New Member Introduction
Hi, I've been here a couple of weeks and have loved reading peoples' thoughts and recommendations! I'm divorced and live in California with my kids (11,17), I've been reading scifi/fantasy all my life, and after a few years of reading non-genre lit fic, I'm returning to my reading passion.
In my forties, I find it really hard to make friends with similar interests in real life, so I've been seeking an online communtity to connect with diverse people with similar interests. Does anyone know of a place to go online for realtime conversation about fantasy/scifi? I haven't had much luck with finding that.
Right now I'm reading C.S. Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy, and I think it's the best series I've read thus far. I'm about to start Calenture, by Storm Constantine (whom I haven't read) for a yahoo group discussion. After reading all the recommendations on this forum for Altered Carbon I bought it and its sequel, only to find out that it's supposed to be incredibly gory, not my thing. Hmmm, got two extra books now.

I've got a couple hundred (yes) scifi/fantasy books to-be-read, waiting on my shelves, but I'm always looking for more.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
~Albert Einstein
currently reading: When True Night Falls, C.S. Friedman; The Second Summoning, Tanya Huff
recently read: Black Sun Rising, C.S. Friedman; Echo, Francesca Lia Block; American Gods, Neil Gaiman; The Little Country, Charles de Lint