Books
Last Supper by Charles McCarry - This goes into great detail about the background of McCarry’s master spy Paul Christopher.
Amazing Grace by by Megan Shull - I read this for my YA book group. It was a cute chick-lit style novel about a teen tennis sensation dropping out and living a normal life, but I […]

Mushishi by Yuki Urushibara (amazon.com)
Mushishi was the only Sundance movie I managed to get to this year, so it was a little odd reading the first volume of the manga after already seeing an adaptation of the story. Ginko is a Mushishi, traveling around and finding people who are afflicted by the ancient insect-like […]

Insurance in Gotham
Lest the Keepers of the Books Wreak a Terrible Vengeance

Here is a sampling of lovely haiku that people sent me.
Chloe wrote a haiku that everyone can relate to:
The clerk eyes my pile
Dozens of volumes stacked high
My paycheck waves adieu
Bill wrote:
I suck at haiku.
All poetry confounds me.
My apologies.
Anne wrote:
my manga, I love
shojo, shonen, yaoi, hai!
I must have them all
Dan wrote:
TangognaT haiku:
Linens for manga blogger;
(fourth celebration).
On […]

I (heart) were-koalas, Happy Villain takes on the supernatural romance genre.
The Cyblils site has an interview with Gene Yang, author of American Born Chinese. They’re also asking for feedback for next year’s awards.
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms - I really want to read this.

One amusing thing about running a giveaway contest is seeing which titles have the most requests. Anyone’s odds of winning are still very good, but the most popular titles so far in the giveaway are Black Cat, Backstage Prince, D-Gray Man, and Beck. The lonely titles with the fewest requests are Banya the Explosive Deliveryman, […]

I’m switching my feed to feedburner. I think that any existing feeds will be redirected to the new one via a wordpress plugin. If you notice anything wonky, let me know.
The new feed is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tangognat

There’s still plenty of time to enter the manga giveaway. And as a bonus, if you enter you may be selected to win a lovely poster featuring everyone’s favorite demon-infested Italian nobleman. And, there may be bookmarks.

What is a Librarian?
The Joy of InterLibrary Loan
This article about faculty contributions to the IR at Cornell is why I think getting faculty to contribute content to an IR in the absence of some sort of mandate is like trying to maneuver a boulder made of jello up a steep hill.

Greg writes:
I am compiling an annotated bibliography…The topic I am working on is the impact of blogs and what I am calling “web 2.0″ applications on libraries (the behind the scenes aspect with the biblioblogosphere as well as on patrons).
So far, I have the following books:
Clyde, L. (2004). Weblogs and libraries. Oxford: Chandos Publishing.
Anderson, […]