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I had an ultimate plan for introducing myself at the chat yesterday, before I realized that I had a dinner-thing and I couldn't join. ;_;

Therefore: hi.

The Queen's Thief books have managed to be my uncontested favorites (amazing) since I first read The Thief six years ago. They had a history in my house before I read them, though. I am lucky enough to have a children's librarian for a mother, and she and her Librarian Friends loved them without telling me about them, which I count a little unsporting. Like a punishment really.

Me: *does something bad*
Mum: HAHAHA. THAT'S IT. I...withhold Eugenides!
Me: gasp

(At one point, mum had QoA at home, and although I'd never read it, I recognized it. Totally ignorant, I said, cheerful as a chipmunk, "Oh, it's the HAND BOOK!" Her eyes did this amazing thing.)

At any rate, eventually I got them for Christmas and had to read them, and slobbered on them and ignored my family and had a generally good time ("Sorry, small obnoxious male cousins, I must read about...a small(ish) obnoxious male...who totally pwns you."). And then of course KoA came out and I was so excited that I started squealing in the library (very embarrassing for my mother, she probably wished she hadn't told me), and then flipped out again when it finally came out. And then I read all three aloud to my roommate and one of our good friends, and my roommate consequently went home to Kansas and read it to one of her friends.

And now we wander around campus talking about Toddlers With Toasting Forks and cabochon emeralds, and practicing General Sneakiness.

I think that says about everything.

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Hi! Welcome!

You and your roommates read aloud to each other? That's interesting. How does it work? Do you each pick something? It sounds cool.

Icons: I thought yours looked like Kaylee from Firefly, so I went to check. So you're another 1776 fan? I think there are three of us now. And may I take your emu icon to give to my friend who likes emus?

Welcome again!

I have developed a monopoly on reading. No one else has gotten a chance. So far we (and when I say we, I mean I) have only read the three Queen's Thief books, and small bits of Lord of the Rings because I needed desperately to read it for a class. I've just started reading aloud Eleanor Updale's first Montmorency book, and Roommate is enjoying it quite a lot. It's a graceful transition from Gen, though I wish the third of M. was as good as KoA. Something of a letdown, really, as I didn't like "M. and the Assassins" enough to read it aloud. (Whereas of course I could read KoA aloud many, many times if an absolute dire necessity.)

Yes to everything on icons. Yes, I am a 1776 fan, recently converted by manic obsession among my friends. Yes, Kaylee! Yes, feel free to take the emu! :D

And, thank you!

I just saw your subject reply to Willow's subject, and must bow to your powers of awesome response. You fit riiiiiiiight in.

AND THIS IS HOW WE MET LOLOLOL RESEARCHING MY THIRD DRAFT FOR HB. <3

WAIT REALLY WOW.

confession: I had to reread your subject line in order to understand my original response...AND I STILL THINK IT IS AWESOME. <3<3<3

Welcome! I have a feeling you'll fit in perfectly here :D

Why thank you! I certainly hope so. ^_^

Welcome! Do you like ruffles?

Yay for introducing it to new people! Spread the ~~hot~~ Eugenides love!

I DO like ruffles. You can ask Ben Franklin, Congress, and Shakespeare. They know I dig their ruffles. <3 I don't, however, like ruffles on me. They just...don't work.

I spread the Eugenides love this very day; a friend of mine came by the school school library circ desk and made the mistake of engaging me in conversation. As sneaky as sneaky can be, I started a normal sentence and then, without pausing for the normal space between words, I said, "ANDHAVEYOUREADTHISBOOK?" and whipped it out from under the circ desk. It was so sudden and the cover was so shiney that she had no other choice but to request it from another library immediately.

Awesome icon. :-b

Oh, congratulations! I'm trying to find the right group of people to spread it to...they just haven't popped out of the woodwork yet.

*stares at icon* It's sooo...beautiful...

yay! welcome! i think you're absolutely lucky to have a librarian as your mum. does that mean you get to see all the new books? that'll be so cool. and wow you read to each other? whenever i try to read something to my brother my throat dies after the first chapter, and i feel too sick ever to read the book to him again...that is until i get high on another book =)

*welcome*welcome*welcome* =D

Welcome! :) Don't worry about the chat, no one else turned up on time either. And yay for spreading the Thief love.

hi!
i turned up for the chat, first time i actually managed it since i joined....and then nobody turned up

typical

*jumps up and down* i've read montmorency, but only the first one though my friends are bugging me to get the next ones (i work like a library for my friends lending out books, which means they all pester me for the next one leading to the temptation to say bugger off and buy it yourself)

if you want something to read i recommend catherine webbs mirror dreams (sorry had to do that, for me her books are up there with MWT)

anyway welcome and hope you enjoy

Hey, have you read Catherine Webb's Waywalkers and Timekeepers? I don't think her books are that good, mwt is WAY better writer but they have a nice plot. I've read Montmorency - omg! *shuts many mouths against BIG spoilers* You HAVE to read the latest book!

emerald ;)

p.s Hey, I TURNED UP to the chat!!!! Hey, it was only a 10 min chat but i did turn up! (I also give Rowana weekly reminders.)

i can't deny you didn't turn up

i will buy the next montmorency asap but first i have a delivery from amazon which is late that i need to chase them for, and then read the books
i have read waywalkers and timekeepers, but really i prefer laenan kite in mirror dreams and mirror wakes

How very cool! I wish my friends would "meet" Gen! Welcome - whoever said you'd fit right in is completely right! I screamed "I love you, world!!!!" when I found out KoA was coming out and danced round the house! Oh, what joy! "General Sneakiness"? That reminds me of Willow, the Stealthy Ubiquity! 3 cheers for Gen!

Do you have a fascination with zucchini?

emerald ;)

I love the Toddler with Toasting Fork line in KoA, btw.

I have been talking up Thief like crazy in my library and the copies of it are ALWAYS checked out. Of course, then I go on to say how nice MWT is and how she's writing another book, etc.

What is this line? Where is it? I'm confused...

but that's okay, because my icon is totally hot.

KoA pg. 162 when h. p. of A. m. Costis is running toward the part of the gardens where the king is sitting: "The gods above knew that the king could be laid out by a toddler with a toasting fork. What hope had he against an assassin, trained as a sword is sharpened, honed to one purpose, to murder? Costis could only pray that he would not be too late."

That's part of why I love MWT so much--there's always a new, interesting analogy, waiting to be found.

Have I mentioned how much I love you lately? 'Cause I really, really think it deserves mentioning.

I LOVE CHECKERS SHE IS MY GOD!!!!!

ooooh! Brownie points for that!

emerald ;)

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