N! (And on blog awards)

I'm doing the letters meme that has been going around lately. Kailana gave me the letter "n", so I will now list ten things I love that begin with "n":

• Nottingham - where I studied abroad last year. I loved it. Those were happy, happy months


• Neil Gaiman - you saw it coming, didn't you?
  
  
• No More Shall We Part - my favourite Nick Cave album.
  
  
• Nick Cave - because it's just too easy.
  
  
• Neutral Milk Hotel - okay, I could probably fill this with nothing but "n" bands I love, but I won't because that would be cheating, kind of. But them I just have to include. Also! Yesterday John Green said that Neutral Milk Hotel play a huge role in the book he's working on at the moment. They pretty much set the plot on motion. I might have screamed a little. He says he's not sure if this will survive until the last draft, but I so hope it does. I shall read the book using my Neutral Milk Hotel bookmark and be gloriously happy. (Yes, I have one. I also have a Nick Cave bookmark, now that I think of it. Coincidence?! Yes, actually.)
  
  
• Nerdfighters - I never got involved in the community, but they're awesome and I secretly stalk them all. Yes, all 18,269 of them.
  
  
• Norwegian Wood - Indisputable champion of Books That Made Me Cry. My favourite Murakami, and one of my all-time favourite books. (I like the song too.)
  
  
• Nature - It's beautiful and we need it and we are part of it. Despite the unhealthy amounts of time I spend in front of the computer or sitting around reading, I'm actually very much an outdoors person.
  
  
• Nemo - Still my favourite Pixar movie. I also have fond childhood memories of the Captain. I should read Verne again.


• Noodles - Yummy. It wouldn't feel right not to include a food item, and sadly Nlasagna or Ncheesecake are not words.
  
  

Want to play along? Just ask me for a letter in the comments.

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Something I've been meaning to bring up: I want to thank everyone who's been nominating me for blog awards over the past few months. I can't tell you how happy you've made me, or how much I really appreciate it. And I want to apologize for not passing them on anymore. I hope you all understand that it doesn't mean I'm not thankful nor that I don't love you. Quite the contrary - I love too many of you! The book blogging community keeps growing, plus I keep discovering exciting and previously unexplored corners of it, and my reader keeps growing dangerously. You probably know how this goes. Anyway, I suspect this sounds awkward, and you might be wondering why I'm bringing it up at all, but I just wanted to make my new I-really-really-appreciate-you-including-me-but-I-can't-bring-myself-to-pass-them-on-anymore policy official. Thanks for understanding!