Marzipan in Your Pie Plate

Best reason ever for not reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when it comes out:

"I'm not reading Book Seven. It will probably be all about Harry..."



Also, for you're added edification:

"Canon is just one of one of the better fanfics out there."



I lurves teh intarwebs.

Preview five pages of the first Serenity comic here!

Shiny!

Random House announces Anne Rices' new book in which she writes the story of Jesus Christ's early years in his own words. You read that correctly. "In his own words."

Diarmuid. *cries*

every. single. time.

Since my attempt to list my 20 30 40 50 60 70 600 favorite books was foiled as usual by my "But I love them all!!" tendencies I instead tender for you perusal my list of "20 Not necessarily 'favorite' books but those that had an impact in on way or another":

1. Chinese Medicine :The Web That Has No Weaver by Ted J. Kaptchuk


2. The Other by Thomas Tryon


3. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair


4. Pooh and the Philosophers by John Tyerman Williams


5. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking


6. The Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess


7. Aztec by Gary Jennings


8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and sequels by Douglas Adams


9. Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling


10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte


11. Sunshine by Robin McKinley


12. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip


13. The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay


14. The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-1972 by William Manchester


15. The Essential Ellison: A 35 Year Retrospective by Harlan Ellison


16. The Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges


17. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein


18. Battle Cry by Leon Uris


19. QB-VII by Leon Uris


20. The Last Hero by Leslie Charteris

( The Complete List )