Book Recos

Also...finished Sammy's Hill last week by Kristen Gore and it was amazing. This is the book I would love to write and am currently trying to write (Page 10 ya'll!). Highly, highly recommend it.

So then I started this new book called "Bloodchild and other stories" by Octavia something or other. I picked this up in the building book exchange not realizing that it was science fiction short stories. I've never been one for science fiction in general, nevermind in print form, but I figured in the spirit of trying new things in the new year, I'd give it a shot.

It's just as wierd as one would expect. The first story was about humans who are kept on a preserve and raised to give birth to the alien lifeforms who keep them alive, with particular emphasis on one human and one alien who are like in love or something. The second story is about people who are born with a disease that causes them to mutilate themselves until they die. This one is more interesting than the other, but kind of graphic and hard to read at times.

This is not my cup of tea, however, I can appreciate two things 1.) Inventing entire new worlds is not an easy thing to do, much less write about, in a convincing way and 2.) the writing is very good.

Moreover, it's book #3 on the year and that's more important that anything. Once finished, I'll be three down, 23 to go.

P.S. the Italian DVDs remain unopened to date.