First, apologies to my gifter for making you wait for confirmation; the box actually arrived in my city on Monday, but I missed the delivery attempt, and I couldn't get out of work early enough until today to go to the post office and beg for my package from the grumpy workers. :) But what I got was worth it!

So I was a difficult giftee -- to be honest, while filling out my likes and dislikes, I didn't even know what I would get myself if I were in my gifter's shoes! However, my awesome gifter definitely came through, sending me not one but three science fiction novels (and an Amazon Digital gift card for Kindle books!) to get me started on sci-fi, a genre I always meant to pick up but never knew where to start in (I'm a big fantasy/historical fiction kind of person).

Anyway, I mentioned I had liked "Ender's Game" back in the day, so she sent me "Pastwatch," which I'm super-excited about because it's time travel. Someone recommended this book to me a few years ago, but now that I have a copy in my hands, I'm motivated to get off my ass (well, figuratively) and actually read it. Then there's "Starship Troopers," which should be interesting as well (it's gotta be good if they based several movies on it, right?), and finally, the first book of The Dark Tower series, "The Gunslinger." I always saw the later books of this series at the bookstore and heard about them on Reddit, but for some reason never picked it up.

And, of course, there's the Amazon gift card! So many new books to read, and so little time! Thank you so much, R (I don't have your username, and I don't want to reveal your name here)... these will definitely be a great introduction to sci-fi.