New books (because I have no willpower)

Paperbackswapped/bookmooched:

• I Do, Don't I? by Catherine Clark
• Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism edited by Daisy Hernandez & Bushra Rehman

And I BOUGHT these (damn, again, to Borders 5-for-4 manga sale and other good sales!):

• Glister #3 by Andi Watson
• Bumperboy Loses His Marbles! by Debbie Huey
• Fruits Basket #20 by Natsuki Takaya
• Tactics #4 & #5 by Sakura Kinoshita & Kazuko Higashiyama
• Never Give Up #8 by Hiromu Mutou
• Angel Diary #6 by Kara & Lee YunHee

Oh yes, you read right. Angel Diary #6!!!!! The one I've been waiting FOREVER for. It finally came out! YES!

Comics:

• Buffy Season Eight #16
• Angel: After the Fall #10
• Spike: After the Fall #1

It might be time for a personal manga challenge again. I've fallen so behind. AND a comics challenge, since I've read NONE of the Buffy Season Eight comics. :( I am a bad fan. I should get on that. When my life calms down. *snorts*

Piles & piles of new books

I'm so behind on my new book updating! Well, it doesn't help that I got a ton of new books from Borders graphic novel/manga sale plus the Friends of the AADL annual booksale. So... Here we go!

Comics from Vault:

• Angel: After the Fall #8 & #9
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #15
• Anita Blake Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures #12
• Runaways #30

Remind me later to read all my comics, please!!!!

From Borders:

• Nosatsu Junkie #6 by Ryoko Fukuyama
• New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
• Her Majesty's Dog #8 by Mick Takeuchi
• Tramps Like Us #14 by Yayoi Ogawa
• Hands Off! Don't Call Us Angels #1 by Kasane Katsumoto
• Gentlemen's Alliance Cross #4 by Arina Tanemura
• Black Sun Silver Moon #5 by Tomo Maeda
• Gentlemen's Alliance Cross #5 by Arina Tanemura
• Gentlemen's Alliance Cross #6 by Arina Tanemura
• Never Give Up #7 by Hiromu Mutou
• In the End by Pink Psycho
• House of Cards by C.E. Murphy
• Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich

Library acquisitions:

• Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead
• Succubus on Top by Richelle Mead
• The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
• Do's and Don'ts by Todd Parr
• America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Stewart, Karlin, & Javerbaum

Preorders from amazon.com:

• Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach by Melanie Watt

Paperbackswapped:

• Babymouse: Heartbreaker by Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm

Phew! That was a lot. And I won't do the books I got from the booksale now...I'll save them for later. :) Now, don't you have something to look forward to?

So behind on new books!!!

Well, I'm behind and I got a whole ton from a bunch of different places recently...

From the Chicago Public Library (for a quarter!):

• O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance edited by Holly Hughes & David Roman

From some bargain book store:

• Found II by Davy Rothbart
• Sexy Witch by LaSara FireFox

From Vault!:

• Absolute Boyfriend #6 by Yuu Watase
• Angel: After the Fall #7
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight #14
• Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures #11
• Serenity: Better Days #3

From Borders while looking for something for someone else (which I got too):

• Gibran's Little Book of Love

Preordered from amazon.com!:

• Personal Demon by Kelley Armstrong
• Blood Noir by Laurell K. Hamilton

Paperbackswapped/bookmooched:

• We Got Issues! edited by Rha Goddess & JLove Calderon
• Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs

From a mysterious source:

• Eternally Bad: Goddesses with Attitude by Trina Robbins

From the awesome Livonia library book sale:

• Wedding Readings edited by Eleanor Munro
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Immortal by Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder
• Angel: Dark Mirror by Craig Shaw Gardner
• Angel: Redemption byMel Odom
• The Oathbound by Mercedes Lackey
• Oathbreakers by Mercedes Lackey
• The Procession: Poems by Khalil Gibran
• Secrets of Tarot by Annie Lionnet
• Dialogues of Plato edited by Justin D. Kaplan
• Pooh's Little Book of Feng Shui
• Grace Before Meals by A. William Nyce & Hubert Bunyea
• A Child's Book of Blessings compiled by Sabrina Dearborn
• Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach
• The Lives of the Saints: For Every Day of the Year, Volumes 1, 2, 3

That's about it. :) Told you it had been awhile... All these amazing new books, YAY!

