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Le Chevalier d’Eon
Le Chevalier d’Eon features a combination of cross dressing and horror that I think one would be hard pressed to find anywhere outside manga. Eighteenth century France is afflicted with a peculiar kind of literary serial killer. Poets seem to be suddenly compelled to write psalms using the blood of virgins. The […]

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The folks at Chronicle Kids sent me a package, and this is what I got:
Squiggles: A Really Giant Drawing and Painting Book
by Taro Gomi (amazon)
Taro Gomi is the author of the legendary classic picture book Everyone Poops. Squiggles is his take on the interactive coloring book. It reminded me a bit of the Anti-Coloring […]

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Being Provocative
Horn Book Quotes

I Hate You More Than Anyone by Banri Hidaka (amazon)
The title is probably the most interesting thing about this manga. Kazuha Akiyoshi is the oldest of six children. She seems to have an inexplicable attraction to older men with non-traditional jobs. Every Tuesday she looks forward to picking up her little brother from daycare, because […]

Nominations for the Cybils are now open. Once again, I’m going to be judging the graphic novel category, so head over there and nominate your favorite graphic novel from 2007.

Books
Third Woman by Mark Burnell
Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotsen
Eclipse by Stefanie Meyer
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
Storm Front and Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Manga
To Terra # 3
Wild Adapter #2
Tail of the Moon #6
Penguin Revolution #4
Canon # 2
I Hate You More Than Anyone #1
Gon #1
Blood Alone #3
Yakitate Japan! #6,7
Kitchen Princess #3
Nodame Cantible #3
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