I have some new ones to add to my ongoing list of favorite books. The ones I am adding are books I read years ago that I forgot about. I only remembered them because I was looking through my bookcase (behind the stacks of Harry Potter and Twilight series which are stacked in front of the rest of my books for easy access ). Anyway I saw Go Ask Alice, Crank, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and So B. It.

Oh my gosh. Those books that you mentioned, Go Ask Alice and Crank and so on are really good. I like those too Another favorite of my are The Lovely Bones and Lucky They are REALLY good. The Lovely Bones was like the thing to read in my freshmen year of highschool, and I cave in to the book peer pressure and read it and it was awesome.

Go Ask Alice was amazing - changed my world.

Another book that changed my world besides HP and Twilight? Nick and Norah's Infiinite Playlist! One of the most powerful books ever! It's being turned into a movie - Michael Cera and Kat Dennigs. Anyways, if you have not read this book, you must!

The middle lags a bit, but the ending is just really phenomenal

I love to read, and I have a list of books I abseloutely love:

- The Book Theif by Markus Zakus.
- Tuesdays With Maurie by Mitch Alburn.
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Steport (I forget her last name exactly...)
- Daddy's Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark.
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- 19 Minuets by Jodi Piccoult.
- My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult.

I have a huge list of books I really enjoyed, but these are the ones I'd recomend first And since this book Go Ask Alice is being so highly recomended, I'm thinking about reading it !


- Sam

I love Sarah Dessen books! I've read all of them except for the new one, "Lock and Key"
I also loved Daughter of the Forest. It was a long read, but I really liked it.
I like The Notebook too...

Okay, everyone really seems to like (my bad, LOVE) the Twilight series. I'm excited, I just finished Breaking Dawn yesterday!!! It was great!! But, anyways some of my fav books: (I mostly like reading series books)

The Keys to the Kingdom books by Garth Nix (There's 6 out, waiting for the last book!!!)
The Pendragon series by MacHale (Again, waiting for the last book to come out!!)
Eragon series by Christopher Paolini (Brisingr comes out the day before my birthday!!)
The Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz (I hope that there is a book eight coming out)
A fairly new book I found, Wake by Lisa McMann (Fade comes out NEXT year)
The Seventh Tower series by Garth Nix (Borders won't give me books 5 and 6 )

A lot of books, but, I like the long series! So, Keep reading, it's fun!

Reading is one of my favourite things to do, although i love the Harry Potter books there are a few others...

Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Noughts and Crosses, Knife Edge, etc - Malorie Blackman
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
A Place Called Here + PS I Love You - Cecilia Ahern
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Complete Chronicles of Narnia - C.S Lewis
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
Romeo and Juliet, Twelth Night and most things by Shakespeare
Dr Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams

I really love Agatha Christie's books! I like they way i break my mind to find the murderer,when i suspect all of them:p She was very good to surprise you when the murderer is revealed!!
Do anyone have read Agatha's books?

one of my favourite books is PS I Love You... Its the first time i can remember a book reducing me to a down pour of tears, usually it's just a few, but this book made me a human hosepipe.... god is that bad that i quote from HP in general conversation?

another of my favourite books is Good Night Mister Tom... my greatnan gave it to me to read i put it off because it was about World War 2 evacuees but omg
its absolutely fantastic!

and of course theres this little known series about some boy who is a wizard, and some nutter is after him- Harry Potter.... should give those books a read too lol- makes you wonder if there's anyone on here who hasn't even read the books or seen the movies lol,

Padfoot, Prongs and Moony if you liked Alex Rider have you read the Gatekeepers Series also by Anthony Horowitz? They're really good too.

I just read a book called Skulduggery Pleasant. It's about a girl named Stephenie who stumbles into a magical world after she inherits her uncle's house and is attacked there. She teams up with Skulduggery Pleasant a skeleton detective to fight a necromancer who is trying to take awaken old gods to destroy all the humans. It was really funny.

Also does anyone read Tamora Pierce's books? Personally I like the Immortals books and the Song of the Lioness books.

