Happy Wednesday!
Posted by Cyn | Filed under College, Education, Family, Homeschooling, Reading
Sam and I had a very nice date night while Katie was out with her beau. He had started making chili last night, finished it tonight, and added corn muffins. I’m not a big fan of chili (I won’t eat it if Sam didn’t make it), but it was a very satisfying meal.
The girl is doing very well in the online course she’s taking, and I’m happy to say that my semester is going well, too. It’s hard to believe that my baby will likely start college courses this summer or fall!
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Tweets for 12-09-2007
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- 22:09 New blog entry: Tweets for Today technomom.com/2007/12/08/tweets-for-today-10/ #
- 00:49 New blog entry: Review: Carpe Demon by Julie Kenner technomom.com/2007/12/09/review-carpe-demon-by-julie-kenner/ #
- 01:36 Girl is safely home from date and I’ve listened to her chatter, so I’m off to bed with mah man now — nitey nite! #
- 16:58 @foulbastard Works better to take them to a flea market, so the buyers don’t know where you live! #
- 17:00 @hopeevey Would they be open to bids for you? #
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Review: Carpe Demon by Julie Kenner
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Health, Humor, Needlework, Reading
I’m way behind on book reviews, so I’ll try to do one each day for a bit. Emphasis on the try. I’ve read some great stuff lately that deserves the attention!
I’ll start with the most recent book, Carpe Demon by Julie Kenner. It’s the first book of the Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom series. I don’t actually remember any soccer games, but yep, Kate Connor is definitely a soccer mom in the sense that Clinton used the phrase.
I can’t remember if it was Michelle Sagara West or Tanya Huff who said it, but either way, I agree with her that the best way to sum up this series is to imagine that Buffy the Vampire Slayer grew up, got married, and had kids, but didn’t tell her family anything about her past. Kate works for the Vatican instead of the Watcher’s Council, has an Alimentatore rather than a Watcher, and isn’t the Chosen One — there are supposed to be many demon hunters. Unfortunately, the youth of today aren’t as easy to recruit, according to the Church, and an old demon hunter is usually a dead demon hunter.
Kate and her partner, Eric, had retired and moved to a place they identified as having very little demon activity. They had a child, and after Eric died (we don’t learn how in this volume), Kate remarried. Stuart Connor is an attorney with political ambition. Remember how Sabrina had so much trouble pretending to be a normal executive’s wife in Bewitched? Take it up several notches, and you know where some of the book’s humor comes from. The novel is definitely a nice departure from the paranormal romances that have a lot more romance than action, although I have yet to figure out why Kate would ever have settled for Stuart. And yes, I’d have to say she settled.1
I’ve put the next two books, California Demon and Demons are Forever, on my wish list. I’m looking forward to finding out how Kenner develops the characters, and whether Kate starts filling her kids’ water bottles with holy water (I would). I’m not a big enough fan to put the rest of her books on the pile, but I haven’t ruled it out yet.
1 Of course, so did Sabrina.
Tags: Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom, Eric, Julie Kenner, Kate Connor, Michelle Sagara West, Reading, Stuart Connor, Tanya Huff, urban fantasy, Watcher's Council
