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Love, of course :D Favorite snack at the moment?

Try Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. It's pretty good, especially if you liked Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Surely I'll let you all know :) I'll want to know whether my recommendations are any good, of course! And yeah it's a pretty good number I guess - definitely more than you can name off the top of your head.

I have just started keeping track this year because I'm planning on building a website that includes links to similar books, so people can look up something they liked and then find links to ones they might like as well. So far I have 75 books in the database, and over 150 others that I have...

We're cooking with gas There's trouble in River City Tut tut, looks like rain (from Winnie the Pooh) It's all parked up (meaning no parking spaces left)

Honestly, probably the scariest book I could ever read would be nonfiction, not horror. Something along the lines of true crime, or maybe a book version of the movie Traffic. When it's make-believe it's a lot more ok than if you know that "this screwed-up s**t really happened."

Oh my, that would probably get people into trouble.

No problemo :) It's what I do :D

You'd also think electronic journals would be a lot cheaper for the same reasons, but they're not. The prices of scholarly journals have skyrocketed in the past 20 years or so - academic librarians are tearing their hair out trying to figure out how to pay their subscriptions to the basic...

This is a really good site containing many such lists: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flbklistmenu.html#author Enjoy!

Not critical comments, I hope!

Cinderella. I still really like that movie Ever After. What was the last piece of music you bought?

Yes, I'm sure lots of women do that. But again, that kind of behavior is considered socially appropriate. Kook is probably right, I have to admit - it's probably a mix of both reasons. Personally I only wear heels because it's a social convention, and not for any aesthetic reason. But...

Librarian Joyce Saricks wrote a great book for librarians who are confronted with those kinds of questions. It gives suggestions for books that are considered "sure bets" as well as books that exemplify a particular genre. It's called The Reader's Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction and I've used...

That might have been the original idea, but now I'm pretty sure it's for social purposes only.

I believe our understanding of time is constructed and quite dependent on language. However, TIME itself is very real... look at the phenomenon of space-time. The universe's shape is determined by it. P.S. I can thank Bill Bryson for this semi-informed opinion :D

No, women buy high heels because if they don't, the other women will look down on the one in sneakers. Women do it for social standing among other women. We know guys don't give a crap about shoes :rolleyes: :) And, yes I think sex sells. I've seen it watching The Apprentice. And more...

Try Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. It's about how India gained independence and has lots of local culture-ish elements from what I've heard (I haven't read it but it's on my TBR list). Make sure you're ok with magical realism though before you try it. Also, I read a historical...

The word "chunk" always makes me giggly.

Happy birthday :)