Assigned Reading for July 2010!

I asked for book recommendations and boy did I get them. I was telling KJ that I should have created a one book rule, but she thinks no one would have followed it. Ha! We will see when I bring this out again in July.

I listed all the books out in a spreadsheet and chose two numbers which random.org, which were 9 and 23, so In The Woods and Witches Abroad are on the docket for July. I actually tried to read In The Woods a few years ago, but I checked it out when I was super busy at work and it didn't happen, so this is a nice push to get that done like all the reviewers said I should. Terry Pratchett kind of cheated, here. I am not sure there was a way for me to get out of reading him, so good show to Pratchett fans, way to stuff the ballot box. :D

the list of books I culled from the comments

1. Crossing by Andrew Fukuda
2. Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall
3. Dragons of the Cuyahoga by S. Andrew Swann
4. Drood by Dan Simmons
5. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
6. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
7. Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
8. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
9. In the Woods Tana French
10. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
11. Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn
12. Nation by Terry Pratchett
13. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
14. Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
15. Spaceman Blues: A Love Song
16. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
17. The Carpet People by Terry Pratchett
18. The Devil You Know by Mike Carey
19. The Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
20. The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld
21. The Truth by Terry Pratchett
22. The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett
23. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
24. Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis
25. The Carpet People by Terry Pratchett

Unsurprisingly, I have read none of these. >.> But I am definitely giving tons of them the eye now, chosen numbers or not. Thanks for all the recommendations. :D

How do you interface with a GF?

Junctioning in Final Fantasy VIII! Personal opinion on this? Is it like magic, you mentally reach out and grab them, so there's a "physical" mental component to it? Is it different than magic because they're sentient? If there is no physical component, how do people tell them apart when choosing to Junction? How does Garden "track" who has what GF (per Squall's console attaching two GF to him in the beginning of the game)?

I am really interested in thoughts on this, and/or fic recs that handle human/GF/magic interaction in a nonphysical capacity? For instance, Static by squeemu or Yes by seventhe.

*curious*