I am partial to mysteries and fantasy series. Among my favorites are the following:

Mysteries- Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme series and Kathy Reichs novels (The TV series "Bones" was based off of these.) Kay Hooper also has some interesting books involving a paranormal FBI unit with a character named Noah Bishop.

Fantasy- LOTR and the Hobbit by Tolkien and The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis are classics. I also enjoyed Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles and David Eddings' Belgariad series.

I enjoy pretty much anything by Nicholas Sparks. I also loved the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series.

I am in complete love with the Twilight books! But I have also read the Eragon series, save the last one. I'm reading Dracula right now, and it's very good and exciting. You get to see things from about five different people's point of view!



I'm actually reading one right now ( I'm one of those people who read three different books at the same time )! It's called And Then There Was None which was also published before as Ten Little Indians. It's very mysterious, and a little like the movie Clue.

I have to add to mine. I now absolutely love the Twilight saga. And I really liked It Happened to Nancy.

My favourite book series other than Harry Potter is Artemis Fowl. Now, for those of superior intellect, you will realise that the Artemis Fowl books are nowhere near as long as the Harry Potter ones, neither are they vastly superior in most circumstances. However, I enjoy these books for the simple pleasure of taking a break from reading HP 7 (for about the 50th time) and the very unusual things that happen between each cover.




And it just got better with the latest one. Artemis rides Arabs.

This is what I've been reading over the summer!

The Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney. Astonishingly good and at times very scary. Writer understands that making decisions under crisis are more frightening than anything else.

The Clique series by Lisi Harrison. Stupid fun! She gets better with every book. Personal fave is Invasion of the Boy Snatchers. You might even learn something useful about mingling amongst the power-players of this world.

Peeps & The Last Days by Scott Westerfeld. NOT for the faint of heart. Vampirism that actually makes evolutionary sense. The second book will make you feel like a rockstar.

I hope you check this titles out ~ it was well worth it to me.

I've lately been reading the light novels from the Trinity Blood series, and those are awesome. Over the summer I read The Other Boleyn Girl, and that was really good. The movie and the book really aren't all the much like each other, the movie's good, but the book is like five times better.

I have read them. They are the best books ever. I just love how well written and suspenseful they are, especially the fact that the murderer is never who you think it is! My favorite is And Then There Were None.

Ok, it's official - i have now become a twilight fan! And, yet again, it is all because of the film, which is being released in December. It's Harry Potter all over again. I remember when Philosopher's Stone came out in the cinemas, and i really loved it! I was so impressed! And that's how i got into the books.
So, today, i bought Twilight (the book) - the one with the new movie cover on the front - and i've read the first three chapters, and so far i am loving it. It has changed my perspective so much on writing, i swear reading it will help me write my own someday

My new favorite book is "Revolutionary Road" by Richard Yates. I read it within a week. I just couldn't put it down! What I really loved about it is how emotionally raw it is. It's very sad in some parts (most parts maybe), but it's also funny, and incredibly real.
I recommend it to everyone. It may not be suitable for the younger readers, but it's still an amazing book. I can't wait for the movie; Leo and Kate together again! WOOT!

Well, apart from Harry Potter, my favourite book series is The Twilght Saga by Stephanie Meyer. I wanted to read the books before the movie, and I am glad I have. I also love Melissa,Queen of Evil and Dangerous Games by Mardie McConnochie. It is quite an esy read (you could probably read it in an hour/an hour and a half). I also love the HSM novels.

Oh wow. Where to begin? I love reading so I've got this massive list of books that I could say I liked. But, I'm just going to nail it down to a few books right now:

28 Shades Of Brown - Nick Earls.
The Twilight series - Stephanie Mayer.
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
The Harry Potter series (of course) - J.K Rowling.
Evil Genius - Catherine Jinks
All books by MegCabot/Jenny Carol.
Anything by Terri Pratchet.

I'll add some more when I remember them, lol.

