Pops, give us a rental, please
39. The Forest of Hands and Teeth – Carrie Ryan
Above is the zombie book I’d been pushing back for several months, and I’m glad I finally got around to reading it. An excellent example of good “after the end” fiction. And kudos to Carrie Ryan for writing a zombie book without using the word “zombie” once. 😀 Only thing is, I wished it was longer. I want to know what happens to everybody! Now I’m all worried about them. …And on that thought, I just looked it up, and apparently there are more books coming. Whew! I maybe should look this stuff up before I start whining. ^^;
Tonight, the moon was doing that creepy thing it does when it hangs low in the sky and ends up looking huge and yellow. Scared the crap out of me as I was driving home. I turned a corner and suddenly it was THERE, looming.
Okay, anybody who knows me knows I’m kindof a sucker for coupons, sales, freakishly good deals and the like. So recently, when Amazon had a massive anime sale this past month, things went crazy. My Visa bill hit the kind of high that I usually only see at the beginning of school semesters. Most everything was upwards of 40% off, and the boxsets, they were a-calling. I ended up getting Genshiken, Paprika, Tokyo Majin, and Jyu-Oh-Sei for myself, and Pumpkin Scissors for my brother. ($14.99 for PS! S.A.V.E. discount plus Amazon sale! Holy crap!) Took me quite a while to finalize the buy list there. I started out tentatively with Speed Grapher and Mushishi in the cart, and then I discovered Funimation is streaming several series, so I sampled a bit. I ended up replacing those two titles with TM and JOS. Maybe in future, but they just didn’t pull me into a “OMG gotta get this now!” kind of place, the way Tokyo Majin (zombies!) and Jyu Oh Sei (fight or die on a hostile alien planet!) did.
Speaking of Funimation streaming things, I recently watched Nerima Daikon Brothers. This show, it is something to be feared. Obscenely hilarious, likely offensive, musical AWESOME. By the way? We all need to envy voice actor David Devaney Jr., for he is one of perhaps only a handful of people on earth who has “Flying Butt-Plug” on his resume.
Yummytimes!
I’ve been watching Antique Bakery a lot lately, and that translates into me wanting to make pretty, pretty cakes. Well, these aren’t cakes. These are brownies topped with whipped cream and strawberries. But it was fun making them.
Better
Some very nice things happened yesterday, which balanced out the headache I had for, literally, the entire time I was awake. First, I stopped at the library again, and found that Evil Genius had made its way back to the shelf. I took it to the desk, and they checked it in and that sucker is now officially off my card. You have no idea how much that has been bothering me these last ten or so days.
Second, my second batch of manga from 365 Days of Manga came in. No pic this time, but I got volume 1 of XS Hybrid and vols 1,2,5, and 6 of Dark Edge. Jason hit a home run this time round. I love zombies. f(-_-)f
Officially back to school as of this morning. It was a great relief I was able to get up in the morning, as all of spring break saw me sleeping in until three or four in the afternoon. I guess going to bed at seven last night helped. Even though it was a headache induced sleep. Thinking about finding something new to bake later.
Feelin’ hungry
36. Demon Princess: Reign or Shine – Michelle Rowen
37. Fang – James Patterson
Didn’t I just say a few weeks ago that I didn’t want to read about highschoolers for awhile? Sigh. I read what’s in front of me. I can’t help it.
I’m going to refrain from commenting at this point. I might go back and add some commentary later, but for now, I don’t think I could handle it.
Instead, I’ll talk about happytime Korean dramas. Man, I love Coffee Prince. Love it love it love it. I finished the last episodes the other day, and I’m so put out that it’s over, even though I’m two and a half years late jumping on the bandwagon. I want more. Hmm. But I see on Dramabeans that there were plans for a movie version as of April 2009. Wonder how that’s coming along, if it still is. No other news aside from that one article, as far as I can tell. By the way, Dramabeans is rapidly becoming an indispensable site for me. 😀 Ooooo, and I just saw some interesting news! Yesterday I randomly read an article that a drama called Personal Taste was canceled after going into development limbo. That article was older than I’d thought, because Personal Taste has gotten out of limbo and is now currently airing! It sounds fun. Maybe I’ll look into that next.
This is not a photoblog. Really.
Lately I’ve had to say goodbye to some of my favorite pairs of socks. I’ve had them for a long time, but alas, wear and tear affects us all.
Those are little monkeys swinging on vines there. Ooo! I didn’t even notice Lizzy sneaking into the background there.
And these are my little kitty socks. It’s camouflaged very well, but on the left heel, there’s an enormous hole about two inches in diameter. The bottoms of both socks have gone threadbare, no use saving. 😦
I went into the bathroom earlier intending to do some cleaning when I was greeted by this all too common sight.
Can you see it? That is a crapload of hair hanging over the edge of the wastebasket. There’s also some on the floor stuck back in the corner, and a few strands stuck to the wall and the handtowel above the basket. It’s also likely that that hair is responsible for the clog that’s currently in the sink. I’ve decided I won’t clean the inner bathroom again until my brother makes an effort not to be such a slob. I don’t mind sweeping and vacuuming up my own hair and the cat litter that inevitably gets tracked through most of the upstairs, but I’m not the only one to use this bathroom, and I’m going to draw the line.
Slowly going crazy
34. Coffeehouse Angel – Suzanne Selfors
35. Mortal Sin – Laurie Breton
How do you describe the feelings you get when you read a truly, truly excellent book? Both of the above belong to the tiny category of books I’d recommend to just about anybody. Coffeehouse Angel is the rare young adult novel that doesn’t have me tearing my eyes out at the stupidity of teenage protagonists, and it delivers a message without beating you over the head with it. It doesn’t hurt that I identify terribly with Katrina’s feelings of lacking a purpose.
Mortal Sin was just amazing. It takes an extremely difficult subject (a romance with a Catholic priest) and handles it with finesse. I can’t tell you how many times I feared the issue of Clancy’s priesthood was just going to be pushed aside or waved off, but these characters confront their problems head on. I want these characters to be real. That’s how much I believe in them.
Happy readings aside, there’s still a dark cloud in my day. A few days ago I got pre-overdue notice from my library saying Evil Genius has not been returned yet. Now, I don’t have a specific memory of returning that book — I’ve read and returned a lot of books this year — but I would have assumed I returned it the day I picked up the sequel, March 25 according to this blog. The only reason I can imagine I would have held onto it is so I could refer back to it while I was reading Genius Squad. However, by the time I finished reading GS, EG was out of sight, out of mind. I went to the library, and it wasn’t on the shelf, crushing my hopes that it might have been missed while being checked in. I’ve turned the house upside down looking for it, and all I’ve learned is that I’m also missing a lint brush. I only keep that lint brush in one of two places, it can’t have gone far! It’s a big book — and a big lint brush — so I can’t imagine how either one of them could be hiding. Right now my only idea is to keep going back to the library every few days in hopes that it turns up there.
I really don’t know what else to do. I’ve never lost a library book before, and this is seriously bugging me. I ended up making cupcakes, so I hope I’ll feel better soon. They should be cool enough to frost now, so bye.
Goober Golf 