One of the nice things about marrying Gavin is that he enjoys reading as much as I do (or rather, as much as I did until I went to college and reading was no longer for fun, I’m recovering). The nice thing that goes hand-in-hand with marrying a fellow reader is that one’s library expands.
Some of the books are clearly “Gavin” books (all of Isaac Asimov), while others are clearly “Kindli” books (The New Wife). Then there is the gray area in between. You’d think The Demolished Man (winner of the FIRST Hugo Award) would be Gavin’s, it is on the shelf next to Asimov. You’d be wrong, it is Kindli’s. Then, in the middle of Kindli’s German History books, is one book of Gavin’s What we Knew.
My favorites are the ones where both of us have copies, Gavin thought some of them were his, until I pointed out if they were, we’d have duplicates. We only have one boxes set of the Chronicles of Narnia, one set of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series (Golden Compass, etc.), and one copy of T.H. White’s Once & Future King. The same goes for most of Thomas L. Friedman’s works.
In my spare time, when I’m not cooking/assembling meals, doing laundry, cleaning or job hunting, I’ve been taking advantage of the newly expanded library in our living room, as has Gavin, he’s in the middle of Lamb by Christopher Moore.
The first few books I read were sci-if/fantasy books by Garth Nix. They were about Special People who had Special Powers and could do Special Things. I guess Ordinary People don’t have books written about them, you have to go out and Accomplish Something Grand (or write a memoir. Me? I’m keeping a blog).
After that, I skimmed through the Fiction section of our bookcase and found Microserfs a book claiming to be about ordinary people (geeks who need lives). The premise of the book is that several geeks have decided to leave Microsoft and start their own company… Not extraordinary, not insanely ordinary. It written in a rather random diary style by the main character, Dan. Parts of it I just don’t get. It must be a geek thing.
Speaking of geeks, Gavin is wearing his /(bb|[^b]{2})/ (to be, or not to be) shirt again.
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