And the "eww" continues

I mentioned my Butter Pie adventure to a coworker, who said, "Is that something like Chess Pie?" I had no idea what she was talki...

More adventures in food

A few days ago, I cataloged a book of recipes from the 1920s and '30s. While flipping through it, I found a recipe for something called...

Ouran High School Host Club, Part 1 (anime TV series)

This first boxed set includes episodes 1 to 13. Since FUNimation is perfectly capable of including an entire 26-episode series in one boxed...

Earl and Fairy, Library War, oh my

Never mind that I've got hours and hours of unwatched anime stacked and waiting for me. Never mind all the great stuff being streamed o...

Alice and Kev

I stumbled upon this blog today, and I've already read all the entries. Robin Burkinshaw decided to create two homeless characters in ...

Skip Beat! (anime TV series) on Crunchyroll.com

I've heard somewhat conflicting things about Crunchyroll's legality, so I debated a bit about including a post about a show I watche...

Suite 606 (anthology, book) by J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, Mary Kay McComas

Since this is an anthology, I don't plan on listing read-alikes. It's just going to be summaries and commentaries. Judging by the c...

Tramps Like Us (manga, vol. 1) by Yayoi Ogawa

The original title for this series was Kimi wa Pet ("You're my pet") - that title gets the basic story across a little more c...

Bread Machine Magic, Revised Edition (recipe book) by Linda Rehberg and Lois Conway

I know, I know, this isn't really the sort of book I usually write about (unless you count that one time I wrote about the muffin recipe...

Regular posting schedule? Ha!

I'm not sure if I'm going to abandon my regular posting schedule completely, but it definitely needs to be altered. How will I alte...

Podiobooks.com

My library has been encouraging staff to do various technology-related activities, such as learning about LibraryThing, podcasts, tagging, i...

Section headings

In case you hadn't noticed, I'm going to try to start using section headings in my posts ("Synopsis," "Commentary,&qu...

Emma: A Victorian Romance - Season Two (anime TV series)

The image I've used is not something found on any of the US DVD cases or the box as a whole, although a black and white version can be f...

Blank Slate (manga, vol. 1) by Aya Kanno

If you haven't read this volume and don't want me to ruin everything, you probably shouldn't be reading this post. At the very ...

Scary lightning

I had planned on finishing up today's post over the next hour or so, but we've got quite a storm going on right now - all that light...