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[meganbmoore]

Over the last few days, I've read both Saundra Mitchell's Shadowed Summer and Novala Takemoto's Kamikaze Girls.  Both are short, excellent, have very strong voices and compelling narrators, strongly recommended on any merit, and both are heavily focused on a friendship between two girls.  (Proper writeups to come.  I'm currently about 3 weeks behind, when I could still read at work.)

I feel spoiled and am mildly concerned that anything else I pick up right now will be disappointing.

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[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed Kamikaze Girls and the movie (though I really hate the US title). Figuring out which friends I could successfully lend them to has been challenging, though!

(Icon used for relevance, not for its caption, haha.)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

But it is oh-so-in-character!

The sentiment, at least. ichigo is still working on the language.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Heehee, yes. When I saw the still, I had to make the icon, because it's written all over her face. I need to redo it and make it better, though (distracting parasol rib for the lose).

[vivacious-dan.livejournal.com]

Just bought Kamikaze Girls a few weeks ago. Haven't read it yet, I'm in the middle of Crime & Punishment right now, but I am looking forward to it. I have heard nothing but good things about it.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

It is AWESOME!

[heavensgardener.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to read Kamikaze Girls, though I really have no interest in seeing the movie.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

The book made me interested in the movie.

[heavensgardener.livejournal.com]

My main reason for not having any interest in the movie is that some users on the egl comm kept pushing and pushing and pushing it, and I'm just like "jeez, we get the idea that you think all gothlolis should see this movie, lay off already". So they kind of killed it for me. :/

kamikaze girls was a cotton candy blast.

[calledinvain.livejournal.com]

I have the movie and the manga adaptation of it, and I read the novel eons ago when I was still working in a bookstore. But yes, Ichigo and Momoko are such a great pair.

Re: kamikaze girls was a cotton candy blast.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I want to know if the sequel is/will be licensed.

Re: kamikaze girls was a cotton candy blast.

[calledinvain.livejournal.com]

I'd be surprised if it wasn't, I think the official English translation of it did very well for Viz.

[sarahtales.livejournal.com]

Yay! I am so happy you agree with me on the total awesomeness of Shadowed Summer.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I think I'm just going to steal chunks of your post when I blog on it!

[seaheidi.livejournal.com]

I loved Shadowed Summer too, but haven't read Kamikaze Girls--thanks for the suggestion!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

They're equally awesome, but in different ways.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I didn't realise there was a novel. I'll have to look for that.