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43) Chicks and Balances Edited by Esther Friesner and Josh Helfers. 2015 Twenty short stories with female warriors of all stripes. Part of a series of Chicks in Chain-mail series of books that got started in 1990's. A good read over all. Will look for the other books ( Read more... )

So I did some impulse buying today after seeing my bonus for work on my pay stub.

I got two DVDs of movies I've wanted for ages; Kamikaze Girls by Tetsuya Nakashima and My Neighbours The Yamadas by Isao Takahata from Studio Ghibli.

I also got a Lucky Star messenger bag because I just wanted it and I might use it for LARP ( Read more... )

39) Fantasists on Fantasy: A Collection of Critical Reflection by Eighteen Masters of the Art. Edited by Roberts H Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski. 1984. A lot of essays by writers of fantasy from Britain and America. Good for academics who study fantasy literature and for fans of the genre.

40) Dawn's Early Light by Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris. ( Read more... )

31) Circle of the Moon by Barbara Hambly. 2005. Another good read by Barbara Hambly. This is a continuation after Sisters of the Raven. New and more terrifying problems arise as the old male magic continues to fade and the women still struggle to learn to master and harness their powers. The wards keeping the tenyn in line and the various household ( Read more... )

25) The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jenkins. 2009. This is a re-read but still an enjoyable book. Our heroine Nina is part of a support group for. vampires who act like most dysfunctional support made up of very disparate group of individuals from different time periods in Australia. And then one of the group is murdered and they ( Read more... )

17) The Dwarves by Markus Heitz 2005 in German and translated into English by Sally-Ann Spencer in 2009. Sweeping and hard to put down so don't read this book unless you are retired or on vacation and can sleep in. Our hero Tungdil is an orphaned dwarf brought up by a mage at a mage school who longs to meet his own people. After a prank with one of ( Read more... )

1) Turning Point 1997-2008 by Hayao Miyazaki 2008. Translated by Beth Cary and Frederik l. Schodt. 2014. More gather articles, interviews, and elegies about Hayao Miyazaki and his movies career.

2) Patlabor The Movie Archives Chikashi Saito, Kenji Takigawa, Tomohiro Kawakami, & Mayu Miyamoto. Tanslated by Dan Kanemitsu, Michael House, David Fleming ( Read more... )

49) Starting Point 1979-1996 by Hayao Miyazaki. Translated by Beth Cary and Frederik L. Schodt. Originally published in Japanese 1996, English publication 2009. A collection of essays, interviews, and lectures with Hayao Miyazaki, the Oscar winning director, writer, and producer of Spirited Away from Studio Ghibli. He will be receiving a lifetime ( Read more... )