a blast of air blew the shreds of the manuscripts into a snow-storm of intimate if fragmentary cohabitation , a promiscuous pot-pourri of genre , subgenre and cross-genre : suffering childhoods , erotic romance , pastel romance , alternate-world time-traveling female vampires , evocations of jolly close-knit families back then , sentient jelly-blobs , fat women who find love , thin girls who lose it , etc .