Two more of my No Flying No Tights reviews have just gone live on the site, and one is about a volume of Pokémon manga! (Specifically, Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages.) Topical! Sort of! The other is about the first volume of a bright, poppy new magical-girl series called Zodiac Starforce(I've got a lot of reviews up on No Flying No ( Read more... )

So, when you talk about events that take place in a book, you use present tense, right? As in, "Howl throws a magical hissy fit and there's green slime everywhere." But what is the protocol for describing your reaction to a book's event? Sometimes, it works okay to put your reaction in present tense: "It cracks me up when Howl throws that ( Read more... )

So, awhile ago, I was looking at upcoming teen books to potentially order for the library where I work, and I saw this:


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A link to one of my No Flying No Tights reviews - one of the more critical ones, actually - has gone up on blog billing itself as "News from Japan." Possibly they have a very broad definition of "Japan," e.g. one that includes New England.

Another of these lists has mentioned my recent No Flying No Tights reviews. Coolio!

. . . has been partly No Flying No Tights review - the last Pokémon one just went up - and partly the next bit of Looking Like LaniAm having an interesting time of it because I keep realizing that I've made some assumption that doesn't actually make sense for the culture in which Lani lives. Basically, most of my fantasy stories take place in the ( Read more... )

Another review on No Flying No Tights, that is! With another listing on MangaBlog ( Read more... )

The No Flying No Tights review I mentioned last post is listed in the links of this post at MangaBlog. Coolio!

. . . and graphic novels! No Flying No Tights has posted another of my reviews. It's more Pokémon manga. And it's not the last of them. (Bwahaha?)

In other news, I'm using GIMP and my* tablet to work on the illustrations for The Book of Foxes. I wish I knew how the illustrators of, say, Diary of a Wimpy Kid or The Absolutely True Diary of a ( Read more... )

No Flying No Tights has posted my review for Troublemaker, books one and two, by Janet Evanovich and her daughter. Fun story set in Florida. Where, by coincidence, I currently am, vacationing with my family ( Read more... )