Missing Book Club (Again)

[fullygoldy]

This will make 6 months in a row!  But it's a business trip this time, so no chance of a reprieve.  I leave Monday at noon and return Wed night.  Even though I haven't been able to participate in the discussions, I have read most of the books although I never did get to the graphic novels.  I like the help in choosing things to read - I just never know where to start.  Like today - I ran over to B&N to grab something for the flight, and ended up with:

  That's "DragonFlight" by Anne McCaffrey.
 

The reason I picked this is that the club is discussing "A Companion to Wolves."  It's a Meta-thing. ;)  Apparently this is the first published book in the series, but not the first story chronologically. ::shrug::

I also acquired
  Catherine Asaro's "Alpha"

Which is the second of three, but hopefully I won't be too lost, since I'd never even heard of "Sunrise Alley."  I've read a few of Asaro's earlier things - I really enjoyed "Quantum Rose" but never got to much of anything else in the Skolian Empire universe.  I should rectify that sometime.

Both of these appear to be "snacks" that should last long enough for the trip to and from Orlando.  I don't know why anyone thinks these cool locations are perks.  You get stuck inside all freaking day, with fluorescent lighting and over-conditioned air, so why bother going someplace nice?  You never see the light of day anyway. You end up eating stupid chain-restaurant food, and sleeping in cookie-cutter hotel rooms.  It's not really travelling, it's just working from ever more inconvenient locations.  With the weather predicted to be in the 80s, it's hard to know how to dress for the trip too.  I don't want to freeze during the first half, but I don't want to melt when I get there.  Coming back will be even harder.  At least it's not a driving trip.  I didn't have anything on hand that would last for a long drive.  I really should look into getting an iPod.  That way, I could download all kinds of podfic for driving. :)
 

Comments

[were-duck.livejournal.com]

You've never read Dragonflight?? Ugh. You'll suffer through it and not even get the benefit of nostalgia that people like me get, remembering fondly when we were twelve and read this book and weren't worldly enough to realize what is terribly, horribly wrong with it...

Ugh. I hope you manage to break away for a little time in the sun, an eentsy bit? At least you won't have a treacherous time on the sidewalks...

[dorothyk.livejournal.com]

I couldn't manage to get my girl to read any of the McCaffrey books. Her loss. Hope you enjoy. It is light fantasy that I think you'll like.

The good thing about driving would be that you'd have to be less careful about deciding how much to take along!

Hope things are going well in your world for the most part.

[choisyleroi.livejournal.com]

I missed what was terribly horribly wrong with the Pern books all fifty times I read them. Now I kind of think I like Killashandra Ree better. Stay warm in Florida, it's hugely tough luck that you have to go there...

[jesse_the_k]

As a recent iPod shuffle owner, let me just say podslash has improved my life (and my kitchen's cleanliness) by a factor of 3.8.

We'll miss you!