Neil Gaiman said, here, At different times of my life, my 'Comfort Book' has been Narnia, LOTR, Glory Road, Cold Comfort Farm, Psmith Journalist, Father Brown.Which got me thinking about my comfort books, of course. At different times in my life, mine have been Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Watership Down, Steven Brust's Jhereg books (there ( Read more... )

Haven't done this sort of thing in a while, so why not?

THE "i've always wanted to tell you" MEME

I'm FINALLY posting my answers to the Five things meme.

donutsweeper asked for ( 5 favorite canon couples! (Interpret couples however you wish.) )

OK, last one to the party, but I wanna play, too, if anybody has questions for me!

Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post.

Meme gacked from travels_in_time. Choose your genre show, answer the questions using episode titles from that show--if possible, don't repeat any.

( I *had* to use Babylon 5. Nothing has titles like B5. )

Gacked from pixelism:

"These songs always make me ______. So! Give me a play list. 7-10 songs that fit this sentence -- you get to fill in the blank yourself.

(Examples:These songs always make me dance. These songs always make me cry. These songs always make me happy. You get the idea.)

( These songs always make me feel good about life, the universe, and everything: )

Gacked from skipthedemon:

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
"Even to many would-be evildoers, destroying the world is scary. If ( Read more... )

1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.

(You can comment without playing-tell me if you want a letter, and I will be happy to give you one.)

selenak gave me "B."

( Five characters whose names start with B: )

Taken from all over the flist, but most recently from smithy161, the first lines meme:

( Twenty-five first lines )

Taken most recently from skipthedemon. This is the "Omnivore's Hundred" as compiled by Very Good Taste ( Read more... )