Sam Kowal

@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]

@rochellaine, oops, didn’t see the first part of your post.

I have noticed that. I love it when the futuristic books are realistic with what might happen. Especially when they are only set a few years into the future.

@rochellaine, Robot Wars. I haven’t had the chance to read Mars Diaries yet, but I wan to.

I keep trying to get a friend of mine to read them, but she has a huge list of books to read already and she keeps going back to her favorites so I don’t think she is going to get around to them anytime soon

My mom got us the first one to see if we would…[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]

@rochellaine, I’ve read them, and love them. I kinda claimed the family copy of book one for myself since I own the rest of the series. 🙂

I actually based this book idea on a mixture of those books and Ender’s Game. (just saying, I don’t really like the ender’s game book or movie but the movie provided some cool visual ideas).

@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!!

@catwing @dekreel @jane-maree @rochellaine @seekjustice @dragon-snapper @gh24682468999 @alia @kaya-young @skredder @everyone

I just put up another blog post today! Don’t worry, I won’t tag you every time I post, I just wanted to let y’all know. For some reason the email sent out that was supposed to notify of new posts only sent out one and not…[Read more]

@rochellaine, Its a sci-fi/dystopian story. The world has been at war for several decades. One of the groups goes around secretly testing kids and then kidnapping the smart ones at 9 to fight as their soldiers. At first the kids think it is a computer simulation until they realize that the bots they are controlling are actually killing. But if…[Read more]

@catwing, I’m pretty excited about this one, but because it deals with a lot of psychology and medical things I have to do a ton of research

@alia Hey!  What’s the idea?

@catwing That’s good. 🙂

@catwing, @rochellaine, I’m here outlining and researching a new book idea

@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]