Slow Service and Lots of Reading
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amberfocusCome on, Best Buy. How long does it take you to recover my documents, spreadsheets, music files, downloads, and photographs? I haven't written in weeks. I want my stories back. Especially the ones I was in mid-chapter on. *sighs* I hate Windows 8. Am ready to be having my Windows 7 back now, please, too. Of course they can't even send my Win 7 computer in to be fixed until they recover my stuff, which they said they could do. They accessed it right there in front of Chris when he took it in. I guess I should try to be more patient. It did sit there for 3 weeks before it even got to the store, but still. 4 days even on a holiday is a long time to recover what is not an extraordinary amount of material.
School starts tomorrow for R and Wednesday for T. R is a senior. T is homeschooling again for 8th grade.
With the computer down I've been reading a ton of novels.
The Host, which I actually really liked, despite the fact that I hated Twilight. Alien parasites have taken over the majority of humanity. Told from the point of view of a parasite whose host's mind does not go away when she is infected.
One Second After which covers the life of a small mountain town and private college for a year after an EMP takes out the electricity and technology. No easy outs and people die. Very realistic.
The Diary of Pelly D., a teenage war diary found in the ruins after a war on a future colony on another planet.
Maelstrom, the second in the Twins of Petaybee series. Always fun to revisit the sentient planet and her selkies.
Legend, a far future novel where the United States no longer exists (and one side claims it never did). The Republic is a harsh military regime purposely inflicting plagues on its population so it can one day take over what it calls The Colonies (the last of United States after flooding took out several portions of the east coast). One military brat and one street brat find their lives forever changed when they meet and figure out the reality of what is going on.
Glow. Two generation star ships headed towards a new planet. One has been unable to reproduce and so steals the girls off the other ship, killing many of their parents, and stranding the boys alone with no adults and a failing ship. The girls fight to get back to their own ship after the older ones have had their eggs stolen and a couple of them are shot. Very intense. Looking forward to the sequel.
And I'm currently in the middle of Divergent and starting Deluge (the 3rd in the Twins of Petaybee series and the 6th in the Petaybee series as a whole). Divergent is a fascinating read, though I don't really think society in a post-apocalyptic New York City would ever set itself up this way. People do not fit this easily into categories. Well, the main character certainly doesn't. In the real world, people would resist being pigeon-holed this way, or being told they could never see their families again if they chose a different personality path than their parents or siblings. But I still really like the book and am reading it voraciously.
School starts tomorrow for R and Wednesday for T. R is a senior. T is homeschooling again for 8th grade.
With the computer down I've been reading a ton of novels.
The Host, which I actually really liked, despite the fact that I hated Twilight. Alien parasites have taken over the majority of humanity. Told from the point of view of a parasite whose host's mind does not go away when she is infected.
One Second After which covers the life of a small mountain town and private college for a year after an EMP takes out the electricity and technology. No easy outs and people die. Very realistic.
The Diary of Pelly D., a teenage war diary found in the ruins after a war on a future colony on another planet.
Maelstrom, the second in the Twins of Petaybee series. Always fun to revisit the sentient planet and her selkies.
Legend, a far future novel where the United States no longer exists (and one side claims it never did). The Republic is a harsh military regime purposely inflicting plagues on its population so it can one day take over what it calls The Colonies (the last of United States after flooding took out several portions of the east coast). One military brat and one street brat find their lives forever changed when they meet and figure out the reality of what is going on.
Glow. Two generation star ships headed towards a new planet. One has been unable to reproduce and so steals the girls off the other ship, killing many of their parents, and stranding the boys alone with no adults and a failing ship. The girls fight to get back to their own ship after the older ones have had their eggs stolen and a couple of them are shot. Very intense. Looking forward to the sequel.
And I'm currently in the middle of Divergent and starting Deluge (the 3rd in the Twins of Petaybee series and the 6th in the Petaybee series as a whole). Divergent is a fascinating read, though I don't really think society in a post-apocalyptic New York City would ever set itself up this way. People do not fit this easily into categories. Well, the main character certainly doesn't. In the real world, people would resist being pigeon-holed this way, or being told they could never see their families again if they chose a different personality path than their parents or siblings. But I still really like the book and am reading it voraciously.
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Date: 2013-09-02 11:10 pm (UTC)Very interesting so far. I've only read the first three so far....
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Date: 2013-09-03 05:57 pm (UTC)