I'm a swallow!

Check out http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/1282/ if you'd like to find out your patronus (from Harry Potter). Mine's a swallow, which is odd because I really like swallows. I don't know that a swallow would be much use, though I think swallows swoop around in Tamora Pierce books (the ones about Daine), poking people in the eye and such. Hmmm.
Also the Swallows are much more interesting than the Amazons in Ransome's books. Nancy's way too bossy for my tastes. I think that's because I started with _Winter Holiday_, when Nancy's housebound with mumps but tries to run the show anyway. I kept thinking, "who the hell does she think she is?" and in the event, Peggy and the Swallows and the Ds had a fine time without her.
Last book read: The Insiders by J. Minter. I'd picked up the advance copy because Cecily von Ziegesar had a blurb on the cover. It's the same kind of book. I liked it more than I thought I would.