Well, I guess I still like fluff. I would recommend Anne McCaffrey's Acorna for middle schoolers. The first book in the series is definitely geared toward YA readers. Or how about Diana Wynne Jones Dark Lord of Derkholm ? My 11 year old son, Beorn (yes, his name came straight out of The Hobbit ), lo...

The 1970's version of The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Peter, Paul, and Mary's Leaving on a Jetplane and Blowing in the Wind
Yes' America

I'm pretty new to the Watch myself, so I feel silly doing this but...

Welcome to all who have discovered the Watch in the last week or so!

Well kewl. Thanks!

someone must have given you a genorous dontaion. :D Thanks to whomever it was! to get your name all colourful : go to shop, the effects store and buy the title priviledge and anything else that take your fancy, and pay using you WGD :D I'll give it a try. I am a 'bargain hunter', so I'll have to se...

Not 'sad' per se, just so amazing (to me) it brings tears to my eyes when I listen.

Second side of Yes' album Going for the One. For me, 'Wondrous Stories' and 'Awaken' have to be listened together to bring on the effect.

"Epitaph" is my personal fav, as far as their debut goes. :::vigorously nodding::: ITA! Epitaph touches me on various levels. I haven't really explored KC, all I have is ITCotKC and Lizards (Yes, Genesis, Moody Blues, and Pink Floyd are my bands of choice). I may have to search out more o...

OK, I am so confused regarding this. I wanna be able to customize my user name above my icon, and change the None to a description, but I thought that would be done in profile. I guess I am mistaken? Do I need to use the WGD to do this? If I've only posted around 20 times, how on earth did I earn so...

I do have a long weekend in October, but I was tentatively planning on sneaking off to Chicago by myself for a couple of days to go to the opera Carmen and to hear the Chicago Symphony play Mahler's Fifth Symphony. And go to a museum or two, and go book store shopping and to the jazz record store. ...

I wholeheartedly agree with everyone saying the topic has been well researched and well written. Very interesting reading. However, I would also like to point out that various translations of the Bible will translate the quoted passages differently. I personally like The Stone Edition TANACH , which...

Has anyone read the two most recent Pern books? <i><u> Dragon's Kin </i></u> by Anne and Todd McCaffrey or <i><u> Dragonsblood </i></u> by Todd McCaffrey alone? <i><u>Dragon's Kin</i></u> really made me worried about Todd McCaffrey taking over the series. The idea that sucking blood was needed to im...

The Dragon books are so good, and Pern would be the best place to live, if you read the books for enough years, they get into your heart. My Mum read about the death of Robinton and had to take a day off work. She told them one of her friends just died. Actually. her best friend did too... Master R...

Dean Thomas. Lee is the twins' friend. It's a possibility, but he hasn't figured that strongly. :::nodding::: Yes, Dean Thomas is who I mean. Not figuring prominently is why I think that, like he's descended from African royalty or some such, and doesn't know about it until a coming of age ceremony...

I truly feel Killashandra's reasons for wanting crystal influenced amnesia are selfish and shallow, but who am I to judge the choices of another, even a fictional character? And, it all turns out well in the end, even if Anne McCaffrey did slap my hand for asking if there was any chance of Killashan...

Again, these books have Acorna's in every title. Acorna is a unicorn girl, and the books themselves are sf. Anyone read these? I have, and so has my 11 year old son. IMO, definitely more YA oriented, but the differences in cultures between humans and unicorn descent space travelling bi-peds (not to...

I didn't vote, as I don't know how to add an option.

I don't know why, but I keep thinking Lee Thomas, the black dorm mate of Harry, Ron, and Neville, is a possibility. Didn't he say his father is Muggle?

I think the case can be made for your argument. Many of the characters exhibit traits that seem to make them more suited for another house. If it is true, though, then the Sorting Hat doesn't know what it's doing. Harry, despite his many Slytherin traits, becomes more and more the Gryffindor as the...

Get real... any recipe that includes peanut sauce, soy sauce & sugar, might as well read: "first, take a dozen eggs and seperate the yolks. Then marinade in cholestrol". LOL! But, add the cholestrol of the original chicken or pork used with that type of recipe, and you're in real trou...

May I jump in on this old thread? Can someone point out to me where the books say all four were in Gryffendor? Remember the tale from the sorting hat, about how the four houses have to come together? Unless I missed where the books say James, Lupin, Sirius, and Peter were all in Gryffendor, I have a...

dlbpharmd wrote:Welcome, Mennolly! Be sure to check out the Anne McCaffrey forum in the Library!

Is there one? Kewl!

I do love her own website: Welcome to the Worlds of Anne McCaffrey (www.annemccaffrey.net)