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[meganbmoore]

50% off manga + 20% coupon for entire purchase is a dangerous combination, especially if you only went in to grab your father's Christmas gift and the new Codex Alera book for yourself.

Spoils of war:

Antique Bakery Vol 1-2
Beauty Pop Vol 1-2
I.O.N.*
Kare Kano Vol 4-5, 9**
Short-Tempered Melancholic*
Planet Ladder Vol 1, 3-7**
Time Stranger Kyoko Vol 1-2*

^Arina Tanemura's art kind of scares me (The eyes! The eeeeyyyyyeeeeeessssss!!!) but we'll see.
**I have the omnibus collecting the first 3 volumes somewhere in the slowly-shrinking backlog.  I shall hunt it down.
***Volume 2 is going to end up one of those that it's murder to find, isn't it?

To do today:  bog manga read in the last few days and beta at least 1 of the 2 yuletide fics that I've been sent.

Comments

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, Antique Bakery. Be sure to have the good kind of chocolate snacks with you; you'll be leaving drool marks on the page. Surprisingly, for a different reason than you'd expect when reading a manga with hot guys in it.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Food pr0n?

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Food romance/erotica. It woos you, first.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

LAVISH food pr0n. Fumi Yoshinaga may possibly love writing about food almost as much as she likes writing about pretty boys -- pastries are obviously going to be a big part of something like this that's set in a bakery, but just about all of her series tend to have a lot of foody scenes of characters in restaurants, or school lunchrooms, or cooking for each other. (Flower of Life even has a cute little bit where the shut-in older sister breaks the fourth wall to explain how to make her favorite cake recipe that the kids have been oohing and ahhing about.)