Amber Benson Made Me Smile

I was going through one of my Twitter lists (as I am wont to do), when I noticed that hyphenate Amber Benson had twittered a tweet (posted a tweet? tweeted a tweet? we need new verbs):

Since I’m pretty much up for nutty and babbling ‘most anytime, and a vlog from one of my followees more often than that, I decided to trek on over to http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=20758 to see what the what was.

When I arrive, what do I spy with my little eye but embeds and links to five of Ms Benson’s vlogs (via YouTube). As I don’t want to needlessly hijack their links I’m leaving it for you to explore the site. Even so, one thing in particular really caught my ear that I feel I must link to. It was in vlog #3:

Being that I love Stranger in a Strange Land and have since I was a wee lad in the early 70s when I first read it, that statement definitely caught my attention. It seems, sometimes, that it’s fashionable to bash that book, but perhaps not so much if you “grok” it. (Yeah, sorry about that. Very cliché to say it that way. But it’s concise. Not that the explanation of why I did it has helped with the conciseness–if anything, it’s made it worse–but the intent was there.) So, when someone else comes out to say that it’s one of their, “All time favorite books,” I tend to notice.

I did, of course, watch all the vlogs. It’s always interesting to me to listen to other writer-like creative folk. There are so many different points of view. Amber’s seemed very familiar to me. Sometimes other writers seem to be on a different plane (the geometric thing, not the flying thing). For me, that plane thing also exists in regards to other artists. I was able to relate to what Amber was saying immediately. It was like listening to a peer.

At any rate, whatever about Amber Benson’s work that you like, I encourage you to pop on over to watch her blogs and maybe follow her (@amber_benson) on the twitter-web-network thingy. And it might not hurt to check out some of her books:

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