French Bond and Author Responses
Bond Trailer Dubbed in French. I actually liked it dubbed in French. Maybe they should release all Bond movies only in French. Hot Man of Children’s Literature Responds that he is not that hot {via} Author with ambiguously non-gendered name writes to Tiny Librarian.
Boys Over Flowers
Boys Over Flowers (amazon) Boys Over Flowers or Hana Yori Dango is one of those manga titles that I’m fascinated by because it has inspired many adaptations, some of them from outside Japan. Boys Over Flowers was originally the best-selling shojo manga in Japan but it is also: A two season live action drama in [...]
Yet Another Free Comics Month
Yet Another Comics Blog is giving away more free comics this May, check it out.
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Black Cat and Naruto
Every now and then I’ll try to step outside my typical shojo reading habits and try a few action titles. I recently picked up the first volumes of Black Cat and Naruto. Black Cat by Kentaro Yabuki (amazon) The manga openes in an alley with a spiky haired moppet pointing a gun at a criminal. [...]
Kids Comics, Strangetown, Glowing Needles
Beaucoupkevin reads all ages book Sardines in Outer Space If you like Owly, David Welsh thinks you will also enjoy Wings There’s a preview (pdf file) for the new series by Chynna Clugston and Ian Shaughnessy on the Oni Press site. I’m happy that we now have the advanced technology to produce glowing knitting needles.
YA novel plagiarism scandal
Chicken Spaghetti points to a couple blogs that are commenting on the similarities between Kaavya Viswanathan’s How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got A Life and Megan McCafferty’s books Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings. I haven’t read Viswanathan’s book. This story was on my mind when I went to the public library today, [...]
More about non-fiction manga book in San Bernardino
People are still talking about the removal of Paul Gravett’s Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics from the San Bernadino county library system: Publishers Weekly covers the story David Welsh comments about the story in his Flipped column MangaBlog writes about the protests against the removal of the book It Can’t All Be About Manga [...]
Drupal in libraries
Along with building that opml list for library journals with rss feeds, I’ve been meaning to experiment a little bit with drupal. Maybe I’ll have time after the whole wedding thing! I was glad to see (via Web4Lib) this new site designed for people using drupal in libraries. There’s not much content there yet since [...]
Scary Rose Petals
I’m NOT going to have these rose petals at my wedding. Has the world gone mad? What person needs to have their names and faces printed on rose petals? There will also be NO wedding bubblegum buddies or wedding themed toilet paper, NO bride and groom frisbee, and NO mini-bales of hay.
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