More for the list -

[kyburg]

20. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer.

Oh dear GHAD, that's over. *Mails away and deletes the rest of the books from her Amazon cart.*

21. The Twelve Kingdoms, Sea of Wind, Fuyumi Ono.

Another unexpectedly delightful read - but I wonder if I'll get the rest of this series evar as it was pubbed by the Evil Empire and they're toast.

22. The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee - Observations on Not Fitting In, Paisley Rekdal.

Quick! Check the name - what race is she?

You'd never know her mother was Chinese - unless she told you and she reports that you'd likely go 'oh yeah - now I see it' - and on goes the book.

She taught in Korea, traveled in China - and her observations are painful, unsparing and unavailable to most of us. I kept thinking of caitlin and stoneself constantly.

23. Little Butterfly, manga by Hinako Takanaga.

I said manga wouldn't count for the list, but in this case I'll make an exception. It's something so far off my experience it had to be mentioned.

Guys, I picked up a G-rated Yaoi manga looking for light reading - and OMG, it's cute, fluffy and totally AWFUL.

Misery loves company. Go get a copy and suffer with me.

On the shelf with you! (Some of you, GET OUT.)

Comments

[motorbike.livejournal.com]

LITTLE BUTTERFLY IS AN AFFRONT TO THINGS PRINTED ON PAPER

It doesn't even contain any waff porno.

For things that have no porn at least read Antique Bakery, as it is amazing.

I am SUPER miffed that Ono's books are [most likely] dropped; the third one in the series is the one I was totally waiting for. Now I have to get it in French -- a version not handsomely translated by the estimable Alex O. but rather one I will bet $5 is just the Japanese manuscript run through Google Translate.

Mangas count as books? I didn't know that!

[redqueenofevil.livejournal.com]

xlormp. That is all.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

WHERES #5 BASTIDS!11

My high school French weeps for you.

Re: Mangas count as books? I didn't know that!

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Normally, they don't. (Otherwise, I'd be over 50 and climbing....)

Twilight...

[exedore.livejournal.com]

I haven't read any of the books, but fandomsecrets is all over that, and with the word coming out about the leaked draft, I figured I'd take my chances and read THAT first. After all, it's a retelling of book one from an alternative POV and shouldn't be too hard to get into from the start. The author's even put it up on her own site to keep people from torrenting it or whatnot. If I thought it was decent, I could always just pick up the first actual book from the library, so why not?

I made it through eight pages and deleted the PDF. Seriously, how did poorly written tripe like this become an international bestseller? All notes on this being unfinished aside, her prose is absolutely atrocious!

Re: Twilight...

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Dude. Word. Like, lack of them. Serious lack of them.