Okay, so this week I found out my several year shapeshifter binge wasn’t over when I splurged on several titles as Samhain that have that theme. Do you see me worried? No, you do not. 
One set of stories I picked up is introduced thusly, according to a post entitled Dreamy Steamy Shape-shifters:
What if you had a shot at just one wild night with the man of your dreams, the one you always thought was out of reach? What would happen if a dream lover you thought was nothing more than a nocturnal fantasy showed up in real life? What if you found out the guy you’d been dreaming about since you were sixteen had been dreaming about you all along?
As to the individual stories, I’m still working my way through them. Yeah, they’re short but I’ve been busy. Staying out of trouble online. Keeping up with the daily news. Whatever. Anyway.
- Serengeti Heat – I liked this one. The “ugly duckling” lioness heroine discovering the strengths she already had played very well for me.
- Kiss and Kin – While I generally like “old friends become lovers” stories, I’m not sure that’s what this one was. I enjoyed it but not as much as SH.
- The Man of Her Dreams – This is the one I’m just getting ready to read. It features a horse shifter. I think. I’ve only run across one of those so this should be interesting.
June 26th, 2009
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Recently I realized I had collected several things related to Garfield and it got me curious enough to check for how long the, um, happy cat has been around. Did you know he’s been gracing our lives since June 19, 1978?
I didn’t. Wow. I knew I’d loved that cantankerous cat for along time but, still, wow. So, what do I have in my personal Garfield stash?
- Metallic picture that looks more like it belongs in a tavern than anywhere else - I’m honestly not sure how long I’ve had this one. Or where exactly I got it. But I love it and it’s been hanging over my desk for years. He has such a satisfied expression on his face that you just know he has to have been up to something. Or into some lasagna.
- A “Some people have no respect for slow risers” poster with the perpetually perky Odie giving grumpy Garfield a big slurpy wake-up call that only a dog can do while the big orange furball is still half asleep in his bed, which doesn’t make for a happy cat (what does with Garfield?) - that poster struck a cord with me for some odd reason ;), which is why I’ve hung onto it all these years. I think I got it when we were in college. (I’d scan it but it’s way too big for my scanner)
- “I’m roadkill on the information superhighway” bookmark
- “Don’t Ask” bookmark (Both gotten in the obvious way, i.e, book shopping, naturally.)
- Garfield head eraser, still in the package - I suspect this one was a stocking stuffer or a gift from one of my kids at one point
- Garfield at large: His first book - a graphic novel collection from the early years of Garfield comics and well worth the read, if just to put everything into perspective
- Garfield bigger than life: His third book - more of the same and reminds me that I need to get more of these because there’s a whole bunch of them out now
- “Use your friends wisely” mug - picked this one up just a couple of months ago at yard sale or some such, which is what got me started wondering what all I had
And the circle is complete. Well, not quite. I did find one other thing while scrounging around, The Official Website of Garfield & Friends, a pretty neat site but a little warning here that it’s graphic intensive and has a loud music score that plays the second you arrive. Otherwise, have fun.
June 19th, 2009
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So, I’m laughing over my son’s sharing of losing a book only to discover it inside the bookcover he was supposedly reading when my daughter admits she’s recently done the same thing. Made me realize two things at once.
One, I immediately stop worrying about my own memory.
Two, I’ve definitely passed on that reading gene to the next generation.
Although, I did gently suggest that they might both want to consider broadening their reading tastes to include more authors/books to rotate through in order to avoid the problem in the future. They have a long way to go to catch up, you know. Snicker.
November 21st, 2008
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So, I’m reading a new ebook called Dragon Actually over the weekend and really enjoying it. I mean laughing and giggling my way through it and not in a bad way. Then it occurs to me that I know these characters.
I’m sitting there happily reading along and suddenly absolutely sure I do know this wacky family of dragon shifters. Only I’m scratching my head trying to figure out whether I’ve read this specific story before or not. I mean it was just weird. Because I knew I hadn’t read the author before.
Or so I thought.
Anyway I kept reading. And then it hit me. I really did know the characters. Those exact characters. Just not the story. I went straight to my eBookwise Librarian and pulled out the other book that they’d appeared in by another author The Distressing Damsel by Shelly Laurenston, which I might add I also giggled my way through.
At least I thought it was another author, until I checked Laurenston’s site and whatdaya know? Apparenly, she’s rewriting/rereleasing these old dragon stories under this new name at a new publishing house. The rerelease of the second book as About A Dragon comes out in December ‘08. And with print and ebook versions, no less. Joy. 
Guess what’s going on my calendar?
November 11th, 2008
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About a year, maybe more ago, I had an idea of trying to do something to more or less catalog all the shifter books I’d been reading during my “shifter phase” as I was so fondly calling it at that time. Catalog and more or less dedicate the site to talking about them. Well, apparently I’m still in that phase and going strong. Life, however, threw me a curve and I didn’t quite get around to getting them all catalogued.
So, anyway, the number of books I have along those lines has now gotten completely and totally unmanageable. To the point that I’m currently in the middle of a serious project off-line attempting to get them all cataloged into my Readerware database. It wouldn’t be that difficult if most of them weren’t electronic and not easily automatically entered into the program.
The biggest problem isn’t entering them initially, however, but figuring out how to fill out the rest of the information. I don’t mean the basic book information. I mean the specifics of interest to myself related to both the shifter sub-genre and the fact that most of them are erotic romances. Do you realize how little specific information is available pre-purchase, even from review or even point of purchase sites? Have you ever bought a book and thought you were getting one thing and actually got something completely different? Somehow, simply saying it’s sizzling just doesn’t cut it. ;p When one is talking erotic romances in today’s market, that can mean a lot of things.
More on all this as I work through cataloging and blogging in earnest.
November 7th, 2008
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