First day in Tokyo! It's a bit overwhelming. Our flight was first delayed, and although we managed to exchange our travel vouchers for tickets for the airport bus to our hotel and get our rental cell phones, Narita's 2nd terminal is not particularly easy to navigate. We then headed to Asakusa to get even more train tickets (for Nikko), in which I ( Read more... )

Aside from my manga loot, which I am still gloating about, so far I have bought:

- Sherry Thomas, Delicious, even though I could have gotten it in CA, just because I couldn't wait any longer to read it.

- John Makeham and A-Chin Hsiau, eds., Cultural, Ethnic, and Political Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwan: Bentuhua

- Patti Gully, Sisters of ( Read more... )

BWAHAHAHA! I got a ton of loot at the Strand today (and at the Strand Annex over the weekend) and I am going to rub it in everyone's faces and brag because I never manage to find manga on sale in California.

Loot ($2 for everything save the manhwa, which was $2.50):

• Mixed Vegetables, which I have never heard of but stars a daughter of a pastry ( Read more... )

I ended up in the city for the $1/book day of the Friends of the San Francisco Library Sale, whoo! The sale was HUGE; it was the third day and there were still tons of books. It's probably five or six times the size of my local library sale. Next year, I may be insane and attempt to go two days, but only if there are friends driving like this year ( Read more... )

This week, I went with cychi and A. to see the Tezuka Osamu exhibit at the Asian Art Museum in SF ( Read more... )

This felt very different from my first Wiscon, and a lot of it was because of the Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of DOOM from last year ( Read more... )

I ended up rushing to Target and buying a tree on Friday afternoon, go me! It'll only be up for a week or so, but it was nice.

( Christmas Eve )

Weekend almost over, yay! Normally I do not cheer the end of a long weekend, but this year, I so am ( Read more... )

I got so caught up in the whole deluge of comments that I forgot to post about this!

Anyhow, there was a library sale last weekend.

Need I say more?

I got:
- RuThAnne Lum McCunn, Thousand Pieces of Gold (Asian-American fiction)
- Lizzie Simon, Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D
- Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link, eds., The Tiananmen Papers- ( Read more... )

I went to the used bookstore today to get a copy of What Color Is My Parachute?.

Two hours later, I walked out with the following:

- Megan Chance, Fall From Grace
- Kara Dalkey, Little Sister
- Geraldine Harris, Seven Citadels: Prince of the Godborn
- Soryo Fuyumi, Mars, vols. 1-7
- Hagio Moto, A, A' (WHOO!!!!!!!!)
- Yuki Kaori, Angel Sanctuary, ( Read more... )