Unbeknownst to most of my readers, I am a member of the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour. I just haven't participated yet. So in an attempt to get my blogging in order, I am going to start a new separate blog about writing and books. This blog(the one you are reading now) will continue to chronicle my exciting and adventurous life and my beautiful children.
To follow the rabbit to my new blog click HERE. You may notice that this is not a Blogspot address. I feel a little like a backstabber, but there are some features over at wordpress I'd like to explore. So if you are only interested in my everyday life, I won't be offended if you don't stop by. I decided it is too confusing to jumble up everything on one blog.
2 comments:
This is from the guy who used to sit behind you on the same row as your grandmother at the church you attended before you discovered pre-school valet parking at the local mega-church. Your grandmother introduced me to your blog, and your husband's, and your sister's. If I had a blogname, which I don't, it might be rhymeswithplague. So much for anonymity.
I'm writing to say you just about made me fall out of my chair with your first sentence, "I am a member of the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour" because I didn't pause between "Christian" and "Science" and I thought you were admitting to a fascination with the writings of Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy. Same thing happened one time when I read in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the National Black Arts Festival. This is an example of how useful prepositions are in English. It's not that the Arts were Black (shades of occultism!) but that the particular Arts in question had been created by people who are black. Dr. Bergen Evans from Chicago used to call this phenomenon the Germanization of English, in which there are no prepositions, just nouns strung together in reverse order, giving us, for example, not the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, but the Animal Cruelty Prevention Society.
Speaking of science fiction, I haven't read all that much, just The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin and Alas, Babylon by somebody else, years ago, and that's about it, except for the C.S. Lewis trilogy and Tolkien's Ring books. The first two aren't Christian, I guess. I've also read some of Frank Peretti's stuff and that guy who wrote Red and Black and White (I forget his name). Oh, and 1984 and Animal Farm by Eric Blair a.k.a. George Orwell, and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Are they considered science fiction these days? I have read an excerpt from Titus Alone which is part of The Gormenghast Trilogy, also not Christian. Anyway, thanks for putting the link to CSFF on your blog; maybe if I'm feeling brave I'll sample some of the more recent stuff.
Ted Dekker. The Red/Black/White author's name is Ted Dekker.
...rhymeswithplague
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