A bit late, Teaser Tuesday

It's one of my boys' birthday (on Wednesday), but since he has to work that night, we celebrated his b-day on Tuesday....which meant the sis, the mom and dad (that would be me and the hubby) and two of the girlfriends and niece had dinner together while b-day boy and big brother were out getting a tattoo that was supposed to take just a couple hours; yet it ended up taking four hours long. Whatever - my granddaughter and I didn't wait to get into the cake...It was red velvet cake and it was getting later and later. So we ate some! :) B-day-Boy should have been here. LOL - they finally got here, ate their dinner and we served up the remaining cake. heehee I have to admit, I'm a little jealous about the tattoo though...

Now the night is over, everyone is out partying except the elders (us again) and the grandchild who ended up spending the night with us. This is nice because I didn't get her this weekend and I missed her. Although one of the side effects of not having her over the weekend, was that I had a lot more attention from my grandson. Usually they play together, and he doesn't want much to do with me, because I'm always making him blow his nose, wash his mouth and face, put his socks on, etc...but this last weekend I got so many spontaneous hugs from him that I was wondering if it was a doppelganger. :)

It is now time for my late Teaser Tuesday. I almost wasn't going to do it, but then ....well - here we are! Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB of ShouldBeReading and full guidelines are at her site.

This week, I'm posting two teasers

I'm reading three books - haven't yet focused on one of them yet - it's a side effect from my reading marathon of last week - I was so very focused on the last four Jill Kismet books that it's kind of hard to focus on anything else right now.

Trance by Kelly Meding (1st in new series)

page 15:

'Having superpowers rudely restored after a fifteen year disruption is a lot like childbirth; painful, beautiful, messy, and with lots of screaming. Unlike childbirth, superpower restoration was an event I just didn't see coming. I thought it was heartburn.'

Deadworld by J.N. Duncan

page 36:

'Jackie stared at the picture. It was the spitting image of Nick Anderson. "Wait a sec, that can't be right. That the same guy?" '

That's all I have tonight.....more later (more of what, I'm not sure, but more of something!)

I leave you with.....VAMPIRE CAT!

Rainy Monday rolls around....

It's entirely possible that I'm becoming a bit obsessed with LOLCatz, but just look .... how can anyone help it? My three captions...(I'm not as inspired as some are)
it may be rainy, and a Monday... that doesn't mean we can't enjoy it! except for the dreary clouds, the wet rain (is there any other kind, but wet?) and the achy bones and muscles. But I did get a lot of reading done!

Time again for our favorite weekly blog/book meme - It's Monday, What Are You Reading? Hosted by Sheila of Book Journey.....

current reads:

for some reason, I'm not very excited about either of these....yet. Probably because I just finished a marathong reading of four books from a very well written series.

Whatever the reason, for some reason I've started with the third in a SciFi series (Kris Longknife, Defiant) by Mike Shepherd. It's okay, just not a commanding a read as a few other SciFi books I've read - Yet - but then I did just finish Saintcrow novels. Maybe I should find the first and start with that one. I also just started Deadworld by J.N. Duncan and even though I've barely started in on the third chapter, it's not grabbing my attention. Which is a shame, because it sounds interesting and just look at the cool and sexy woman with the huge....gun. LOL - Should be good, right? Except it's hard to picture an FBI agent wearing stilletto boots and chichi tank top like that, nevermind that I rarely see any police type women stretching along a building like that......Still like the cover though. I'm hoping that I end up liking this novel, I see that sequels are out - or at least book two is out, and book three most likely is coming.
just finished:
This is most likely why I'm not getting into the current reads. I've read four of the Jill Kismet series,** back to back - taking time out only to review Redemption Alley. Other than that review, I seriously went from the ending of one to the next. The only problem I had with this type of marathon reading is finding a couple of phrases or descriptions repeated in a couple of the books, but really - compared to the enjoyment factor that's small, even micro potatoes, right? Yep!

Flesh Circus, Heaven's Spite and finally ending the series with Angel Town....oh man, what a blast...literally. I should know better than to try to read other paranormal, or urban fantasy reads after reading a fave author, especially after reading four in a row from a fave author. After that, unless there's another fave author already lined up for reading, other books just kind of fade in comparison. It's like drinking fresh strawberry or cherry juice, then trying a sip of water. It's like eating a wonderful cheesecake and then taking a bit of a soda cracker. It's like spending a weekend with your grandchildren and then having a quiet day to yourself..(wait, that's actually a good thing, sometimes - haha). Whatever, I'm sure you get my point. I should be looking for a palate cleansing non urban fantasy or non sci fi book. It's the only way.
I believe I've just talked myself out of my current reads....nah - I'm going to concentrate on the Kris Longknife novel, even if it is the third. There's not a lot of info-dumping going on, so that's all good.

I found this pic on this page, is themed as a psych case study - go read it, it's pretty good
**a little grandchild note here - look at the covers of the Jill Kismet novels, and you'll see that Jill is represented with lines and a very white face, body. I noticed on the back of one of my Kismet novels, that Jills face had suddenly became very.....tanned. Her face was carefully colored in with a light brown marker....Since my grandson was the only person under 18 around the house this weekend, I asked him. He's three years old, by the way.

Me - Elliott, did you happen to color on grandma's book?

Elliott - yes. I made her pretty for you.

Me-....umm, thanks. (it was a pretty good job for a three year old - he stayed in the lines.) Oh boy! At least he did it for me, right? :)