I've been watching some rather random Japanese TV stuff this evening. The second batch of my Summer holiday started today after I got off work, so after taking a nap, I've been catching up on fandom things ( Read more... )

Galileo 6
It was fun to see Horikita Maki appear in a very minor role in this episode. The mystery was again a bit far-fetched, but entertaining enough.

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A friend of mine works at a local library and after she noticed me talking about jpop (and kpop) on my LJ, she asked if I could provide some recommendations to their acquisitions department. J-pop and all things anime and Japan are nowadays pretty big among the younger generation in Finland, so they want to get more stuff into their library ( Read more... )

Just a note to tabby_stardust: the old-fashioned fantasy/horror/ghost story book I was talking about in the SF mafia is William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki the Ghost-Finder.

Everyone who likes Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan books should read eolianbeck and sahiya's novel-length Vorkosiverse story A Deeper Season immediately! It was really really good and I thought they captured Bujold's tone and characters amazingly well ( Read more... )

A friend of ours recently expressed an interest in seeing some Bollywood films and asked for recommendations, so sassiefin made a list in her (non-LJ) blog. She asked me to make my own list on my LJ, because I have a lot of people on my f-list who are also interested in Indian films, so here it is ( Read more... )

Hi, my name is Tarja, and I like to read romance novels. Well, that's sometimes what it feels like: like it should be something shameful when you "admit" to reading and enjoying a romantic or cross-genre novel every now and then ( Read more... )