I might be interested in parting with my copy of the sci-fi The Last Heir. It’s by Shannon McDermott. (self-published by her family’s publishing

company)
I didn’t care for it as much because the action moved through politics of the planets she created most of the time – not so many space battles. It’s my personality.

I can find her website for you (or you could google for it) where you could read sample chapters. It’s like new. I paid…what was it? $14 or something. I don’t recall. I bought it because I know her sister and because I enjoy Shannon’s short stories she puts in SALT magazine. (mystery funny stories) I was planning on re-reading it, though, before putting it up. I only read it once or twice, again, because the story just didn’t catch me as much and I hadn’t had a lot of time to read at the time.

Wow, how do you get books to review from publishers? I have often wondered that. (I have heard of Booksneeze but haven’t signed up yet)

Ahh. I don’t have any kind of website. Oh well. That’s cool that it worked out for you!

That’s all right on the Last Heir. You said you liked thrillers – it’s not really that. I know the sister of the girl who wrote it; she told me about the books her family likes, and they are more like The Last Heir – based more in politics than in action.

Books I am looking for (I’ll post again with more as I think of them…):

Archives of Anthropos by John White – ESPECIALLY Gaal the Conqueror, because my uncle has an incomplete set, but I’ll trade for anything ’cause I don’t own any myself.
The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis – Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
Auralia’s Colors by Jeffrey Overstreet (don’t know titles, just know I want to read)
The Pilgrim’s Regress by C.S. Lewis
anything by Wayne Thomas Batson except bk1 of Door Within (already own)
Of Other Worlds and other essays by Lewis (I don’t know for certain the title of that – the idea is that it’s a book of essays by C.S. Lewis with the piece ‘Of Other Worlds’ in it. Also want a book of essays with Lewis’ comments on LotR or the Hobbit (I forget which it was))
Restorer trilogy by Sharon Hinck
Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder
Save the Cat! Strikes Back by Blake Snyder
Story by Robert McKee
pretty much anything screenwriting or novelwriting related – shoot me titles and I’ll tell you yes or no. (I own things like Elements of Style already)

This is a long shot…anyone have any piano books they want to trade? Particularly film scores…yes, long shot.

Star Wars piano books. Anything and everything. Even Easy Piano and the ‘Original Film Score Edition’ sheet music. Individual pieces as well as full books. Any episode or group of episodes or edition (out of print even!) ’cause if I can’t use it, I know people who I could give it to. (I hang out with musical film score fans… )
Lord of the Rings piano books – not the Easy Piano edition, I’m looking for The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
If in doubt, give me the ISBN and I’ll look it up.
UP (the Pixar movie!)
If you happen to have anything else film score related, just shoot me the ISBN and I’ll see if it’s something I or my sister or any of our friends would play. We devour piano books.
In general, advanced piano music. When I say advanced, I mean level 6 and beyond level 6 of the Alfred Basic teaching series. We already own a ton of classical, so just anything else would be considered. Again, the ISBN numbers really help because I can look them up on sheetmusicplus and take a look inside the books there. I like ‘new classical’ – instrumental classical-like music by modern composers. But I’ll consider anything.

Also, another long shot, the violin books for Star Wars (anything) and Lord of the Rings (anything). Got a friend who plays violin and would be thrilled to death to be able to play her favorite music on it.  

LOL about Canadian postage/etc… I’ve done some swapping to Canada before (light and fluffy stuff – I swap yarn & stuff on Ravelry all the time) and it can be very….interesting shipping. I hate filling out customs forms. LOL.

Okay, so this is like what you are talking?  (not my photo, ganked from Ravelry…silly me, I’ve made about half a dozen out of that pattern and I sent them off without taking a photo. ) Or maybe something like this? (again, borrowed photo…) The latter is machine knit, reversible. One color on one side, another color on the other, double-thick. I’m getting ready to make a red white & blue one out of that pattern – just have to set up my machine this morning and cast on. (if you’re wondering, my knitting machine is handpushed (no punchcards, no computer, no electricity involved) and duplicates handknits very well…does a wide range of gauges. It’s very very fun. Very happy I have a new toy to play with this weekend. )

Difference between tam, beret, and slouchy hat: not much. Some of it is dialect. Typically, though…
Lucy wears a crocheted tam in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – at the start. A tam is usually smaller, and doesn’t slouch so much. (I haven’t seen so many tam patterns, they blend into the beret category most of the time. I wish I could duplicate Lucy’s tam, it’s cute, but I haven’t got the right yarn to do it)
Berets are next, they have a more defined shape and are more slouchy. Like this. second photo I really like berets, that particular one is probably my favorite winter hat. (part of that is color & fiber content, part of it is the pattern) That is the pattern I’d use again for a beret, I really like it.
A slouchy hat is basically a small bag that you put on your head. (or so my brothers say) Very tubular. They range in size; this is my personal favorite one (a friend made it – this is for an example only because I have not been able to duplicate its niceness with the yarns I have)

Does that clear things up any?

I will not be online at all on Sunday, and only part of today (I usually am off by 6 Central), just so everyone knows.