To My Authors...

I love that you have all signed up to be authors on the site. You are so special! Being an Author means that you can post directly to the page just like I can. When you sign into the site, click "New Post" and write about whatever you want, then click "Post". See, it's really easy! I love the comments, and I realize you all won't always have profound things to write about but post on the main site if you can. Then people won't have to listen to me all the time! ~wink~

Laurie,

I almost missed your comment on the Welcome message. That would be a perfect opportunity to ask others about The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin. No, I have not heard of it but it sounds interesting. What do the rest of you think? We have been talking about adding more genres to our repetoire... this might be a good choice for science fiction.

From BN.com:

The Left Hand of Darkness explores the themes of sexual identity, incest, xenophobia, fidelity, and betrayal in a tale of an Earth ambassador, Genly Ai, who is sent to the planet of Gethen, whose inhabitants are androgynous. Through his relationship with a native, Estraven, Ai gains understanding both of the consequences of his fixed sexual orientation and of Gethenian life. As in many of her works, Le Guin incorporates a social message in her science fiction tale. Scholes feels that "the great power of the book comes from the way it interweaves all its levels and combines all its voices and values into an ordered, balanced, whole."