Thought Patterns

I've been reading a lot lately and enjoying most of the books.

One of Lorna's co-workers, Patti, loaned us Stephanie Meyer's books
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse

She also just loaned us the last book, Breaking Dawn. I've not read it yet, but Lorna did. I'm not so sure I like them but I did want to see how each book ended. They are really drawn out monster books, basically. Far too much angst (a lot of it unnecessary) for my tastes. And some of the science is wrong, which bothers me the most, I think. (spoiler alert: The werewolf says he has a regular body temp of 108F. Impossible. He may be a werewolf but he still has a human body and it can't live at that high a temp. It was silly of her to make it that high.)

The Lesbian Fiction Forum had a challenge where we read a book in a genre we either don't like or rarely read. The next two challenges we all read the same book.

Away From the Dawn by Kate Sweeney (horror/erotica)
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson (a science fiction-slash-fantasy)
Hotel Liaison by JLee Meyer (romance) - this is the current one
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith - up next

I've also read:
Something to Be Thankful For by Carrie Carr (romance)
Merker's Outpost by I. Christie (SF)
Broken Wings (funny as heck with serious undertones) by L-J Baker (Fantasy)
Lady Knight by L-J Baker (um, fantasy/romance?)
Earth by David Brin (SF)
The Fated Sky by Henrietta Branford (young adult)

On the plane home from Phoenix, I read Sue Slate, Private Eye by THE Lee Lynch. It was a fun read but too short!

Earlier today I finished Daughters of a Coral Dawn by THE Katherine V. Forrest. It is the first of a series of books she wrote way back in the early 80s. Science Fiction, by the way. I had the pleasure of meeting Katherine in Phoenix. I even had lunch with her, Lee, and Lee's Sweetie. It was relaxing!

That's a lot of books but I feel like I am missing one somewhere.

I've got a bunch lined up. A bunch by Lee Lynch that I've read before but loaned out my copies, never to be seen again. She gave me signed copies of The Swashbuckler and That Old Studebaker for my birthday. She'd also brought extra copies of other books so I bought them at the Star Crossed Production's table. And, of course, I ran her down (not over) and had her sign these, too.
Dusty's Queen of Hearts Diner
Morton River Valley
Cactus Love (collection of short stories)
Rafferty Street

I'd read Dusty's book before but no clue where the book is. The others I'd not ever read so this will be fun.

In the auction, I won the bid for a bunch of Catherine Friend's books.
The Perfect Nest (a children's book)
Hit By a Farm (a kind of memoir)
The Compassionate Carnivore (non-fiction)
The Spanish Pearl
Crown of Valencia

The last two won Goldies this year in Phoenix.

I've got a lot of reading to do! And I've got a lot of writing to do, too! It's a tough life.