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I couldn’t help myself. I bought Neil Gaiman’s M Is for Magic. I was browsing the children’s section of Borders (research for book design class) when I saw it and started staring at it and the “First Edition” line on the copyright page, and trying to figure out which stories I had and which ones [...]

Hah! I knew I couldn’t be imagining things when I read about Neelgaimon in Children of the Jedi! (Although I didn’t catch the sandmine/sandman thing. Probably because I’m not a big fan of Barbara Hambly’s writing style. >_> It seems like not only is she telling too much, but she’s showing too much as well. [...]

Hmm, Shelfari is indeed shiny, but I like the indie sort of vibe LibraryThing has.
I just remembered, Neil Gaiman once mentioned getting some sort of ISBN reader to catalogue his books in LibraryThing…? Which made me envious, but alas I do not have the thousands of books that would necessitate the need of a reader.
But [...]

I feel like rambling a bit … even though last night I was detesting the “Daily Diary” entries in my blog … silly, innit?
Not much interesting happened really. Last night I was off the computer by 10ish, got in bed around 10:30, 11 (don’t really remember), and then spent three hours reading. XD First a [...]

I’ve decided that I will try to stop comparing movies to the original books. Mostly influenced by Neil Gaiman’s comments on his blog. Latest, “A film isn’t a book.”
But it is true. Like Count of Monte Cristo (I read it for an hour this morning and I kept thinking of the last movie), I consider [...]