tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-303705672012-01-03T04:10:18.956-08:00Words to go with that latteGingernoreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30370567.post-17341760424200344772010-02-14T21:08:00.000-08:002010-02-14T21:21:36.338-08:00

I rarely make Resolutions at New Year's. But I thought the lunar new year provided as good an excuse as any for a declaration.A while back, I saw a challenge on a book blog, titled something like "The Clear Your Shelves" challenge.* Which sounds like a good idea. So here's a list of books that I have but haven't read, that I intend to read over the next month:World Weavers by Alma Alexander,

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I am not the biggest Christopher Moore fan, but my sis reads the best bits aloud to me, and the line seems... well, relevant. Because this is heinous f**kery indeed. Someone at Amazon seems to feel that all books touching upon gay/lesbian/bi/trans/queer issues are, by nature, adult. So they have been removed from sales rankings in order to remove them from searches. Even young adult novels.

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Geek Monthly, a magazine celebrating all things geeky, seemed to have been designed just for me when it initially hit the shelves. The covers featured celebrities who not only play geeks on TV but also, in some cases, are geeky themselves. The definition of geek, while broad, worked--and included girl geeks. The writing was witty, often snarky, but not insulting towards geeks nor towards

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Legend of Chun HyangCLAMPComplete in one volumeI love CLAMP. This is no secret to my friends and family -- I have entire shelves of CLAMP's works, some in the original Japanese. I can admire the drawings even if the meaning of the text escapes me.CLAMP is a manga circle of five women, which has been together for twenty-five years now. They have written and illustrated manga for a variety genres

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EarthianYun KougaFour volumes, three currently availableI read a lot of shounen ai manga. A lot. I started reading out of curiosity -- Romances featuring two male protagonists, written by and for a female audience? What a strange phenomenon! -- but something must have resonated for me. Now a majority of the shoujo (girls') series that I pick up are shounen ai or at least suggestive of shounen ai

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DramaconSvetlana ChmakovaOn-going series, one volume releasedDramacon is a manga for everyone who's ever gone to an anime convention or simply wanted to attend one. It packs all the excitement, humor, disappointments, and sheer craziness of an anime convention in a smaller, paper and ink format which is much easier for home consumption than a full-sized convention.Volume one introduces us to

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Why start another little review site on the web? Well, there's simply not enough time to read all the good books out there, so I feel a bit of direction can hardly go amiss. My plans for this blog are fairly modest -- honest reviews, when the spirit moves. I plan to review 'sequential art,' aka comics as well as text-only books. My current interests in that area tend toward manga, especially

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