Whatever After #1: Fairest of All (book) by Sarah Mlynowski

Release date: May 1, 2012 This is one of the ARCs I got at ALA Midwinter. I have now added a new tag to my list, "middle grade." I...

Howl's Moving Castle (anime movie)

I own the 2-disc DVD set. Synopsis: Sophie doesn't think she's particularly beautiful and doesn't really see anything exciting h...

The Secret Adversary (e-book) by Agatha Christie

I downloaded this for free from Project Gutenberg . It's the first of Christie's Tommy and Tuppence books. Synopsis: I'm not sur...

Gosick: The Novel, Vol. 1 (book) story by Kazuki Sakuraba, illustrations by Hinata Takeda

This was one of my library checkouts, and it's an excellent example of why interlibrary lending is a Good Thing, so I'll take this o...

Fairest (audio book) by Gail Carson Levine, read and sung by Sarah Naughton and the Full Cast family

This was one of my library checkouts. Synopsis: Aza has spent her whole life painfully aware that she is not beautiful. Although her adopti...

The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya (anime), via Crunchyroll

From what I can tell, this series was probably originally shown on the Internet, specifically YouTube, which means neither my "TV serie...

Sherlock, Season One (live action TV series)

Synopsis: This series takes several of the characters from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series and reimagines them in conte...

Doctor's Delight (e-book) by Angela Verdenius

[Long Review Warning: I had problems reining in my word count.] This is the first book in Verdenius' Big Girls Lovin' trilogy , whi...

Chihayafuru (anime TV series), via Crunchyroll

This series is 25 episodes long, but it is my great wish that there will one day be more seasons aired. This series focuses on competitive k...