Well, I love Twilight, especially Eclipse. I enjoy books by Jacqueline Wilson, even though they are for 10 year olds .
I liked the Anne of Green Gables series, by Lucy Maud Montgomery, they are very good, my favourite being Anne of Avonlea.

Well, I too am a fan of the Twilight saga. I just think it was stupid to push HBP back and have that come out instead. But anyway, I also like When She Was Good, The Diary of Anne Frank, and I don't really read anything else. I usually don't have time.

My ultimate favorite book are the Twilight books. I love them so much!!Then HP of course. I really enjoy reading books by Lurlene McDaniel and Sarah Dessen.There is this book named Dear John by Nicolas Sparks which is really good.

I love reading =]

I'm currently reading Atonement - Ian McEwan which is really good, if anyone's a fan of the film I recommend you read it.

Other favourites of mine are:

-The Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
-The Twilight Saga
-Harry Potter obviously =P
-Anything by Sarra Manning
-Anything by Samuel Beckett
-The Lord of the Rings books
-Fight Club

There's loads of others that I like but those would have to be my favourites.

Kelly
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Well, Harry Potter is always my first and foremost, but I do have a few others. Twilight series, Inkheart Trilogy, His Dark Materials, A Series of Unfortunate Events, dr franklin's island, Evernight and Bluebloods.
dr franklin's island is about a "mad scientist" who does genetic experiments on people and tries to turn them into animals. The Bluebloods series and Evernight are both vampire stories. I read them right after I finished Breaking Dawn, when I was still into the craze that is Twilight. They are really good, though, I recommend them to anyone that likes a good science fiction story.

If you are a teenager, somewhere around the 12 - 16 mark, you will enjoy the Georgia Nicholson books by Louise Rennison. They are written in diary form but they are very funny. The author based the stories around herself and her family growing up. The names she uses in the books are real....they hadn't been her intention but she was in a hurry and forgot to change them before the first book went in for editting!

The first book is called, 'Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging' and the 2nd 'It's OK I'm Wearing really Big Knickers' which have been made into the movie, Angus Thongs and Perfect Snoggin.

The 3rd book goes by the fantastic name, Knocked out by My Nunga nungas'.

There are currently 9 books in the series and number 10 will be the last.

My eternal favorite will always be Harry Potter because, even though I know there are better books out there, I love HP! I grew up with it and I've survived most of my teen years with it... so I will forever love those books (and movies too of course)

Then one of my personal favorites is "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, I just loved that book. I think it's great the way Scarlett changed so much throughout the story to end up being one strong woman, when she was a little rich, spoiled girl. And she did make some awful decisions in her life.

I also love "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. I find it interesting how they have to overcome each their own flaws, and how first impressions can be so very wrong. And you gotta love Mr. Darcy, specially after what he did for Elizabeth.

I like fantasy books too, my favorites being "His Dark Materials" (Great books! The movie wasn't much, but the books are great!) "The Neverending Story" (that's a sweet story, in my opinion) and I really want to get my hands on Inkheart!

Whooa, I have plenty of books I adore.

Harry Potter books are my favorites, of course, since those were the first I'd read.
I enjoy reading Twilight saga as well, but I don't find myself deeply in love with Edward.
I just love how Agatha Christie writes, and at the moment I am trying to read all of her books, since it's such an interesting stuff...
However, I can't afford myself to forget how I like the way Dan Brown writes, attracting the readers attention and making them think about everything that happens in it.

And now that someone mentioned Louise Rennison and her funny books, I must admit that I'm also a fan of these...

It's funny how most of us here have similar tastes in reading (sometimes). I am reading some Agatha Christie books. I love, love, love the Twilight series of course! I just finished reading The Host and that was very good.

I want to expand my reading, so I'm planning on reading some Shakespeare and Jane Austen books. I've also had a couple of adults recommend Gone With the Wind to me. I think I'll read that soon. At the moment, I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

After I finish that and a couple other books, I am going to read The Phantom of the Opera, because I adore the movie, music, and stage productions, so I really would like to read it as well.

