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[nike_ravus]

 FInished my last final today, with rather excellent Mandarin tones and a nice voiceless palatal fricative!  (Don't ask about the written, my hand is all cramped up still)  And now it is vacation!  (i.e. finish grad school app time).

So I need books to read.  I haven't read anything that made me want to jump up and hit some orcs in a while.  Any recs of good swashbuckling fare?  Or steampunk?