REVIEW: #67 Buddha (Volume 1) Kapilavastu
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Title: Buddha, Volume 1 – Kapilavastu Author: Osamu Tezuka ISBN: 193223456X Pages: 256 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from back of book) Ancient India vividly comes to life in this multiple award-winning series that has convinced American readers Osamu Tezuka is indeed one of the world’s greatest comic masters. Bringing unprecedented [...]
REVIEW: #66 Emma Vol. 1 by Kaoru Muri
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Title: Emma Vol. 1 Author: Kaoru Mori ISBN: 1401211321 Pages: 192 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from back of book) An upstairs gentleman and a downstairs servant share a secret love. The saga begins. In Victorian England, a young girl named Emma is rescued from a life of destitution and raised [...]
REVIEW: #65 Blankets by Craig Thompson
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Title: Blankets Author: Craig Thompson ISBN: 1891830430 Pages: 592 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) At 592 pages, Blankets may well be the single largest graphic novel ever published without being serialized first. Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers [...]
REVIEW: #53 Negima! Magister Negi Magi (Vol. 1)
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Title: Negima! Magister Negi Magi (Vol. 1) Author: Ken Akamatsu ISBN: 034547046X Pages: 208 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken From Amazon.com) DON’T TOUCH THAT WAND! Ten-year-old prodigy Negi Springfield, has just graduated from magic academy. He dreams of becoming a master wizard. Instead he’s sent to Japan to teach English . [...]
REVIEW: #51 BSC Kristy’s Great Idea (Graphic Novel)
November 19, 2009 by Allison
Filed under Manga, Reviews, Young Adult
Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Title: Kristy’s Great Idea (A Baby-Sitter’s Club Graphic Novel) Author: Raina Telgemeier (with Ann M. Martin) ISBN: 0439739330 Pages: 192 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) In this new graphic novel edition of the very first BABY-SITTERS CLUB book, Raina Telgemeier captures all the drama of the original in warm, [...]
REVIEW: #47 Miki Falls – Summer (Book 2)
November 12, 2009 by Allison
Filed under Manga, Reviews, Young Adult
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Warning: This review may contain spoilers. You discover at the end of Book 1 why Hiro’s behavior is so mysterious. If you like the mystery, I would not read this review because it goes into discuss his career, which may be a spoiler for others. Title: Miki Falls – [...]
REVIEW: #46 Miki Falls (Book 1) – Spring
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Title: Miki Falls – Spring (Book 1) Author: Mark Crilley ISBN: 978-0060846169 Pages: 176 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) It’s spring—a time for new beginnings. This is Miki Yoshida’s final year of high school, and she’s determined to make this the best year yet. Miki is in control . [...]
REVIEW: #39 Nana
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Title: Nana, Book 1. Author: Ai Yazawa ISBN: 1421501082 Pages: 192 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon.com) Nana Komatsu is a young woman who’s endured an unending string of boyfriend problems. Moving to Tokyo, she’s hoping to take control of her life and put all those messy misadventures behind her. [...]
It’s Monday! What are YOU Reading?
Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes J.Kaye created a Meme for Mondays where you list the books you have recently completed this week, books you are currently reading, and books you hope to read this week. The books I have read in the past week: Night Runner by Max Turner Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins [...]
REVIEW: #37 Honey Mustard
October 22, 2009 by Allison
Filed under Manga, Reviews, Series, Young Adult
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Title: Honey Mustard Author: Ho-Kyung Yeo ISBN: 1595322396 Pages: 176 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken from back of book) It’s love at second site! When Ara works up the nerve to ask out the boy of her dreams, she gets all glammed up and boozed up.. and ends up kissing Young-Woo, [...]
REVIEW: #25 Solanin by Inio Asano
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Title: Solanin Author: Inio Asano ISBN: 1421523213 Pages: 432 Rating: Synopsis: (Taken From Amazon) College graduates struggle to cope with the real world. Music offers refuge in this modern manga with an American attitude. Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job [...]
REVIEW: #17 Fruits Basket Vol. 1
August 30, 2009 by Allison
Filed under Manga, Reviews, Series, Young Adult
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Title: Fruits Basket Vol. 1 Author: Natsuki Takaya ISBN: 1591826039 Pages: 216 Synopsis: (Taken from back of book) A family with an ancient curse… and the girl will change their lives forever. Tohru Honda was an orphan with no place to go until the mysterious Sohma family offered her [...]
REVIEW: #13 Hot Gimmick (3in1) vol.1
Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes Title: Hot Gimmick (3in1) Vol. 1 Author: Miki Aihara ISBN: 1421523485 Pages: 552 Synopsis: (Taken from Amazon) In company-owned rabbit-hutch apartments live tenants who can’t afford to live anywhere else, and the apartment complex in which high-school girl Hatsumi Narita lives is ruled over by the rumor mongering, self-righteous [...]
Book Selection for the Japanese Lit Challenge
August 18, 2009 by Allison
Filed under Challenges, Horror, International, Manga
Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes I have selected three books for the Japanese Literature Challenge. I chose one manga from a series I have been wanting to try, but also selected two authors of novels that I have wanted to try. Usually I would be all for reading manga (because I am such a [...]
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