My birthday

[erilyn]

Yesterday was good. Yum cha, conversation and book shopping. I got a Buffy script book for $5 (mid S2) and the sequel to a Diana Wynne Jones book (that I finished reading on Friday, and found out about the sequel Friday night) for $6. I also got some lovely presents, including some icons from joeyvanne that I've got to upload (and here's the first one now!). Last night was spent watching "Finding Nemo" (thanks for the loan, iibnf!) with my parents and sister, we hadn't seen it before. It was very cute :)

I owe some book recs. littlerhymes - Patricia C Wrede's "Marielon the Magician", "The Magicians Ward" and (the similar world but unrelated) "Sorcery and Cecelia" are great. And her retelling of "Snow White and Rose Red". And her Dragons books. And her Lyra series isn't bad, either. Eeek, what else was I going to mention? Oooh, gotta go look up about the sequel to "Sorcery and Cecelia"!

This came up in conversation recently, and some people had never heard it. I really like this song, so...Here and Now by Nsync. A non-album track, it was for the soundtrack of the 1998 German movie "Widows". Good Chris, and even a non-pornover bit from Lance! 3.8 meg, please right click and save, and please don't direct link to the file. ETA: Hopefully the link will actually work now *g*.

Comments

[i-naiad.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked the icons and that you had a good day :).

FYI, I just tried to download the song and got a message that Explorer was unable to open the site. Though you might like to know.

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[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I've corrected a mistake in my link, hopefully it'll work now :)

[lastrega.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday, Erilyn!! Glad you had a fabulous day.

[littlerhymes]

Mmmm, recs - definitely gonna put those Wrede books on the list. What else, hmmm, Lois something McBujold? And probably others... There were a lot of titles that got thrown around yesterday, heh!

Downloading Here & Now - thanks! :)

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[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, Lois McMaster Bujold! Her Vorkosigan series of books is brilliant (and her stand alone fantasies are pretty damn good too). Read them chronologically (though the one set 200 years earliar can be left for a while). hnix and meelie will back me up on this, they are well worth it :)

Katherine Kurtz's Deryni books are pretty enjoyable, Janny Wurts is very good but heartbreaking, ditto with George R R Martin. Sara Douglass is not recommended - she's got some good stuff, but can't sustain it. These are some I remember mentioning, though don't know who to *g*.

Here and Now is sweet, I like it a lot, though it's not the world's best song or anything :)

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[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much! :)

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[littlerhymes]

Excellent, thanks! *scribbling down names*

I've read the series Janny Wurts did with Raymond E. Feist (enjoyed it, didn't love it) and To Ride Hell's Chasm (HATED it) - so, ummm, is the latter typical of her work?

Love GRRM, wish he'd write faster. Agree about Sara Douglass. :)

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[erilyn.livejournal.com]

I couldn't get through Hell's Chasm either! I was actually thinking of her still ongoing War of Light and Shadow series. Big, long books, but she hasn't lost control of the series *cough*RobertJordan*cough*. But I'd rec Patricia C Wrede and Lois McMaster Bujold ahead of them (if in very different ways *g*).

A good Aussie fantasy author I like is Sara Forsyth - her Witches of Eileannan series is quite fun, and she's very nice (I've met her twice briefly *g*).

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bettina_/]

I've never heard that song, so thank you for putting it up!

And Happy belated Birthday!

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[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

And you're welcome. It's a pretty song that I've grown very fond of, so I'm glad to be able to share it around. I've actually got a bunch of their rare/live/non-album stuff, I'll have to see what else people haven't heard and put it up.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_bettina_/]

It is a very pretty song and I love Chris' voice :-). And you icon; love it a lot!

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[erilyn.livejournal.com]

The icon was a birthday present from joeyvanne *g*. As was this one.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_bettina_/]

So very pretty! :-)

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