( Random, disjointed comments for my own satisfaction. GREAT BIG SPOILERS! )

Entertaining but not really scary: ( Silent Hill... )

( Random, disjointed SPOILERY comments for my own satisfaction. )

I had to go to (very nearly) the other side of town (it's a big town!) to get a special valentine gift (for my mom!... whom I will not see until maybe tomorrow so it's technically not late), so while I was there I took advantage of the several bookstores in the area. I only went to look for the new Eroica (which I knew no one would have (they did ( Read more... )

I've been reading James Frey's A Million Little Pieces for, um, months now. I was reading it quickly at first, but then it sort of trickled down to a few pages here and there when I'm waiting on something (curiously, I've forgotten it every time I've had to take my car in for service). True stories don't generally do it for me, but this one was ( Read more... )

"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide. Two of these were wrong."

Samurai Champloo: Jin in drag! Eheheh. :)

BotI: *cries* Where IS my MAIL?!?

Eroica: Hehe. So cute and funny. A great filler for the BotI break, even if it's on the completely opposite end of the spectrum. I'm smitten with the super snarky Major.

Trent: tinymoonstar pointed me to some lovely Trenty goodness, which I must pass on to ofnaivete.

Bale: creedysgirl has a new ( Read more... )

Have made a deal with the Captain. If I watch all of FLCL, she'll read Blade! And I shall no longer be alone in the wonderment.

Went to bookstore yesterday and G found me an illustrated Salome. Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, who else? And while Salome is a pretty screwy story to begin with, Beardsley's beautifully perverse illustrations lend ( Read more... )

Got books 11-14 in the mail yesterday, and sat for nearly four hours reading them. I didn't intend to read them all in one night, but space them out. However, Mr. Samura made sure that was quite impossible. If I thought this was a great story before, those last few volumes upped the stakes ten fold. I'm in love with this manga. Incredibly so. I was ( Read more... )

I've started reading Dostoevsky's The Idiot. Unfortunately, I didn't think to research translations before choosing one. But reading a few things here and there, it seems I picked one of the worst translations imaginable. This one. Translated by Constance Garnett. The complaint about her is that "she is notoriously inaccurate" and "infuses her ( Read more... )