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Just re-read Christopher Moore's Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. This is like the fifth or sixth time I've read it, and I laughed every time.
Also just finished all of Robin Hobb's "Farseer" books. Her first trilogy, the "Assassin" books were freaking brilliant, and I adored them. I liked her second trilogy, the "Liveship" books a little less, but still enjoyed them. The third trilogy was better-- the "Golden Fool" books-- and pleased me. I read the two books of her new "forest mage" trilogy that have been released so far, and they were OK, but nowhere near as good as the others.
Recently re-read Ursula K. LeGuin's original "Earthsea" trilogy. She wrote a couple of follow-up books to that trilogy that I thought really sucked, so I hadn't read the original three in years. I forgot how good they were! They were just fantastic! What amazing pieces of work! No clue what happened to her talent as she got older....
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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