Micca, I go to Powell's all the time, I only live about 40 miles from the main store...the bugger is huge, one whole city block and several stories high.....

I love the Dark Is Rising books by Susan Cooper Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea

Kat and Mbo, I love Morgan Llywellyn (sp?)....especially 1916 and The Bard.....she has a sequel to 1916 coming out this fall I believe called 1921, it's about the Anglo-Irish War....

Peter and Kat, I love Shakespeare also.....and I saw Twelfth Night and Henry V (in very well done productions) at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland a couple of months ago....came out awed....

I also dearly love the 4 LOTR books and the Chronicles of Narnia....have read both series countless number of times....

One book that really affected me though (and am amazed that I haven't seen it here) was And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts....it's a nonfiction book about the politics of AIDS in the early years....very well written....Shilts died of it himself.....

Amergin