On a more cheerful note...

I’m currently reading Julia Quinn’s What Happens in London. The hero bough the heroine a gothic novel in which the heroine’s (of the gothic novel) mother was pecked to death by pigeons. The heroine thinks that’s stupid. The hero thinks it’s awesome.

Anyway, after months of neglect, I have updated the backlog.

Under the cut are all the random (and not random) books I have acquired over the last…3?...months. For the newish, I am firmly convinced that a person cannot die if they have unread books, and so am determined to achieve immortality by always having a backlog of books. I am also prone to the following:

1. Reading one book by an author and then acquiring every book of theirs that I can.
2. Going to a used bookstore and grabbing anything that looks interesting.
3. Randomly buying things from Amazon.
4. OMG BOOKS ON SALE MUST FIND WAY TO MEET SALE/FREE SHIPPING QUOTA!

When they talk about people who buy books as soon as they get money and then get groceries with whatever is left over, they’re talking about me. I think most of these are from #1 and my recent “Want historical fiction!” mood.

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manga: Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle ch 216-229

Yes, i know that there's another chapter or two ofthis out now, but tis is what was at Onemanga when i caught up a week or so ago.

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manga: xxxHolic ch 175-185

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Charisma Carpenter on leaving Angel

Part of a DragonCon panel in which Charisma Carpenter is a class act under pressure in a room full of Whedon fans (I wouldn't want to have to try to honestly but diplomatically answer those questions), and Julie Benz heroically rescues her in an awkward moment. Felicia Day also talks a bit about filming Dr. Horrible, and poor Kristy Swanson (aka, original flavor Buffy) is ignored by everyone, including the cameraperson. (I'm one of the very few who likes that movie.)