Actually the main character is Garion (and the series is the Belgariad.) The name Garrett always sounds really similar to Derek to me.
Cucumber Quest seems really good, but I've never gotten through the archives since I'm so busy. I read way too many webcomics, so my favorites...
Is that an INTP thing? For a while I wanted to be an artist and maybe make a webcomic or something (because I read way too many for my own good)...
Flowers for Algernon (even though I never finished the book, I know how it ends and that's enough)(although I really want to finish it someday)...
All I have to add is that you should take out the comma. Otherwise it seems great to me!
Separate names with a comma.