Member: kayinpa

Hi kayinpa. You asked how I liked the "15 Minute Meal Planner" book and others back in March. I'm sorry I didn't get back to you sooner but our house burned down in Feb. and I just recently was able to buy a laptop computer to get back online.

Anyway, I did like these books and plan on repurchasing them (and many others) when we are settled into our new house. We are rebuilding and I'm hoping we'll be in our home by the end of July because our new baby blessing is due August 8th. I'm really looking forward to refilling our schoolroom shelves...in fact, I've already started collecting what we need (and more) for the 2009-10 school year.

-Nadine in PA

posted by joyfulmomy at 10:00 am (EST) on Jun 20, 2009

LOL No books in common with me either -- whew! I'd say he thinks you're pretty :->

things have been rough -- details on our group site. But we're doing better now. Really cute kitties!!!!

xox

posted by suslyn at 4:08 pm (EST) on Apr 23, 2009

Ok no problem, Your blog is fine.

posted by AuthorsandExperts at 3:50 am (EST) on Apr 11, 2009

Hi, I just joined this site. Are you a writer too?

posted by AuthorsandExperts at 10:35 pm (EST) on Mar 22, 2009

Somebody on 'what we're reading: fantasy/sci fi' asked what we'd recommend for next year's 101010 challenge in fantasy and again, seperately, for scifi. Here's what I put:
1. Magic Kingdom For Sale--Sold! by Terry Brooks
2. Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop
3. Six of Swords by Carole Nelson Douglas
4. Curse of the Mistrwraith by Janny Wurts
5. The Unwilling Warlord by Lawrence Watt-Evans
6. Rhapsody: Child of Blood by Elizabeth Haydon
7. D'Shai by Joel Rosenberg
8. Household Gods by Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove
9. The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen R. Donaldson
10. The Green Rider by Kristen Britain

#1 is hilarious, quirky very fun.
#2 is not for you nor is #6 (sex is a major theme in both)
#8 is another alternate history kind of book and I don't remember how much/if there was sex in it...

voila

posted by suslyn at 12:18 pm (EST) on Mar 20, 2009

Kay,
I asked a friend about Tigana as she's reading it now. Her response:

"I am loving Tigana but if your friend wants a book with no sex this is not the one. It actually has a lot more sex in it than most books I read and I've been surprised that I haven't found it disturbing. However, except in one instance--maybe two--the sex is not particularly graphic and is not gratuitous--it works with the story.

"I also loved The Doomsday Book and that one has no bad language or sex. TadAD says that it is more historical fiction than scifi--the story starts in the not too distant future and involves traveling back through time to the Middle Ages. The young graduate student who does the traveling gets stuck there and there are two parallel stories of what's going on in the "present" and what's going on in the past. However there is no "magic"--if that is what she is looking for.

"Last year I read the series by Susan Cooper called "The Dark Is Rising" which I enjoyed. It is YA but is a good fantasy--especially after the first book, which I considered to be not as well written."

I read The Dark is Rising but didn't really care for it... but I'm in the minority. :)

posted by suslyn at 7:00 am (EST) on Mar 15, 2009

also, fyi, tigana is one I often use to introduce non-fantasy reading folk to the genre. so far it's gone over quite well.

Now there's a book, two actually, which I think you'd enjoy which are alternative history. While often put under sci-fi I think they could satisfy the fantasy definition about as easily.

Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card -- One of my top two reads this year, originally recommended to me by a non-fantasy reading librarian. good stuff.

And The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. While both alt hist they are quite, quite, different from each other. The first re: Columbus (felt like I'd read his biography when I was done) and the other about the Black Death. Both really superb.

posted by suslyn at 7:02 pm (EST) on Mar 14, 2009

Riddlemaster of Hed by Patricia McKilip
The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen Donaldson
and Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
come to mind as well :)

All quite different from each other and all quite good.

Bloodrights by Lee Wood -- how could I forget that one? :)

posted by suslyn at 6:59 pm (EST) on Mar 14, 2009

Have you read The Hobbit?

posted by suslyn at 8:21 am (EST) on Mar 14, 2009

Try Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander. If you like it there are 4 more in the series. It's YA and a longtime fav of mine.

Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold. wonderful book and beautifully written.

will get back to you for other recs.

posted by suslyn at 8:20 am (EST) on Mar 14, 2009

We may, likely do, have more books in common. My real library is in storage and France. Most of it is not logged here.

Glad to see you joined the group -- it's been fun (wrong word) to see God work. XOXO
S

posted by suslyn at 1:21 am (EST) on Mar 1, 2009

Hi,

I just checked out your library, and we actually share more than 13 titles. I havent signed up for the "unlimited" version yet, so I have a couple of accounts right now (see user "kaydidid" and some I haven't listed yet. How long have you been homeschooling?

Kay

posted by kayinpa at 3:57 am (EST) on Mar 4, 2008

Hello,
We share 13 titles, and I just added the cover for the most obscure one: The Silver Mace by Maud and Miska Petersham. I'm also a homeschooler, by the way.

posted by SaintSunniva at 8:48 pm (EST) on Feb 12, 2008