As you may know, Brisingr, the latest book in the Inheritance Cycle, was released last Saturday. I had half a mind to got to the release party at Kepler’s just to get some free donuts, but i doubt I’d have been allowed any donuts, seeing as I don’t even want the book. A few days [...]
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It would certainly be interesting…
Posted in Books, tagged Arya, Brisingr, Eragon, Freud, Freudian, Inheritance Cycle, The Anti-Shur'tagal on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Variety Post
Posted in Anime, Books, TV, Uncategorized on April 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It seems that I have a severe case of Procrastinating Blogger Syndrome. Oh well. What I meant to say yesterday about the most recent Death Note was that it was really cheesy. L’s death was a really poignant scene in the manga, so Saturday’s episode was kind of a disappointment. The school bells, the rain, [...]
My Favorite Things in the Whole Wide World!!!
Posted in Books, Uncategorized, tagged grammar, nitpicky, obsessive, pronunciation, punctuation, spelling, words on March 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Ah, words! My favorite things in the whole wide world! However, they are so often misused, mistreated, and abused! Today, I hope to stop (or at least put off momentarily) the word-rape that people so often commit when attempting the proper usage of words (and spelling, punctuation, pronunciation, grammar, etc.) Now, [...]
Today
Posted in Books, Uncategorized, tagged Alzheimer's, early-onset Alzheimer's, Terry Pratchett, The Mercury News on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Terry Pratchett was in the paper today. Apparently, he’s donating $1 million dollars to Alzheimer’s research. I was so sad when I heard he had early-onset Alzheimer’s.
That was arbitrary, I know.
Fantasy and Sci-fi
Posted in Books, tagged Christopher Paolini, Diana Wynne Jones, Discworld, Douglas Adams, Eldest, Eragon, fantasy, Harry Potter, Inheritance, J.K.Rowling, J.R.R.Tolkien, Panini, Piers Anthony, rants, Robert Jordan, Science fiction, Terry Brooks, Terry Pratchett on March 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Allo. I have this friend who likes sci-fi, but not fantasy, and claims that all fantasy is lame. Correction. Most fantasy, and, for that matter, most books in general, are lame, sci-fi included. If you’re going to complain that all fantasy is bad and don’t wish to group fantasy and science [...]
Shakugan no Shana
Posted in Anime, Books, Manga, tagged Noizi Ito, Shakugan no Shana, The girl with fire in her eyes, Viz, Yashichiro Takahashi on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago, I bought the novel, Shakugan no Shana, for a completely idiotic reason. I knew it was a stupid reason, but I bought it anyway. The reason was this: the author, Yashichiro Takahashi, is friends with Hiromu Arakawa (manga-ka behind Fullmetal Alchemist.) But anyway, unlike most [...]
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Book 1: The Lighning Thief
Posted in Books, tagged Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief on December 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Okay, so I heard about this book through a book recommendation. The recommender told me that she “hadn’t had high hopes for it, but found that it was quite funny.” Going into it, I hadn’t had high hopes either, despite the large amount of people on amazon.com who say it’s the bee’s [...]
Some Unintentional Hilarity
Posted in Books, tagged Christopher Paolini, Eldest, Eragon, Inheritance, The Anti-Shur'tagal on November 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Kvetha Fricaya! (That’s pretentious-talk for “Greetings, friend!”)
I should probably say first that I’m not actually affiliated with the Anti-Shur’tagal. I’m not even a member of the live journal or the forums. I do, however, agree with every thing they’re saying, so I decided to do my own article on the Inheritance books. [...]
