New book

Okay, somebody posted something recently that I read with a link to a new book just coming out from Baen Books. It's Freehold by Michael Z. Williamson. I thought it was one of the poly LJ communities I'm on, but I can't find the original post again. Anyway, Baen's a great drug//// bookdealer, he puts up sample chapters - "the first hit is free!" I've read all 14, and Karl's most of the way through them.

So it's supposed to be out as of January. We hit four bookstores tonight. Agh. No go at any of them. I suspect I'll be ordering it online tonight.

An interesting book. Sounds like what I thought the libertarians OUGHT to be like. Poly themes, sorta, pagan stuff, military stuff. Anyway, it looks interesting enough I'm going to buy the book and try the rest.

I ought to also order that software development book that Karl keeps looking for and never finding while I'm at it. (Although "while I'm at it" is a very DANGEROUS phrase to use while on Barnes & Noble's website!)

that's it, I'm converting

someone posted this on a thread on the Lois list (from last Dec - I unsubscribed pre-trip, as the volume was huge, and haven't caught up yet. When I do I'll resubscribe.)

The Perfect Beauty of Hathor

"In Egypt, the physical ideal of an erotically beautiful woman was one
blessed with the heavy thighs of (the goddess) Hathor. Prayers have been
found in which women beseech Hathor to bestow large hips and thighs upon
them. Burial rituals included a prayer chanted by the embalmer that the
deceased's face be made the most perfect among the gods, and her thighs the
heaviest among the goddesses."

Layne Redmond, _When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm_