Antique Bakery (manga, vol. 3) by Fumi Yoshinaga

The Antique Bakery takes part in a promotional fair at a department store. The event is being covered by two female TV reporters, Haruka an...

Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America (non-fiction book) by Jay Mathews

If I remember right, I found out about this book on Unshelved 's website - it was during one of their book-a-day weeks, and the book...

Cry Wolf (book) by Patricia Briggs

I've been looking forward to this book ever since I read Briggs's short story, "Alpha and Omega," which can be found in th...

Hayate the Combat Butler (manga, vol. 1) by Kenjiro Hata

Sixteen-year-old Hayate's life kind of sucks but he's doing the best he can with the hand he's been dealt. His father doesn...

It's been a while, but I'm still here

After months (maybe nearly a year?) of keeping up with my every-other-day review/rambling/read-alike posting frequency, I just sort of stopp...

Squirrel cuteness

This post has absolutely nothing to do with anything that this blog usually focuses on. A few weeks ago, I was walking home from work and al...

Movie theater time - Star Trek

I went and saw the new Star Trek movie today. It was better than I expected. There were several very funny bits (my favorite: McCoy chasin...

High School Debut (manga, vol. 4) by Kazune Kawahara

Christmas is coming up, and Haruna is determined to make it the best one ever for Yoh. Specifically, she wants him to say, "I never kn...

It's just not happening

I have 18 minutes left before midnight - there's no way today's post is getting done in time. I'd have been able to do it, but ...

Hellboy (live action movie)

Near the end of World War II, the Nazis become desperate enough to try to win with black magic. Although their ritual is interrupted, an in...

You can practically see the germs

My coworkers are dropping like flies. I talked to several people today who have complained of fatigue, sore throat, etc., and I think there...

Salvation in Death (book) by J.D. Robb

Father Flores is poisoned in the middle of a Catholic funeral mass, in front of horrified mourners. Dallas and Peabody are called in to inv...

The Graveyard Book (book) by Neil Gaiman

One horrible night, a man named Jack kills nearly an entire family. The only one he misses is the youngest child, a baby really, who had go...

Why does everything have to use electricity?!

I had a 40-minute power outage today - from what I heard, all or most of the town had no power. I'm not sure why, since, from what I co...

Going to be a little late

It's late, I'm tired, and my post isn't finished. This is another one that is going to be published a little later in the day t...

Great techie fun - ClearForest Gnosis and more

I got to go to a conference on technology for librarians. Although the technology petting zoo turned out to be pathetic (lots of handouts, ...

Invader Zim, Vol. 1: Doom Doom Doom (non-Japanese animation, TV series)

The Irken armada is preparing to take over the universe (Operation Impending Doom II), but first the Almighty Tallest have to do something a...