I obviously as all of us love the harry potter series (:
then there's the twilight series that i have no idea how many times i've read it. I lost count lol

recently i just read the host as well from stephenie meyer and the five people you meet in heaven. and yea; more books to fill you all in. Be back when im done lol


Nicky<3

In the past year I've read Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, both set in medieval England (the 1st in the 1100s and the 2nd in the 1300s). They are fiction but take into account much of the actual events taking place at the time. They are L-O-N-G books (900+ pages) but I had a hard time putting them down.

Ken Follett usually writes spy thrillers, so these 2 books are certainly not his usual stuff, but I think well worth the read.

Oh, and I also read the Twilight series and enjoyed it, as well, though not nearly as much as the HP series.

Pottyhead!

Your reading taste, I must say, may mirror mine.

Other than Harry Potter I am a huge fan on Chuck Palahniuk and a huge fan of Fight Club. I was one of the fortunate few who read the book before the film came out and I was absolutely astounded by Pitt's portrayal of Tyler Durden!

I enjoyed Atonement very much, as well

But I have to say that Twilight just didn't do it for me. I tried to get into it, I really did, but it never clicked. I read the first two and really did not feel like I needed to read the next. I actually find it very badly written, with all the respect. That's just my opinion from my experience.

Others I love are:

-In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
-To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
-Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
-Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I finally got Twilight thanks to my dear godmother, because the library was closed for holidays in the place I was.
I really enjoyed the book; it's an interesting ride and I learnt a lot about vampires, since I knew almost nothing. It's a good book, with romance, action, adventure, danger... I just don't see the point for which a lot of people insist on comparing it with Harry Potter or even mixes it up with this story. It's ok for people who has never watched HP and isn't planning on doing it so with Twilight, but in my opinion, you don't deserve to be called a fan if you compare these two books. Stephenie Meyer's writing style has nothing to do with JK Rowling's; for instance due to the scenary. The United Kingdom and the United States can be absolutely opposite places. JK also describes more the landscapes, the weather, that what surrounds the characters, and also goes deeper into the character's feelings. Twilight seems to me a bit ligher story.
I'm not very fond of Bella, honestly. She's too immature and childish sometimes, and very reckless. If you are facing a vampire, you should be at least a bit scared, and not to go there just thinking "Oh my God, I'm dating a vampire, yay". But I don't feel with the right of critizise that point because a character is a character, and if it's not like that, how is it supposed to be? I hate when people complains about a character, seriously. You didn't create it, how can you know how it's supposed to be?
I think perhaps the other books of the series are interesting (I haven't read them), but if I have to judge it from the end, I can't see how the plot can continue. That's another difference between Harry Potter: he has got a mission to fulfill, etched from the start. But here, besides finding out more about vampires (which sounds interesting, really), I can't see how can it continue.

Sadly, I got a copy by a Spanish publisher, and as it's a translation, it's got Spanish slang, which sounds horrible to me. It could have been neutral!
But also, I can't see what's wrong with Twilight, why so many people hates it! There's not a reason to hate it, seriously. I liked the story, and if I have the chance, I'll like to see the movie as well.

Have I not replied in here? *gasp* Goodness! For an affirmed bibliophile, that's practically a crime!

Well, first of all, I have actually recently read Twilight, mostly so that I could base disliking it on the actual book instead of just hearing what other people have said about it. And...yeah, I was right, I don't like it. It reads, to me, like a 14-year-old's fondest dream and she writes about like that, too. Bella is a total Mary Sue character and it drives me bonkers. And *takes deep breath* Vampires do not sparkle! And I mean, even in Forks, I'm pretty sure that random rays of sunshine would have already blown their secret completely out of the water. People aren't that unobservant.

Anyway, I also recently read the book The Perks of Being a Wallflower, although I can't remember who wrote it. It's an awesome book, though. It's about this boy, Charlie, and he writes letters to someone unspecified (just "friend") and it starts out about how he's nervous about starting high school and all...it's brilliant. Or at least, I think it is. He's such an intriguing character! You really empathize with what happens to him, and it's not just a simple YA book, it has a lot of complexity and depth.

