BookJumper

Sorry:lurker: it's hard not to be tempted, I'll admit - Brust comes recommended by Gaiman and quotes Milton, what more could one want? ETA: a recent trip to Forbidden Planet also informs me that it's one of them really strokeable books, too; and I'll readily confess to have bought more than one volume lured in by pretty texture. It's always worked in the past however, so why stop?

Neverwhere and Anansi Boys are fantabulous, as indeed is Good Omens - I hope you get to read them all soon, Poppy . @ Kell: 'graphicness' is a real word !

Tomato soup tomato soup tomato soup!

What's the soupy option?

Oh dear still, I already have this one on my shelf so I can't really not read it now, can I? Oh, and - congrats on your first read of the year !

Thank you ooops, isn't one a klutz!

There might be some method in your madness yet, Stephanie Misery and P&P are amongst my favourite books ever, so who says they cannot go together?

My signature Peanut Butter & Other Stuff chicken, that's what's for dinner !

Merciless Mount TBR has been adjourned with the following (which don't count as breaking rule n. 1, since they are the result of a gifted voucher and therefore not my fault ): - Laurie Sheck, A Monster's Notes - Patricia A. McKillip, Alphabeth of Thorn - Steven Brust, To Reign in Hell - Meredith Ann Pierce, The Darkangel (The Darkangel Trilogy 1) - Meredith Ann Pierce, A Gathering of Gargoyles (The Darkangel Trilogy 2) - Meredith Ann Pierce, The Pearl of the Soul of the World (The Darkangel Trilogy 3) - Daniel Waters, The Kiss of Life (Generation Dead 2) - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (January Reading Circle)

Today I spent the generous

Couldn't decide on which edition of it I wanted (always the mark of a book I plan on liking a lot) so I - considering that

Wahey, result if indeed you have already *shock, gasp & horror* thrown it out, may I recommend the My Penguin edition? It's an awesome, if sadly small, series of books they publish with blank covers so that you may let your imagination run wild and invent your own... I'll probably get one too some day, as the New Annotated Edition is far too big to lug around in a handbag!

It probably sprung to your mind as you half-remembered the old thread in which I looked for books on 'books, libraries, stories' - and in fact this does, I must say, sound completely and utterly like my cup of tea well done Chrissy . I am sorely tempted and will quite probably get it unless someone can convince me otherwise...!

Now that the hyperanalytic reader in me likes the sound of. As someone who has posted in the first page of this thread, let me clarify my position I don't have anything against ebooks per se; I think they have their place and use. What I'm not so fond of is: - those who predict or wish that the ebook will one day entirely replace real books, and with books all notion of losing yourself in a bookstore for yours, scanning titles, stroking covers, dipping in and our of worlds to see which is to our liking that day; - the fact that they're fragile and attractive to thieves; therefore I wouldn't use one in the bath or dare take in on holiday with me. For how expensive they are, I could get 26 full-priced actual paperbacks, which can follow me anywhere and no one will want to steal. - a lot of useful (i.e. updated textbooks) or non-bestselling books are hard to come by in this format.

No problem although I'd reserve most of the thank yous and well dones for Chimera, after all it was she who single-handedly untangled the thorny issue of Santas and Santaees so that the surprise wouldn't be spoiled for all of us! That said, still no surprise for BookJumper the Royal Mail doesn't like me this year, it seems.

Glad to see you're a woman of your word . Dracula and Stardust are amongst my favourite books of all time, I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. I'd also be interested in your thoughts on Archangel, as it's been on my wishlist for ages but (for reasons I cannot fathom) I keep pushing it back towards the bottom of said list - maybe your good opinion will help it rise again? Re: Basbanes, I'm yet to read his bibliophile series (though all of it is towards the top of the aforementioned wishlist), however my mother swears by A Gentle Madness and she's never been wrong in recommending me a book . What's the Oscar Wilde one all about, then? I love Wilde but have never heard about this one before...!

@ Kell - I love Death so I look forward to reading Reaper Man; the only reason I haven't already is that it's the Unseen Library edn. and collector's editions stay at home i.e. will never be put in my handbag for weeks on end. I also can't wait to go on a nice Jasper binge; just, he's the kind of writer to require 100% concentration and I seem to be lacking it at the moment . @ Scarlette: I'm feeling mixed omens about both of the books you mention also (although they are slightly less mixed in Ackroyd's case, as the man's academic nature counts in his favour in my ivory-towered worldview); we shall see how it goes !

