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A definite theme

I decided to combine this week’s link dump with this month’s book dump since April starts tomorrow. When I started gathering everything to enter it, I noticed an odd relationship between most of my links. Let’s see if you can find it.
We’ll start with the links…all two of them!

College students making the grade online, in […]

More geeky links

Happy Easter! Happy Spring!
Spring is supposed to be a time for rebirth, new beginnings, cleaning up. Well, let’s see if I can be reborn as someone who actually pays attention to her blog. (You guys can always poke me if I start slipping. Contact info’s under the contact tab.)
As you can see, the website […]

February Reads

I guess it’s pretty obvious that February didn’t go so well for me. My blogs all ended up ignored while I wrestled with a variety of illnesses and a lot of chaos at both of my jobs. (In fact, I’m down to one job now because of the chaos, but I knew it was coming.)
I […]

January Reads

Once upon a time, I wanted to review every book I read for fun on here. I got off to a great start…right up until I realized 60% of my reading was made up of manga. I really didn’t want to sit here and review every single solitary manga volume I read. Then my free […]

Going in order is weird

For those who might be stumbling across this blog for the first time, I like cartoons. Actually, I prefer to say i like animation, because I watch cartoons, anime, and full-length animated features.
That second one is the one driving me crazy most days. Normally, I find a dub that I enjoy and go hunting for […]

A lean link dump

For those who haven’t heard yet, I’m really struggling with writing the second book. I also am still teaching at the local craft store, so if you’re local, come check out my class. (The store manager and the peyote stitch instructor will both love you for it because both have thought about taking my class, […]

She’s reading? You know what that leads to…

“Oh, look! She’s reading again.”
“Poor thing. Although…without a man, I guess she has to think for herself.”
Once upon a time, it was frowned upon for women to read. They simply weren’t wired right for thinking and education, so why waste their time with silly things like books? Women needed time to focus on their music […]

Blended storytelling

I’m not really sure when it happened, but I’ve become nearly obsessed over the strengths of blended storytelling. Maybe it took root when my best friend told me I had to start reading manga, and was encouraged when someone else loaned me Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. (I’m spending this week reading Making Comics and Reinventing […]

Manga review: W Juliet

My students are funny people. When they find out I read manga or watch anime, they immediately tell me I have to watch or read something. That’s actually how I discovered I didn’t care Tsubasa, and how I came across the series I’m currently reading- W Juliet. (Actually, both were in the same list given […]

Cataloguing my reading habits

I read a lot.
This might be an understatement, but it’s not unusual to find me with a book in my hands or on my computer screen. It’s one of my obsessions.
I started trying to catalogue my reading/book owning habits a couple of years ago. I used Reader2 to keep track of what I’d read, but […]