Role Play

Many adults have found on the Internet, the world of RPG (role playing games). They also have books, which I didn't know about. If you like this world, Palladium Books, may interest you.

I'm not into RPG myself. I just don't have the time to even think about any other role but as mom right now to my four kids. They've kept me so busy this summer that I'm looking forward to the start of school. Does that make me bad?

I actually ran across this site when I was looking up the definition of "palladium" for palladium rings. Seeing how I have a blog for books, I thought I'd post about it here since RPG is popular with a lot of people.

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Wifey by Judy Blume

I was surprised to see a Judy Blume book in any other area of the library but the children's section so I grabbed it to see what it was. The cover says "the national bestseller about a very nice housewife with a very dirty mind."

What it ended up being about was a bored housewife who wanted more from her marriage than she had (which, honestly, I would have as well). I couldn't imagine living the vanilla marriage she lived. A dinner schedule, a (short) sex schedule and only one position, no intimacy with her husband...who could live like that for very long without wanting more?

It left me wondering about the lives of previous generations. Was that what marriage was really like for many people?

The book is called Wifey by Judy Blume.

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Fear No Evil by Allison Brennan

I just finished reading Allison Brennan's Fear No Evil. It deals with the prevalent abuse of the Internet by criminals, in this case, Internet pornography, written in a fictional storyline, but deals with what could be real-life Internet crime of the worst kind. There is, of course, a romance written into the story but most of it is more of a suspense or thriller type of story. You won't find anybody lighting a ton of WoodWick Candles and sipping wine, but it was an interesting story and a good reminder on why we should keep a close eye on our children when they are on the Internet.

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I'm A Nerd

Growing up, I was a huge nerd. Not in the "Napoleon Dynamite" way but in a shy, bookworm kind of way. I didn't wear a pocket protector or anything like that, but I did dress funny (not by choice...just wore what was available to me as a kid). I guess that makes my parents the nerds! My brother called me nerd all the time because I was never without a book to read (and I read fast too).

I read because it took me away from my dysfunctional home life. I would get so engrossed in a book that the world around me disappeared. Parents fighting with each other or with my siblings was sent into the background. That love of reading never disappeared. If you click on the link at the top, you'll see all the books I've read over the past years. There were more, but I didn't keep track of the ones from the library until recently.

Does that still make me a nerd? I still don't wear a pocket protector (nowadays, you just need amodex to get ink stains out anyway), but I'll bet you my brother would still refer to me as a nerd or bookworm. My husband refers to me as "Booker T" (as in Booker T. Worm).

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Blood Dreams by Kay Hooper

I just finished Blood Dreams (Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novels) by Kay Hooper. It was a good book. I like psychic, suspense books and particularly like Kay Harper as an author. I'm online right now so I can find the next one in her series to check it out!

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