Reading The Tea

Is available July 21, 2007. So you all know what I’ll be doing that day!

The bad thing about having bronchitis is, well, the obvious being sick and coughing up lungs thing.
The good thing is that it forced me to stay home, curled up on the couch in my purple flowered comforter (That I’ve had since I was ten.) sipping a can of San Pellegrino Limonata and reading Dragons: The Greatest Stories,a collection of short stories edited by Martin H. Greenberg. The Orson Scott Card story “The Bully and the Beast” was amusing, though not up to his full potential (My favorite novel of his is “Enchantment.”). I wondered why I hadn’t heard of Esther Friesner, another of the authors. An amazon search revealed that some of her other work includes “Split Heirs” and “Gnome Man’s Land.” Oh, and not to be overlooked, “Star Trek: The Next Generation:The Genesis Wave : Book Two.” Excuse me while my inner fantasy snob has a fit… Though to be fair to her, her story in this collection “Take Me Out To the Ballgame,” in which a die-hard Cubs fan summons a dragon in order to have it devour the Mets pitcher was fairly amusing. I wonder if the other authors I’m not familiar with will be of the same caliber? I’m saving the Ray Bradbury and Ursula Le Guin stories for last, just in case.