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[oyceter]

As mentioned previously, went to Borders yesterday and ogled at their extensive manga section. Not only that, but the one in Sunnyvale has a shelf of untranslated manga! For a very expensive price about twice as much as Kinokuniya, but still! Just the fact that they have them there makes me really happy. Also, browsing that, I discovered that Watsuki Nobuhiro (the guy who wrote Rurouni Kenshin, the first manga I ever read) has a new series out!! But not in English, it appears =(. Booo.

For some reason, I'm on a bit of a manga and non-fiction kick these days, which is a rather odd combination. Yesterday night I started reading Philip Gourevitch's We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, about the genocide that took place in Rwanda in 1994, since I wanted to know more after watching The Interpreter. And then my mind was apparently still preoccupied with manga, because I dreamt very strange dreams about ethnic cleansing and browsing the manga section at Borders, which was incredibly disturbing.

Does anyone have any good African history recs, btw? I know absolutely nothing about it, and I feel I should.

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[dherblay.livejournal.com]

The Gourevitch always reminds me of King Leopold's Ghost, which came out around the same time and covers much the same territory (in fact, Amazon sometimes offers them together (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618001905/qid=1114358291/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/002-1158383-8011240?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)). And if you read King Leopold's Ghost you'll probably be inspired to seek out John Hope Franklin's biography of George Washington Williams (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0822321645/qid=1114373225/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-1158383-8011240).

[oyceter]

Oooh, that looks like a good book. Thanks for the pointer!