A day without rain...

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...is a day with some sunlight. Maybe. Well, there was some today, by afternoon anyway.

Gary has to finish a take home exam by noon tomorrow and then he's free from school at least until fall. It will be good to have him back.

I note with regret the fact that Maurice Sendak has passed away. While most furries probably know him for Where the Wild Things Are, I will always remember him first for In the Night Kitchen, a lovely little dreamscape that set off a fury and if I remember correctly even got onto the ALA banned book list for a while. All because he drew a dream picture of a little boy with no pants on. Humans are just amazingly silly and stupid about things at times.

Finished Patricia Briggs' Cry Wolf and I recommend it to anyone interested in a good werewolf story. Neither the horrible blood and gore stuff of years ago, nor the mush of many romance novels that just use the werewolf legend as a backdrop, it's a believable story with characters well worth noticing. It's part of a trilogy, plus a prefatory novelette, and I see I'll have to read all of them.

It's late and that's most of what happened today other than the usual work, eat, sleep routines.

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Are you familiar with Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series? (E.g. Moon Called, Blood Bound... up to seven volumes now). More werewolves, although the lead character is coyote shape-shifter. My mom and I have enjoyed what we've read so far. (Thorndike has several volumes in large print, which is how I ran across it.) The violence wasn't terribly graphic; don't know how it compares to Cry Wolf, though.

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Yes, I've read some, not all, of the Mercy Thompson books. They are pretty good, and I haven't noticed too much overly-detailed bloodthirstiness. The Alpha and Omega series focuses directly on werewolf characters, though Mercy is mentioned repeatedly (off stage only so far) and there are individuals in common with the Mercy stories, including Bran Cornick and his sons Charles and Samuel. There is, of course, violence in this series as well but only as it is essential to the story and again, not described in pornographically sadistic detail. (No descriptions of blood spurting, guts spilling, etc.)