Paprika (anime movie) - Soundtrack

I just found out that Susumu Hirasawa, the music composer of the soundtrack for Paprika , is very kindly allowing people to download two tr...

Label maintenance - deleted manga authors and artists

I finally decided to delete all the manga authors and artists from my labels - I'll continue to refer to them in posts, so you should s...

Spare Change (audio book) by Robert B. Parker

After decades of hiding, "The Spare Change Killer," so dubbed for the three coins he leaves at each of his shootings, resurfaces. ...

Plans for this blog

I've got a few plans for this blog - I don't know when I'll be implementing them, but it'll all happen sometime (unless I di...

Paprika (anime movie)

New technology has been invented that allows therapists to enter their patients dreams. Unfortunately, it gets stolen, and people start get...

Death at a Funeral (live action British movie)

Daniel's father has died, and all he wants to do is hold a nice, dignified funeral for him. However, things go wrong from the very begin...

Ai Yori Aoshi (manga, vol. 1) by Kou Fumizuki

On his way to catch a train, Kaoru Hanabishi comes across a lost, naive young woman named Aoi. She's decided to find her childhood swee...

From Dead To Worse (book) by Charlaine Harris

In this book, Sookie's got a lot to deal with (doesn't she always?). Her boyfriend, Quinn the weretiger, is still missing. She kno...

Errors cropping up

With some of my posts, I've noticed that I've cut and paste sections of text from one part of a post to another. I haven't been...

Amazon Associates

I'm thinking of joining the Amazon.com Associates program . From the look of things, it wouldn't cost me anything and it would add e...

Once Upon a Time in the North (book) by Philip Pullman

This book (novella?) takes place about 35 years before the events in Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy . Having recently won a hot a...

Tekkonkinkreet (anime movie) - Watch-alikes

Well, I watched Tekkonkinkreet for the fourth time, in English again. Then I watched parts of it for the fifth time, this time with the com...

More on manga author/artist labels

I know it's only been a couple days, and I said I'd wait a month, but I'm getting closer and closer to deciding to just scrap th...

Dragon Drive (manga, vol. 1) by Ken-ichi Sakura

Reiji Ozora doesn't play video games because there's never been a video game that he's really gotten hooked on. That doesn'...

Labels - Manga authors

I'm thinking of deleting all the manga author labels. If there's a manga author label, there's a corresponding manga/anime titl...

Shaman King (manga, vol. 16) by Hiroyuki Takei

I've read up to volume 16 of Shaman King . In this volume, the Shaman Fight continues and Hao royally pounds one of the shaman teams in...

Fast Women (book) by Jennifer Crusie

After Nell Dysart divorced her husband of 22 years, she lost her appetite for everything. Because her friends, Suze and Margie, are worried...

Tekkonkinkreet (anime movie)

In Tekkonkinkreet , two acrobatic, fast, and dangerous street urchins named Black and White (or Kuro and Shiro, if you're watching it in...

The Time Traveler's Wife (book) - Read-alikes

I can't help thinking about appeal factors and potential read-alikes when I read things. My "readers' advisory for adults"...

The Time Traveler's Wife (book) by Audrey Niffenegger

This book centers on two characters: Henry DeTamble, a man whose messed up genes cause him to unintentionally time travel, and Claire, the ...