Keys to the Kingdom

day 04: your favorite book: "The Keys to the Kingdom" Garth Nix, 7-book series

She loved reading. In the last couple years, with her growing internet addiction, she tended to read more online than in printed form, but she loved it nonetheless.

The problem, however, lay in picking a favorite. She read so much, of nearly everything - but not romance, never romance - it was just too hard to pick one book she liked more than all the others. She didn't even feel right in resorting to her usual defaults, since she hadn't read any of them in so long, had read many, many other things since then.

At the moment, though, of the 5 most recent books she'd read (or was reading), she would have to say her favorite was "The Keys to the Kingdom" series by Australian Garth Nix. The seventh and final book had finally been published in mid-March, and she had torn through it in a matter of hours (spread over three or four days, but it was the fastest of her recent readings). The end had left her stunned, not entirely in its brilliance, but in the manner in which it was reached. She really was sad to see the series end, considering she had been reading it as it was published for five or six years.

However, her summer reading list was growing. She expected her favorite to be replaced relatively quickly. After all, she was still working her way through "Life, the Universe, and Everything", and "Storm Front", soon to start "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" as well. She hoped to make it through the rest of the Hitchhiker's books by the end of her summer classes, and to make a decent dent in the Dresden Files. Dexter would have to wait, as she had mistakenly gotten the second book, instead of the first, despite knowing what happened after watching the TV show.

Hopefully, though, the list wouldn't grow much more. 19 and two halves was a lot to read before the fall semester started, after all.

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fuck, i love books. i'm currently reading 2 right now, and i really do hope to read all of that at least this year. wiki links ahoy!

keys to the kingdom
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
dresden files
dexter

also, since i wasn't home for this past weekend, i've got to catch up. so three more to come.