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Yesterday, I spent a while killing time in Barnes and Noble, because we didn't get to see narnia. First of al... this is a bookstore like what Chapters used to be, . Big overstuffed chairs and rows and rows of books to oggle.

I found one that was so extremely engaging that I sat diown and read the whole thing in about 5 minutes! This was Terry Pratchett's Where is My Cow?, which as it says on the back, is a book about reading a book that turns into something different. It is in the format of a kids book, and kind of and kind of is not one. It is the sort of thing you could read ti a really young kid, if you were a Discworld fan. It is about Vimes reading young sam a story about looking for a lost cow, and the realizing it was silly. It is pretty much goes through half an Are You My Mother?' type barnyard story with animals and sounds and such, and then Vimes has a realization, along the lines of. "Vimes thought 'This is no way to find your cow!' And why were all of young sam's books about barnyard animals, anyway>? he lived in a city. he would only see them on his plate. they went 'sizle'.' Ans then he is like "If you have lost your cow, you shoudl report it to the watch under the lost domestica animals order of 1800. If it has been impersonating other animals, it may be charged a fine.' and then he turns it into a "where's my daddy?" story featuring various Discworld characters (That is lord vetinari. he is a very busy man. he goes "please dopn't let me detain you." No, really don't let him detain you!), and ending with, of course, Vimes. "I arrest you in the name of the law. That's my daddy!". It was hilariously cute :D I thought about buying it for Arthur, but I don't thinkg that J&S are big enough discworld fans to appreciate it, and also, as I said it isn't *realy* completely a kids book, only it is. hee!

Another book I found there was.... I can't remember what it was called, but it was by Martha Wells. It was set in the same wirld as death of the Necromancer, and was the first book of a trillogy about the fall of Ile-rien, that follows up from the events at the end of that book, I think. The main character is icholas Valliard and whossername's face (I only remember him because he was named in the book, but not her mother). I just really like her stuff, and found that world to be realy engaging. The world is apparently at war with some evil power, and the Ile-rien wizards are trying to figue out how to use Arisilde's sphere tingy. Some of you may know what I am talking about. As for you others, I recommend her if you like fantasy stuff. Books by her that I've read incluse City of Bones, which is low magic-ish post-aocalyptic world setting, and The Death of the Necromancer, which is kind of a Victorian-ish high-magic setting, which is novel in and of itself. Add to that the fact that the central characters are a band of thieves and criminal materminds, and well, it is just really cool. It is like reading a book about moriatry, only with lots of magic. I also love Arisilde, because the concept behind him and what he has done to himself is just really... awesome. So, go read them! Also, I need to remember to hunt out a copy of DotN in a second hand shop, as I don't actually own it but should.

Shower time!