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Apples to Apples is SO much fun! You do need four or more people, though. I love board games. Scrabble (though I prefer Speed Scrabble, which we don't use a board for), Yahzee, Rummikub, Cranium, Beyond Balderdash, Backgammon, and Taboo are all some of my favorites.

If you like Sherwood Smith's works, join the Athanarel community on LiveJournal. Joining is free, but you have to be a member of the community to read some of the posts. It's a great place to discuss her works, and she posts some of her unpublished works online free to read. Another series I...

From the story "Serpent's Rock" by Laura Anne Gilman in the anthology Young Warriors (Not the first story in the book, but the only one I have yet to read):

Welcome, Heidi! I'm from Southern California, as well, though right now I'm at school in Texas. I'll be home in less than a week, though! (Finals right now...icky!)

For a research paper, I'm reading Campaigning Online by Bruce Bimbar and Richard Davis. Not very exciting (though its somewhat interesting), but I have no time to read for fun till finals are over. First line:

I love Tamora Pierce! You might like Sherwood Smith's Crown Duel/Court Duel (the newer edition has the two in one book, older editions have them separate) and her Wren series. And if you like her stuff, I can point you to more of it, as some of her unpublished stuff you can read free online...

Yay, there's an icon now! Yeah...I'm a little late. I lost internet acess for awhile, then forgot about this site till now.

I read the book a LONG time ago, and keep meaning to read it again, since I liked it. But then, there are a ton of books on my list of books to read...

Not sure I have a favorite. Most of what I read occurs between the 1300's and 1950 or so (and mostly concentrated in the latter half of that bracket), but that doesn't mean I won't read anything else (that time frame covers A LOT, anyway).

I don't think anyone but the suicidal approves of suicide in general (though whether or not doctor-assisted suicide should be legal is still a debate). But it's not as if you can make suicide illegal. Of course, we do need to do what we can to help suicidal people. I've always liked this...

Welcome! And thanks for the pointer to the LibraryThing. It looks interesting...I'll have to check it out!

I've done it before out of curiosity, but I've never bought anything because of them. They're annoying, though, and thankfully my web browser blocks most of them so they don't even show up.

Books are my anti-drug. Or maybe they're more like a drug, considering how compulsively I read... Anyway, I've used this username on a couple of other sites, and thought it especially appropriate for this one.

Welcome! And sorry, that's not the kind of fiction I usually read. Not against it, but it does mean I can't give you any recommendations.

Thanks for the welcome! SFG75 - Thanks for the rec; I'll have to check that out sometime.

It would be nice, because it would make this forum easier to find on my bookmarks list. ;)

This is one of the few required books I enjoyed reading Sophomore year of high school. I haven't read it since, though I want to someday.

Any specific time period you are looking for? Thoughts: I'd say Things Fall Apart over Heart of Darkness, but the two together can make an interesting comparison. To Kill A Mockingbird is one of the few books I liked that I read sophomore year of high school. Steinbeck's literature is good...

While I didn't read all of WriterJohnB's post, and I think he went a bit overboard to make his point, I admit I did find it amusing. Anyway, my real name, Jennifer, means something like "fair" or "white." It comes from the original form of Guenivere (Gwenhyffer or something like that; I can't...

"Saving" another post on this forum because it didn't post the first time around and I didn't want to rewrite it... ********* I do a couple of forum-based RPs, set in the worlds of various books I've read. I agree that it's hard to find an RP that suits my taste. Writing ability is a huge...