I’m finally getting around to reading one of the books I got in last year’s book exchange! (And a book I am currently lending to a coworker!) I like it, but it’s not quite what I was expecting. It kind of reminds me of Isaac Asimov’s short story “The Ugly Little Boy.” In that story, scientists have pulled a Neanderthal child from the past to study it, almost like they are studying the children in The Girl With All the Gifts. Basically, the […]
Finally reading a book I was given for book exchange!
So, as a running theme, this was not what I thought it was going to be. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t quite this. There are three kinds of people in this world. (Hey, that’s kind of familiar…) We have normal people, full vampires, and Colds, or people who have been bitten by a vampire but have not yet turned. In order to become a vampire, one must be infected with the vampirism by a bite and then drink human […]
The start of a very weird series
So I was going along, listening to the book, and it was all fine, and then all of a sudden, I came to a realization. “Wait a minute, this is JESUS!” Yes, this all seems to boil down to a second coming of Christ (or Christ-like character.) (Or something to do with Mormons. I’m not sure.) This is an alternate history of Frontier era of America. From what I quickly read of the introduction before I started, I knew there would be some differences, […]
A story I was meaning to read anyway
So, the class I was subbing for was reading I am Malala (the Young Readers Edition) and as I was reading a good portion of it anyway, I decided to read the whole thing! Malala Yousfzai is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. She spoke up to change the fate of children’s education, especially for girls in her native Pakistan. So my journey through this started with Chapter 14 – 16, then 1-8, 17-19, 9-13, then the rest of the book. But […]