Thank you for the recs! I'm here in SW Houston and the weather is great. I'm visiting my brother and (when he has visits) his 2-1/2 year old son. My brother is new to the area but has already taken him to the Children's Museum and the train museum in Galveston. I love your suggestions, so I'm going to investigate. Thanks again!


Booked, my positive thoughts are still going out to you and your country!

Thanks Astro for the compilations of the Age of Edward contests. These are great!

When your nephew is with you, you should definitely visit the zoo in Hermann Park and ride the train.  There's also a nice playground there that my kids loved when they were little.  You can feed the ducks at the reflecting pool.  Kids of ALL ages love the Museum of Natural Science and they have a hands on area in the basement.  The new dinosaur exhibit might be a bit long for the little ones, but if you go right, instead of left when you enter the exhibit, you get straight to the big dinosaur bones and re-enactments which will be more interesting for your little guy.

Have fun and if you run out of ideas or have any questions, you know how to reach me!

All of the recs that don't say complete, are not completed. Some of the recs are in progress. I can delete the ones that are not complete and not in progress  and only post stories that are.

All of the recs that don't say complete, are not completed. Some of the recs are in progress. I can delete the ones that are not complete and not in progress  and only post stories that are.

Oh - don't do that! I really like your recs.

It's just that sometimes I miss a great fic because an author hasn't actually clicked the complete button. It's very rare for me to even consider reading a WIP! I just didn't want to miss any of your recs.

Yes!  Sometimes a story is really complete or complete enough to read, so we just like to know  when it is still showing as a WIP, if it is complete enough.  So if it is complete enough, please let us know.  And I love your recs.  I did not realize I remain yours was a vampfic.  I may need to read it now. 

I couldn't figure out how they got together.....


I'm reading a few WIPs but most aren't updating much if at all.  Darn it!   

Um, are Counselor's Bella's always um damaged?  This one in Me and Mom is strange. She doesn't behave like a normal person. And I'd say Renee is weird also but I think maybe this would be Renee without Phil

I'll give it a couple more chapters, but so far I've never finished one of Counselor's stories. *hides head*

Um, are Counselor's Bella's always um damaged?  This one in Me and Mom is strange. She doesn't behave like a normal person. And I'd say Renee is weird also but I think maybe this would be Renee without Phil

I'll give it a couple more chapters, but so far I've never finished one of Counselor's stories. *hides head*

     I think so, or at least Bella or Edward is damaged. All of her characters are usually flawed in some way, but Bella and Edward always work out in the end. I really love her historical ones, like My Wounded Soldier or Roar Like a Lion. There's something about the rhythm of the language in which she writes that really gets to me. But plot wise, it never feels like there is a guaranteed HEA, you just keep hoping until the end. I like that tension.

P.S. Thanks for posting the question, when I just looked up her profile, I saw she has a new story (maybe?) posting:

Look How You Turned Out
Author: counselor PM
If I was going to write another story it would be something like this...
Rated: Fiction M - English - Romance - Bella, Edward - Chapters: 16 - Words: 10,371 - Reviews: 824 - Favs: 166 - Follows: 285 - Updated: 11-10-13 - Published: 11-06-13 - id: 9826376
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To me, her writing is a little stilted.  That's the only way I can explain.  But if you like historical romances, it makes sense you would like her.  Her writing reminds me of some of the classics in a way.  But they spoke very stiltedly in the 1800's, so the writing fit the times. 

I guess I came to twilight having read stuff like Jennifer Crusie and Meg Cabot - I always loved funny romances.  So the writing style is different.   I will keep reading in the hopes Mom and Horny don't make a twerk sandwich out of poor Edward. ....

And how did this twerking thing start?  I always thought that term was related to meth use, now it's weird dancing? I'm getting old I guess.... 

Then I must be really old, I didn't know that twerking referred to meth use? I've heard of tweeking but twerking?    I feel out of the loop. I just asked my husband and he said that he had heard of twerking referring to meth use.....

Then I must be really old, I didn't know that twerking referred to meth use? I've heard of tweeking but twerking?    I feel out of the loop. I just asked my husband and he said that he had heard of twerking referring to meth use.....

Tweeking/twerking - it all sounds the same to me! 

That's what I mean.  I heard the word and it sounded like the same term.  Maybe it's dancing like you are on meth LOL!!

Sigh.... yeah.  old is me....

 

That's the good thing of having another native language, I don't understand a lot references like that.

Tweaking/twerking? doesn't matter, just reading along here... 

But I liked Me and mom... it was not an easy read, counselor's style confuses me sometimes, her writing is not easy for me, I really have to concentrate and think along... so, I haven't read many of her stories...

To balance my reading, I read afterwards:

The Attraction Equation
Author: staceleo PM
What do you get when a free spirited artist meets a persnickety CPA? A series of misadventures to find love surrounded by numbers crunching and body painting. Short chapters of silly written for Nicole Marie Masen.
Rated: Fiction M - English - Romance/Humor - Bella, Edward - Chapters: 46 - Words: 53,396 - Reviews: 2,138 - Favs: 582 - Follows: 744 - Updated: 09-03-13 - Published: 05-08-13 - Status: Complete - id: 9274555
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funny, very silly, very ooc... 

That's the good thing of having another native language, I don't understand a lot references like that.

Tweaking/twerking? doesn't matter, just reading along here... 

But I liked Me and mom... it was not an easy read, counselor's style confuses me sometimes, her writing is not easy for me, I really have to concentrate and think along... so, I haven't read many of her stories...

To balance my reading, I read afterwards:

The Attraction Equation
Author: staceleo PM
What do you get when a free spirited artist meets a persnickety CPA? A series of misadventures to find love surrounded by numbers crunching and body painting. Short chapters of silly written for Nicole Marie Masen.
Rated: Fiction M - English - Romance/Humor - Bella, Edward - Chapters: 46 - Words: 53,396 - Reviews: 2,138 - Favs: 582 - Follows: 744 - Updated: 09-03-13 - Published: 05-08-13 - Status: Complete - id: 9274555
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funny, very silly, very ooc... 

^^^ this is what I should be reading. I have too much stuff going on in my life right now.  Having to concentrate on something isn't going over well.  So I usually find myself rereading something like Nolebucgrl's stuff.  Light and funny and I can put it down if i need to.

So I've fixed the Calibre problem.  And now I've given up on using Google Drive with Calibre.  But I will copy new stuff over to the Calibre drive until I figure something else out.  I just downloaded Copy - it gives me 15 GBs - so I will have to see how the sharing works.   

For all of you thinking about using Google drive with Calibre - don't.

Turns out they are not compatible. I will continue to backup to Google so the stories are there. But don't use it with Calibre. I checked with the user group when I started getting error messages. Google removes part of the file name that Calibre uses to locate files. And although one guy posted a fix? It keeps crashing.  I need to figure out exactly what it did so I can fix it. Normally I run from my regular Calibre library. But yesterday I updated Google& copied to my regular library resulting in the crash.

Hmm. All my fanfic backs up to Drive. I usually don't have problems, just once in a while it won't show the file when I know it's there, but usually shutting down Drive on my PC and restarting it causes the file to finally show up.

What's a good alternative to Drive then? Right now I have regular books in Dropbox and fic in Drive. I have a program called Copy that I have tons of storage space on, but I don't like the way the books download to my tablet through it. I might retry it with calibre companion though. I dunno, Drive is working for me for now, so maybe I shouldn't fool with it, lol!