Oooh, shiny.

I was needing some new pockets! (I've already got an evil bird, so having a swamp dragon lying around would be right out.)

I always hold that if a bag can't hold at least one book, preferably two, it's too small.

And I was fairly certain that I left my sanity in the coat check, but since I've never written my name in the tag, I can't ever be sure from now on whether or not the sanity there is really mine, or just looks like mine and has stains in the same places.

Hey, maybe someday we can go on errantry a mission together. :)

I needed one of those. *Sciences away with new glassware.*

Thank you, though. I need to get more pockets for all the welcome gifts.

The owl seems surprisingly useful, actually. Especially if it catches it's own mice. I doubt I'll have any problem recruiting agents, I'll just make a trap out of a cardboard box and some cheese and recruit whichever of the brain-people wanders in. They need to start earning their keep.

I've read Night Watch, so I'm looking for Thud! right now.

Spire, certainly. But I have a certain fondness for that age with a ship sticking out of a rock, (Stoneship? Myst... been a while since I've played that,) because I always wondered how it got there.

Oh, and Channelwood. Because the first time I beat it, it took forever because I kept getting lost.

I'm not certain I've reached Edanna yet. Must reinstall games... and take over the family PC.

But what shall I feed him?

Actually, I didn't. I've been shamefully behind on things since starting college. Now I need to get it...

I also need to get the last Pendragon book, because my insensitive fraternal unit returned it to the library without asking if I wanted it first...

Oooh, I can see why there's essence of glee around. Are you going to use them or just have them on a shelf with the other pretties?

Funny you should mention hydrophobic water... I've been struggling with the temptation to explain discworld hydrophobes to my research supervisor for a bit now, since we're working with hydrophobic chemicals.

I've been looking for Thud! for a while. That and I need to start the Granny Weatherwax ones, I think I'm all caught up on the Death ones.

People here are going to keep giving me stuff, I suppose?

Ah, well. Friendly forum and all.

All sorts of things, really. Fantasy, mystery, scifi, steampunk... about the only thing I don't generally read are romance novels or anything categorized as drama. Exceptions have been made to this rule, but I generally stay away from stuff that proposes to be set in the real world. Because when I like the premise, they start getting the facts wrong, or when they get the facts right, their stories are boring and about people in small towns getting married.

Yeah, I've been the despair of english teachers for most of my high school career.

Right now my reading list is the rest of Dresden Files and Codex Alera, along with the Raffles stories if I can find them and Hercule Poriot, when I can manage to make it to the library.

Glad to meet you, Litany.

Often. I'm working my way through the Sam Vimes ones. (Just got myself Jingo as a present to myself for actually sticking through my economics final.)
Hmmm... and if I eat it, it will ether contain or not contain chocolate chips? I'll take it.

Good old games.com is my best bet, that's where I'm going to be getting Myst from when my laptop next has some freespace. I love the games, I've only ever managed to finish Riven and Uru though. The discs of the later games (Exile and Revelations) work on my windows Vista laptop, but the discs of the pre-2005 games just don't.

What flavor of fudge?

I'm sensing a theme with this...

And I just now realized that the replies start at the bottom.
I'll just wip out my tea strainer, then.

Read it while trying to get my computer to find the logon widget (stupid dorm wifi...) so I'm all set to go and I promise to be nice. :)

Oh, so you really want the list, do you?

In the last few months, I've read
Codex Alera (by Jim Butcher, I'm up to book four)
Dresden Files (I'm on book five or six)
Most of the fourth Pellinor book (not entirely certain I'll make the effort to find it and finish it out of the library,)
A lovely book by Christine Hinwood, called The Returning, which I still need to write my review of,
Some noir fantasy detective books by Mark Del Franco (Unshapely Things and Unquiet Dreams,) and Nightlife by Rob Thurman
And assorted Terry Pratchett books, along with rereading the Neverending Story again.

Some of my favorites in the fantasy category will always be the Young Wizards and Diana Wynne Jones (Year of the Griffin and Conrad's fate in particular stand out among those as favorites,) as well as the Enchanted Forest Chronicles. Oh, and I'm always looking for good steampunk fantasy or non-medieval era fantasy.

I read a lot of fantasy, sci-fi and mystery, for which you can blame the librarian at my elementary school when she twigged to the fact that books written for first graders annoyed me.

I'm trying to catch up on the Dresden Files and Codex Alera in particular, as well as... well, I have a list somewhere. Likely taped to the underside of my last desk. I eat a lot of books. I don't finish all of the series though, because some of them either I forget about when it's time to find the new one or the first book just doesn't make an immpression on me.

So, mention a book, I've probably heard of it. Especially in the fantasy genere.

One book I haven't read and probably won't read is any of the sequels to Hunger Games. They've been spoiled for me very thoroughly.

That was probably more information than you really required. At least you didn't try to pawn man-eating food off on me. :)

I'll make sure not to sit on anyone, then. Thanks!