Good Deeds

Dr. Scientist's sixteen-year-old niece is visiting us tonight. This is the first time I've met her -- she wasn't able to come to the wedding back in April. She saw my over-stuffed bookshelf and we got to talking about books and stuff, ends up she reads some fantasy...

Actually, wait. The first thing I must mention is that she looks almost exactly like my wife. Same height, same build, same hair, same face. Little less chin, fewer freckles, and more of a tan, but that's really the only differences. Well, other than age, obviously. Anyway.

So she immediately asks if I've read Twilight.

Oh, no.

I try to be nice and polite about how, no, I have not read Twilight but I'm not really interested in giving it a try. She's Team Jacob, not Team Edward, so at least there's that. Makes me happy.

But then I noticed that I still have my Emergency Backup Copy of Storm Front, the first book in the Dresden Files. (I have this copy because, two or three years ago, I tried to convince Dr. Scientist to read the series. It failed. She kept the book for a long time, and eventually I wanted to re-read it. So I bought another copy. Naturally.)

So I lent The Niece my more beat-up copy of Storm Front. Hopefully, she'll get hooked and I'll have converted a new follower.

And that, dear readers, was my good deed of the day.