Last post of the year

I couldn't resist doing this. It's been an interesting year - I've had long periods of boredom, with short periods of frenzied a...

Typos, argh

I usually read every post I write completely through at least twice before I publish it. Before those read-throughs, I use spellcheck. You...

House on Hope Street (audio book) by Danielle Steel

(This has spent over 5 months in my "drafts to be finished" pile - now it finally gets to see the light of day.) Liz and Jack Suth...

Daughters of Darkness (book) by L.J. Smith

Rowan, Kestrel, and Jade, three vampire sisters, have lived their whole lives on an island meant to be a safe place for members of the Night...

Easy and Yummy Cookbooks and Recipe Books

What do I do when I'm depressed/upset/nervous/frantic? When I can, I bake. I figured, after seeing the damage to my car (and calling u...

Unlucky with cars...

I seem to be having the worst car luck since I moved. Within days of getting here, my car got rear-ended. Now, I finish up with my grocery...

Emma (manga, vol. 4) by Kaoru Mori

William continues to attend parties and act like his father's perfect heir, pretending that he doesn't think about Emma, but the str...

Sorry, no porn or free manga here

I always find it interesting, the ways people find this blog and the searches that get them here. By the way, yes, I can tell, somewhat, ho...

King of Thorn (manga, vol. 4) by Yuji Iwahara

(There's really no way I can do a decent summary without some spoilers, so beware.) In the last volume, Kasumi learned that there's ...

WorldCat search box

During an earlier post, I can't remember which one, I wrote that it would be impossible for me to somehow link to the catalog of whateve...

The Kindaichi Case Files: The Undying Butterflies (manga, vol. 17) by Yozaburo Kanari (story) and Fumiya Sato (art)

While looking at a magazine article, Kindaichi, a crime-solving high school student, sees a murderer from one of his previous cases, someone...

Death Note (live action movie)

Light Yagami, son of a police chief, is an intelligent, hard-working student who has never caused his family any trouble and seems destined ...

The Kindaichi Case Files: The Magical Express (manga, vol. 16) by Yozaburo Kanari (story) and Fumiya Sato (art)

Hajime Kindaichi is a high school student who is regarded by his classmates and teachers as something of a loser. However, he's actuall...

Transcription and a webcomic about libraries

If you read Unshelved , you may already know this, but they're enlisting the help of volunteers to transcribe all their comic strips so ...

Memory Wiping for Fun and Profit

Do you like books/movies/TV shows/whatever where characters purposely erase or alter the memories of other characters? These characters usua...

Original cataloging fun

There are some days when I feel a little more like a professional cataloger than others. One such day was when I spent two days creating ori...

Eclipse (book) by Stephenie Meyer

I'll start this off with the usual spoiler warning - it takes too much energy to watch everything I'm writing, so don't read thi...

Anime/Manga Featuring Books, Libraries, and/or Librarians

I'm going to try something new - instead of a post based on one particular book/movie/TV show, I'm going to try writing a subject-th...