Welcome, new books!

Bookmooched & paperbackswapped:

• Zen Cat by Judith Adler & Paul Coughlin
• Challengers #1 by Hinako Takanaga
• Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs
• Gaia Girls: Enter the Earth by Lee Welles (autographed!)

From Vault!:

• Hana-Kimi #23 by Hisaya Nakajo
• After School Nightmare #7 by Setona Mizushiro
• Serenity: Better Days #2

From Borders:

• Vampire Knight #3 by Matsuri Hino

Early reviewer book from Librarything:

• After Shock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and Their Allies by Pattrice Jones

Sweet. Mmmm...new books! And a comic!

Surrounded by new books

It's been awhile...can you tell I'm super stressed and have no time? Well...here's the list.

Bookmooched/paperbackswapped:

• Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer by JT Petty
• A Stroke of Midnight by Laurell K. Hamilton
• The Lady of Ten Thousand Names: Goddess Stories from Many Cultures by Burleigh Muten & Helen Cann
• Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

From Borders, with really good coupons:

• Subversive Cross Stitch by Julie Jackson
• Vampire Knight #4 by Matsuri Hino

From Common Language, after seeing Julia do performance pieces:

• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano

Through nefarious means:

• African American Quotations edited by Richard Newman

From my beloved Vault of Midnight:

• Hana-Kimi #22 by Hisaya Nakajo
• Fruits Basket #19 by Natsuki Takaya

& comics, from Vault, of course:

• Angel: After the Fall #5 & #6
• Serenity: Better Days #1
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #13
• Anita Blake Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures #10

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!

Yay, Vault!

My visit to Vault today produced:

• Hana-Kimi #21 by Hisaya Nakajo

YAY!

• Angel: After the Fall #2

The new Angel "season" like the Buffy Season 8. I really need to read my comics. Especially BUFFY! :) Another challenge...and no time. Blah.

A plethora of new things

From Vault the other day (Monday, maybe?):

• Dirty Found #3
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #9

And from half.com:

• Offering to Isis by M. Isidora Forrest
• The Goddess Path by Patricia Monaghan

New books! And comics!

I finally stopped at Vault and got my subscriptions. I had bunches of stuff!
Comics:

• Buffy Season Eight #8
• Anita Blake Vampire Hunter: The First Death #2
• Y: The Last Man #59
• Angel: After the Fall #1

Manga:

• Fruits Basket #18 by Natsuki Takaya
• Loveless #7 by Yun Kouga
• After School Nightmare #5 by Setona Mizushiro

Plus, I got these in the mail over the last few days from paperbackswap/bookmooch:

• All Girls: Single-Sex Education and Why It Matters by Karen Stabiner
• Camp Babymouse by Holm & Holm
• Marked by Cast & Cast

And then, I visited the new B&N:

• Saint City Sinners by Lilith Saintcrow

Shoot! I forgot to look for Nikki at the B&N. She works there now! I'll have to check next time I go.

It was new book day. :)

Picture books & new books

I decided that I wanted to go to the library and read a bunch of picture books for awhile. Well, I had to go to the library anyway and see if we got paid this week (we did!), but I wanted to read picture books, so I read for an hour or so. I didn't want to include the list at the bottom of the page b/c it's a long list, so I'll just put it here:

Picture books I read today at the library (I was trying to read one author from each letter of the alphabet, but I got distracted):

