Public Service Announcement

Borders is doing buy three get one free on movies, manga, and fantasy books this week. I bought four of the things on this list (listerx is for animanga what LibraryThing is for books).

Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen: it's the second longest book I didn't like, but made myself finish anyway, after Little Women. There's a ton of cheese like there was in Catspaw, but it's a different, less satisfactory, flavor of cheese. ( Read more... )

Book Meme Take Two

I did this meme once before, but that was the boring literary classics version and this is the fun YA fantasy version.

From tarigwaemir -

Bold the books you have read
Italicize the books the books you intend to read
Underline you had read to you as a child, or read as a child and cannot remember
Strike the books you didn't finish
Add three

( LONG LONG LIST )

Total: 131/517, or just under a fourth.

ETA: "diverse sources" say there are two live-action Death Note movies scheduled for release this year, one in June and the other in October: here (in French)