I am a huge reader. I love books and I love re-reading books. The stories that people come up with are amazing. As a child, I learned to read very early, if only so I could be transported into other worlds whenever I wanted. Being sent to my room was never horrible, because I could always read and escape. The biggest punishment was being restricted from reading.
Some of you may remember that I met my husband from an online book community. Our daughter is named after a book character. Books have always been a significant part of my life.
One of my all time favorite book series is Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. It’s a series that is difficult to explain, but is kind of a historical fiction fantasy. An English nurse from 1950 gets transported through standing stones back to the 18th century Scotland. It has action, adventure, romance, history….so many things. The writing is superb, the characters are so full and the story is just amazing.
Last night, I had the priveledge of meeting Diana Gabaldon. She was so sweet and unbelievabley smart. With a bachelor’s in zoology, a master’s in marine biology and a Ph.D. in ecology, she is not your usual novelist and it shows in how she speaks, the stories she tells and the books she writes.
Diana Gabaldon, myself, my mom and my mother-in-law
The new book is phenomenal and well worth the wait.
If you are looking for another book series to read, I highly recommend Outlander. It has anything and everything one could want in a series. If you’ve read it before, let me know so I can attack you and see if you’ve read the most recent book. My mom is finishing her re-read and my mother-in-law is still on book 4, so I don’t have anyone to talk to about it!
And with that, I leave you with a poem from last night that she gave us:
That’s so cool. I wish that I could have been there. She sounds like a really neat person.
She really was. Even being unimaginably exhausted, she was so warm and welcoming. And hilarious!
Oh my goodness…that is hilarious!! It’s funny because in my reader only the first two lines of that poem were showing, so the last three lines were quite unexpected!! 🙂 I have to admit I have not heard of this series; I will be sure to check it out!
Hahahaha, that is too funny that only the first two lines were shown. So funny!
Let me know what you think of it!
How exciting! I’ll have to check out her books. The poem made me giggle…oh my!
You’ll have to let me know what you think of them!
oh very cool, sounds like a fun time and glad she was so nice.
It was so much fun. And yeah, I like it when famous people and pseudo-famous people are nice. It would be so easy for them to be otherwise.
What a great opportunity! The poem made me chuckle.
It was so fabulous!
It’s so cool that you got to meet her! I really need to devote some time to reading Outlander ~ if you love it so much, I’m sure I will too. 🙂 And that poem is hilarious!
Started The Hunger Games yet? Speaking of re-reading, I’m starting to listen to the sequel on my Ipod for probably the tenth time this morning. The story just never gets old!
Hope you have a wonderful day!
I really think you’ll love it.
And I haven’t started the Hunger Games. I’m failing, I know. lol. I may need to find someone that owns it, that might end up being easier. If not, I’ll have to wait until Christmas when I get a Barnes & Noble gift card and just buy it. Since I’m sure I’ll love it too.
I loooove reading. Sadly, I don’t get as much time anymore but I enjoy it so much. I have actually gotten involved in a book the past few days and my schoolwork is going to be lacking because of it. oops.
I haven’t read that series and no darn well I won’t be able to anytime soon. I will watch for them at garage sales though. One can never have too many books.
Yes, one can never have too many books. Especially good books. And I remember when I was in school, I always had to make sure I put aside time to read something fun, because otherwise I went CRAZY.
LOL! So funny! 🙂 I LOVE to read, but I get so wrapped up in books that I cannot put it down until I am done with it… wish as you know with kids is bad. So I try to limit my reading to vacations. I am almost done with the one that I read on the plane over the weekend!
I totally understand. I also have the ability to read multiple books at a time though, so I grab the reading whenever I can. Currently, while pumping at work even. It’s fun!
I finally got around to searching this out on your blog. (I love that you have a search option… so cool!) The poem was short, not exactly sweet, and totally funny!
I adore my search option!
And she is so awesome, isn’t she?!?!