Miscellanea
Jul. 15th, 2013 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frogs_of_war Would a character make sense if he was desperately in love with someone, but not sexually attracted, as he isn't turned on by anyone? Would this guy be asexual? How does a relationship between someone who is asexual and someone who isn't, work? Anyone know a place I could look this up that is written by someone who knows what they are talking about? So much of the internet is people blowing smoke.
I just discovered that my favorite book ever is a free ebook (that comes in several formats). Agent of Change is science fiction and might be the first book I totally identified with the main character. I was young. Miri looked young. She is also short (check) and redheaded (which I was until I was in my thirties) and her hair was long enough to wear as a braid crown (I wanted hair that long). Plus she's tough and can protect herself in all by the most extraordinary circumstances. The book is about the most extraordinary of circumstances.
This book comes in first, because sometimes when I reread Pride and Prejudiced (my second favorite), I skip parts. I never skip any of Agent of Change. Years ago when I had an interview to get into an alternative high school, I told my favorite books and the teacher said I had diverse tastes, but I don't think it's that at all. Both books are about characters, one in the British countryside and the other on several planets and ships in between, but It's still about people.
Agent of Change can work as a stand alone. I didn't realize that there was a sequel for a decade after I read the first book. Or you can read all... fifteen, twenty of them. Personally I love the ones with Miri and Val Con, and Theo isn't bad, but Shan isn't my cup of tea and neither are prequels.
There are certainly worse ways to waste a few hours.
I had something else, but now I can't remember.
I just discovered that my favorite book ever is a free ebook (that comes in several formats). Agent of Change is science fiction and might be the first book I totally identified with the main character. I was young. Miri looked young. She is also short (check) and redheaded (which I was until I was in my thirties) and her hair was long enough to wear as a braid crown (I wanted hair that long). Plus she's tough and can protect herself in all by the most extraordinary circumstances. The book is about the most extraordinary of circumstances.
This book comes in first, because sometimes when I reread Pride and Prejudiced (my second favorite), I skip parts. I never skip any of Agent of Change. Years ago when I had an interview to get into an alternative high school, I told my favorite books and the teacher said I had diverse tastes, but I don't think it's that at all. Both books are about characters, one in the British countryside and the other on several planets and ships in between, but It's still about people.
Agent of Change can work as a stand alone. I didn't realize that there was a sequel for a decade after I read the first book. Or you can read all... fifteen, twenty of them. Personally I love the ones with Miri and Val Con, and Theo isn't bad, but Shan isn't my cup of tea and neither are prequels.
There are certainly worse ways to waste a few hours.
I had something else, but now I can't remember.
