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Time for my recs - which for some reason all appear to be books, mostly YA. Apparently I have a Type for stuff I like.

( CHERUB, Queen's Thief, Tillerman Cycle, Chalet School,Peter Pan, Hexwood )

Due to our Order of Service getting printed on the wrong card and subsequently reprinted, we have approximately 130 spares if anyone would like a copy posting after the honeymoon.

Also, NOT LONG NOW!

Amazon

Bookmooch

eBay

Adding things pretty much constantly right now so keep an eye on things! All sorts going up from books, gadgety things, manga, DVDs... you get the idea.

Currently in the process of ebaying/Amazon marketplace/car booting/bookmooching/freecycling EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD before we get ready to move. More on that, with links, in a bit (anyone wanna buy Dr Who audio tapes plays?)

One of the things Hugh has in abundance is Star Trek/Star Wars/Dr Who novels. He collects them and there's a big pile of duplicates. They're not worth enough to eBay or Amazon but he would rather swap them for other books of the same sort that he hasn't got than just chuck them into bookmooch's big points bath and hope Who or Trek books come up.

So, if I typed up a list would anyone be interested in swapping dupes? I know I have folk on here who might.

So, we now have our honeymoon booked (Corfu, yay!) and I need to contemplate which books to take away with me. This may take a combination of the local humongous book swap store, ebay, Amazon, bookmooch and having my birthday just after I leave as two weeks is an awesome amount of reading (and my Kindle is NOT going near the pool!) so I figured I would lean on you folks for recs.

Things I like and things I don't

• No books available just in hardback! Too heavy!


• I like Mercedes Lackey but it's horrible to source over in the UK. I liked Protector of the Small too.


• Like the CHERUB series, disliked Alex Rider. I need a certain amount of realism in my kiddy spies


• Have a YA weakness in general actually. Megan Whalen-Turner was my last really good discovery in that area.


• Have a great fondness for both Diana Wynne Jones and Diane Duane (especially her Wizard series. Rather fond of Jenny Nimmo's Children of the Red King series too.


• Fonder of fantasy than scifi. Never hit it off with Terry Brooks, Piers Anthony is a little TOO light and I grew out of Anne McCaffrey. Got sick of Terry Goodkind too. Melanie Rawn, David Eddings, Robin Hobb are all examples of a style I still love though. And I need to read more Ursala le Guin


• Secret weakness for girly boarding school stories. My Chalet School collection, it grows, slowly and quietly.


• Do I even need to mention Pratchett?

Any recs? Who is everyone reading at present?

It became clear, when looking for wedding songs, that it is More Difficult Than You Might Think. I might have four days worth of nonstop songs.. and yet the VAST majority appear to be about breakups, cheating, violence, death, the apocalypse, more sex than I want my elderly relatives to listen to or ALL OF THESE.

So I made an anti-wedding songlist instead, just for fun. (Surprisingly, it was much easier).

First Dance I'll Never Tell

Father:Daughter Papa Don't Preach

Bride: Best Man Take A Chance On Me

Followed by:

• Never Been To Me (Secretly, I really like this song. Yes, I know what it's about but I prefer to treat it as a secret fantasy list. With Yule Brenner.)


• Paradise By The Dashboard Light(listen to the END if you don't know it)


• The Hungry Years


• The Ballad of Barry and Freda (If you have never heard, LISTEN NOW)


• Chain Reaction


• Disco 2000


• Lucky Stars
  
  
• Too Much, Too Little, Too Late

Closing On: Another Suitcase In Another Hall

And not quite making the cut

Are You Happy Now?

If I Wrote You

Better Days

Fast Car

Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?

If You Could Read My Mind

And it's one of my favourite YA authors so I highly suggest trying it.

http://www.cherubcampus.com/freebook

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-11912067

I love that this is news

Although, at a different house. Hugh came home, got his car stuck at my house, dug MY car out and drove it downhill backwards through snow VERY SLOWLY.

Hugh rocks \o/. And I packed clothes for a week so I'm good.

No uni until it clears a bit. (I could probably make it if I used public transport and didn't mind freezing cold walks through a foot of snow but this? THIS is why I did the running for perfect attendance until now)

And it's STILL snowing. At this point, it's starting to feel like the rice pudding poem, you know..

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Oh look! Snow. Lovely. IT CAN STOP NOW.