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Baking Until I Drop

I just read this.
(preamble: I’m moving out of Rachel’s house and Jamie is moving his stuff in so by the time the wedding comes around they’ll be done…I think. So alot of the books and CDs and DVDs are occupying the living room that I’ve got cluttered and so I looked at the books and found it..and read…uncharted territory of love and sex in the blurb and wandered into the kitchen and asked incredulously, “uncharted territory of sex?”

but he said it was quite good, which of course i was willing to believe since he’s loaned me some Connie Willis before and I liked them alot!)

Anywayz, it’s a nice light and funny scifi about two explorers (Fin and Carson). They together with their indigenous guide Bult and CJ, lady back at base wander around a planet charting territory…all the while they’re supposed to be very careful not to disturb the natural flora and fauna and not interfere with the indigenous population and their native guide Bult freely fines them for any and all infractions. The fines of course go into Bult’s and his people’s hands. It’s kinda like a Star Trek Prime Directive gone horribly wrong.

On the current expedition they have a visiting socioexozoologist (somebody who studies mating habits).

Well I’m no good at reviews but I liked it, nothing much changed from the beginning of the book to the end (well…some things did but…) and it was very amusing and confusing and a good read. I enjoyed it much more than I did packing boxes.

Oh wait, did I pack any boxes???