Timewaster's Guide Archive

Thanks.  My sister, who hates science fiction of any sort, and whose post started mine, has said she might try Warbreaker now. I hope she follows through. If I can convert her, I can get anyone.

I sent my husband and two oldest children off camping, made pizza for my younger ones, and put on several videos.
I am an evil Mom, but only when there is a book I really need to finish.

I don't think my bookstore will make much of a difference because I am absolutely sure they don't have any other copies of Warbreaker. Their entire sci-fi/fantasy section consists of one three foot bookshelf, about half of it used. B&N doesn't have the excuse of being tiny and independent like Arches Book Company.
Just finished it by the way.  It was great. Now I will have strange dreams tonight.

I ordered Warbreaker through my local bookstore and they called me today to pick it up.  So I have my copy and now I can read it over the weekend without feeling too guilty about ignoring stuff.
My husband read it on the computer, but I hate doing that.  He has been impatient for me to get it so we could talk about it.

I saw it when I was too small, it terrified me.   I vaguely remember reading the book later and thinking, "this wasn't so bad, what was the matter with me?" But I only remember bits and the feeling of sadness and fear along with that movie.

no, this was a recipe I got from a friend who taught home economics at a high school.  It has cream of mushroom soup and onion soup mix.  When it turns out my husband likes it better than the other kind, but I seem to have some sort of mental block on this type of food.  I can make all sorts of complicated things and they turn out beautifully.  When I try to make one of the easiest of all it always turns out badly.

Thunderstorms five days in a row!  Very unusual to get so much rain this time of year, but my garden loves it and my kids are all weirded out.

I read Time Enough for Love as  young teenager and was completely hooked into Heinlein.  That book seriously blew my young mind.  Its possible that it is why I stuck with fantasy and sci-fi when every other teenage girl my age had never heard of it.  Reading LoTR as a 9-10 yr old helped too.  I was looking for something and it really resonated with me,
Now, as a 37-yr old woman I remember those feelings, but I can't really understand what I was thinking that made Heinlein my absolute favorite at that age. I missed so much, and the books are a much different experience for me now.  I still like them, but the sexual relations seem too simplistic for me now.  Free Love just doesn't work.  The politics only feels relevant when I am feeling especially cynical and libertarian (after listening to NPR for a while for example).