I don’t often read science fiction, nor do I wade through nearly 400-page books. But for Connie Willis’ latest, The Road to Roswell, I happily made an exception. Filled with funny and over-the-top characters, plus a possible romance between two of the [few] sane folks, it reminded me at some points of a French farce. There is an alien, Indy (yes, named for Indiana Jones), who resembles a tumbleweed, and the young woman who works trying to communicate with it. She also untangles its tentacles when it has a meltdown. The humans and Indy both have time deadlines to meet, and it all seems impossible. I’m confident that I’d understand this novel in a much richer way—and get more of the jokes—if I were a sci fi movie buff, and even more so if I watched Westerns, which also enter the plot. (We’re in New Mexico, after all, and Nevada, with Monument Valley as a major player.) Well worth the time to read a fun romp of a novel.
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What I’m ReadingI began working in libraries as a seventh grader, courtesy of scoliosis. My orthopedic surgeon wrote me a pass to miss gym class, so I began working in the school library to feed my love of reading. Even after my surgery to correct the curvature, I kept getting out of gym to work in my high school library and then in my college library (for pay, at last!).
So began my eventual career as a college reference librarian—after a detour into teaching high school English. Later I worked for an educational publisher before going back to libraries.
I have a reading and writing life now. I devour both fiction and nonfiction, and will tell you about some of my favorite reads, both old friends and new discoveries.
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