I am learning! Well, sort of. I had the good sense to start the 860-page Lois McMaster Bujold book on the weekend this time. "I shall only read the first story. There are three in the book, after all..."

HA.

Not only was it my promised romance (the title of the omnibus was Miles in Love, and I'd been looking forward to it all series), but it was ( Read more... )

So I'm getting caught up on last year's Hunter x Hunter (all 10 chapters; why, that's almost a volume), and while the pacing is way better than it has been in forever, what the hell is going on in chapter 306? Did Gon just use some sort of nen TYL cannon or something? The hell? Can Killua pull off this trick, or is he limited to his new Flash-like ( Read more... )

Done decorating!

...The living room, anyway. Would have been done five hours ago, but then I decided to make half a dozen felt hats... Now to set aside the little tree to take into work tomorrow, contemplate cleaning up the felt scraps on the card table, and then decide that's too much work and go to bed. Pictures tomorrow!

Since finishing Dragon Age, it seems like all I do lately is read. Manga, books, Wikipedia... This wouldn't be such a problem (after all, who doesn't want to encourage reading?), but the thing is, I'm even worse with books than I am with computer games. It's pretty rare that I'll stay up all night to play a game, but books? Last night, I started ( Read more... )

Fun questions to ask yourself at two in the morning ( Read more... )

So as I was saying to Yoshiko during a long running commentary over the series' first bona fide arc (which I'm sure was the only thing keeping Reborn from being canceled), Hibari is cool. In fact, Hibari is never not cool. Hibari is cool even when explaining why he's still in middle school. He's even cool when explaining his prior explanation. I do ( Read more... )

Note: This doesn't really lead up to anything; the manga I was reading tonight just somehow led to me rambling at great length. And missing sleep again. Damn you, must-know-what-happens-next-regardless-of-quality syndrome!

( Cut for length, rambling, and spoilers for the series Complex, even though Robyn's probably the only one who'd care about the last and she's likely already read it anyway. (Hope your foot's feeling better, Robyn!) )

Aha! So that's why I've been watching Durarara! The author did indeed prove to be a master weaver of plot threads! I love it when seemingly disparate plots suddenly all come together to make perfect sense. ^-^ In addition, it's doing a remarkable job of making me change my mind about certain characters via well-placed development; always an ( Read more... )

There is something ironic about reading a manga in which the main character is a translator who goes on about the subtleties of the job and yet the scanslation of said manga is closer to ham-handed than subtle. Not as bad as certain chapters of Skip Beat (you know the ones), but still bad enough to make me roll my eyes with some frequency. (The ( Read more... )

There is one thing, and one thing only, that I prefer about Iowa winter to any other season: the complete dearth of bugs that seem to think my living room would be the perfect place to, I don't know, do anything other than freak me out and then get either squished or gingerly put outside via my official bug-catching tupperware dish (which fate ( Read more... )