long ago, in a land somewhat far away i used to have a job that i hated. i was the receptionist for a mortgage broker. i hated answering the phone, still do, messed up a few things and mostly it was boring. but the great thing about the job was i read a book a day. really i did. i would finish a book in the morning. walk to the library at lunch to get a new book and then read half of it in the afternoon.
yesterday morning i met my mom at the bookstore, sorta. we live many miles apart so i went to a bookstore here and she went to a bookstore in rapid. but we were both at the bookstore picking out a book and then sat down and had coffee while starting on the book. it was a lot of fun and i think a new tradition. in any case i got ghost brigades by john scalzi. i had read old man's war a while ago when i checked it out a the library. i knew he had done a sequel but hadn't gotten around to requesting it through inter library loan. since it was paperback it was relatively inexpensive and i was in the mood for some good sci-fi. rather than write a review here that is inadeqate i direct you to sfreviews, which has a great review of the book. once i got started i couldn't put it down. i did some work on the poster of our alaska trip while reading (my computer takes a while to process some things). but mostly i spent sunday reading. so i finished the book all in one day. yup it was that good.
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now i sorta know why you don't like phones. i didn't read the whole review, just enough to get a taste of the book. i will check the library here for the ghost book. the whole library is in one room, so we will see.
i really liked the book date at the bookstore:)
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