Re: SF: Book recommendations

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The True Melissa wrote:
> Verily, in article <10lmj7i$3ecue$2@dont-email.me>, did
> noone@nowhere.com deliver unto us this message:
>> Don wrote:
>> > The True Melissa wrote:
>> >> Verily, in article <10lk4a9$2le82$3@dont-email.me>, did
>> >> noone@nowhere.com deliver unto us this message:
>> >>>> Niffenegger, Audrey. 2005. The time traveler's wife.
>> >>>
>> >>> Drek. A nonsensical attempt to outdo Nabokov's Lolita. Pathetic romance
>> >>> with handwavium time travel as a distraction.
>> >>
>> >> Huh, I enjoyed that one. It's not SF; it's a love story. Read as a love
>> >> story, it's nice IMO.
>> >
>> > Agreed. Yet some rascally readers repress the romance as they try to
>> > twist the story into thirty-six year old Henry grooming six year old
>> > Clare.
>>
>> It is a long time since I read it but wasn't that aspect there?
>
> It's also been a long time since I read it, but in my memory, he is
> careful to treat her like the child she is during that scene.

Thirty-six year old Henry does groom six year old Claire to provide his
immediate, non-romantic, basic needs whenever he happens to show up in
the meadow bare bones. But bear in mind, Claire's a willing accomplice -
as are most women in my life. They can not bear to see a creature go 
thirsty or hungry.

    "A traditional list of immediate 'basic needs' is food (including
    water), shelter and clothing. Many modern lists also include also 
    transportation, sanitation, education, and healthcare. Different 
    agencies use different lists."
    
# # #

    When asked how his Catholic faith has shaped him, Alito said 
    his faith provides him meaning and purpose.

    “The title of a book by Tolstoy has been translated as What 
    Then Should We Do? My faith gives me an answer. It would be 
    terrible to think that life has no meaning, that we are going 
    nowhere, and that what we do until we die is a matter of 
    indifference. That is what tortures so many today.”
    
<https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/justice-alito-warns-seminarians-religious-liberty-is-in-danger>
    
WHAT THEN SHOULD WE DO? appears in Luke 3:10–14. Tolstoy's non-fictional
work describes the Russian social conditions in 1886. It begins with a
Moscow beggar being thrown into jail for begging.
    WHAT THEN SHOULD WE DO will be the next book heard (eg read) by me.

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