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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.Read More →

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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 hitRead More →

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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 inRead More →

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Well, almost done. As you can see, I have the blog itself moved but the main part of the site is down. I’m in the process of working with tech support to get the new program for it loaded. That should be in place within the next day or so and then I’ll start playing with it. I hope. So I’m going to start posting again. For the time being, I’ve renamed the blog part of the site to Bev’s Notes, the name I used back on Blogger a couple of years ago. There is method to my madness, I promise. 😉 One of theRead More →

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I almost didn’t post this but decided to go on and let everyone know just in case there were some still coming by. In a few days, it may appear that this blog will disappear. It will still be here but I’m moving it to a lower level on the site so that I can do some remodeling of the upper levels with a different program. At present, I’m not sure if I’m going to keep my present blog archive as a WordPress one or incorporate it within the new stuff on the site, so I can’t give you any redirect information yet. Just keep checking backRead More →

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I feel like I’ve been asleep for a week. Oh, wait, I think I have. Well, most of it. I’ve had that head cold “thing” that’s been going around. Mark got it around Christmas and then Amy started with the sniffles on New Years Eve right on schedule. I thought it was going to skip over me but I started feeling yucky last Friday night and by Saturday I was barely able to breath. I hate that feeling. Told both kids and the ex I was going to disown them all for gifting me with it. (Him because they were his kids, you know. Guilt byRead More →

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So has everyone recovered from the holidays yet? I think I have. What’s that old saying about a new year, a new attitude? Can’t remember it exactly but that’s what I feel like in regards to blogging, at any rate. And that’s sort of why I’ve waited until now to poke my head back up out of the sand. I’ve definitely decided I’m making some changes in the way I do things here. Major changes. I’ve already changed the look of things – although it’s been so long since I last posted that you may not even remember how it looked last. I’m not even sureRead More →

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I saw a book in the grocery story yesterday and passed on it then. Now, I’m wondering if I’m going to have to rethink that after doing some online research. It was by an author I’ve read and enjoyed in the past, true – Kathleen Nance. Really liked her Olympian and Djinn books. Phoenix Unrisen is labeled romantic suspense, though, and so I paused before picking it up. I’m not real hot on that nowadays. Then when I looked Phoenix Unrisen up on Amazon a little while ago, bells started going off because the names mentioned in the descriptions sounded familiar. That didn’t click yesterday. So, IRead More →

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Since I’m having so much trouble getting around to talking about what I’m reading – and I’m still not really in the mood to talk about it yet – I thought I’d post something about a couple of the new TV series I’ve checked out so far this fall.   I am definitely hooked on the new Flash Gordon series. That one caught me completely by surprise. I mean I knew I was going to check it out, but I really didn’t expect to like it. I do. A lot. It’s quirky and off-beat. Humorous and definitely doesn’t take itself seriously. Something just for the fun of it. Exactly whatRead More →

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The first thing I found out Monday was that Robert Jordan, author of The Wheel of Time fantasy/science fiction series, had died. Bummer. Especially for my son, who is a such big fan. He’s actually met the man several times at signings so he’s been rather depressed about it all week. (I’d link to it but I’d misplaced the report I had saved, so just do a search for around last Sunday on that name and you should get something.) On the flip side, I got the message that Linnea Sinclair is doing an interview with Admiral Branden Kel-Paten and is asking for readers to submit questions.Read More →

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As you can see, I’m playing around with a new theme. I’m trying to decide between two actually, but I may go back to the old one so don’t get comfortable. Even then, I’m still going to be tweaking some things having to do with the layout of things around here because I’m definitely making some changes. Just playing around with some ideas at the moment . . . so stay tuned to see what happens. 😉Read More →

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To see how much I can babble in fifteen minutes, that is. I’ve gotten so out of practice at blogging that I figured the only way I was going to get back into the groove was to just dive in and do it. 😉 So, I’m just going to start posting whenever the mood strikes in fifteen minute spurts, no goals, just free-form thoughts until I get tired of that. You know what the really odd thing is? I never, ever liked to write in a diary when I was younger so why in the world blogging appeals to me in the first place I haveRead More →

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Either that or I’ve completely and totally imagined reading it. That last one worries me the most since I really enjoyed it. I think. I would know for sure if I could find it. I’m just having a difficult time believing my imagination was that good. Sigh. I’ve been searching for it for the last two days and coming up dry. I believe it was an ebook but I haven’t found it anywhere in my files, eBookwise or otherwise. I haven’t even found any evidence that I ever bought it from any ebook source. Of course, that would be easier to do if I could actually rememberRead More →

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If I were to post the summary of a book without any indication of how I felt about the book, would people consider that a review? Sounds like a simple question doesn’t it but every time I think about it, I have to wonder. And if they will, then why not just dive in and go the whole way. The thing is that it’s really started to bother me that I’ve run across some books lately, mainly all those shifter ebooks I’ve been reading over the last year, that no one else is even talking about. So, I can choose to do simply commentary on them orRead More →