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Librarians should be thrilled to help you! They should love it that people keep coming to the library to ask them questions. There is something wrong with your librarian(s) if this is not the case. (mutters, I really have to teach some of my fellow librarians something about patrons - the...

I agree, abecedarian. But, just out of curiosity I'll play the devil's advocate and ask, What if kids that age are interested in something that just horrifies you? Would you continue to encourage reading in that area, try to steer them toward other things, or what?

I recently discovered Waiter Rant, which is written in an incredibly good storytelling style, very articulate and engaging.

Proposal C is the best. It's clearly the most fluid of the four, and the language and phrasing sounds much more natural, like an actual human did it instead of a machine.

Yeah, that episode really pissed me off. He fires people for being unprofessional, like women for using sex appeal, and yet look at how unprofessional he was. How is it EVER ok to ask someone if they're a virgin or not during an interview... and on national TV?!? I'd be so pissed if I were Adam.

I really like Get Fuzzy and last year's calendar had a new comic every month. It was great!

I too liked this book a lot. Postmodern authors tend to fall into the trap of taking themselves WAY too seriously and their books become ego trips. Not Calvino! He has a sharp, perceptive, complicated, yet ultimately lighthearted style that is very fascinating. Next on my list is Invisible...

Have you ever read Wilbur Smith's series about ancient Egypt? The first one is called River God. It has lots of the elements you're looking for: battles before technology, courage, honor, all that great stuff :D It also has quite a bit of information about society and politics of ancient Egypt...

What?! The librarian should have been THRILLED, and your mother too! I don't know what's wrong with some of these children's librarians... you'd think they'd really love to see a kid so enthused about reading! Ahem. [/rant] I started reading at a young age and I have always enjoyed...

Try The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks. There are at least a few cool elf characters in that series; in fact it's quite a bit like Lord of the Rings.

I second Kook's suggestion of Behind the Attic Wall. Sounds familiar.

I don't know for sure but the word "rollicking" comes to mind. :D

Tess Gerritsen writes pretty popular medical thrillers. I read Body Double which was less medical and more thriller but the main character is a pathologist I believe so I think in other books the setting is more hospital based.

Try Jennifer Crusie! She writes intelligent romance with lots of humor and just the right amount of sex. Welcome to Temptation is a good start.

Of course moto, it's one of your famous threads :p

As I was doing wedding planning last summer I heard of these things too. They're awfully expensive and just the idea of a chocolate fountain made my whole family and my fiance laugh :p For some reason it seems so... extravagant and maybe ostentatious? But I never saw one, maybe that was just...

For known terrorists, the issue becomes complicated. On one hand, you don't want to sink to their level of inhumanity. On the other, their crimes of slaughtering innocent people are so inhuman that i've heard an argument that by doing this they have not only given up citizen's rights (like...

My mother actually did this to me once, lol.

When I was younger I always thought of myself as a bit like Matilda from Roald Dahl's book. A real bookworm! Except I didn't really have many friends (at least not in elementary school) and none as cool as Lavender. Now I think of myself as a bit more grounded version of Stephanie Plum...

I liked your dreams! They sound very nice, as abecedarian said. :) I dream about libraries too, but it's because I often dream about work if it takes up a lot of my energy during the day. I used to be a shelver in a really busy public library and I had dreams where there were too many book...