川　町蔵

山崎　まどか

学園映画はアメリカ社会そのもの! 終わらない放課後のダイナーで喋り尽くした、「学園映画」の魅力のすべて。重要作品、監督や脚本家、常連俳優、音楽、文学、スポーツのルール、宗教までを詳しく解説。








学園映画を網羅した解説本。

::Review::

Paint it Black

Paint it Black

Voltaire

Home decorating will never be the same. Close your curtains! Throw away your summery linens! Forget about those white eyelet pillow covers! And for Goth's sake, buy some black lights! Voltaire is here to help you with your home decorating dilemmas, guide you through the hardware stores and decorating centers (which are so difficult for Goths to navigate), and lay it all out on the line about which shade of black goes with which shade of black. Who knows?! One day soon he might have his own decorating line at a discount store. In this world of pastels and plaids, it's so hard for Goths to find anything aesthetically appealing. You go in search of Edward Gorey and wind up with an eyeful of Eddie Bauer. With Voltaire's Paint It Black you can turn the unbearably mundane into the delightfully macabre with little more than a touch of creativity and a can of black spray paint.

これも『What is Goth?』と同じデザインの本で、前書『What is Goth?』がゴス入門ならば、こちらは、その少し発展バージョンの、ゴスライフスタイルの入門書。

DIYインテリアや部屋のリフォームからクッキング、果てはゴス結婚式まで、色々紹介しています。