On 5/29/2015 9:06 AM, songbird wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
> ...
>> Weather doesn't stop me from reading, I'm re-reading some David Weber
>> novels now. It's clouding up again so we covered everything up.
>
> i notice today looks a bit like rain, but not as
> strong as what has been going through there before.
>
> the Honor series? i'd read that many years ago and
> it was great fun. the past few days i've been reading
> e-books that i can checkout through the library site.
> i'm not all that fond of them, but it's better than
> nothing. after a science fiction book and a fantasy
> book, i've decided i should finally read _Lord of the
> Flies_ as i'd started it many years ago and never got
> far with it.
>
>
> songbird
>
Yeah, Weber's "Honorverse." I am rereading pretty much all his novels. I
like his stories and those of many of the science fiction writers. I
read Lord of the Flies years ago and wasn't very impressed with the book
or the movie. I really prefer military science fiction to most others.
Started reading science fiction at about age eight and haven't stopped
yet. My mother thought I was going to be a pervert because I read that
"trash." I had already read the entire Collier's Encyclopedia and she
thought that was strange too. My elder sisters taught me to read before
I was five years old, they were 9 and 13 years older than me and thought
it was fun.

With bad legs, partially paralyzed body and multiple heart attacks
reading is about all the exercise I get. <G>

Rain has moved on for awhile but we're worrying about our son and his
family as they live over close to Lake Houston and the lake above that
one is releasing over 800,000 gallons of water an hour to keep the dam
from failing and/or flooding the houses around the lake. Time to empty
the rain gauge again, it only holds six inches total and it has run over
three times in the month now ending. The giant zucchini are getting
bigger every time it rains and it's time to pick green beans again. The
kitchen cabinet is covered with nearly ripe tomatoes that were about to
fall off the vine. One is as big as a softball, the others are just
baseball size. Probably going to taste like water.