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[auntiemeesh]

Went to the bookstore today. So much fun! I made a swift tour through the scifi section, just long enough to pick up Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. I'm about three or four pages in and already loving it muchly.

My other two purchases were prompted by the fear that my brain has suffered permanent damage from lack of use the past ten years working in child care and not stimulating it with anything even vaguely intellectual. So I headed for the non-fiction department and had a lovely browse through the anthropology section (one shelf, approx. six books - it's a smallish bookstore). I was very, very tempted to buy Popol Vuh, but decided to hold off for the moment. It's definitely on my 'want it lots' list, though. Next I found a book called Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and our Common Origins, by Steve Olson. It looks quite fascinating; he uses not only archeological and linguistic but genetic evidence to trace human evolution and migration for the past 150,000 years. I've always been fascinated by the study of human evolution (both cultural and physical) but this is the first time I've encountered someone using genetics to tell us where and when humans lived, how they interacted, etc.

The last book I picked up is Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension, by Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist. Physics is one of those things that made my brain hurt in high school, but that has a beauty about it that appeals to me when it's presented as ideas without the equations and math that I can't do to save my life.

So now I have the dual benefits of several good books to read and the opportunity to stretch my mental muscles a little bit.

I also ordered Buffy season one because, well, just because. *grins*

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[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm maybe thirty or forty pages in and I was thinking to myself, OMG, are Crowley and Aziraphale an item? *vbeg* I'd love some recs, thank you.

[slightlytookish]

LOL! Let me tell you, it's a dangerous path! After Merry/Pippin, Aziraphale/Crowley is my OTP :)

Well, to get you started there are the Good Omens communities stjamespark and lower_tadfield. Fanfic is posted there, various pairings and also gen, and I've found some great stuff there. But by far my favorite is the stuff found at puzzlebleuink, which features the work of linnpuzzle and irisbleu. They collaborate on various fandoms, but their GO stuff is amazing. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, you can start reading from there, in order. But it would probably be best if you finish Good Omens first :)

In the meantime you can look at some fanart. I have some favorites in my memories. Most are by linnpuzzle, whose art is gorgeous and amazing, and I wish she was into the LOTR fandom. I can't imagine how beautifully she would draw the hobbits and everyone. but my absolute favorites are Chess Players and Happy Doomsday. Both are G rated, perfectly work safe. Linnpuzzle also has a community for less work safe art, if you're interested. puzzling

I might think of more later, and come back to bother you. I hope you're not sorry you asked, lol. But I have significantly less people to discuss GO than LOTR, so I'm always so happy when I hear someone else is reading it. Please let me know what you think of it when you're finished, and also the recs. *hug*