Good Thing About My Life #3749

[mrissa]

One of the things I really like about meeting good writers and, if the term makes sense, good readers and hanging out with same is that having widely varied tastes is sort of assumed, and further, that people don't seem to assume that you'll like things for the same reasons as they do.

I put down an Aleister Reynolds novel to pick up Anne of Windy Poplars for awhile this afternoon, and I will go happily back to the Reynolds when I'm done. And I really love that this is more normal than not, in my current social circles. You read sagas, new space opera, and turn-of-the-Twentieth Canadian girls' novels on the same day? No problem. Nary a batted eye. Throw in whatever else you like, and people will still consider it normal, because they are books, and books are what we do, one way or another.

This makes me very happy.

Also I will have sesame buns within something like an hour, and baked apples somewhat after that, and I tasted the glop I was putting in the baked apples, and I really suspect this will end well. If it does, I will post the recipe, because it's easy and fairly healthy as desserts go, and oh, very promising.

Comments

Books

[adriang.livejournal.com]

because they are books, and books are what we do, one way or another.

I'm in the computer business, so I can't help hearing people theorize about the various ways that books might become obsolete. Frankly, I hope that never happens. I'm often part way through several books, and at any given time, I pick up the book I'm in the mood to read. You've left science books out of your list, but given your background, I bet you have your fair share of those.

From all the time I spend around people who don't love books, I have to say that one of the oddest things I've ever heard them say is that having bookshelves on every wall is unattractive, somehow. It's as though they believe that hanging a single work of art on a wall is better than shelving hundreds of works of art on that wall. The mindsets of people who done love books are sometimes incomprehensible to me.

Adrian

Re: Books

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, the list I gave was what I had actually read yesterday, not an attempt at a representative sample.

I like having visual art forms on the walls, too, but mostly in places where bookcases wouldn't fit anyway. I'm appalled by people who find shelved books unaesthetic, but it's somehow worse to me when people find shelved books only visually aesthetic -- when they shelve a set of books they have no intention of reading, just to have a set of green leather spines that all match. Meep!!!

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

mmm books mmmm

And hey, I'm always up for a healthy, tasty recipe, so yes, please share.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Here (http://www.marissalingen.com/bakedapples.html).

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Thank You!