Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce (amazon)
I seem to be on a big YA fantasy book kick this month. I guess it fits the bill for light summer reading. Will of the Empress revisits the characters from the Winding Circle series. I read the first four books, but I didn’t read the second series. [...]

I finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince….it wasn’t too shocking who the Half-Blood Prince ended up being but it was a little surprising. As everyone gets older, romance ends up being more of a storyline than it was in the earlier books. The ending was quite affecting, I didn’t cry but I did get [...]

I got Harry Potter 6 delivered today! I was surprised because I ordered it with the free shipping, so I was expecting it to show up sometime next week. It was funny because there were two deliveries of Potter books to my building, so I ran into my downstairs neighbor when I went to meet [...]

Mike Manley posts about a drawing camp he ran at a public library. Looks like everybody had fun!

I am!

Cool Bruce Reads T-Shirt
Boring Webcams list at Ask Metafilter
A new title by Chynna Clugston, sounds nifty.
doom city points to this fairly hilarious clip of Daniel “Lemony Snicket” Handler delivering an Amazon package

Old Gangsters Never Die listen if you enjoy hearing Alan Moore “sing” {via}
Why Tim hates Batman, Parts 1 and 2
Cool illustrations, many with fairy tale themes by Aya Kato {via}
Mr. T Bookmarks

Warren Ellis provides commentary for Desolation Jones
Telophase is writing essays on how to age characters

The advance copy that I was most excited to nab at ALA was Cornelia Funke’s Inkspell (amazon). In Inkheart Funke introduced the father and daughter team of Mo and Meggie, and the strange characters that come to life when Mo reads aloud from a book called Inkheart. In Inkspell, the characters that remain in Meggie’s [...]

What I’m thinking of getting:
Manga
Tokyo Boys and Girls #2 - I’ve heard this isn’t as good as Hot Gimmick, I haven’t read the first volume yet, but I’m still going to get this.
Basara #14 - One of my favorite long running manga series
Death Note #1 - My impression is that this series about a [...]