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Some recent reading ketchup
Feb. 3rd, 2008 07:33 pmBedlam, Bath and Beyond by J.D. Warren - reviewed on Amazon.com here. Not nearly as silly as the title might lead you to believe. More urban fantasy than romance.
Cravings - anthology of 4 novellas in the supernatural romance vein, a couple years old but somehow I missed it when it came out. The Laurell Hamilton is an Anita Blake of the worst sort - gee, should I have sex with Nthaniel? Maybe with Micah and Nathaniel at the same time? Oh, and Damien too? And fantasize about Richard while it's going on? Ick. Completely lacking in any semblence of a plot, and for that matter, completely lacking in any romance. The MaryJanice Davidson story is good - it's a peripheral addition to the Betsy the Vampire Queen series, taking place in between Undead and Unwed and Undead and Unemployed. Now that we have later books in the series, it's sort of eerie to briefly meet Marjorie the Librarian. We also get a peek at the Fiends while they're still living with Sinclair and Betsy:
" 'They're like puppies... they roll in everything.'
'Sure,' Andrea said, humoring the woman. Puppies. Undeniably evil puppies with foul dispositions and the appetites of rabid, starving tigers. All righty. "
Eileen Wilks' "Originally Human" had its amusing moments, and our witch heroine seems like an interesting character. It's always nice to run into an author who can think of an FBI agent being a member of a coven, and a lawyer-sorcerer who is only incidentally a werewolf. The Rebecca York story, "Burning Moon," was different - very much a murder mystery first, supernatural romance second. Werewolf hero, blind psychic heroine. I've already gone ahead and purchased one of the novels in the series that this story is part of - stay tuned.
And a couple Regency romances and knitting books - no surprises there.
We are, incidentally, back home in Balto. Still tons of mail and stuff to catch up on. Trying to see where all my lists are at. Have only read the last couple of days worth of my flist posts, because trying to catch up on a few weeks would be impossible - I'd fall further behind faster.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
squirrel_magnet made it down to Arlington for the last two days of the Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Conference - and came home Saturday night with a new tuba. Our house is a bit small to have two tubas on the living room floor along with several saxophones... it's a very nice tuba; perhaps he will even write his very own post about it.
Our approximate schedule: home in Balto. for all of February; back to Austin for the first week in March, then Balto. for the rest of March and the first two weeks of April; Austin for the last two weeks of April, back to Balto. by April 30 or earlier. Possibly one more trip to Austin after that. The estate sale will be the third or fourth weekend in April; after that, W's house will get listed and sold, and that may require us to be in Austin for the closing. Don't know yet. Anyway, so for February I will attempt to keep current on everything. Ha!
Oh - CRS, The Deep arrived! Thank you, thank you! Googly-eyed glass squid!
Now to go pay some bills.
Cravings - anthology of 4 novellas in the supernatural romance vein, a couple years old but somehow I missed it when it came out. The Laurell Hamilton is an Anita Blake of the worst sort - gee, should I have sex with Nthaniel? Maybe with Micah and Nathaniel at the same time? Oh, and Damien too? And fantasize about Richard while it's going on? Ick. Completely lacking in any semblence of a plot, and for that matter, completely lacking in any romance. The MaryJanice Davidson story is good - it's a peripheral addition to the Betsy the Vampire Queen series, taking place in between Undead and Unwed and Undead and Unemployed. Now that we have later books in the series, it's sort of eerie to briefly meet Marjorie the Librarian. We also get a peek at the Fiends while they're still living with Sinclair and Betsy:
" 'They're like puppies... they roll in everything.'
'Sure,' Andrea said, humoring the woman. Puppies. Undeniably evil puppies with foul dispositions and the appetites of rabid, starving tigers. All righty. "
Eileen Wilks' "Originally Human" had its amusing moments, and our witch heroine seems like an interesting character. It's always nice to run into an author who can think of an FBI agent being a member of a coven, and a lawyer-sorcerer who is only incidentally a werewolf. The Rebecca York story, "Burning Moon," was different - very much a murder mystery first, supernatural romance second. Werewolf hero, blind psychic heroine. I've already gone ahead and purchased one of the novels in the series that this story is part of - stay tuned.
And a couple Regency romances and knitting books - no surprises there.
We are, incidentally, back home in Balto. Still tons of mail and stuff to catch up on. Trying to see where all my lists are at. Have only read the last couple of days worth of my flist posts, because trying to catch up on a few weeks would be impossible - I'd fall further behind faster.
squirrel_magnet made it down to Arlington for the last two days of the Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Conference - and came home Saturday night with a new tuba. Our house is a bit small to have two tubas on the living room floor along with several saxophones... it's a very nice tuba; perhaps he will even write his very own post about it.Our approximate schedule: home in Balto. for all of February; back to Austin for the first week in March, then Balto. for the rest of March and the first two weeks of April; Austin for the last two weeks of April, back to Balto. by April 30 or earlier. Possibly one more trip to Austin after that. The estate sale will be the third or fourth weekend in April; after that, W's house will get listed and sold, and that may require us to be in Austin for the closing. Don't know yet. Anyway, so for February I will attempt to keep current on everything. Ha!
Oh - CRS, The Deep arrived! Thank you, thank you! Googly-eyed glass squid!
Now to go pay some bills.
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