Books

The title is bookwyrm's cave, right? So I should write about books. Tamora Pierce has a new book out. It's the beginning of a whole new series. 100 years before the Alanna books. I haven't gotten to read it yet, but I am patiently waiting. On Amazon.
I am currently reading Julie E. Czernada's Species Imperative series. It is very good. The first book is called Survival, the second Migration, and I don't know about any others. I'm about halfway through Migration. Definitely recommend to anyone who enjoys science fiction. It is very realistic, and Czerneda's aliens are wonderfully well-developed. No random, motivationless wiping out the earth. I really love her character work.
I got for Christmas a short story collection of very good science fiction. I don't think there was a story in it that I didn't like. Though the cover art was, as is common, drastically misleading. It was called Escape From Earth. Edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. I think my favs are Incarnation Day by Walter Jon Williams and Derelict by Geoffrey A. Landis. Incarnation Day is about a culture where in order to save resources, children are raised in a virtual world. When they come of age they are downloaded into bodies and gain status as a person, but until that point they are pieces of software - and they can be erased by their owners (parents). Derelict is about kids who live in a space station sneaking off to visit the site of a wrecked station, where they discover why there is no war in space.

I am also reading a classic - The Picture of Dorian Gray. It's very interesting, but in small doses. That too, I am about halfway through.

I have a couple book reviews I should post up here sometime. At this point though, I will go do my homework. I believe I have gotten the worst of the grime of the windows and opened it up to the light.

New Years

Happy New Year, all. I know that it's lame to discuss the weather, but it is really gorgeous out today!

Maybe I should make New Year's Resolutions. Well - plans. Not all them will be resolutions exactly. Ah, make what you will of my list, it's a New Year's list.

Do not plague the cat. I plague that poor kitty so much, it's no wonder she's stark mad. I will endeavor this year to plague the cat less.

Read the bible and pray more often. At church a while ago they gave us this great idea of praying psalms. I plan to read a couple every night before bed.

Start up with science. After I finished biology, science kind of died. I could resume the hunt for a physics class, or start doing it on my own.

Write more! I have a couple hundred story concepts that have been popping into my head recently, and the story I'm working on now is dead in the water. The thing is, most of my ideas are full-length novel ideas. And I have two dozen of them. Sigh.

Keep this blog, recently reopened, updated. At least one entry a week.

Hmm. I think we're also supposed to look back on the past year. This'll take me a minute.
Well, I'm happy about the fact that I did well on the Bio SAT II's. Not that I really like bio. A lot of fun ACT things this year. And I started taking drama at the high school, which is also fun. Uh... if I think of any more, I'll write about them later.
Happy New Year!!!! *fireworks*

Abandoned, ghostly building

Creepy place. Urgh, cobwebs. I hear the guy who owns this place is still here. He should turn on the lights. Not that there are any guests left. But he could dust the place off. Maybe clean all the grime off the windows. Fix his sign. It's no wonder nobody comes in here.

Expect that wait, that guy would be me right? So, I have to do the work of opening it up again? Awww, man.............