Visit Love Manga often this month for their advent calender manga giveaway. The Day 1 giveaway is an excellent title by Clamp.

Books
Watch Your Mouth by Daniel Handler - If you want a book written by Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket that features a ton of incest and a golem, this is the book for you. After reading it though, I realized that I didn’t want to read a book like that.
Harry Potter and the Goblet […]

I do think the technologies people talk about when they talk about library 2.0 (blogs, wikis, social software, instant messaging) are quite nifty, but sometimes I wonder about the terminology librarians rush to adopt. Someone comes up with web 2.0, so we must have Library 2.0, because it sounds all 2.0ish! Would any library user […]

If I’m part of a Legion of librarian comics bloggers, I want a flight ring.

I was quite delighted to read that Viz has licensed the manga for Yakitate! Japan, a series about a boy who strives to become the best baker in Japan. I’ve seen a few episodes of the anime, and it was hilarious, so I’m going to be on the lookout for the manga when it is […]

I’m having a relaxing Thanksgiving break. I’ve read 4 Nero Wolfe mysteries. I went to see Rent. I thought that the recent Pride and Prejudice movie was very good. I especially liked Mr. Bingley, who was the Bingliest of all Bingleys - very adorable. The walking on the misty moors scene substituted nicely for […]

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (amazon)
I bring sweetness and light everywhere I go.
I’ve gotten so much better about not packing a half dozen books when I travel. Instead, I will usually take 2 or 3 books, and then buy something at the airport bookstore. That actually might not better than packing a bunch of books. […]

I’ve been so busy at work, it didn’t really sink in until late last week that I’m going away for Thanksgiving Vacation! I taught two classes today, and I have one more class to teach when I get back. Then I’ll be all done with teaching for this semester. I’m really looking forward to not […]

Eden: It’s An Endless World by Hiroki Endo (amazon)
Eden tells the story of the last few survivors of the human race after almost everyone was killed by a deadly virus. The first volume of this manga starts with the story of a teenage boy (Enoah) and a girl (Hannah) who are living in the shell […]

I don’t want to contribute to google fatigue, but I’ve been trying out google analytics on this site. I get so much referrer spam, I think that the stats provided by my web host aren’t so easy to use. There’s also a bunch of spam in the stats that I get using a wordpress plugin. […]