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[oyceter]

Oh dear. I went down to the used bookstore to sell some of my books and ended up finding vols. 3-4 of Alice 19th in Japanese. I willfully resisted, but once I have trade credit, I fear I will relapse. I need to stop buying books in non-English because I will never read them! And yet... three dollars each!

So then, of course, I decided to head over to Books, Inc. and proceeded to end up getting Fruits Basket 4, Saiyuki Reload 1 (I miss Minekura art. I need to scout for artbooks when I go home), a gift for a friend, and Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief. I haven't even started reading all the books I got while I was in NY, or even the books I got when rachelmanija was here. I think I need a book-buying hiatus.

The sad thing is that in the back of my mind, the book-buying hiatus is littered with loopholes (It doesn't count if I get manga! It doesn't count if I get stuff with gift certificates or trade credit!).

Also, I curse all of you who have gotten me back into manga and so impatient that I cannot even wait a month for my Amazon gift certificate to get more Fruits Basket. The only reason I stopped at only one volume was becuase vol. 5 was in bad shape and they didn't have another copy.

I curse you all to be deluged with too many good book recs and have no willpower to resist!

*madly cackles*

Comments

[oyceter]

Yeah, I keep wanting to get to vol. 8 so I can meet the horse girl!

[umadoshi.livejournal.com]

She breaks my heart and makes me smile in all sorts of ways, all at once. *bliss* (I remain irrationally bitter that the anime cut the first reference to her, which happens in a chunk that *was* animated. I know perfectly well that referring to a character who wouldn't be in the show would have been idiotic, but I still want them to acknowledge her. -_-)

. . . do you know anything about her, or have you managed to stay unspoiled? (Which may be a silly question, since you read this journal, but I try to be careful about spoiler cuts . . . )

[oyceter]

Awwwwww! I only know the little bits that I scanned on your site (I dropped by because I was curious about her after hearing so much), but not much history at all. Just that she's the horse and that there's something with her and Hatsuharu.

[umadoshi.livejournal.com]

and that there's something with her and Hatsuharu.

*nods* There is indeed--one of those lovely subplots that comes out in bits and pieces and is full of misdirection and hints. *happy shivers*