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Yoo hoo! *waves hanky* It's me again with another special delivery!
Did you know that today is Book Lover's Day? No? Well, neither did I until Shaylmesse (#13314) brought it to my attention-- and I'm blushing to have to admit my ignorance, because there are few greater pleasures than curling up with a good book! If you're like me and would just love to have your own little personal library, why don't you try Shaylmesse's gift on for size?
The Book Lover's Background is available in the Advent Calendar for the duration of today and tomorrow, up until August 10th, 11:59pm.
Ooh, but wait! There's more!
Tell me your favourite book (and why!) in the comments and you could be in with a chance of winning this set of custom crystals! I'm in need of some good new holiday reads and I'm sure I can't be the only one. :3 Chime in by August 10th, 11:59pm to ensure your spot in the draw (one entry per account, please).
Ooh, but wait! There's even more!!!
Do you remember I mentioned earlier in the week that I was having a tidy of my inbox? The invitation (and encouragement!) to nudge your outstanding Artist Pay is still open, but today I am asking you to bump up PMs pertaining to Lunarii switches. That means if you picked up the wrong Lunaris for the month and you're still waiting on me to swap 'em around for you, point yourself to my inbox sharpish!
Phew! Okay! That's everything - probably! Who knows! Yay! Exclamation marks!
Thank you for the background, Shaylmesse!
Just smell those new pages!
Posted by Captain Visark
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- Busy.
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Posted on: Fri Aug 9, 2013 1:35pm
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. I thought that I hated this book in high school, most likely because I had to do this massive, tedious project on it; but when I recently went back and read through it just for fun, I found that it was absolutely hilarious in this really insane way. I think it's a lot like M*A*S*H*, if you like that kind of thing. Military shenanigans.
- Aquariummaniac
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Posted on: Fri Aug 9, 2013 1:35pm
Bitten by Kelley Armstrong. Love her books.
- singingbadgerLLovesU
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Posted on: Fri Aug 9, 2013 1:35pm
good lord...ONE favorite? in all genres...oh, my...
I think I would have to say Groff Conklin's anthology - second ever SF collection done - Adventures in Time and Space, published in 1946 by Borzoi Books (yes, I remember it that well, and it is still one I reread at least once a year).
I was 3 or 4 years old, and found it while poking around in a cellar, along with Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination - they were my first "real" books and they set my tastes - and literary standards - for life.
While I didn't quite understand everything in them at first - and made some truly amazing bloopers with unfamiliar words like "translucent" and "symbiotica" - I was utterly fascinated by these vast new worlds, and devoured the contents as fast as I could. Adventures was finally issued in reprint many years later and rightfully acknowledged as THE finest SF anthology ever complied. It contains such gems as Campbell's "Who Goes There?" - the marvelous story that the awful movie "It" was drawn from, and Bates' "Farewell To the Master", which spawned "The Day the Earth Stood Still", as well as jewels like Asimov's "Nightfall", Van Vogt's "The Weapon Shops of Isher", Hasse's "He Who Shrank", and a plethora of Henry Kuttner's early delights, both under his own name and with Leigh as Lewis Padgett...the list is andless, and ALL are amazing reads. Anyone who loves true science fiction (and cringes at the pop term "scifi") NEEDS to read this if they haven't yet - it's pure genius from cover to well-worn cover.
- Heartless
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Posted on: Fri Aug 9, 2013 1:36pm
I'd have to say my favorite book at the moment is Hunted, by James Alan Gardner. It's an amazing bit of sci-fi with engaging characters, and the main character is dumb. Not comedy relief dumb, not Hollywood dumb, not dumb-but-not-really, but genuinely realistically dumb. And it makes the book absolutely epic, in so many ways.
- Romani
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Posted on: Fri Aug 9, 2013 1:36pm
The Black Orchid by Rex Stout.
- Aria ♥ Switch
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Posted on: Fri Aug 9, 2013 1:36pm
Bram Stoker's Dracula
- C & Thal 🍬
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Posted on: Fri Aug 9, 2013 1:36pm
Thud! by Terry Pratchett.
A kind of mysterious crime novels with a nice helping of humor. It's just like any book where you go through it wondering who's done it and how all the pieces fit together and have a wonderful time laughing in between the serious detectering going on.
And I love the humor o3o
- Asturia
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Posted on: Fri Aug 9, 2013 1:37pm
*squees* I love the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. Just think of the idea of certain metals influencing your speed, strength, stamina and senses...
- Gothbutter
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Posted on: Fri Aug 9, 2013 1:37pm
The "Dark Tower" series by Stephen King. As it is a series I can't recommend one to you without you reading the other books, but my favorite is probably book IV, "Wizard and Glass". It's a beautiful series with enough sci-fi/fantasy, humor, and badassery to make just about everyone fall in love with the series given enough of a chance.
Posted on: Fri Aug 9, 2013 1:34pm
My fav book... I love lots of mangas (I'm an anime artist and all). But if I was to choose a book... Maybe "The Temple of Elemental Evil", one of the Greyhawk novels.
It's a typical heroic-fantasy in the Dungeons & Dragons universe setting. And I love heroic-fantasy. But this one is quite special for me. First of all, it's my first Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms book. And I really love the characters - they're touching