Kimberly

    Gender: Female
    Location: Tennessee, USA
    Quote: Live people ignore the strange and unusual . . .I myself am strange and unusual. -Lydia, from the movie Beetlejuice
    Relationship: Committed Relationship
    Children: Don't Know
    Body Type: Average
    Height: 5'7"
    Religion: Christian - other
    Ethnicity: Black / African descent
    About Me: I am the owner of Viridian Books, an online bookstore for the strange and unusual reader. My specialties are: sci-fi and fantasy, steampunk, gothic, horror, faerie/fae, history, poetry, drama, and Shakespeare. I am also a proud bibliophile and would much rather spend my hours reading than playing video games or watching TV. Books are portals into another world, time frame, country, or another street within your own city! I wear many hats and refuse to be labeled; everything interests me! I am a believer in the Fae and would dare anyone to try dispute that! Absinthe Dreams to you all. . .
    Music: Goth/Industrial, Dark Cabaret, French Chanson, Jazz, Classical, Frank Sinatra, Swing, Folk, Singer/Songwriter, Womyn's Music, World Music
    Movies: The Last Emperor, Dark City, Faerie Tale, Yellow Submarine, Hellraiser, Spirited Away, Misery, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Eyes Wide Shut, All Woody Allen Films, Lord of the Rings, the entire Star Wars Epic, Pitch Black, Chronicles of Riddick, Dolores Claiborne, Sleepy Hollow, Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland (Disney), Howard's End, Sense and Sensibility, Fight Club, House of Sand and Fog, Series of Unfortunate Events, Magnolia, Vanilla Sky, Waking Life, From Hell, Labrynth, The Dark Crystal, Neverending Story, all of the Harry Potter movies, Splash, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, Quills, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: Nemesis, all of the Indiana Jones movies, Nosferatu, An American Werewolf in London, Underworld, Middlemarch, The Colour Purple, The Joy Luck Club, The Constant Gardener, Memoirs of a Geisha, Raise the Red Lanter, Curse of the Golden Flower and many, many more!
    TV: Aeon Flux
    Books: All right, here we go! anything by: Elizabeth George, Ian McEwan, Dan Simmons, Michelle West, China Mieville, Neil Gaiman, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, JRR Tolkien, Paulo Coehlo, Clive Barker, Graham Joyce, Amy Tan, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Michael Crichton, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Harris, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Irving, Jonathan Santlofer, Tennessee Williams, TC Boyle, Carl Hiaasen, Ethan Hawke, Margaret Atwood, Caleb Carr, Terry Brooks, David Eddings, Stephen King, Alice Hoffman, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Anne Perry, Anne Rice, Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine, Voltaire (both goth singer and philosopher), JK Rowling, Laura Joh Rowland, Charles de Lint, Storm Constantine, Marquis de Sade, George RR Martin, Jim Thompson, Edward Gorey, Paco Alhgren, the Bronte sisters, Jane Austen, Yukio Mishima, Allison Lurie, Iris Murdoch, Susanna Clarke, Harlan Coben, Sandra Cisneros, David B. Coe, and many, many, many others!!!
    Likes: people who are unique,people who read books,libraries, honesty
    Dislikes: arrogance, marshmallow PEEPS. people who are too afraid to be true to themselves, people who use guilt trips in order to get their own way, people who repress their creativity, people who make fun of others simply because they are different
    Hobbies: reading, writing poetry and stories, traveling, spending time with friends, trying out new recipes, making new friends
    Vices: procrastination
    Virtues: lifelong friend, honest, down to earth (what you see is what you get!)
    Heroes: any writer and poet who is alive or dead

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    Viridian Books Website

    Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 06:47 AM [General]

    Greetings!!!


    The website for Viridian Books is undergoing a major facelift but that does not mean you can't see the new changes thus far.

    Go to: www.viridianbooks.com and see what changes have been made so far. If you have any suggestions, PLEASE make them. All information is good information and we welcome change!

    Make 2008 the Year of the Viridian!


    Absinthe Dreams,

    Kimberly
    Goth Librarian

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    Viridian Books UPDATE

    Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 06:28 AM [General]

    Greetings!

     

     

    Five new books have been posted on our EBAY site! Copy and paste or click on the link below to see what new literary goodies we have in store!

     

    http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZviridianbooks

     

    Absinthe Dreams,

     

    Kimberly

    Goth Librarian

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    10 June 2008

    Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 06:06 AM [General]

    It is raining now. I can feel the drops

    Sliding across my window, giving me the sign

    That Nature is hard at work.

