An Overwhelmed Creative

  I wanted to write a bit about certain thoughts I've been having recently. We live in a world that has a lot of output, and there is so much to choose from, isn't it? Just take television alone. When I was growing up (in the 80s), I could never imagine to have SO many shows about the things that I liked!  I remember when the X-Men movies came out. Back then, very few people knew who the X-Men were. They knew Superman and Batman, but the X-Men? I felt like the X-Men movie was the best thing that happened to me! I did! I had read the comics (lots of them), and I knew all the back stories. I even felt like I was superior  to most people because they only got what was in the movies, but I knew much more. I was the queen! LOL (yeah, I wasn't that smart back then). And look at the superhero universe right now. It has exploded, hasn't it? Well, following that train of thought, I began to think that there is so much to choose from and not enough time. TV shows and movies are e...

This one is, hands down, the best book I've read all year. I've heard about it—and I had already read The Martian a few years back—but I had no idea how good it was going to be.  I got it for my birthday and couldn't wait to start it . . . and then I couldn't stop. I don't want to give too much away because part of my enjoyment was the discovery journey. The story is told in a mix of present events and back-flashes, which come slowly (and there's a reason for that). But let's just say that our main character is in space and there's a reason he's there and there's a good reason why he doesn't remember. There is a big problem to solve, and as the book blurb says, our main character will meet a most unlikely ally.  This ally is nothing like I could have imagined, and I confessed I spent many a sleepless night trying to figure out how in the world they were going to work together. But there is lots of science when coming up with solutions to all ...