Good Deeds
Jul. 10th, 2009 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hjcallipygianDr. 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.
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.