o e butler

i'm reading the last book by octavia butler, fledgling. i've read only one other book by her. i think it was parable of the talents but i'm not 100% sure about that. it could have been parable of the sower. it wasn't kindred, though i have a copy of that one. wait - it was mind of my mind. yes, that one. i admit i've liked the idea of her for a long time, without actually reading much of her stuff. i like that she was an enormous black lesbian with a tremendous deep voice who wrote racially- and sexually-minded science fiction. is that weird? maybe. i don't know. i like that she occasionally shopped in the bookstore where i used to work, so i saw her sometimes. she bought trashy romance novels that she said she read as candy. so anyway i'm reading her last book, fledgling, and i'm liking it a lot! it's a twist on the vampire genre. it's engrossing and unpredictable. for some reason i'm into vampires (in a minor way - i don't dress up or anything). so i just wanted to say that i'm enjoying this book and thinking of this woman who died a year ago this month.