• Mr. Persnickety and the Cat Lady by Paul Brett Johnson (one of my favorites of the day)
• While We Were Out by Ho Baek Lee (very funny story about a bunny left home alone)
• Astro Bunnies by Christine Loomis & Ora Eitan (kinda weird, but nice rhymes)
• Armadillo's Orange by Jim Arnosky (dumb)
• Humbug Witch by Lorna Balian (dumb)
• Mouse's First Spring by Lauren Thompson & Baket Erdogan (kinda fun)
• Fortunately by Remy Charlip (very funny--alternating between fortunatelys and unfortunatelys)
• Kitten Red Yellow Blue by Peter Catalanotto (one of my favorites--calico kittens!)
• For You Are a Kenyan Child by Kelly Cunnane & Ana Juan (cool illustrations)
• Welcome to Zanzibar Road by Niki Daly (fun)
• And Here's to You! by David Elliott & Randy Cecil (liked this bunches)
• Through the Heart of the Jungle by Jonathan Emmett & Elena Gomez (kind of like the old lady who swallowed a fly rhyme)
• The Story Goes On by Aileen Fisher & Mique Moriuchi (kinda boring about how seeds grow)
• I.Q. Goes to the Library by Mary Ann Fraser (very cute mouse and a library!)
• Book! by Kristine O'Connell George & Maggie Smith (more of baby book)
• Monkey Lost by Ed Heck (best author name ever)
• Punxsutawney Phyllis by Susanna Leonard Hill & Jeffrey Ebbler (switching up groundhog gender roles!)
• Help! by Christopher Inns (eh)
• Eddie's Kingdom by D.B. Johnson (eh again)
• The Cat's Meow by Warren Kimble (dumb--an artist's paintings with descriptions of each like "Fat Cat" and "Fluffy Cat")

Well, I also bought more books today. I know, I know. But! It was the 30% off coupon weekend...and there's the new Scott Westerfeld book which I saw that Borders had autographed, so I got it. Plus two of my manga that aren't on my Vault list. Oh, and I picked up my comics too. So...

From Borders:

• Tenshi Ja Nai!! I'm No Angel! #8 by Takako Shigematsu
• Tramps Like Us #13 by Yayoi Ogawa
• Extras by Scott Westerfeld

And comics from Vault:

• Deepak Chopra Presents India Authentic: Uma
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #7
• Runaways #25, #27, #28 (Joss Whedon is writing Runaways now!)

Yay! Good things to read on vacation! :)

Oh, Vault of Midnight...

I went to Vault b/c I KNEW I had manga waiting for me that I hadn't gotten. When I left last week, I saw the new Hana-Kimi and I couldn't figure out why I didn't have it. So I vowed to go in this week and get it cleared up. And I did!! YAY!! There was ALL SORTS of stuff waiting for me. So, see, this doesn't count towards my 5 books in September (b/c I already got those) b/c it's my subscription.

My subscriptions from Vault:

• Hana-Kimi #19 by Hisaya Nakajo
• Loveless #6 by Yun Kouga
• Negima! #15 by Ken Akamatsu
• Fruits Basket #17 by Natsuki Takaya
• Fruits Basket Fan Book -Cat- by Natsuki Takaya
• Y: The Last Man issue 58

The guy at Vault who I think is the owner (Kay told me his name once, but I can't remember) is so nice and he gave me a Vault button for free! I love buttons. :) A good end to my crap ass day...

Books & Comics!

Well, I was going to take myself out on a date tonight--dinner and a movie. But I wasn't feeling well, so I settled on dinner and books. :)

Today, I treated myself to:

• Little Butterfly #2 by Hinako Takanaga

And comic books:

• Deepak Chopra Presents India Authentic: Kali
• Runaways #25, #26, & #27

Um, hello, Joss Whedon wrote them! How as I NOT getting them?

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #5

I really ought to start reading these b/c they look amazing. The comic book lady (who is SO COOL!) said that Buffy is their biggest selling comic EVER! We were talking about how cool Joss Whedon is and that he should do more Serenity comics. *nods* She says she thinks if he does more Serenity comics, they will sell as well if not better than the Buffys. Amazing. There, a bit of comic book geekdom for you. :)

Forced homeboundedness

The only good thing about being ill is that you HAVE to stay home and read. :) A nasty kidney stone struck me last week and I've been home for most of the time since last Thursday. I've been reading a lot, but watching more DVDs. But I was to a point where I had so many books & DVDs to bring back to the library and so many things on hold, that I had to break my homeboundness and go out into the world. I had cleared my schedule from the library relatively easily and explained all that happened to my boss and she was way cool. So, when I showed up today, she said "You're not supposed to be out of bed!" I told her I really couldn't take it anymore and I had to get out of the house AND I was running out of things to watch (but never read!). I got my book fix, I guess. I have been reading, but not completing anything. Soon.

