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Latest reading
It very much looks like I won't make it to even 100 books this year, which is a pitiful number by my standards. Though I guess one of the reasons is that I haven't been reading that much manga this year. It's easy to inflate the numbers by marathoning through a couple of multi-volume mangas, because they are short and fast reads most of the time ( Read more... ) -
Recent reading
Short comments on the, I think, last three months' reading. (I really should learn to do these book posts more often...)
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Ginormous backlog of book comments
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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Humongous reading post is humongous
Wow! I FINALLY got this been-in-the-works-forever 'latest' reading post written. Yay me! :D
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Random fandom commentary
- I've been listening to the songs on Yamapi's solo singles some times now. My first impression was that apart from "Loveless" no songs really stood out in my mind. They were okay, but nothing that special. Now with some more listenings, I've grown rather fond of "Dance Jam", "ME" and "Moonlight" in addition to the title song ( Read more... )
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Holiday reading
The holidays were fine. I ate too much, drank a lot of wine and had a relaxing time with my mother and little sister.
I did finally manage to read Shantaram to the end, and after finishing it, read a few other books as well. I'm also currently a bit under halfway through with It Started With a Kiss.
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I've been too tired to update my LJ in the past few weeks. And since I don't yet have an internet connection at home, I'm forced to rely on the library's internet connection and most of the time there has been spent reading my e-mail and checking the various websites I follow regularly ( Read more... ) -
"I'm a leaf in the wind, watch me soar."
Last weekend, I visited my friends near Turku. ( Devil in Winter ) -
Pink Panther day & reading
Well, not really, but local tv showed three old Pink Panther movies today. I only watched the last two films, A Shot in the Dark and The Pink Panther Strikes Again and just caught some glimpses of The Pink PantherIt's been some years since I saw any of the film, but they were as hilarious as ever. Peter Sellars' dead-pan face and his brilliant ( Read more... ) -
Lisa Kleypas & Christina Dodd
As I mentioned already in my earlier post on romance, I love reading good romance authors. My latest reads have been Kleypas's first book in the Wallflowers series (Secrets of a Summer Night) and two books in Christina Dodd's Texas Lonely Hearts series ( Read more... )