Dec 29, 2012
emmerrylyn said: Yes, I brought up the fantastic ladies more than once! ;D And thank you, ehehe. <3
Good good, excellent. Gavin, you better finish these books!
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emmerrylyn said: Yes, I brought up the fantastic ladies more than once! ;D And thank you, ehehe. <3
Good good, excellent. Gavin, you better finish these books!
Top 5 books.
As usual, my wife knows just the right question to get me to blather on at length. ;-) I don't really think I can put these in order, though.
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. I might actually like some of his other books (especially Anathem) better, but Cryptonomicon was one of the books that made me the person I am today. I might not have chosen to be a mathematician if it weren't for this book.
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Easily the best work of epic fantasy that I have ever read, with the greatest worldbuilding I've ever encountered. Also Jasnah might just be the coolest fictional character that I can think of off the top of my head.
The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross. I don't know how much I need to yell at the internet until people actually start reading Stross, but DAMN IT YOU ALL NEED TO BE READING STROSS. Archives is probably a good place to start, but Halting State and Singularity Sky are both also really really good.
The only nonfiction book that will be on this list: Nudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. Basically, the art of organically leading people to make good informed choices, without forcing them into doing anything. If I could send a copy of one book to everyone in Congress, it'd be this one.
ahhhhhh this is so hard. Um. How about graphic novels? Top Ten by Alan Moore and Gene Ha is the best superhero comic I've ever read, and it's not very well known.
That was more or less pulled out of my ass, and if you'd asked me on a different day it might have been five completely different books. XD
emmerrylyn said: Hehehe I just got Gavin to start reading The Blue Sword last night (and the Alanna series too, mwa ha ha) by telling him that you and I both loved them and we’d bug him incessantly if he didn’t
A good coercion tactic! You can also bribe him with the fantastic lady characters, I am sure. If he ever stalls you should let me know and I will help bother him back into reading.
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emmerrylyn said: DOBBY IS FREEEE!!
abalidoth said: MASTER HAS GIVEN DOBBY A SOCK!
OH MY GOD DID YOU TWO DO THIS DELIBERATELY?
emmerrylyn said: 12 coats later and you’re just like ARGH WHY DOES YOUR BOTTLE LOOK SO GORGEOUS, I guess I’ll keep you around as a top coat and get duped again later when I’ve forgotten how sheer you are. YAY. XD
EEEYUP. There's this one I have that looks incredible in the bottle - shimmers of every cool color from violet to blue-green marbled together and kind of opalescent - but it's impossible to get it to look like that on my actual nails. SO FRUSTRATING.
emmerrylyn said: I KNOW THAT FEEL, OMG. XD
It's so frustrating! the colors are so pretty in the bottle and then you try and use them and they just WON'T GO ON THICK ENOUGH
ARGH
emmerrylyn replied to your post: Strawberry Kiwi!
omG NO Strawberry Kiwi is Calliope and Roxy!! XD
google lied to me
when or if I started shipping it: since like day one of calliope omg
my thoughts: wow wat a cute pairing oh my goodness it's fantastic
what makes me happy about them: roxy and calliope roxy and calliope roxy and calliope
what makes me sad about them: caliborn
things done in fanfic that annoys me: havent read any
things I look for in fanfic: havent read any
who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: dirk or jake or jade for roxy whispers caliborn or dirk or jane for calliope
my happily ever after for them: when roxy manages to say calliope's name to caliborn and she DOES WAKE UP
who is the big spoon/little spoon: whispers they cuddle face to face yeah
what is their favorite non-sexual activity: they like to do calliope's nails so that when/if caliborn wakes up he has to spend forever scrubbing the hot pink paint off of his hands and they make headbands for her with flowers on them etc