Marvel Mangaverse coming back?
I’m glad to hear that Castle Waiting is being reprinted

I came down with an icky cold last week, and I thought it was all better but I started feeling sick again yesterday. Does anyone remember the Anastasia Krupnik book where’s she’s obsessed with the possibility that she’s caught leprosy? She keeps checking out a medical book from the public library that lists all the [...]

Spotted over at LISNews, the 100 best novels since the beginning of Time. I think I’ve read around 43 of the books on the list, but I don’t remember many details about the books I had to read in High School.

Chicken Spaghetti points out that Maria Kalman has illustrated the classic Elements of Style
Over on Flipped, 10 reasons to like stylish manga Paradise Kiss
Chris Ware illustrates Candide?

Sugar Sugar Rune (amazon) by Moyoco Anno
Sugar Sugar Rune is an ideal book to read close to Halloween, since it features candy, witches, and witches named after candy. Vanilla and Chocolat are best friends in the witch world, but they are sent to earth for a rite of passage - whoever collects the most [...]

I’m waiting for the bus when a group of three guys comes up to me…
Random Young Man: Hey do you go to University X?
Me: No, but I work here.
Random Young Man: Where are the dorms?
Me: Which dorm are you talking about? There are dorms all over campus.
Other Young Man: There isn’t just a dorm section?
Me: [...]

Sometimes I think that comic book columnists need a crash course on reader’s advisory. Reader’s advisory is librarian jargon for matching up a reader with books the reader may enjoy based on their interests and the books that they’ve read in the past. This is why you can find many cute lists on library websites [...]

I suppose any Monday when you don’t have to go into work must be a Good Monday. On the last day of the long weekend I went downtown to the Windsor Button because they were having a 20% off yarn sale. It takes a 20% off sale for me to not look at a skein [...]

LISNews piece on Libraries and the digital future
Wired Fu, a martial arts movie blog

How many Tokyopop OEL mangas are there? Love Manga has a list that is longer than what I was expecting.
Which are the coolest superpowers and why? Ask Metafilter thread

Dramacon by Svetlana Chmakova (amazon)
This was a title from Tokyopop that I was looking both forward to and dreading a little bit. The dread was due to me not being very interested in the premise - goings on at an anime convention. I know I’m a geek, but I’ve never gone to a comic [...]