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So, meganbmoore, your LiveJournal reveals...

You are... 1% unique and 3% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy science fiction). When it comes to friends you are a total whore. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is intellectual.

Your overall weirdness is: 40

(The average level of weirdness is: 29.
You are weirder than 79% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

sales

1.  Rightstuf is finally having a sale on Del Rey products. 33% off all manga.  Must read My Heavenly Hockey Club before it ends.

2.  They also have tons of anime up to 95% off, resulting in $4-$7 discs.  I've ordered Le Chevalier d'Eon, and may yet order Speed Grapher before it ends.

3.  Deep Discount is having their codeword sale where you take 25% off their regular prices.  I'll be getting season 3 of Avatar (I've tried to remain spoiler free, but it hasn't worked well.) and maybe something else.  The codeword is "supersale".

The Rightstuf sales end 11/23, the Deep Discount one on 11/23.

(Meanwhile, I'm watching the Farscape episode where they're taking people's eyes out and then putting them back in.  Good episode, but eeeeewwww.  I'm the girl who cannot watch the scene in The Mummy where they're about to take Imhotep's eyes out even though I've seen it at least a dozen times and know perfectly well that we don't see it happen.)

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle ch 205

( Chins of DOOM battle angsty stares of DOOM. So, the norm... )

The Door in the Hedge by Robin McKinley

The Door in the Hedge is a collection of four novellas, two adapting well known fairy tales, two with new stories in traditional fairy tale format.

The first story, The Stolen Princess is about a kingdom whose people’s daughters are semi-regularly taken by the fae. The first girl was taken and then returned two days later, but the others aren’t returned. The current queen’s twin sister was taken on their seventeenth birthday, and she grows nervous as her own daughter, who is determined to live alone, approaches her own seventeenth birthday. I liked this one, but wish it had been longer so we could see more of the characters and their relationships. It has many elements of traditional fables, but the actual story is fairly new.

I’m less fond of The Princess and the Frog. I usually like adaptations of that story, but this was pretty much “cursed prince saves damsel from evil usurper,” and didn’t have much to do with the original.

I did, however, love The Princess and the Hind about the oft-ignored daughter of a king’s second wife, who’s only ever been noticed by her much loved half-brother, who adores her. When he’s injured hunting a hind, she goes off to find the hind and break the curse surrounding it. My reasons for loving it should be obvious.

The Twelve Dancing Princesses follows the traditional version, but with a slightly darker bent. This is one of my favorite fairy tales, even though most adaptations (this one included) leave me wishing more of it was from the perspective of the title characters. I did, however, like how the soldier’s motivation was social reform in the army, and his reactions to palace life, such as fear of the giant bathtub.

Nothing particularly groundbreaking, but a pretty enjoyable read.