I also stopped at the comic book store. I had to! It had been over two weeks since I had been to check on my subscriptions.

So...my acquisitions for today:

• Negima! #14 by Ken Akamatsu

Can't wait to read this! Yay for panty shots!

• Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein

Yay, more Kate! And this is the first of an order from half.com.

• Comic: Anita Blake Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures Handbook

I'm kind of disappointed that it's not another issue. It's been quite a while. I'm wondering where the next issue is! I hope they don't stop making them b/c that would be very very sad. I love that they're making at least ONE Anita Blake into a comic. They look so cool. I hope they do a couple more of the books!

Yay Comics!

I stopped by Vault of Midnight to get my new comics & manga b/c I had seen the new Fruits Basket at Borders, so I figured they'd have it too. No such luck. :( No new comics or manga for me.

However, I did have an epiphany last night: Y: The Last Man must still be in comic form (which I did confirm later) b/c it's still coming out in the graphic novels pretty regularly. SO I put that on my subscription list and bought the next issue. SWEET! No more waiting for the graphic novels. YES!! I love Y: The Last Man. If you haven't read it, read it. It's very intriguing.

I suppose to make up for not getting comics at Vault, I got some in the mail. :) The order I placed for the nearly impossible to find #2 Anita Blake and some New Mutants I didn't have came in. YAY!! Boy, they wrap those fuckers up tight. I guess it's good--no one wants bent comics...

Woo hoo! Comics, comics, everywhere I look! Too bad I have a million Angel Sanctuarys to read before the middle of the month (when they're due at the library) plus a zillion other books. I'll read them when my library stash goes down some.

New discoveries!

Okay, so this is about comics, not books, really. But comics are like books. Sorta.

It was a crap ass day in general and I was feeling pretty bad...I had to do something icky today--not hire an intern. To make myself feel better, I decided to go out and buy some books. Yes, just what will cheer me up--spending more money I don't have--but at least it was on books! One of my students asked me to pick up Entertainment Weekly for her. I decided to do it b/c she's awesome and has been working hard on this project we did. And what did I discover? Daniel Radcliffe was on the cover! So I bought myself a copy. And while I was over in the entertainment magazines, I picked up the recent issues of the Buffy/Angel magazine, just out of curiosity. And it was talking about Buffy Season 8 and I thought, what? As I read on, I realized Joss Whedon is putting out a season 8 for Buffy in comic book form through Dark Horse. I was so excited and had to restrain myself from driving off to the comic store right then (I did actually have work to do)!

After my work day was done, I went over to Vault of Midnight, which is an awesome comics store. I found the first AND second issues of the new Buffy comic!!! YAY! Then, as I was browsing along and walking up to the register, I found the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter comic! I saw the graphic novel on amazon.com and was excited about it, but they've removed it since I first saw it. I thought the project got scrapped. But no, there it was, up to issue 5! I got that too. Except issue 2, which was out of stock, which I just ordered online b/c it's impossible to find anywhere, I guess... SWEET!!!

And THEN at Vault of Midnight, they have a subscription service that I signed up for. You can put as many comics down as you want and they hold them for you when the come in AND give you 20% off. AND it includes manga too. Why didn't I know about this before???? I'm so excited. I'll have to go back in and put my favorite manga series' on the list. Then I get a guaranteed 20% off each (instead of whatever coupon Borders has this week to use on only one book). How freaking sweet is that? If you could only see how excited I am.

So, that's the break from the endless books I've read lists. Although, I've got less than a year left to post. :)