2 Rides Done, 3 Books Ordered
May. 5th, 2022 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdaySo it rained all day yesterday, as forecast, and I was worn out, as expected, by the previous day's yardwork with the grandson. So no rides and no workout.
But rode twice today and then looked up an audio book advertised on Reddit, Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility. And then looked up the print version on Amazon. Because, although I truly loved it when my mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother read to me, in my later years I've gotten used to doing it for myself, thanks.
Turns out that Ms. Mandel is the author of six novels and that those who purchased Sea of Tranquility also bought her Station 11 and The Glass Hotel. And, because I didn't want to eff up Prime's marketing algorithm, or ungratefully distance myself from all the lonely sheeple, I did as well.
At the same time, there's the issue of am I ready to, and do I really wanna, read another celebrity confessional/tell-all/memoir (which is what I fear Be My Baby might be) and thereby risk never reading again? And in the end, I allowed that to tip the balance in favor of some newer books.
But there was something else too. When I was in 8th or 9th grade, I spent an entire summer reading science fiction along with my BF and, no sh!t, future rocket scientist, Denny Nelson. In fact, I got so crazily into it that I decided to try and read a novel a day for a month. And I did.
So there was also that aura of dystopian future/science fiction that drew me to Ms. Mandel.
And the feeling that writing like hers, and Arthur C. Clarke's and other's, may provide not only the vision of an imagined future but clues to our true origins and destinies as well...
LPK
Dreamwidth
5.5.2022
But rode twice today and then looked up an audio book advertised on Reddit, Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility. And then looked up the print version on Amazon. Because, although I truly loved it when my mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother read to me, in my later years I've gotten used to doing it for myself, thanks.
Turns out that Ms. Mandel is the author of six novels and that those who purchased Sea of Tranquility also bought her Station 11 and The Glass Hotel. And, because I didn't want to eff up Prime's marketing algorithm, or ungratefully distance myself from all the lonely sheeple, I did as well.
At the same time, there's the issue of am I ready to, and do I really wanna, read another celebrity confessional/tell-all/memoir (which is what I fear Be My Baby might be) and thereby risk never reading again? And in the end, I allowed that to tip the balance in favor of some newer books.
But there was something else too. When I was in 8th or 9th grade, I spent an entire summer reading science fiction along with my BF and, no sh!t, future rocket scientist, Denny Nelson. In fact, I got so crazily into it that I decided to try and read a novel a day for a month. And I did.
So there was also that aura of dystopian future/science fiction that drew me to Ms. Mandel.
And the feeling that writing like hers, and Arthur C. Clarke's and other's, may provide not only the vision of an imagined future but clues to our true origins and destinies as well...
LPK
Dreamwidth
5.5.2022
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