I am trying to spend the last

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Currently Reading Paola Boni, L'Evocatore (La Saga di Amon 1) [0/360] Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards [5/332] Charles de Lint, The Blue Girl (Newford) [75/368] - MAIN David Lozano, Il Viaggiatore (La Porta Oscura 1) [23/692] Lisa Mantchev, Eyes Like Stars (Theatre Illuminata: Act I) [212/356] Daniel Waters, Kiss of Life (Generation Dead 2) [6/410] Books Read in 2010 Dan Rhodes, Anthropology and 100 Other Stories (1/5) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (5/5) Books Read in 2009 Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (5/5) Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book (5/5) Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table (3+/5) Helene Hanff, 84 Charing Cross Road & The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street (5/5) Tom Raabe, Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction (3/5) Daniel Waters, Generation Dead (3+/5)

Giulia's Reading Challenges II: Classics Honor

Giulia's Reading Challenges I: The Complete Discworld Red: Read Blue: Partially Read Purple: TBR Black: Wishlist 1. The Colour of Magic 2. The Light Fantastic 3. Equal Rights 4. Mort 5. Sourcery 6. Wyrd Sisters 7. Pyramids 8. Guards! Guards! 9. Eric 10. Moving Pictures 11. Reaper Man 12. Witches Abroad 13. Small Gods 14. Lords and Ladies 15. Men at Arms 16. Soul Music 17. Interesting Times 18. Maskerade 19. Feet of Clay 20. Hogfather 21. Jingo 22. The Last Continent 23. Carpe Jugulum 24. The Fifth Elephant 25. The Truth 26. Thief of Time 27. The Last Hero 28. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (YA) 29. Night Watch 30. The Wee Free Men (YA) 31. Monstrous Regiment 32. A Hat Full of Sky (YA) 33. Going Postal 34. Thud! 35. Wintersmith (YA) 36. Making Money 37. Unseen Academicals 38. I Shall Wear Midnight (YA)

Giulia's Merciless Mount TBR Books on Hold John Connolly, The Gates Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next 3) Patricia A. McKillip, Alphabet of Thorn Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia 3) Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals (Discworld 37) Books to be Begun Fantasy Series Elizabeth Bear, Ink and Steel (A Novel of the Promethean Age: Stratford Man 1) Elizabeth Bear, Hell and Earth (A Novel of the Promethean Age: Stratford Man 2) Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten (Thursday Next 4) Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels (Thursday Next 5) Jasper Fforde, The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime 1) Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime 2) Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood (Mythago Cycle 1) Charles de Lint, Dreams Underfoot (Newford) Charles de Lint, Spirits in the Wires (Newford) Philip Pullman, Northern Lights (His Dark Materials 1) Jan Siegel, Prospero's Children (Fern Capel 1) Steph Swainston, The Year of Our War (The Castle 1) Steph Swainston, No Present like Time (The Caste 2) Standalones Steven Brust, To Reign in Hell Neil Gaiman, American Gods Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia Rafe Martin, Birdwing Science Fiction Eoin Colfer, And Another Thing (official 6th installment of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) Horror/Gothic Brom, The Child Thief John Connolly, Nocturnes Stephen King, Pet Sematary Martin Millar, Lonely Werewolf Girl Laurie Sheck, A Monster's Notes Dacre Stoker, Dracula the Undead Daniel Waters, Passing Strange (Generation Dead 3) Random Fiction Linda Gillard, Star Gazing Rief Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet Philip Pullman, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ Metabooks: Fiction Peter Ackroyd, The Lambs of London Elizabeth Garner, The Ingenious Edgar Jones Andrew Motion, The Invention of Dr. Cake Metabooks: Non-Fiction Christopher Booker, The Seven Basic Plots Neil Gaiman et al., Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy A. C. Petty, Dragons of Fantasy: The Scaly Villains and Heroes of Tolkien, Rowling, McCaffrey, Pratchett and Other Fantasy Greats Metabooks: Writing Ray Bradbury, Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing Richard Ford (ed.), Writer's Workshop in a Book: The Squaw Valley Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making Stephen King, On Writing Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination C. E. Montague, A Writer's Notes on His Trade Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet Dale Salwak, Living with a Writer

Thank you I just wish Jasper had been a bit more considerate of my schedule in his signing tour arrangements !

I. am. jealous. He's in London on Jan. 18th but I'll be otherwise engaged on that very morning (I'm graduating, hardly something I can wriggle out of) so no signed copy of Shades of Grey for me *wails*!