Happy Anniversary To Us! (and books read in may)

[ciroccoj]

We've been married 11 years today. Go us!

It's freaking hot.

• Me: Picked up Starfarers, by Poul Anderson. I have the weirdest feeling that I've read it before, but I know I haven't. It's about a civilization where they never have warp drive, and people have to travel at slightly lower than light-speed. One of the plotlines follows the people who do interplanetary travel and who develop a community where they and their families live in a way that adapts to the fact that members of the community often leave for ten, fifty, a hundred years, then come back having aged only three years.
  
  Also picked up Time Storm, by Gordon Dickson, as a re-read. Earth is plagued by walls of mist that roll over the land and change time. So one minute you're in 1980s Manhattan, and then a mistwall goes over and you're in 1640s New Amsterdam. Very trippy and bizarre, but very cool.
  
  
• Chris: Hm... dunno. Should ask.
  
  
• Daniel: Nothing of note, but in a couple weeks I think I'll give him his very first Star Trek novel. Ishmael, Old Series. He's very curious about it, but I told him he'd have to watch a couple more episodes of the old series or it wouldn't make sense. He doesn't seem to mind ;)
  
  
• Justin: Finished SpongeBob Readers!!! There is little I can say to express my joy at this. neonnurse, I hope Michael likes them. They're good books for learning to read - though the plots are a bit on the thin side (hey, Tolstoy it ain't) and the "tailoring to the sound being taught" could be done better - in that the reader (at least in Justin's case) actually enjoys reading them. The person helping them learn to read may be a different story ;)
  
  
• Chris and the Boys: Finished Prisoner of Azkaban! I'll have to go back to see how long it took them to read it ::going back:: A-ha! They started in January, so five months. They're taking a break from the Potterworld right now, and are reading Danny, the Champion of the World, by Roald Dahl. It was the first long book we read to Daniel, for obvious reasons, way back when we lived in London in ohgod 2000. I think this is the third time Daniel's hearing it.

Going to bed, where there will be Chateau Wogga-wogga to drink and X-Men III to watch.

Comments

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary!

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

We got them, but so far the allure of summer has kept us busy with other things. One of these days we are definitely going to go sit in the swing and read, though!

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

We got them, but so far the allure of summer has kept us busy with other things. One of these days we are definitely going to go sit in the swing and read, though!

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

We haven't yet started the Spongebob books, as summer keeps luring us away, but sometime soon I will set up the lawn swing and we will start having lovely reading time outside!

[daf9.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary! And may you have many, many more!

Happy Anniversary!!!

[culturevulture7.livejournal.com]

And many more :-)

Go you indeed.