Jam!! and coffee and books

I made jam last night!

We're not even huge jam/jelly eaters, but I had apricots, so why not?

I didn't make very much, because, like I said, we are not big jam/jelly eaters.

My friend Karen sent me a link to this recipe--it has wine in it, and since I probably drink more wine than eat  jam in my life, I thought it might be a jam I would love. 

It smelled SO GOOD, while cooking--it included a vanilla bean.

Anyway, I can't wait to try some on an English muffin when I get back from my walk. 

A hot, crispy English muffin with butter and apricot jam dripping down into all those tiny crevices.

YUM!!

I'll let you know how it is. 

While I am enjoying that English muffin, I just might start the 2nd in this series by Nalini Singh.

I read this first book  "Slave to Sensation" and I really liked it.

It is SOOOO out of my box---one of the main characters was a changeling and could--well, change.  Into a Panther.

Yes I know.  No snickers from the cheap seat okay?!

A Panther, yes.

And the other main character was a Psy---someone with no emotion. 

Or so we think.

AHa! or so we think.....

Anyway, it really was a fun read.

And  I really did buy the 2nd in the series...Visions of Heat.

I'm so out of my box here.

But I like it.

from Goodreads:

Nalini Singh dives into a world torn apart by a powerful race with phenomenal powers of the mind-and none of the heart.

In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of "rehabilitation" - the complete psychic erasure of everything she ever was...

Both human and animal, Lucas Hunter is a changeling hungry for the very sensations the Psy disdain. After centuries of uneasy coexistence, these two races are now on the verge of war over the brutal murders of several changeling women. Lucas is determined to find the Psy killer who butchered his packmate, and Sascha is his ticket into their closely guarded society. But he soon discovers that this ice-cold Psy is very capable of passion - and that the animal in him is fascinated by her. Caught between their conflicting worlds, Lucas and Sascha must remain bound to their identities - or sacrifice everything for a taste of darkest temptation.

The Raven Boys

 

From Goodreads:

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before.

 

From Me:

I liked it.  I didn't like it. I liked it again.  I thought--Hmmm, will I continue with the series?  Maybe.  Yes.  No.  Probably.  Probably not.

 

It was that kind of book for me.

It was good, but maybe I just wasn't in the mood?

Filled with teenage angst and ghosts!

How can one go wrong with that?

 

I think her writing was good and  in the end it drew me in, so I do want to find out 'the rest of the story'.  (I just don't know how badly or how soon I want to)

 

3 stars, because I really did like it--don't let my humdrum mood sway you,  if you like YA paranormal, it's really good.

 

I listened to the audio and Will Patton narrated.  I love his voice and usually like anything he's done and the same goes for this book, except for one female character. It was a little cringe-worthy.  She wasn't a big part and he did other female characters just fine.

Still love his voice.