Since it's been ridiculously long since I last made a book post (February, I think), I am only going to be including very short comments with this update.

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I already posted my reading list for last year, but I haven't yet commented on any of my December reading. I actually read a bit more than I thought I would last month, mostly due to working during the Christmas holidays and managing to get a lot of reading done there, since it was so slow :D ( Read more... )

I wasn't really expecting that much from this drama, but Code Blue has turned out to be surprisingly good! It did have a few rough patches in the beginning but for several episodes now it has been a good solid hospital drama with even a few surprises along the way.

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I just love how fast things ship from CDJapan to me! I received today the new TOKIO single that doesn't even officially released until tomorrow. The same thing happened with the NEWS pacific DVD - I got it the day before the release date ( Read more... )

I've been working on this post every now and then for about a month now, but I think the list of books to comment on has just grown too massive :P. I guess I'll just do abbreviated entries on most of this stuff...

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I think Farah Mendlesohn made a good point when she said that DWJ has grown her own critics. There have been some critical works on her books in recent years, and quite a few of the contributors have been people who have grown up reading her works ( Read more... )

I got home from Tampere yesterday, but was too tired to write about Sunday at Finncon then. I'd been feeling pretty tired and like I was coming down with a cold for some days (and had been having this annoying cough for about a week already), so I decided to sleep late.

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I'm writing this on my hotel's TV screen/extremely clunky keyboard combination, but since I paid for it already, I might as well use it :P. The hotel itself is very nice and right in the centre of Tampere, only a few minutes walk away from Tampere-talo (where the con is held) or Telakka which has the evening party ( Read more... )

Hee! After I got back from my holiday, I could finally confirm that I will be able to attend Finncon-Animecon 2008 in Tampere later this month. Now I just have to try to find a room at some hotel for the weekend, since I couldn't make a reservation before I knew how long I would be able to stay :P ( Read more... )

It really is Xmas in May! Today I received three Bookmooch books in mail (Patricia Finney's Firedrake's Eye and Unicorn's Blood, plus Steven Brust's The Book of Athyra), and there was also a notice that my T&T YesAsia package (with Takitsuba Clips DVD, 2wenty2wo & X-Dame/Crazy Rainbow CDs + Tree in Heaven DVD set) had arrived - just picked it up ( Read more... )