I Think This is the First Time I Have Seen This Answer....

What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Social Nerd You're interested in things such as politics, psychology, child care, and peace. I wouldn't go so far as to call you a hippie, but some of you may be tree-huggers. You're the type of people who are interested in bettering the world. You're possible the least nerdy of them all; unless you participate in other activies that paled your nerdiness compared to your involvement in social activities. Whatever the case, we could still use more of you around. ^_^
Literature Nerd
Drama Nerd
Musician
Science/Math Nerd
Anime Nerd
Gamer/Computer Nerd
Artistic Nerd
What Be Your Nerd Type? Quizzes for MySpace

The only thing that doesn't really apply is the child care thing. I like kids, but only to a certain point at this time in my life. I especially prefer other peoples' kids.

The Sci-Fi Experience

It had fully been my intention to read several books with a science fiction theme, and I still might in the next two weeks, but my reading has only just started to pick back up. This means that January, and likely February, will be very small number-wise. It also means that I am glad that I did not really join up for any actual challenges that will be ending this month, other than The Four-Legged Friends Challenge and I am finished that one. I did read one science-fiction book of sorts in January, though. It was Mary Modern by Camille Deangelis. I purchased this book with gift certificates that I received at Christmas time, based on a very interesting review by Carl over at Stainless Steel Droppings and a very strong liking for the cover.

Lucy Morrigan, a young genetic researcher, lives with her boyfriend, Gray, and an odd collection of tenants in her crumbling family mansion. Surrounded by four generations of clothes, photographs, furniture, and other remnants of past lives, Lucy and Gray’s home life is strangely out of touch with the modern world—except for Lucy’s high-tech lab in the basement.

Frustrated by her unsuccessful attempts to attain motherhood or tenure, Lucy takes drastic measures to achieve both. Using a bloodstained scrap of an apron found in the attic, Lucy successfully clones her grandmother Mary. But rather than conjuring a new baby, Lucy brings to life a twenty-two-year-old Mary, who is confused and disoriented when she finds herself trapped in the strangest sort of déjà vu: alive in a home that is no longer her own, surrounded by reminders of a life she has already lived but doesn’t remember.

A remarkable debut novel, Mary Modern turns an unflinching eye on the joyous, heartbreaking, and utterly unexpected consequences of human desire.

First up, for the first book by this author, I have to say I was very impressed. She managed to come up with an idea that is not exactly fresh, but she put a fresh twist on it. It was a very readable book, and even though some of the events in the book did not really surprise me, I still enjoyed finding them out. Genetic engineering is a touchy subject. Some people are all for it, while others believe that people should only be created in the natural, god-given method. Deangelis writes a novel where even though it is not allowed to happen, it does, and she explores the results of this experiment.

Imagine, Lucy was trying to create a baby, but instead she brought to life a woman that was in her early 20's and who believed that she had already lived 20 years of her life. It has to be very unsettling for a person to be, in essence, carried through time. A person who sees evidence that she has already lived, but who cannot remember any of it. Her husband and children are gone and she is left alone in the world. For a large part of the book it is her attempting to settle into this new era. One of the methods that she employs is a book written by a man who would have had to travel through time to accomplish it. It is a guidebook for people like him and Mary who find themselves living years in the future and need to fill in the gaps of what happened before.

All in all, this was a very good book, and I cannot do this review the justice it deserves because it is not fresh in my head! You would think with as little reading as I have done lately I would be all caught up on reviews, but it would not be me if I was not behind!

A Week in the Life....

Well, February is not going much better than January in terms of reading and blogging, but I am still alive! I just am never home and when I am I have so many other things to do, I do not get a lot of time to sit down on the computer. I do visit blogs, but not in any sort of organized manner, and I usually am so far behind that I mostly read and hardly ever comment, but I do visit!

This week I decided to watch a few movies in my spare time. I watched The Astronaut Farmer, Pan's Labyrinth, Flags of our Fathers, The Zodiac, and I bought and watched Across the Universe. I had seen it before, but I really like that movie, so I of course had to watch it again. In honour of it, sort of, I actually sang at karaoke last night! I cannot sing, it is a well-known fact, but I am passable. Everyone thinks I do not sing because I am shy, but it is mostly just that I know I cannot sing. Anyways, I sang Hey! Jude. It was actually in tune, and I do know all the words, so I was proud of myself. And, I am not shy, so I was not even nervous. I was proud of myself, but I will likely not do it again. Singing is not really my thing. At least not in public! Today, I am battling a cold. I felt it coming on yesterday, so all I really did all day was sleep! Now I have no idea how I am going to sleep tonight, so instead I am reading. I just wanted to take a break and say hi!

A couple people have nominated me for the 'You Make My Day' award, so thanks to Bonnie and Clare! I was surprised to get it from anyone because my blog is pretty dead of late, so it is hard to make anyones day when there is nothing happening! So many blogs and their bloggers make my day, so it is very hard for me to choose!

Julia from A Piece of my Mind
Booklogged from A Reader's Journal
Jean Pierre from Bombastic Bagman
Bonnie from Bonnie's Books
Samantha from Book Minx
Chris from Book-a-rama
Bookfool from Bookfoolery and Babble
iliana from Bookgirl's Nightstand
Aarti from Booklust
sherid from Bookie

These are just some of the many people that deserve this award... I never even made it out of B... Yes, I cheated.

And, my friend has me listening to Meatloaf... off to it, then!
Anyways, I am hopefully going to write some reviews this week because I am going to an amazing thing called reading!