Andi Watson

I thought Andi Watson was a girl. He's not, he's a boy.

Why are nearly all graphic novels done by men? Where are the women? I want to see women do graphic novels! Granted, I have seen some...but there needs to be more!!

Sorry, Andi Watson. I do really like your graphic novels. :)

Pre-ordering ROCKS!

Pre-ordered months ago from amazon.com, but recently received:

• The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison
• Re:Play #2 by Christy Lijewski
• White Night by Jim Butcher

And bookmooched:

• Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg

Woo hoo! Now...I have to get working on that whole reading my own books challenge... Damn.

Smitten

Kind of appropriate since I'm feeling a bit smitten these days...


Like it might actually be kind of good to have somebody smittening me.
--Linda Urban from A Crooked Kind of Perfect

So lazy with the new books...

I've got so many from the past few weeks!

Bookmooched & paperbackswapped:

• Bad Cat by Jim Edgar
• American Virgin: Going Down by Seagle, Cloonan, & Kelly
• American Virgin: Wet by Seagle, Cloonan, & Rugg

Manga, manga, manga from Vault of Midnight!:

• After School Nightmare #6 by Setona Mizushiro
• Ouran High School Host Club #10 by Bisco Hatori
• Absolute Boyfriend #5 by Yuu Watase

I really have to catch up on my manga reading...

And new comics from Vault too!:

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #10, #11, #12
• Anita Blake Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures #7, #8, #9
• Runaways #29
• Angel: After the Fall #3, #4
• Y: The Last Man, the final issue

I can't believe Y is over! I love that comic. Oh, and one of the cool guys at Vault told me there's going to be another 3 issue Serenity/Firefly comic!! And another next year! YES! Oh, Joss Whedon... How I adore you.

I should be reading my comics too. *sighs* I'm so behind... Gotta quit with all the library books!

More from Sabrina Ward Harrison

Barefoot travel allows you to go get the true feel of a place.
--Sabrina Ward Harrison


The best thing about bare feet is that they move easily and quickly over mud and dirt and sand and grass but tend to hesitate before a barrier of pointy sharp-edged gravel. ... paths are not always smooth and familiar... Sometimes there are rocks on the trail and the only way to cross them is to be brave.
--Sabrina Ward Harrison

Actually, both of these quotes were in a letter from her father that she included in her book Brave on the Rocks.

Such lovely quotes by Sabrina Ward Harrison

I've "read" two of her books now, Spilling Open and Messy Thrilling Life. I say "read" because they are mostly art. Quite lovely art. With messy written words, mostly. Very cool.

Now, the quotes:

The thing that I've been noticing about myself is that I don't make it clear what is important to me--because I don't want to lose the connection or seem like I'm too much work to them. But then I become too much work for myself because I'm not being true to myself. It isn't my job to judge what is "too much" for them. My job is to be completely honest and myself and let the other respond honestly with who they are and what feels right to them. I must not shift, after or hide myself in order to experience love--because that's not really love--that's when resentment is born.
--Sabrina Ward Harrison


I'm afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it and that's all I've got.
--Sabrina Ward Harrison


our love matters truly.
--Sabrina Ward Harrison


they talk of the power of the "wounded healer"--the one who dares to bare their soul, who feels the pull to do so, to guide others through the twilight to dawn. it is the wounded healer [who] knows the blood of the people, and isn't afraid to show that they too are bleeding. that is their tincture, their medicine. maybe that's what we are. maybe the medicine is in the revealing, the baring of scraped knees and bruised hearts.
--Sabrina Ward Harrison

Piles of new books!

February=obviously uninspired blogging month

Here are my new books that I've let pile up near my computer. Not TOO many, actually...

From Borders b/c of sweet coupons and gift cards:

• Black Sun Silver Moon #4 by Tomo Maeda
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus volume 3

Bookmooched:

• Urgent Message From Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World by Jean Shinoda Bolen

Mysteriously acquired:

• My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding edited by P.N. Elrod
• My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon edited by P.N. Elrod

Yay, new books!

PS. I am whittling down my hoarded collection from the library. My hope is to start reading my own books in addition to some from the library soon. Also, it's probably time for another my manga reading challenge...