Let's Party!

[wiseheart]

Two years ago we had great fun with this thing. So, I thought, why not give it another try?

It's called the Collapsed Threads Game, and the goal is to have so many comments that the individual threads would collapse. Deadline is October 9 (next Thursday), which is my 52nd birthday. Yes, I'm actually that old, at least on paper. *g*

Two years ago, we had 250+ comments. I aim to break the record this time. So, talk to me, ask questions, send people my way, have fun - the goal is to reach at least four pages. More were better, but four pages full of collapsed threads would be wonderful, too.

I won't have a birthday party in RL, so let's throw one in cyberspace and have a good time, eh?

Oh, and I'll bounce up the entry date each day till October 9, so that newcomers can join the party, too. The more, the merrier. *g*

Fazit:
Many heartfelt thanks to all those who came to my virtual party: those who generated interesting discussions, those who sent me virtual cake and those who just dropped by to brighten my day. I had great fun, I had inspiring discussions, and we have broken the record - thank you!

Special thanks to altariel and the_wild_iris who sent many new, lovely visitors to the party - I hope some of you will drop by from time to time later.

Thanks again, it was great fun... the best party I could have imagined.

Addendum:
And lookie, I got a wonderful birthday ficlet from Larner! Am so pleased! It has been forever since anyone gifted a birthday fic upon me. *is happy*

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks! This might prove very helpful!

[artemis10002000]

I hope so :) It's scary, that huge list of books, but... well, reading them out of order isn't a huge thing, either. I just finished the first book in the Guards series yesterday, after having already read all those my library owns.

So I was feeling a bit overexcited from having successfully tackled Discworld and bought two more books from insanely huge series when I came across them at a discount sale. Two "Dragonlance" books in one and a "Midkemia" novel.

I haven't dared to read them yet... I'm scared that I like them and then I'll have to deal with even more monstrous series madness!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That's a real danger, actually. That's how my Cadfael-obsession started.

[artemis10002000]

Cadfael? I've never heard of that. Is it a book series, too?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yep. An amazing series of historic novels, set in 12th-century England, during a vicious civil war for the throne between King Stephen of England and the Empress Maud, his cousin. The main character, however, is a Benedictine monk named Cadfael, the herbalist of Shrewsbury Abbey, a former crusader and something of a medieval Sherlock Holmes.

The background is made up by the monks of the abbey and the various nobles and craftsmen of the town Shrewsbury and its neighbourhood. The very best thing I've ever read, right after Tolkien. The author is Ellis Peters, by the way.

[artemis10002000]

Oh, that sounds very intriguing! I've got to find these books.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Just be careful. I got three of them from lhun_dweller as a present and ended up hunting down all twenty-two volumes (with the active help of several friends in the UK and in the Netherlands) as well as Cadfael's Herb Garden, and am still looking for the Cadfael Companion. They are highly addictive.

Of course, for a former nun of a congregation based on St. Benedict's Rules and an amateur medievalist they're three times as addictive as for any normal person (=Otto Normalverbraucher).