I am book free at the moment. Just finished Tell the Wolves I'm Home - I really liked it. And haven't decided what to start next.
Interesting: It has been a long few weeks: crazy busy at work, my mom had back surgery, today I am treating myself to a massage and a pedicure. Can't wait!
Yeah, I keep telling myself kids are different in the future, lol. And the book does make a big deal out of him being pretty much a genius at the beginning.
We read this for my book club. It was not very popular with my group, but we try to read a variety, so it worked. Yeah, most of us had to just go with what was written and not make it fit with our realities. None of us moved on to the rest of the series.
A good friend of mine loves the series - but he is a guy and read them as a teen - the target audience.
My husband reads a lot of fantasy/sci-fi and I asked him about Ender's Game. He said he read it and thought it was really good, but gave up part way through the second book and didn't finish the series. I wasn't planning on reading more, anyway, unless this one was REALLY good.
I'm reading Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life. It's very interesting, but I'm not sure I like it. The author seems to take the view that everyone who has ever read the Little House books was fooled into thinking they were an absolutely true autobiography, and that the author is a fraud because she left out whole chunks of her life story in telling in the books. I really get the feeling that the author of the book is asking "How DARE Laura Ingalls Wilder left out whole periods of her life in the Little House books?!" I'll finish it, but I really don't care for the tone of it.
I haven't read that one, but I read The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure, in which she detailed her interest in Little House and visited all of the places in the books and connected them to Laura's life. It was interesting (especially since so many of the places are SO remote, even today), but she also had the attitude of, "OMG, why am I in the middle of nowhere, SD? God, look at all these dorky Little House fans!" Um, honey, you're writing a book about it. Who is the obsessive nerd, here?
I also read Confessions of a Prairie Bitch by Alison Arngram, which I liked.
I'm watching paint dry: how's that for interesting? OK, I'm not actually watching and it's primer so far. Our flat-paint navy bathroom (terrible choice, IMO, for a tiny half bath, especially since flat paint is impossible to clean) will soon be a lovely, semi-gloss spring green.
Totally random, but can I ask which color green you're using? We've been searching for a spring green for our family room, and it's hard finding the right one. Some are too sage-y, others too much an olive green. This will also be over a very dark color.... The brown we loved in our old house just does not work in this one... We were too hasty about trying to cover the horrid paint of the prior owner and didn't spend enough time choosing.
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It's called Springtime from Sherwin Williams. It's actually a lot more yellow and less green than I remembered (we chose it back in early spring and only just got around to painting). But there were others on the swatch card that were more green, so it might lead you to something you like.
Something interesting...having wisdom teeth pulled as an adult is horrid and I've had to have them removed almost one at a time. I'm almost done though one more to go.