    I can time the drops, here and there, slow, fast,

    Unyielding in their relentless drive

    To seek those who still believe.

    I want to hide under blankets and just watch

    But they have more of a role for me than that.

    They want me nearer, closer, touching the velvet

    To parade across my forehead, anointing me

    To remind me of my times before.

    God must surely be happy, I think,

    To allow such a simple act to manifest.

    Manifest Destiny, I once heard,

    Cried over rooftops and subways, yelled by people

    Who wanted a better life, one with the raindrops.

    I want to share it with good friends, people who are

    Not afraid anymore, and yes, they do exist.

    I no longer want to be afraid of what will naturally

    Happen to me, for I have witnessed my own demise.

    Give me a chance to redeem myself and I shall not disobey you.

    No slander can ever come from my mouth, only raindrops

    Silently falling to the ground, acid tearing away

    At what was once pure and tame, not laced with licorice

    And fish scales collected by the dead.

    This time will be my time, to slide along my own future with the rain,

    To cleanse the Earth and its inhabitants.

    A word shall come from me and I will make it better

    For us all, denying the very essence of what it means, what it means

    To be of the rain, in the rain, and without the rain.

    Give me the strength to finally see.

     

    10 June 2008

     

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    Viridian Books UPDATE

    Friday, June 6, 2008, 03:25 PM [General]

    Greetings!

    Five new books have been posted on our E-BAY site! Click on the link below:

    Viridian Books' EBAY site

    If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to: info@viridianbooks.com


    Absinthe Dreams,


    Kimberly
    Goth Librarian

     


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    Bittersweet Sylvanus - a poem

    Thursday, May 29, 2008, 05:24 AM [General]

    Bittersweet Sylvanus

     

    There is a river flowing beside my footprints

    Made of the tears of those who never truly got over their faults.

    A bittersweet river made for a bittersweet time

    To reflect what others feel without a waste of words.

    From time to time, I help in the construction,

    Forcing the thorns up my throat and out my mouth. A season

    Of dying leaves prepared to occupy the river

    Are of the utmost importance; the leaves are draped in spiders’

    Dreams and rotting breath.

    A cyclical force churns the river,

     Giving it animation where Death was once King.

    Slivers of rock adorn the river, adding substance

    To another year, perhaps.

    Dryads dance to an inner song, teasing me of my flesh prison;

    It is never my fault. They think the river

    Is a chance of a new life, a chance beyond their wooden prisons.

    So, we are prisoners, small and immense, trapped but in favour

    With one another, giving homage to the waters

    Flowing freely, wishing us its own success. Cool breezes

    Flow backward, distant and careless, succeeding in areas

    When there were none to give or win. Despite all of this,

    Despite my own words that I swore I would never use, this river gives me

    A strange hope through my own fingers, typing furiously away

    To make sure that others will understand me. My fingers, filled to the brim

    With tears, bittersweet, remember, are fast as they pour forth

    My own confession. The Rapture comes slowly, ticking away

    As I sit and now watch this saline river sluggishly churns by me, offering no

    Splashes on my feet. No baptism for me for I no longer need it.

    I was already baptized, I tell the river, making clear that it understands me.

    I was already baptized.

    This, then, is a new experience.

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    Thank you for your friendship!!!!!! :)
    peace, beauty, love and light,
    Fey

    Enchanting Lady Fey
    February 29, 2008
    12:28 PM CST

    Thank you for inviting me as a friend... I have been using Stephanie's Healing Fairy, the grace and the beauty....it reminds me of the shrines to 'Mary' in Ireland, you find them in the most unusual places, sometimes along the main roads, sometimes along a track, but they are visited and candles are lit, a place to sit and be, to reflect and offer prayers...
    May your wishes come true!
    xxx

    lesley
    February 07, 2008
    06:23 PM CST

    Hello Kimberly, thank you for being part of the EF community, I love reading your blogs and learning more about your wonderful literary life. I really hope that this reflective time will help to encourage your creativity to come through soon as I am sure you are a great writer... This also comes with magical blessings for your birthday last week, my wish was for you to have the time to read as much as you wanted! I am so happy that you love dear Stephanie's beautiful work, we are very blessed to have her gentle company here.
    To inspiration...

    Be
    February 07, 2008
    07:59 AM CST

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