I've discovered Nancy Warren! I like her quite a lot.

Recent reads:

1. The One I Want, by Nancy Warren
2. Indulge, by Nancy Warren
3. British Bad Boys, by Nancy Warren
4. The fourth Jaz Parks book by Jennifer Rardin (something something Bite. One More Bite, perhaps?)
5. Turn Left at Sanity, by Nancy Warren
6. Holly, by Jude Deveraux (the longer the Taggart/Montgomery series go on, the weaker the books feel. This is sad, because the earlier ones were absolutely amazing)
7. Magic and the Modern Girl (Jane Madison 03) by Mindy Klasky
8. Goddess of the Sea, by P.C. Cast
   

Recent reads:

• 1-13 of the Alex Cross series by James Patterson (they're so addictive!)


• Books 1-2 of the Silver Dragons series by Katie MacAlister

Almost done with the second book, and not sure what I'll be reading next. Maybe I'll just pick at random.

Just finished The Vampire Shrink (evidently the first in a series?) by Linda Hilburn. Liked it, but it's not one of my favorites. The vampires are too magical; I think when you give the supernatural characters too many abilities, it makes them too perfect, too unbeatable.

Took a break and decided to start rereading the Alex Cross series by James Patterson. I read the first five or six books years ago, and then got away from the series (and I will never forgive him for that absolutely terrible Sundays at Tiffany's. It was one of the silliest books I've read in years). Now that I'm older, the series seems to have lost its luster; some of the wording seems a little trite. Almost as if it was meant to be for a younger audience and then he decided to go ahead and make it for adults. I mean, really, how many times do you need to write "cool beans" in internal monologue? I'm not having much luck with books today! Maybe I'll go read a Mary Higgins Clark.

Just finished The Mistress, by Susan Wiggs. I always love her books (The Charm School was great). I keep bouncing between a few other books, so technically I'm reading three books at once.

Just finished the third book in Richelle Mead's Succubus series (Succubus Dreams); I think my new kink is books about hell-related entities, since right after that I started the first book in Jackie Kessler's Hell On Earth series (Hell's Belles, which is also about a succubus). Richelle Mead is always an interesting read, so I'll probably swing by and read Storm Born next before going back to my biographies.

edit: Gave up on Hell's Belles about 1/4 of the way in. I have a strong dislike for books that talk about bodily fluids (except blood; I don't care about blood) and people were spitting way too much for my liking. I have never really seen the need for excessive talk about saliva to point out how icky your characters are. Moved on to the fourth Jaz Parks book instead.

playing catch-up

1. D is for Deadbeat and E is for Evidence. Loved them both, although they both felt a little slower to me.  Possibly was distracted by television.  I'll reread them at a later time.
2. Captive of My Desires (Malory family 08) by Johanna Lindsay, and No Choice But Seduction (sequel to The Heir or whatever it was called). I don't like how in the sequel, the villain becomes the hero only by magically explaining that everyone else was wrong about what a bitch she was! Too convenient.
3. Mr. Cavendish, I Presume (Two Dukes of Wyndham 01) by Julia Quinn.  I always love a Julia Quinn, and this one's no exception.  I think it might take place at the same time as the sequel, only from different points of view, so I'm eager to finish this one and get to the next.
4. Also listening to On The Edge by Richard Hammond. He's got a great sense of humor, and of course, he's great at narrating, so it's a very good read. Listen? Something like that.
   

how you can help with the apocalypse (yes, it's book-related)

Pam Noles is sending up a call for help:

A
10th-grade teacher in Los Angeles is trying to raise $642 to purchase
35 copies of Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" for his classroom
for a unit he teaches on dystopias. POST! APOCALYPTIC!<oop. sorry.
two fave words when together and all that..>
The teacher wants to
diversify the literature his multicultural students are presented with
for study. The school is a magnet focused on music and the humanities.
It has a majority minority population (75% are Latino or black) and
over 1/2 of the student body qualify for free or reduced lunch. So he's
taking this approach because resources are an issue. The school also
has quite an interesting list of clubs, including Anime, SciFi, Opera
and something to do with snow.
<For the record, it's October and the last couple of days it's been in the 90s around here. yay!>
I took down the first version of this blog a while ago, but my very first post on that very first day typed even while wondering what do you do with a blog, exactly? was comprised of her words, and from the book he's trying to fundraise for.
Please spread the word and donate whatever you can.
I mean hey, the economy is in meltdown and there are wars without end.
What better way to prepare these kids for the coming End Times! We
geeks already have a fictional roadmap/library to to help us through
what's coming! Share the knowledge!