Books
Lying Low by Diane Johnson - This was an emotionally charged novel about an unconventional household filled with secrets.
Anybody Out There by Marion Keyes - If you’ve read other Marion Keyes books, this is the latest book about one of the Walsh sisters.
Misfortune by Westly Stace - This long novel featured plenty of Dickens flavored […]

I had really low expectations for this movie, and I still ended up being disappointed. For an action movie it seemed curiously dull and flat. I don’t expect much from a Miami Vice movie, but I would have thought that there would at least be a car chase leading to a speedboat chase or a […]

It is a little odd, seeing people resurrect the toys and TV shows of my youth. I dunno about the Transformers movie, but the trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was cute. Now I’m waiting for a Jem and the Holograms movie…
Blogging will be light for the next few days, because I’m going out of […]

Princess Tutu is a yummy ballet flavoured fairy tale goulash. It is also one of the weirdest anime I’ve watched since Revolutionary Girl Utena. Both series share an element of metafiction, a preoccupation with princes, and they pile on the symbolism.
Princess Tutu begins with the story of a girl named Duck who attends ballet […]

I wrote previously about the crazy decor in the condo my husband and I bought. Here are some stage by stage condo renovation pictures. We have a little nook off the dining room. I think it used to be a porch at some point, but it was closed in. The nook is the area where […]

Draco and the Malfoys {via}
In anime, librarians wear maid outfits (youtube link)
Library organizations with funny acronyms:
MARBI: Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee
MARS: Machine-Assisted Reference Section
BRASS: Business Reference and Services Section
If you go to a MARS event at ALA, it is almost guaranteed that someone will tell you that you are hanging out with Martians.

In one of those “only in Utah” moments, my husband and I were driving to get some yummy middle eastern food today when a couple motercycle cops stopped traffic to let a large group of people (some of them dressed like pioneers) cross the street, with handcarts loaded with a ton of boxes. I noticed […]

Make Mine Manga lists some starter series. Away in a Manga features comments from comic book store owners, librarians, and manga fans. Both articles are by Brigid from Manga Blog.

Dragon Head by Minetaro Mochizuki (amazon)
Reading Dragon Head gave me the feeling that I was watching a great Twilight Zone episode. Fans of horror and suspense will like this series. Teru Aoki wakes up in the chaos of a crashed train. He was returning from a school trip with his classmates, but as he […]

Videos from a Japanese game show, “Silent Library” via LISNews. The game show seems to involve a bunch of shushing and muffled giggles.