I know I haven't been updating much-but I have been keeping up with my new blog, so if Japanese language and culture interests you, remember to keep checking Hymnia Monogatari for updates ( Read more... )

Almost any book worth reading is a dangerous book. I once knew a young man who jumped off a roof and broke his leg after reading the Harry Potter books. It seems he wanted to test himself for latent magical abilities, like Neville's relatives did to him when he was a kid, trying to prove that he wasn't a Squib. (This young man had high-functioning ( Read more... )

I have one more post to make on media consumption for the time being. I've been listening to the Middle Earth saga on tape. (And yes, I'm literally listening to cassette tapes. They really are the best way to listen to audio books.) I finished The Hobbit a week or two ago. Serendipitously, Mark Oshiro (of Mark Reads and Mark Watches) started ( Read more... )

All right, now I'm ready to write about the books I'm currently reading. I have a tendency to jump around between several different books at the same time instead of reading just one, so all of the below are books that I'm still in progress on reading:

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - I like the narrative voice in this story. I ( Read more... )

From Beliefnet's "Daily Christian Wisdom ( Read more... )

In past years, I've posted a "medley" on Easter. ( Here is the first such post.)

I was feeling a bit down and not in the mood to post one today, but springdove's post has cheered me up and reminded me of a song to add to the medley ( Read more... )

Do I need to change my religion? Or could it be that this quizmaker has no idea what my religion is really like? Considering that Scientology is futher along the "Reason" spectrum than Judeo-Christian beliefs, I'm gonna go with the latter. *rolls eyes*

( Joie, the...Humanist? )

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