Total for the year was 127 books and somewhere over 100 volumes of manga (erratic list-keeping, but have definitely read all of those - 104 - listed plus probable others). 18 for the 50books_poc community, 6 others in translation (books, not manga), 23 re-reads, 10 non-fiction, 4 by people whose fanfic I've read, and 2 unpublished novels for critique ( Read more... )

I was overseas and in a manga shop, and mentioned that I was eagerly awaiting v5 of Pluto ( Read more... )

( I sure as hell didn't save you so I could kill you later. )

I keep sending care packages of manga to my deprived friend in another city and forgetting to take notes on them first. So, just to cover these, brief notes with probably an unhelpful lack of detail...

( Pluto, Naoki Urasawa, v1-2. )

( And that's why I'm making a blood sacrifice out of that twerp. )

( I’m an L.A. journalist. I go to the rifle range twice a week. )

( Can't expect white people to appreciate real food. )

( Anybody can find out Manhattan's got a maze of sewage tunnels underground if they check into it. )

( The most sure-fire route to winning congressional backing and wider public support for an invasion is through American casualties. )

I was reading this at lunch in a cafe when one of the staff came up to make sure my meal was all right; she saw that I was reading manga, ducked down to check the title and then went, "Banana Fish! My favourite!" with appropriate enthusiasm (she turned out to be from Osaka). She was most interested in finding out where I'd gotten it from and if I ( Read more... )