I like way too many books to be able to write all of them down. But some of my favorite authors, at least, include: Stephen King, Mercedes Lackey, Anne McCaffrey, Dean Koontz, Robert Aspirin, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (when they collaborate, their Pendergast novels are stupendous), JKR (of course lol), Linda Howard, Laurell K. Hamilton...etc, etc.

And I just thought of a book that was a lot of fun to read. The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin, I believe. Doesn't even the title just sound awesome?

I also really liked the Love Comes Softly series by Janette Okie just because they are nice and comforting and easy to read. I finished the entire series in a weekend by rereading them.

And I liked Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky when I had to read it in AP Lit 3 years ago. Raskolnikov is a fascinating character, and it's a great study of guilt and remorse and just this whole big psychological study. It's awesome.

I think that's probably enough for right now, although I'll probably end up babbling about another book I love soon...

I actually liked Crime and Punishment when I had to read it for AP English 22 years ago! Our teacher made sure we could pronounce all the names and know the relationship of the characters before we started reading it... it certainly helped in understanding the story.

One series I've really enjoyed is Sue Grafton's "ABC" mystery series ("A is for Alibi", "B is for Burglar" , "C is for Corpse" etc etc). I'm not sure when the series started, but I started reading it back in the early 1990s. The most recent one is "T is for Trespass". Even though it is now 2009, the series takes place in the 1980s, when there was no internet, no real advancements in forensics, so it's interesting to see how the cases are solved "the old fashioned way"! You can read the books in any particular order and enjoy that particular story, but it does help to start at the beginning since the main character, Kinsey Milhone, does have her life unfold bit by bit through each book.

Oh goodness! You ask a bookworm what its favourite books are!

The Crystal Cave trilogy (the most amazing books ever written!)
Harry Potter (obviously)
Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
Mortal Engines
Dark Materials
Alex Rider (I met the author and have half the books signed!)
Saga of Darren Shan
anything by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin (the Russian greats)
Diary of a Nobody
The Librarian
Chronicles of Narnia
anything by Conan Doyle, Poe
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (was written across the road from where I was born!!!)

... and so many more that I can't think of them all!!!

Since I graduated school last December, I have finally been able to start reading for pleasure again. Most of the books I read tend to be social work related because I really enjoy reading about lives that are so completely different than my own.

Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc was recommended to me by my academic adviser in college and I honestly think that everyone planning on going into any form of social services read this book. It depicts life growing up in the Bronx.

When I read My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King by Reymundo Sanchez, I couldn't put it down. This story depicted what it was like for Reymundo (who changed his name for his own protection) growing up with the street gang. This book, however, is not for the younger audience. Sorry guys!

Some others that I enjoy include:
Shakespeare's Macbeth,
Looking for Alaska by John Green - This is a book written for teenagers but he doesn't "dumb down" the language. It is written about an intelligent guy attending a prep school and the challenges he and his friends face. My brother really liked it, which says a lot about the book.
21: Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich,
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory,

The Other Boleyn Girl was an awesome book, I actually just read it a couple weeks ago. I had never even heard of Mary Boleyn until my mom read it a couple years ago.

Right now I'm reading Gone With the Wind about the American Civil War. It's very good so far.

I also just read those Percy Jackson and the Olympian books about Greek mythology. Those were some of the best fantasy books I've read in a while.

I read the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series a while ago. It started when I read The Lightning Thief for a summer reading project, then I liked it so much I tried to find out if it was a series or if it was just the one book. I've read all of the books (there are four of them) and love them all. Kids can definitely read them, I'd say. There's a bit of violence in it though- swordfighting, killing. It definitely doesn't hurt to have some background knowledge on Greek mythology, but if you don't it doesn't matter. I read them and knew absolutely nothing about Greek mythology. I hadn't even known that Hercules and all that was part of the mythology. It's very fascinating!


Right now I'm reading To Kill a Mockingbird, and I've gotten some recommendations over the past months from adults I knew, that Gone With the Wind was a book I might enjoy. So I'm planning on reading it next.

Make sure to leave a review X-Girl, for Gone with the Wind.

So far I've read the first, third, and fourth Percy Jackson since I got them from the library. They are definitely okay for kids, I'm going to try to get my little brother to read them. One of the reasons I picked them up was because I liked Greek Mythology, even though the gods were all major jerks (nothing like Disney's Hercules) they are really good stories.

Once I finish it I will. It might take me a while but I''m going to. For school I'm reading Uncle Tom's Cabin too. That's another good one.

I loved Memoirs of a Geisha. I couldn't bring myself to even watch the movie because of how much I enjoyed the book.

Like the people above me I was really influenced by Crime and Punishment. I don't think I will ever forget Raskolnikov.

Anna Karenina. It seriously changed my life. Then again everything Tolstoy is freakin' awesome.

The Alchemist was an awesome book.

If you're into psycology you should definitely read Malignant Self Love by Sam Vaknin. If someone in your life is a true narcissist you will be brought to tears just by the introduction. The book is so easy to connect to, I have post-its all through the book. It will help you understand the disorder like nothing else. A must read even if you don't know someone with narcissism. Actually, after you read the book you may realize you do know someone with it.

Another good psycology book is get me out of here by Rachel Reiland. It's an excellent book on borderline personality disorder.

One more book I loved was A Separate Peace. It really is something.

Ok so for me it is a very close call between Lord of the Rings and the Crystal Cave trilogy which isn't on that list for the reason that no one wil probably have heard of it.

There are so many brilliant book series out there and I always seem to forget that when reading Harry Potter.

For me, I easily chose Other. The Twilight Saga! I am in love with the series. They are fabulous in my opinion and they are most definitely my favorite series to read.

It's tough, I picked Alex Rider, but I also like Lord of the Rings and His Dark Material. Of course the Golden Compass trilogy sort of died at the end. It was really good throughout the first one and most of the second then it just lost the meaning. Alex Rider has action throughout, and it is awesome!

I have read the Twilight series and I like the books, they are easy and fun reading but I wasn't super in love with the characters (please don't hate me, everyone that is a fan).

Another good series is the Inheritance Cycle, Eragon books. I can't wait until the fourth one comes out, which won't be fore another few years, sad as it is.

Padfoot, Prongs and Moony I love Alex Rider too! I met the aithor who signed the first three books of the series for me, that's before the next ones came out. Have you seen the film? I thought it was good except for the casting - a complete disaster! But I'm still holding out hope that Horowitz will bring out another Rider book...

My all time fav book series has to be the Chronicles of the Custodians by Martin Middleton. He's one of the few great Aussie writers. Another Aussie I like is Trudi Canavan. She's written the Black Magician Trilogy. She's just written a Prequel to them which, according to my partner is both good and bad.

I love the Chronicles of Narnia too, but I love the Custodians better!

By the way, I'm merging this with an existing thread.

I have a tendency to hop around in my book reading from topic to topic. I recently finished the Janet Evanovich "Numbers" series. She has fourteen books (one through fourteen - where the number appears in sequence in the title itself), and then there are four between the numbers books. The between the numbers books feature another male leading character. The books are clean (no graphic sexual content), hilarious (the lead character, Stephanie Plum, is clumsy, funny, approachable, and far from perfect), and easy to read. I got all but the last two books through my local library. I read most of them during my dead computer time.

This series would be suitable for any VTM'ers.

I've also done the Inheritance series (go Eragon!), Twilight series, and I've managed through Inkheart. Although I have both Inkspell and Inkdeath sitting on my nightstand, I've not had the urge to read them. I have seen the trailers for the Inkheart movie...and the movie sure doesn't seem as though it will follow the book. Not at all!

I love to read! And besides Harry Potter, my favorite books are anything by Nora Roberts! She's an amazing author. My favorite books of hers are the Circle Trilogy because i love vampires, the Keys, and In The Garden. I havent read all of her books yet (as she has a million!) but i hope to eventually