I've been meaning to post about some of the stuff I've been reading/watching but the list has gotten to the point of madness.

Also, I am probably running a slight fever.

So pick, what should I tell you about?

I am watching/finished watching lately
j-drama
Gokusen
Nodame Cantabile

k-drama
Wild Romance (stopped)
Color of a Woman
Greatest Love/Best Love
(Scent ( Read more... )

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"Orson Scott Card sold a new steampunk series aimed directly at the YA market to Anica Rissi at Simon & Schuster's Pulse. Agent Barbara Bova of the Barbara Bova Literary Agency sold World English rights to the first three books in the as-yet-untitled series, which is scheduled to debut, in hardcover, in Spring 2011."   {rest of the article}

On the ( Read more... )

I was thinking about the resurgence of the Gothic themes (in urban fantasy particularly) is interesting, and how children's literature has gone back even closer to it's forebears in terms of Gothic plotting and setting (Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos, Lemony Snickett, Flora Segunda).

The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, both could fit right ( Read more... )

To be contrary, since this is the only meme I've seen many times without wanting to get up and do it, even once,
I hereby tag:

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Mumma: You can borrow those boots, take them to your room. All my jeans are too
                tight on the bottom to go over them, and when they're inside--
Me:         --they rub.
Mumma:                     No. Too sexy for words.

I know my family is pretty chummy, but sometimes I wonder how in the world anyone could connect me with her ( Read more... )

The great question in life of today is--if a book's bad, do you go on reading it?

I've got Maximum Ride here. I have it for a friend's recommendation (though that was a bit of a warning, actually) and a study. At least I thought a study.

Turns out, the Avatars books by Tui T. Sutherland are actually thought provoking in the way I need to put ( Read more... )

I thought my last post was going to be long, but was too tired, so I won't say Epic in a title again for a long time *shamed*, but to warn you: it is my half-birthday.
 This is my tertiary indulgence. (Primary: to be seen below--Secondary: watching Howl's Moving Castle again.)

First of all, the Book Hoard. Sometimes I do feel rather dragonish about ( Read more... )

Whooosh. I'd forgotten, not how Two Towers ended, but how much of a cliff-hanger it was! The emotional investment of the Tower of the Moon sequences is just really strong; I love how Sam just unfolds in that fourth volume. The way he mimicks Gollum is just a beauty to behold. Grim Sam=priceless.

I was much struck with how taking The ( Read more... )