The good drugs

I got my cat back from the vet today - I dropped her off to be spayed yesterday, and everything went great. I was a little worried about tak...

Maria Watches Over Us, Season One (anime TV series)

This is a long post, and a hard one for me to write. It was hard for me to articulate exactly how I felt about this show. Although this post...

The Dark Hunters (OEL manga, vol. 1) story by Sherrilyn Kenyon, art by Claudia Campos

Synopsis: Amanda wants nothing more than to be a normal person, in a normal family, living a normal life. Unfortunately, her family is anyth...

Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Complete Book 1 Collection (non-Japanese animation, TV series)

Although I had a knee-jerk desire to proclaim it "sucky wannabe anime," it's actually pretty addictive. There are, as usual, s...

Millennium Prime Minister (manga, vol. 1) by Eiki Eiki

Spoilers below, as usual. Synopsis: Minori is an ordinary 16-year-old girl who likes nothing better than skipping school to go play video ga...

Fan anguish

If you haven't read the review for Anne Bishop's upcoming book, Twilight's Dawn , over at Dear Author , you might want to, if on...

Reader's block?

...Or whatever you call it when you just can't get into the stuff you're reading. My "currently reading" list doesn't ...

As if my addiction couldn't get any worse

While attempting to looking up the meaning of a Japanese word I stumbled upon in an anime review, I came across TV Tropes , a site that has,...

Front Page Engagement (book) by Laura Wright

I'm trying out more category romance - this one's a Silhouette Desire, in the Park Avenue Scandals series. I hadn't realized th...

Big Windup! (anime TV series + OVA), via Hulu

If you watch this on Hulu, there is something you should know. Although Hulu says this is a 26-episode series, it's actually a 25-episod...

Wizards and baseball

I saw the newest Harry Potter movie today. I haven't watched any of the previous movies very recently, and it's been a while since I...