A Great Book

I read a new book several days ago. The book is Eternal Seduction, a dark, paranormal, vampire story and the first in a series of related paranormals. The author, Jennifer Turner, self published this book and after reading the first few chapters on her website, I was hooked. If you are interested, her website is The Darkness Within
I enjoyed Eternal Seduction as well as any book I've read lately. The "heroine", Logan, starts out as a homeless drug addict. Definitely not heroine material, and from what I understand, this is the reason the book was self-published by Jen. No agent wanted a lead character like Logan and Jen stuck to her guns and kept Logan at the cost of an agent. I have to say, having a character/love interest who wasn't practically a virgin, or one who's only flaw seemed to be stubbornness was refreshing. I actually liked Logan from the beginning, even with her less-than-perfect life.
Our hunky, brooding vampire is Kerestyan, the Lord of New York, and he is faced with the problem of what to do with Logan who has been aware of vampires for several months. And that's a definite problem when you are trying to keep vamps a secret from the human population.
You can also read a great interview with Jen at Bitten By Books and learn a little bit about Jen and her wonderful book.

Saturday After Thanksgiving

I took the day off yesterday. As in "Black Friday". I did do some shopping but I didn't step one foot out of the house. I'm not crazy, after all. There is nothing I wanted enough to fight those crazy people. I'm just not a "stand in line at 4 a.m. to get the widget for $40 less". I don't know that I would stand in line, in the cold, at that time of the morning to get a FREE $40 widget. I guess I just don't have the fighter/shopper gene or something. On-line shopping is more my speed.
After all, I try to get Bill to go to the grocery store for me because he likes to go shopping and I hate it. Which reminds me. I have to buy some groceries today. Yuck. I also need to go to Hobby Lobby and buy some gift bags (because I'm too lazy to do a lot of Christmas present wrapping) and a few boxes (because I do have to wrap a few presents that won't work in a gift bag).
I usually put up my Christmas tree on Thanksgiving Day or that weekend. Well, I'm not the least bit interested in putting up the tree this year. If Kimmie and the family weren't going to be here the day after Christmas, I would probably go with the little fiber optic tree. Maybe I will anyway. I guess I need to start watching all the Christmas shows to get out of "Scrooge mode".

Debbie's Dream

Since I have a government job, I get to take a day off on holidays and today is Veteran's Day so I'm home. I did go to work this morning but we didn't get any mail like I though we would. So after a few minutes I came back home. Not that I mind not working, but twice as much work tomorrow morning won't be fun. But I guess I'll live.
I did a little bit of online Christmas shopping today that consisted mainly of buying Transformers. I have 2 grandsons and 3 great-nephews. So no Barbies and hairbows on those Christmas lists.
A few days ago, my friend Debbie stopped me to tell me about this dream she had that I was in. She dreamed that I set us up with two young, hunky men. She said they were really hot and had buff bodies. It seems that we were on a bus with our hunky young men... so I asked Debbie, "We have two young hunks and we were on a bus??? What, you couldn't have us in a Porsche or something?" Debbie said that we were on some sort of chartered bus with a group so I guess we can forgo the Porsche for now. Debbie's man gave her a kiss that "made her toes curl" (that's a direct quote from Deb). I told her that she had been reading waaaaay too many romance novels. She said those two hunky guys were really in to us but unfortunately, she woke up and this dream was cut short. I looked at her and said, "Gee, you couldn't have slept a little bit longer? Because I know that two middle-aged, overweight women are what all young, hunky men want." I suppose some people would call me sarcastic. Imagine.

Reece's Pic

This is a great photo of Reece and Dad's legs. LOL
Jennifer is a wonderful photographer.
Here is her blog site, Framing Memories
The photo is about half way down the page. A few photos under the one of Mike (aka Dad) and a VERY pregnant Kimmie (aka Mom). The wedding (not Kim's and Mike's LOL) was less than a week before Aiden was born by C-section.

Marjorie M. Liu

I can't mention books without mentioning the website of one of my favorite authors, Marjorie M Liu. The only thing is that I've read all of her books except the Marvel Comics NYX and I expect to buy those soon. Her Dirk and Steele series is fantastic. You can find the books on her "Books" page, and you can also check out Roland's Desk and learn about the characters (primary and secondary) in the books. I hope that more Dirk and Steele books come along although I do understand that it takes the author slightly more time than the 4-5 hours it takes me to read those books.
I think what I enjoy the most about Marjorie's novels is that you don't have the graphic sex that is in the majority of paranormal reads. I'm not a prude by any means, but heck, you can only read about so many people having fantastic sex (in detail) and to be told that you will never come close to experiencing that kind of mind-blowing sex unless you are a vampire's life mate. And I never knew there were so many women and men that were screamers. Anyway, these books are fantastic and half the pages are not porn.

Aiden - Boo at the Zoo

Deputy Aiden, trying to eat his hands through his blanket while we try to keep him warm. But a deputy is tough! I love this black and white photo. His mom took this one.

Reece - Boo at the Zoo

Sheriff Reece at Boo at the Zoo. His hand is on his gun and he's ready for the bad guys. Or the candy. He's such an independent little man. I think his Mom took this photo, too. Obviously, Mom takes better pictures than Nana.

Crimson City

I don't seem to pass by a paranormal paperback book without buying it, and I can't seem to read a book that I enjoy that is part of a series without reading the entire series. Well, I just finished the Crimson City book series and I thought it was great. I actually read them out of order just a tiny bit. I was devouring the books by Marjorie M. Liu and I read "A Taste of Crimson" and that's what made me want to read the entire series. Marjorie Liu and Liz Maverick were my favorite authors in the series and like everyone else, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Liz gives us the final story (Jill and Marius). It looks like I'll be reading all of Liz Maverick's books now.
Who knew that there were so many paranormal authors? Since I gave up eBay (because it has become such a pain in the rear) I've read hundreds of books, mainly paranormals.