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First of all, Sorry. I just logged in today and saw the nonsense  on my last post. I'm not sure what exactly happened...the website decided to translate the language of an entire paragraph of the post into a mixture of Russian and and eating noises. So if by any chance you read the last post before I edited it, I apologize. If you read it and thought I was creating a new language, thank you for thinking that I am of Tolkien-esque awesomeness. Let it be known that though I AM amazing, there are people I just can't even compare myself to for fear of murder by their respective fandoms and smitement(I'm not sure of the past tense of smite and I don't want to open another tab so I'll stick with this one) by God for pretending that I'm on the level of some of His best work.Just off the top of my head and not in any particular order;

1. J.R. R. Tolkien
I don't even need to explain this one. I therefore will just say Lord of the Rings
2. George R.R. Martin
Again...self explanatory. A song of Ice and Fire

Sidebar;  What is it with the R.R.'s? Do those initials hold some sort of literary power? If my middle initials were R.R. would I be getting paid for this blog right now? Should I name my kids*name* R.R. *name* to ensure that they at least have one profitable talent?(I need one of those...all my talents will probably lose me money instead ) Anyway, studies need to be done.

3. J.K. Rowling
This woman changed my life. She made me wait for an owl, cry so hard I scared everyone in the vicinity, try to make butter beer...*sigh*
4. Serj Tankien
System of a Down needs to come back

I'm done for now. The top of my head is actually not very deep...but there are a lot of brilliant minds. Don't even get me started on the scientists!!!I'm not even talking about the Einsteins and Teslas of the world. If you think about every single device you use today(mechanical or not) you'll realize just how many great people there are that we never even think about. Special shout outs to Admiral Grace Hopper who came up with the compiler(translates human language to computer language) and helped create the first computer language and Carl von Linden who made the first modern fridge. Why these two in particular? Because the fridge and computer are the things I spend the most time with.

Girl crush

I loooooooooooooooove Chimamanda Adichie. Not in a lesbian way, in a stalker way...hehe...I kid. Kind of. On a serious note this woman is amazing. My first encounter with her (look at me, all stalker-y and stuff) was on youtube. It was 2010 and I'd just been introduced to TED talks (another thing I love but with fewer o's)and I came across her talk on the danger of a single story ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg < and just fell in love. She was so poised and eloquent and pretty...I said I would buy her book IMMEDIATELY.  Sometimes when I say immediately I mean in about a year and that's exactly what happened. A year later I'm looking for the 'A Song of Ice and Fire'(ASOIAF) series of books for my sister's birthday (had them on soft copy but she's not into e-books and was waiting to buy the whole set in paperback, why she's fighting technology I'll never know) and I saw Purple Hibiscus. The universe was calling to me, telling me I needed to read this book. Either that or the buy 4 books get one free offer. One of the two. Best decision I made that day. Her characters are so deep. I love those books which as you read, you feel what the characters are feeling, you wonder why they're doing what they're doing. Those characters that make you want to reach into the book to stop them from doing what they're about to do because they're so real to you that you can't help but invest emotionally. Learning that I was mispronouncing Kambili's name in my head and watching Jaja change...and the familiar African things like  going to dingy places to get your hair braided...haha! Half of a Yellow Sun was the next one. I invested even more in those characters. I liked how weird Kainene was. She's one of those characters who you really want to know more about, so sure of herself and intimidating but unattractive. Always in the shadow of her hot sister where men are concerned but not in any other sphere of life. I've just finished Americana. Unputdownable! I made the mistake of starting it on a week day. I have done very little work since. So don't start it unless you don't have things to do or have the self control of a celibate monk. I know most people haven't read it yet so all I'll say is if it hadn't ended the way it did I would have been sad and mopey all weekend.
We need more writers like her!