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Neither do I. I've just been streaming all of it today. When I finished, I instantly thought: 'That's Scarfy music, right there!'

And yes. Yes you were.

I'm now a Fiona Apple fan too. Yay!

Please tell me you're a Fiona Apple fan.

Woah, that's both impressive and slightly invasive. How are things? Did I miss anything exciting?

Scaaaaaaarrrrrrrrf, do you remember meeeee?

Wow, 782 pages! That is long. No pictures either, probably...

After reading a brief thematic synopsis on Wikipedia, I might just check it out! Fantasy normally doesn't do a lot for me, but it would appear that there is a lot to that book... even without the 200+ footnotes! :P

I've heard of (and seen the cover of) Jonathan Strange but never really thought to pick it up. I'm guessing you like?

Cloud Atlas: I feel like some of the stories worked a lot better than others. In particular, the 'first' and the 'last' stories (I say those in quotation marks due to the book's fluid relationship with time) were the weakest of the lot. Indeed, as it got further into the future, I think it got better. I really liked the changing styles of prose as well as the really different characters that ended up populating the book. I have absolutely no idea how it's going to work as a film adaptation coming out this year (that was actually the main reason I bought the book), but it should be interesting, in any event. Whether it's an interesting masterpiece or an interesting trainwreck will be determined in due course!

The Magicians: It was sold to me as an adult version of Harry Potter, and while that's a slightly reductive reading, it does have a little bit of truth in it. Having said that, it's much less fantastical than it appears. Indeed, it's much more about the human and emotional connections made by the characters as opposed to the purely magical one. It's not a perfect book by any means (there are some big structural problems that I have with it) but I'd still recommend it.

Ooh I've been doing that already. /pretending to be English whoops

Hopefully! But the educations systems are really different between here and there iirc so I don't know if my learning will hold up?

We wanted to go with something a bit more detailed and intricate, but as you know sprites are quite restricted, but I'll show you the sketch once I do a more refined one.

Happy with her?

More just rain than anything else. Winters have become surprisingly disappointing in recent years due to the lack of snow.

Yeah. It sounds fabulous, really. The Midwest has all this open space with nothing in it that you have to drive through to actually get anywhere. It's just so big. England seems quite a bit more compact. :> I just hope I am able to get a job there after going to school here. That's my main worry. ;;

Yeah, she's seen all those. And I'm just kind of like "well... if you were fine starting with Nine, why not Three? or even just seeing Eight's movie?"

The north of England, hopefully. It seems like a nice place which is not so different from Minnesota that I can't handle but different enough that it will be new and exciting.

Ooh lucky! I'm the compiler-person for my group of Doctor Who people and most of them will watch in whatever order but one of them absolutely refuses to start Classic with anything but An Unearthly Child. I fear she may never end up seeing any of it because by the time I get that 'Beginnings' set I'll probably be about to move out of the country. :(

Well, you do get development in the companions. And some things are in loose arcs as well. Like the Ark in Space and Key to Time and Trial of a Time Lord.

...you know talking about it makes me want to go watch it all in order. But I have to go find them all and augh expense. D: