Louise Fowler

@alia Well, they were written in the nineties, right?  So it’s set forty years in the future, from when he predicted the stuff.  It’s a lot closer now, and that’s why I’m impressed with how well he depicted what the future would be like.  And we might actually have our first female president around 2040. 😉

@alia Okay, so the Mars Diaries are basically the exact same as the Robot Wars, but with different names.  You know that, right? 😉  There are ten Mars Diaries, and the Robot Wars combines two in each book.  They were published as ten books first, then I guess people forgot about them and they decided to republish them and combine them so there wo…[Read more]

@alia Something I find interesting about them is that the author was basically spot on with what technology we’d have by 2040.  They’re making cars that can drive themselves with GPS; tracker chips are in wide use already; you can control robots with your brain.  It’s all getting real.  Have you noticed that?

I was at a homeschool conference in…[Read more]

@alia Oh, I absolutely love the Mars Diaries/Robot Wars by Sigmund Brouwer!  Have you ever read them?  They have basically the exact same premise.  If you haven’t read them, you definitely should!!

@alia Hey!  What’s the idea?

@catwing That’s good. 🙂

@catwing I’m here!  How are you doing?

@rochellaine

At least we’ll never run out of books to read….

Of course I’ll warn you. What sort of queen would I be if I didn’t?

Gracious goodness. 😛

Goodnight 🙂

@seekjustice The long list of books to read… *shakes head* I know exactly what you mean.

Yes, so if something happens, you should have plenty of time to warn us.  Can I trust you to do so? 😛

(There are definitely people that uneducated.  I’ve seen lots of similarly ridiculous quotes. 😛 )

I’m going to say goodnight now.  Talk to you later!

@rochellaine

Well, I’ll have to put them on my list to read (as if that list wasn’t long enough already 😛 ).

Sounds interesting, I’ll have to look into that one as well!

Oh my word. Are there really people that…uneducated? Unfortunately, I can’t stop snickering about that now. And Australia’s something like 16 hours in front of you, so we’re…[Read more]

@seekjustice Ah, I see. 🙂  Irrational fears always seem to be the worst.

It’s been a while since I read most of Henty’s books (we have the full collection, or possibly minus one or two) and I don’t remember that one well.  I think it wasn’t one of my favorites.  I have three favorites, and one of those three was the one on the French Re…[Read more]

@rochellaine

In no particular way, one of them is pretty old. But Josh decided he was terrified of them and couldn’t ride until they were all gone. Apparently, in his eyes they are monsters who might eat him.

I’d have to check, but I believe its one on Sir Francis Drake, but I could be wrong. We could have a few actually.

What’s Lydia…[Read more]

@seekjustice “tyrannical rule of the Shetland ponies?” Haha!  Sounds intriguing.  In what manner, exactly, are ponies tyrannical?

Which book do you have?  Oh, well, the one I was referring to is Dale Robertson.  He’s not far above a lot of other favorite actors I have, but he’s the one I’ve “picked” to be at the top of the list right now. 😛 …[Read more]

@rochellaine

My littlest brother was just demonstrating his use of bicycle brakes and showing off. Of course, I pretended to be all excited about his remarkable abilities.

Me: Whoa, you can use your brakes, Josh!

Him: No, I was not using my brakes.

Me: Oh, did you stop using your strong imagination?

Him: No, I used my back brakes.

Me: That’s…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Sorry, I just had to save my brother from the tyrannical rule of the Shetland ponies and then he fell off his bike and I had to deal with that as well 😀

I have heard of Henty. I’m pretty sure I have one of his books as well, but I haven’t read it. Oh, who’s your favourite actor?

😛 Love the Princess Bride quotes 😛 if it actually…[Read more]

@seekjustice I was just reading where Chessy disapproves of Justice’s methods of trickery and bribery, but for some reason doesn’t disapprove of his plan to kill people… 😛 Yeah, I know that’s not really what’s going on, but it just reminded me of this:

@seekjustice The Haitian revolution is very horrible and very interesting.  It has many similarities to the French revolution.  I first heard about it in a G.A.Henty book.  (Have you heard of Henty?  He’s extremely popular as a historical author among U.S. homeschoolers)  I later watched a movie about it, and absolutely loved it.  (It didn’t hurt…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Yep, its after Napoleon was exiled and Louis XVII (maybe? there’s so many Louises I get them mixed up) is on the throne. No, I’ve never heard of the Haitian revolution.

I don’t necessarily mind people getting married young, say if the girl was seventeen and the guy eighteen or nineteen, and I don’t necessarily have a problem with…[Read more]

@seekjustice Well, since I’ve never read Les Mis fully, I guess I didn’t notice the time period much.  I probably would be able to tell if I read it in-depth, since, as you say of yourself, I am also a history nerd. 😛  Okay, so this is after Napoleon, right?  I actually don’t know much about Napoleon, either, except as he has to do with the Ha…[Read more]

@Rochellaine

You aren’t alone in thinking that 😀 The June Rebellion, which was what it was called, happened in 1832 and it was mostly led by students. See, after the French Revolution, the monarch eventually was restored to the throne and things got even worse from then on (for the poor at least. For everyone else, things were dandy) and there…[Read more]

@valtmy Yeah, sorry, I really haven’t been on top of my beta work for a while.  SeekJustice sent me her part three several days ago, and I haven’t even read half of it, while I usually read her stuff straight through day of or next day.  And I didn’t get to Jen’s book until a couple of weeks after she finished it, I think.

So, if I don’t get to i…[Read more]