I haven't read any manga in a super long time! That makes em sad. I really want to get caught up on FullMetal Alchemist...

HappyStarr- That's not a bad idea, I might try that with novels sometime! I count pages, though, so that would be a looong book. :lol: I think I'd at least do that for series combined into one novel.

Knerd- Heeeeeey, I did a stupid thing called 'kept my new list on the same post as my old one', and that makes it mega cluttered and annoying to work with. Can I make a new list for my new challenge, just, uh... a few months late? :XD

I've got volume 22 of FMA at home. I'm going nuts waiting for volume 23! :squee:

I think my reading of it got halted at around 18 or 19... And it's one of few manga I really have a desire to continue anymore. I want to get back into the stuff! :gonk:

I read Other Peoples' Rejection Letters last night. After briefly thumbing through it, I thought it was going to be mostly about professional rejection letters and have sort of a "Little Engine that Could" message to it. But when I read the editor's introduction, I noticed he internalized a lot of the project, which was kind of surprising. Anyway, personally I was struck by just how bizarrely people like to treat each other. Though sometimes, an editor really just does have 100 manuscripts on his desk. Some famous rejections were included in the book, including one by F. Scott Fitzgerald of his daughter's wild lifestyle -- which inadvertantly made me remember that my grandmother had had a fling with one of the Ritz Brothers as a young widow. (Kind of a poor man's Marx Brothers ... my mother, though she was really little at the time remembered him as hilarious.) Also, very up to date, including some stings from Facebook pages and Eharmony accounts.

Anyway, so it was worth reading, but it's not really an outstanding book.

@Feiyona -- yeah, I tend not to list individual manga, just collections/anthologies. When the challenge first started, a lot of people were setting their challenges by counting pages, so I think that would work out well, if peeps knew a LOT of their reading was going to be in comic form. =D

I'm boredies.

I finished Son of a Witch today, and it was sooo good. In a (sort of) bad way, haha. I do most of my reading during my breaks at work, but I really had a hard time putting the book down to get back to work. xD I'm going to start A Lion Among Men tomorrow, can't wait! <3

Taiyo -- how can you be bored with 41 manga to finish. D=?

Sounds fun, RisikaFox. =D I could go for A Lion Among Men, but I'm not so sure about the other two ...

I'm at the library right now, and I've only got two with me.

Riskia- I tried reading Son of a Witch, and I just couldn't get into it! Granted, that was a few years ago, so I might like it more now.

Oh my goodness....I started looking into some Slavic lore because of my RP character's name....and this stuff is pretty wicked. I soo wanna read more. Anddd I thought this was kind of amusing...>.>

OH MY GOD. This is SO going to end up in my dissertation. I can't believe they did that to the song! I've only seen the Japanese version so far, but I guess I'll have to watch the American version eventually. Is the American theme song the one stuck at the end of the film?

So I just finished the Pretty Little Liars series. It was decent, but predictable. Maybe I will check out the show - although judging by the previews, the girls look nothing like their descriptions in the books.

Eh, that tends to happen with any book to screen translation. My friend apparently watches the show, though. I don't really know if that means it was good or bad...but I've heard of it? XD She seems to like it, though.

I wonder why I didn't notice this sooner. I've been meaning to get back into reading so this might be a good way to keep track of books I read. I do have a couple questions. I have an amazing (to me at least) app on my iPod that has a lot of the classic novels to read for free. This would count right? Also, should I edit this post to include my list?

Anything you consider to be a book counts. Magazines, textbooks, apps on ipod...

And I think as long as your list is all in the same post, 's all good. I haven't posted my list yet...XD

Gah, I wish my reading weren't all short articles from journals or edited collections. I don't think I've read more than a few entire books in the last year. But I've read tons of articles. Maybe I should do the same thing that someone else is doing with manga -- five articles = 1 book.

Ah, ok. Thank you, HappyStarr. ^_^ I'll wait for when I decide which one to read.

Ya...I'm basically waiting until I can go buy the ones I want. And I'm not gonna be able to rely on my mom, since she's deciding to boycott Barnes and Noble for downsizing their romance section and getting rid of more explicit books...-_-" I personally have no interest in Erotic novels...sooo.....I don't really care. XD

Wow, you have a pretty cool mom! I applaud her support of having erotica available in brick-and-mortar stores. It isn't so much an "I-want-to-read-that-stuff" attitude, I think, but a "that-stuff-should-be-available" mentality. Restricting stuff only makes most people more interested in it, from what I've heard, so having romance and mild erotica out in the open would, I think, reduce the amount of mis-information going around. (Then again, a lot of romance novels are nothing BUT misinformation. :D )

oh man I haven't been on this forum in a while...my book list isn't working out so well lol I keep getting busy with no way of reading

I agree. I'm not into romance novels, but some people are. Every adult should have the right to read anything that is published!

Agreed! I think the real problem comes with the question of what can children read -- whatever they want? What their parents say is okay? What a teacher thinks would be good for them to know? A state guideline? It's really problematic in the case of teenagers wanting to explore sexuality (or violence, or drugs, or other non-normative activities): should they be set free on their own? At what point should parents/society/laws step in to protect a maturing morality?

Goodness knows, I don't have the answers! :sweat:

I think they should just be set free. I've read some of my mom's books (that she gave me and was like "oh you'll love this!"), and I'm like "ehhh....noooo" now. XD I totally think things should be available...but I don't know how to get to Borders without getting desperately lost in the inner city area--"no left turns between 9-5, no left turns, no right on red, no right turns, one way" are EVERYWHERE and I HATE that part of the city. Sooo I'm stickin' with it.