Great! Thanks for enlightening me. I had found on Wikipedia that one of the stories was in M for Magic, but I hadn't read that either. :)

I think the police does get involved at one point, but I don't remember which book that was.

If I didn't have a big (and still growing) TBR pile already, I'd order parts 4 and 5. But well... I seem to be unable to stay out of bookshops now (other people get drunk when exams are over, I buy books) and I can't read as fast as I buy. I'm buying them pretty randomly, and even though I've pretty much read a book a day for the last two weeks, the only ones that have stuck in my mind were the re-read of the Black Magician trilogy (which seems to be oddly connected to vocational school - that's where I read it for the first time (I remember nearly starting to cry during class once as I read under my desk) and that's where I read it the second time now. Still very yummy books.) and Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner". Which was sad and painful and sometimes downright sickening, and yet impossible to put down. It... I don't know. I had a lot of complicated thought about this book, but I'm too lazy and tired to try to put them into words.

sisterdew wrote:

Hosseini does that to people. I read "A thousand splendid suns" by him, and it broke my heart. it's so sad and yet so beautiful- made me think a lot how happy i am to live in a country were women are(mostly)treated with respect, and i can chose to go (nearly) wherever i want when i want to...

I'm going to read that soon - bought it yesterday. I wanted to buy it in English, but then I decided on German after all, so I can share with Mama.

I just heard Neil Gaiman saying that a children's book is pretty much the same as a book for adults, but with the boring bits left out.

I've finished Regenesis by C. J. Cherryh. Don't know what possessed me but I stayed up till 7 this morning to finish it. Happens to me sometimes.

Now I'm reading some book about a farm with dragons and other stuff by a couple of people. A few pages into Chapter 10 and loving it.

I finished The Dragons of Ordinary Farm. A joy to read. It was a lovely way to cleanse the palate after reading all that heavy, dreary adult stuff. Everyone needs a happy ending every once in a while and the resolution to the dragon problem made this old dragon dreamer very happy.

Next up is Rite by you know who. I dug it out of my TBR pile 'cause Ordinary Farm put me in the mood.

Started Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb today.

*waves back*

I finished a book called The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie today - a fun mystery with an 11 year old girl as the sleuth.  Will now anxiously await next installment!

...and finished Ordinary Farm. Loved it.

Think I'm going to start Elantris by Brandon Sanderson now...

Finished Elantris and really liked it a lot. The Name of the Wind is up next. From all the reports that I have heard, I should be in for a treat.

I finished Rite and I've started The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie.

My favorite Tad short story is still "Not With a Whimper, Either". The most disturbing story was "The Writer's Child".