Other passions have come and gone, but reading is eternal.

Amen! :)

Sounds like we have similar reading histories - except I started with the Laura Ingalls books, and Oz came a little later. I was never into Sweet Valley High and I love mysteries! If you want a mystery rec., I'd say "Gaudy Night" by Dorothy Sayers; I think you'd like the main characters and it's set at a women's college (in Oxford).

Have you read the latest Temeraire yet? What did you think?