Books
Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams - Very readable mystery story, probably best for the pre-YA reader.
Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls by Bennett Madison - YA mystery involving mistaken identity, a missing handbag, and romance.
The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman - I thought I hadn’t read this book […]

Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabriel Soria, and Warren Pleece (amazon)
Vampire Clerks. I figure most reviews of this graphic novel are going to use this phrase, so I thought I’d get it out of the way as soon as possible. Dave Miller works the night shift at the Last Stop convenience store. He wakes […]

Tax Help at the Library
Kid Lit Dealbreakers
What Claudia Wore

Some students at the University of Utah are frightened by autobiographical graphic novels, as shown in this story where they compare Fun Home to pornography. There’s even a protest group with an online petition, I find horrible mid-90s web page design much more frightening than porn. If students are horribly traumatized by reading graphic novels […]

SOS, Volume 1 by Hinako Ashihara amazon
I liked the first volume of Sand Chronicles so much, I decided to check out this book of short stories by Ashihara. “SOS” is a longer work with a couple chapters. Yu is a popular girl but she always seems to fall into the trap of becoming platonic […]

Swinging for the Fences: Hank Aaron and Me by Mike Leonetti and David Kim (amazon)
Swinging for the Fences is story of a young fan and baseball player named Mark watching closely as his idol Hank Aaron attempts to break the home run record. Mark gradually learns how to improve his own baseball game as he […]

In order to select a winner of the manga giveaway, I got my husband to pick a number out of a hat. And the winner is…..drumroll…..drumroll….drumroll….Laura (commenter #14)! Send me your address Laura, and I’ll get your package in the mail.
I wanted to do something extra for someone, so Rebecca who had a birthday yesterday […]

Manga Xanadu points out a massive Tokyopop sale on BookCloseouts.com.
Some discounted series you might want to check out - books from CLAMP, including Wish, Angelic Layer, Magic Knight Rayearth, Tokyo Babylon and RG Veda.
The comedic vampire fantasy saga Vampire Game. If you’ve been enjoying Eternal Sabbath, you might want to check out Fuyumi Soryo’s good […]

The manga giveaway closes at midnight on the 22nd, so if you were still thinking of entering, head on over to this post and leave a comment. I’ll announce the winner on the 23rd.

Yozakura Quartet Volume 1 by Suzuhito Yasuda amazon
I pre-ordered this because I thought the image of a pink-eyed girl with a guitar on the front cover looked sort of cool. I guess I was secretly hoping that she’d wack people over the head with the guitar; instead she uses a lacrosse stick. Unfortunately, someone […]