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dreamer_easyThe self-help book with which I helped myself: What to do if you're burned out and blue, by Kristina Downing-Orr. (In my right mind I would never have looked at a book with such a dreadful title.)
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Some self-help of a different kind
Date: 2007-04-17 12:03 am (UTC)http://www.shortpacked.com
I've spent the entire day there reading. It's made me smile, and made me laugh, and that's almost never a bad thing.
Re: Some self-help of a different kind
Date: 2007-04-17 01:55 am (UTC)Re: Some self-help of a different kind
Date: 2007-04-17 02:13 am (UTC)"I'm Batman"
"I Know"...
Ok, it's funnier when you actually read them...
I got Blue Box in the mail today!
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Date: 2007-04-17 01:22 pm (UTC)Re: Some self-help of a different kind
Date: 2007-04-17 01:25 pm (UTC)Re: Some self-help of a different kind
Date: 2007-04-17 04:27 pm (UTC)I'm enjoying the book a lot so far, especially finding little "easter eggs" like that one. I hope there are more. And I'm also enjoying finding the occasional time & space anachronism as well (Only found a few of them).
I think the reason I like your books so much is that you always seem to give me all of the "shit yeah!" moments that i have in my head when I'm reading... "Wouldn't it be cool if the Doctor ends up doing this... oh, shit yeah!"
Re: Some self-help of a different kind
Date: 2007-04-18 12:08 am (UTC)Let me know the anachronisms. I want to set some future novel in the same time period (aka When We Lived In the Us™).
Re: Some self-help of a different kind
Date: 2007-04-18 02:24 am (UTC)Peri using the air conditioner in her hotel room... she'd freeze in December in DC. According to http://weather.dcpages.com , the low the night of December 23, 1981, was 41 degrees... she MIGHT have left the air conditioner running, but boy, would she be, uh, nipply in the morning...
On page 18, it's mentioned that Bob buys two two-gallon bottles of milk. Milk is sold in one-gallon jugs.
And the third one turns out to be a mistake on my part; I mistakenly thought the story was taking place in 1980, which would have made it difficult for Monday to have a Ford Escort, since it wasn't introduced until 1981 in North America.
I'm only into Chapter 20: Two, but I certainly have a great respect for how well you're juggling an Australian journalist in an American setting for a British book...
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Date: 2007-04-18 02:33 am (UTC)Re: Some self-help of a different kind
Date: 2007-04-18 04:04 pm (UTC)I'm re-learning my method of reading Orman novels, which is that I have to read them twice. Simultaneously. Read a few chapters, then go back a few more and re-read them to pick up the things I missed that have now been revealed in the chapters I'm currently reading...
Re: Some self-help of a different kind
Date: 2007-04-18 04:08 pm (UTC)http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/04/connections-at-vision-of-future-part-1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling_Occupants_of_Interplanetary_Craft
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2-blWgVk-A
You know, maybe you should create a discussion thread for each of your novels and sticky them at the top of your blog.
Starting with Blue Box, because I'm overloading this poor thread, lol.
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Date: 2007-04-21 02:31 am (UTC)Re: Some self-help of a different kind
Date: 2007-04-21 02:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-19 02:08 am (UTC)http://community.livejournal.com/ormans_blue_box
Not my first choice for names, but blue_box was taken already.
Anyway, I made it so I could put all my thoughts etc. about the novel there instead of dumping them all here and clogging up the tubes.
It's an open community and anyone can join. So, unless there's any objections (Kate?) I'm going to move things there.
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Date: 2007-04-19 02:33 am (UTC)