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Reason #500365 that I need to get a digital camera:  In the church nursery today, one of my four-year-old girls decided to play at being sleepy and got on the floor and covered herself with a blanket.  One of the four-year-old boys thought that looked fun, laid down, and used her leg as a pillow.  And then they held hands.  (For about 5 seconds, and then he rolled around and pretended he was plumping her legs like a pillow while she giggled madly.)

Meanwhile some new Viz licenses.  What will most likely interest the people on the f-list is the epilogue of Boys Over Flowers, and Fumi Yoshinaga's  All My Beautiful Daughters.

La Petite Four by Regina Scott

A YA regency romance, this is about Emily Southwell, a young lady seeking recognition as a painter. A week before the comeout ball for Emily and her three best friends, where Emily hopes to display her paintings, Emily learns that she is engaged to marry Lord Robert Townsend, a man she despises. Even worse, he plans for them to marry the day before the ball, and then leave town.

It’s YA, so I’ll ignore the bit about a Regency High Society wedding involving the nobility supposedly being pulled off within a week of it being announced.

Emily isn’t going down without a fight, so she and her friends set out to find out what Robert’s really like, only to discover that the woman he supposedly loved died just days before he proposed to Emily, and that he seems to be up to other illegal activities.

This is one of those YA that I kind of wish I’d read at the right age, when I would have thought it was the most exciting and romantic thing ever, especially Emily’s scenes with James Cropper, a mysterious man also investigating Robert. As it is, it was a fun bit of fluff, but not much else. It did make me remember that I have a lot of non-YA Regencies waiting for me to read them, though.

manga: Hellsing Vols 2-3

I sincerely hope Dirk Benedict never reads this manga. His delicate sensibilities could never survive. Particularly one scene in volume 3.

Still more style and violence over substance, but in a very entertaining way.

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