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Jul. 1st, 2008
Mmm, pulsing water
Jul. 1st, 2008 10:56 amThis is typical of life in the Paul household.
We were watching "How It's Made" on The Science Channel. They were featuring showerheads. I pointed at one and said, "That's awesome! I want that!"
Adam said, "Well, we could go to Home Depot and look for one. Where are my shoes?"
"Now?" I asked. "It's eight-thirty on a Monday night!"
"Yeah, and? We should get a new one anyway."
"Okay!" I said, shrugging, and bounced upstairs to get my purse.
We bought one with awesome multiple settings that detaches, unlike our old "pouring rain" showerhead -- which I liked, but which wasn't that exciting. This one is exciting. It got me superclean and gave me a massage.
Needless to say, my lower back pain has eased up dramatically. And my migraine has been soothed. And most of my sore fibro tender points have been calmed.
This is really what we needed, anyway. Detachable showerhead with pulsating massage settings. Mmm, water massage.
We were watching "How It's Made" on The Science Channel. They were featuring showerheads. I pointed at one and said, "That's awesome! I want that!"
Adam said, "Well, we could go to Home Depot and look for one. Where are my shoes?"
"Now?" I asked. "It's eight-thirty on a Monday night!"
"Yeah, and? We should get a new one anyway."
"Okay!" I said, shrugging, and bounced upstairs to get my purse.
We bought one with awesome multiple settings that detaches, unlike our old "pouring rain" showerhead -- which I liked, but which wasn't that exciting. This one is exciting. It got me superclean and gave me a massage.
Needless to say, my lower back pain has eased up dramatically. And my migraine has been soothed. And most of my sore fibro tender points have been calmed.
This is really what we needed, anyway. Detachable showerhead with pulsating massage settings. Mmm, water massage.
Books: Karen Chance
Jul. 1st, 2008 04:09 pmI just finished the third book in Karen Chance's "Cassie Palmer" series. It is awesome. I love these books. And the awesome thing is that I decided to read the series because of a one-star review on Amazon. A reader hated the books so much that she went into great detail, describing all the various things she didn't like. And Karen Chance responded. Politely. Kindly. In detail. And I realized that I'd probably enjoy the books.
For a debut author, Chance has a serious amount of talent. I love the breathless pace of the action, the powerful descriptions, the hard reality of character emotions, the fact that Cassie is not a Mary Sue. The vampires are actually fascinating, and while they are mostly attractive, they're also vampires. Which means, you know, they act like vampires. Not sexed-up romantic Lotharios who must automatically be bedded by every woman within miles. Some of them are even ugly. And the only reason Cassie has any kind of sexual liason with one of them is because of character history, not strictly vampire-ness.
I'm tired of "beautiful flawless human falls inexplicably for hot vampire" books. I'm totally happy with books where the human is turned into a vampire and the story continues from there. For example: Jennifer Armintrout's "Blood Ties" series is awesome because of that. The main character becomes a vampire, with vampire lovers and vampire problems. I say, if you're going to throw everything at your characters, throw everything.
What annoys me is when I read a book or series in which the human and the vampire whine and angst and lament over their love, and wind up staying how they are. The human is not vampirized or anything, or even made equal to the vampire with nifty powers or anything. Angst forever.
The "Cassie Palmer" series is not one of those series. This is a "fairly attractive flawed human has been involved with vampire politics since childhood, has vampire friends, unexpectedly and unwillingly becomes attached to one vampire due to magic spell that makes their lives hell" book series. Cassie doesn't actually fall in love with anyone. She does stuff because she has to, because she has no other choice, and eventually because she wants to. She also comes into nifty powers that she doesn't want but has no choice about, and eventually learns to enjoy it. In the fourth book there will probably be love, but I'm fine with that, because the potential lover is fantastic. I'd want him.
It's probably the most refreshing "urban fantasy series featuring vampires" that I've read in years. I hear there's a fourth book coming soon. Yay!
For a debut author, Chance has a serious amount of talent. I love the breathless pace of the action, the powerful descriptions, the hard reality of character emotions, the fact that Cassie is not a Mary Sue. The vampires are actually fascinating, and while they are mostly attractive, they're also vampires. Which means, you know, they act like vampires. Not sexed-up romantic Lotharios who must automatically be bedded by every woman within miles. Some of them are even ugly. And the only reason Cassie has any kind of sexual liason with one of them is because of character history, not strictly vampire-ness.
I'm tired of "beautiful flawless human falls inexplicably for hot vampire" books. I'm totally happy with books where the human is turned into a vampire and the story continues from there. For example: Jennifer Armintrout's "Blood Ties" series is awesome because of that. The main character becomes a vampire, with vampire lovers and vampire problems. I say, if you're going to throw everything at your characters, throw everything.
What annoys me is when I read a book or series in which the human and the vampire whine and angst and lament over their love, and wind up staying how they are. The human is not vampirized or anything, or even made equal to the vampire with nifty powers or anything. Angst forever.
The "Cassie Palmer" series is not one of those series. This is a "fairly attractive flawed human has been involved with vampire politics since childhood, has vampire friends, unexpectedly and unwillingly becomes attached to one vampire due to magic spell that makes their lives hell" book series. Cassie doesn't actually fall in love with anyone. She does stuff because she has to, because she has no other choice, and eventually because she wants to. She also comes into nifty powers that she doesn't want but has no choice about, and eventually learns to enjoy it. In the fourth book there will probably be love, but I'm fine with that, because the potential lover is fantastic. I'd want him.
It's probably the most refreshing "urban fantasy series featuring vampires" that I've read in years. I hear there's a fourth book coming soon. Yay!
