Reading List, January 2006
I read a bunch this month. I wasn’t reading anything mentally taxing, although I did acutually read one non-fiction book which is quite a rarity for me. Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner – More uneven than her other books, I don’t think the mystery elements blended well with the main plot. Wedding Season by Darcy [...]
Manga links for Monday
Mely looks at the covers for Nana 1 & 2 Flipped Interview with Jake Forbes Johanna rounds up some of the reaction to the Tokyopop layoffs Manga coming out this week Cyndi Lauper Sings Song of Gundam
Mr. 2000
Well, the 2000th commenter on my blog was BeaucoupKevin, who told me that Sonny Chiba was in a movie where he karate fights a bear. That is so excellent! He’s getting a $25.00 gift certificate for Amazon.com. Thanks to everybody who has commented on my blog so far! It is likely to be quite some [...]
Cultural Illiteracy Confession
I have a horrible thing to confess. I hope you will not think less of me as I expose the depth of my ignorance. Before today, I have never seen a Sonny Chiba movie. I don’t think his role in Kill Bill really counts, since Hattori Hanzo was more of a cameo role. I think [...]
4 things meme
Tagged by Metrokitty, here I go: Four jobs I’ve had: 1. Used bookstore worker 2. Big chain bookstore worker 3. Library Graduate Assistant 4. Instruction Librarian Four movies I can watch over and over: 1. The Transporter 2. Pitch Black 3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 4. Strictly Ballroom Four places I’ve lived: [...]
Runaways
Runaways (amazon) I’d heard that Runaways was great, but it took me a bit of time to get around to reading it. I’ve read the first, third, and forth graphic novel collections and I think it is one of the most entertaining series being published by Marvel now. Runaways builds on a feeling that I’m [...]
2000 comment update
Now, I’m very very very close to declaring the winner of the 2000th comment giveaway! Thanks everyone for you feedback about the ad issue. I’m signed up with AdSense, so I’ll be adding that to the site soon. All of this should be invisible to those of you reading via RSS.
Graphic Novels and ALA Best Books list
Some comments at Comics212.net and from Flight. Here’s the list
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Always remember
I’m several days late for this meme, but I felt I had to represent for my favorite purple princess, especially since Lyle gave me the idea.
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