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[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

*turn around, bright eyes*

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I like that song...

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

A coworker found out last night that she's having a boy. They've already picked out names, and his name will be Dorian.

I said, "Just make sure you never let him get his portrait done, and he should be fine."


No one got it...

[Chris , cookie guilt]

LOL

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

colleen the contrarian ± (... never stop fighting) ± wrote: "A coworker found out last night that she's having a boy. They've already picked out names, and his name will be Dorian.

I said, "Just make sure you never let him get his portrait done, and he sho..."

lolol!

[Lee]

:)

Funny. But sad.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

I knew I could count on you guys to get my lame literary joke. :>

[HomeInMyShoes]

I got it. I'm lame.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

We're all lame. Only lame people are truly cool. ;)

[DoodlePanda]

colleen the contrarian ± (... never stop fighting) ± wrote: "We're all lame. Only lame people are truly cool. ;)"

:D

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Lame? Lame? No...insightful.

And as a bonus you can feel superior to anyone who doesn't get it!!!!

[Brenda ╰☆╮]

Hahahahaaa...

Maybe they will looking up.
You have given them a mystery.
:)

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

I doubt it. LOL

[Becky]

Brandon became your friend
5 minutes ago new

That's Brandon Sanderson. :D WOOOO!

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Becky wrote: "Brandon became your friend
5 minutes ago new

That's Brandon Sanderson. :D WOOOO!"


Wooooo!!

:)

[Brenda ╰☆╮]

How did you know!
;)

He must not log on very often.
But....
Woohoo!

[Becky]

Apparently not... I sent the request to him like 6 months ago. LOL

[Brenda ╰☆╮]

yup!

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

Does anyone have one of those streaming boxes - like Roku or Chromecast or whatever?

I'm thinking about dropping cable, but I want to know which streaming thing is best.

[Becky]

We had a Sony streamer box thing, but we ended up getting rid of it. It was cool, but a lot of the free episodes were broken up into parts, and they'd play in reverse, which is really annoying.

My brother and dad have Rokus, and I think they are easy to use and useful, definitely better than the Sony I had. Never used Chromecast. We just use our PS3 now.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

colleen the contrarian ± (... never stop fighting) ± wrote: "Does anyone have one of those streaming boxes - like Roku or Chromecast or whatever?

I'm thinking about dropping cable, but I want to know which streaming thing is best."

We have access to Netflix and HBOGo via family plus we have Amazon Prime, which is the only reason we don't have a Roku.

From what I've read/researched, Becks is right. The Roku seems to have the most robust system currently.

[Dawn, Dawnerys, Mother of Modding]

We have a Roku in our upstairs gym.

The location, of course, ensures that we never ever use it.

[Elise]

Yes I am a little late, but here is one of our cats! He does not like me reading ;)

[HomeInMyShoes]

Cute? Yes. Grounds for war? Maybe.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

In a home run by cats this book must remain undisturbed...

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Hey, Colleen.

What do you think of Wicked? (The book)

One of my friends said,

"My daughter just saw the ad for the musical, and said she might want to read the book. I read it, but it was YEARS ago, and I can't remember how appropriate it might be for someone on an early teen reading level."

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon, Not a book hipster!]

Probably not early teen. There's some mature situations, and some strange sexual things. Like, really strange.

I'm also not sure an early teen will really get the satire and nuances of the book.

It's a lot different, and more mature, than the musical.

[Becky]

That and they might be bored by the social and political themes.

[Nyssa]

I could have sworn we had a random (not necessarily funny, but interesting) image thread somewhere...or is this it?

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Help!

I saw a book "a while back" that I believe was the first in a series (like that's unusual). The title had something to do with a "warrior-wizard" or "sword-mage" or something like that. A wizard who was also a warrior. But I just went through my "to be reads" (twice) and apparently didn't put it on my list.

Ring any bells?

I don't think it was a D&D tie in not Forgotten Realms or anything like that.

Thanks.

[Chris , cookie guilt]

Was it The Wizard Knight? That's the omnibus of The Wizard & The Knight.

[Nyssa]

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "Help!

I saw a book "a while back" that I believe was the first in a series (like that's unusual). The title had something to do with a "warrior-wizard" or "sword-mage" or something like that. A wi..."

This? The Swordmage Trilogy Its a bit literal but, you know.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

It wasn't The Wizard Knight, and I looked at the trilogy to. This had a title that combined wizard or mage or something with warrior or sword or something into one word. I just can't remember it.

It's driving me crazy!

[Mike (the Paladin)]

FOUND IT!

It was "Swordceror" Apprentice Swordceror.

Thanks.

[Chris , cookie guilt]

That looks like it might be interesting.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I remembered it was one word but couldn't recall the word.

[Nyssa]

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "FOUND IT!

It was "Swordceror" Apprentice Swordceror.

Thanks."

I felt your pain! I'm glad you found it!! :)

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

:)

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Audible put everything on sale today. I got it for like $10.

[Becky]

When you say "everything"...? O_O

[Becky]

Oh, so they did. *sigh* It doesn't really help me much though since sale prices would need to drop below $9.56 to benefit me, and many that I'm seeing aren't that low - so it'd be better to just use a regular credit.

BUUUUUT... I do have that $10 from Black Friday that Audible handed out, so that changes things a bit. :)

[Dawn, Dawnerys, Mother of Modding]

I picked up Warriors for around $9, but that's all. There are a bunch of others I want, but the prices are all around $15 so not worth it to me right now.

[Becky]

I think I'm going to go with The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life, which will cost me $0.84 after the $10 Audible credit.

I was torn between that one and A Million Ways to Die in the West, which is read by Jonathan Frakes (Number One!) but I dunno... the sample didn't really fit. I can't stop hearing him as Riker, and it's weird.

I'm still looking around to see if there's anything else that looks good.

[Becky]

*cough* I should mention that I also have almost 40 audiobooks that I need to listen to. So. Maybe I should factor that in with my challenge somehow... LOL

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Becky wrote: "*cough* I should mention that I also have almost 40 audiobooks that I need to listen to. So. Maybe I should factor that in with my challenge somehow... LOL"

lol

[Becky]

It's not my fault that Audible has good sales! LOL

[Dawn, Dawnerys, Mother of Modding]

I went back and got books 4 and 5 of the Iron Druid series. Whatever. I'm out of credits and the price was equivalent to the price of one credit. I wanted them now.

[Becky]

Sounds reasonable to me! :D

I'm slowly but surely building up my Dresden audiobook inventory. I got 1 & 2 on sale for $5.95 each not too long ago and I still have 5 credits left until February, so... I'll just use them for Dresden maybe.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Becky....what deal did you get. I pay $22.95 a month for 2 credits. That makes the breakeven point for me about $11.50. Sounds like you got a better deal.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Oh and I also have a fairly long list of Audio books I haven't gotten to yet. Same deal as my print and Ebooks. Library books keep getting in the way.

:)