I don't plan on gloating about my FABULOUS night life often. But I have to tell you about last night. We went to a talk by one of my favorite authors- Mary Doria Russell- Author of The Sparrow and Children of God- two of my favorite books ever. She was really fun. Even Kent found her funny and interesting- and I have to admit that I dragged him out when he would've probably preferred to play his guitar and go to bed early.
Anyhew, Mary has published a new book, which I purchased, and will report on later. It was wonderful to see her- I find her career trajectory inspirational as she spent a very long time in the professional world and took 7 years to write her first novel. What a novel. It's about (as she puts it) Jesuits in space. It's earthshakingly beautiful, tragic, funny and inspiring. It changed my world view. What I'm leaving out is that she's a cultural anthropologist by training, and really delves into the zeitgeist of the civilizations that she creates. Lovely, lovely book- and there's no excuse not to run out and get it from the library. I know that the Bozeman library has it!
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