Odds and Ends

It's going to be a strange day, we've already had a huge thunderstorm, usually these pop up at night not in the morning. It's supposed to be hazy, hot and humid, so long as it's not raining we'll be in the pool. The front of the house was skunked last night and I have to call the Cornell Co-operative to find out how to get rid of them. We think they're living under the front porch. We've got a helicopter flying up and down the river, anyone who lives on a river knows this isn't good. Someone is probably lost on the river, very scary.

I've decided to work on my contest reading, so I probably wont be blogging about any of it in detail. This morning I'll be finishing up the manuscript pages for the PASIC contest, I can't float and read those, too messy, sheets of paper floating everywhere--not good.

Read the erotic romance (Entertaining Mr. Stone) last night, I was not overly impressed by the book. The hero is actually interesting and different, a middle-aged Director of Finance, but because the story is told in the first person from the heroines POV we only know what he's thinking when he speaks. The much younger heroine is all over the place, and we know this because we spend the entire book inside her head. She's hired because he's hot for her, and later in the book even that turns a little creepy. It's a twist on the old Harlequin typing pool/boss story, and I'm probably showing my age because how many people under 30 have heard of a typing pool? As far as I could tell, there is no storyline besides sex, so I guess that's it, sex is the storyline--not my thing.

I'm starting to think most erotic romances aren't my thing. I know sites like Dear Author have reviewed some good ones and I need to make an effort to find them. I commented over there that most of the erotic romance ebooks I've read are throw backs to Harlequins with hot sex, which is fine and I've enjoyed some of them, but to be honest, I'd much rather have more substance to the story. And, to be even more honest, most of the ones I didn't like, I wish read more like Hot Harlequin Presents, instead of the garbage that filled the pages between sex scenes, that didn't amount to anything remotely story like. Yet, if Entertaining Mr. Stone is anything to go by, I'd probably not like stories where sex is the story either. So, is a really substanative story possible when sex such an important part of the story?

Ack--none of this is making sense, so I'd better go.

Have a great day and happy reading.