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Neverwhere: Door by *Pika-la-Cynique

Neverwhere: Door by ~2x2x2

ANNNNND while I was busy putting off reading AtWiED I was stuck at a bookstore for a few hours so I bought and started Neverwhere and couldn't put it down it's great. Really unique and imaginative and I've already picked out a passage that I want to illustrate so I'll upload that here if I finish it. But yeah I'll definitely be reading more Neil Gaiman after this. :D

The main character is a rich white asshole who acts as though everything is boring and inconvenient even while on the adventure of his life and is awful to his manservant. I don't even know why I should root for him to win his bet, aside from just FOR SCIENCE or something.

I went to Mexico for a week and FINALLY finished Game of Thrones on my plane rides and down time. Not a whole lot to say, since I knew just about everything that was going to happen, having watched the first season of the TV show first. I'm gonna TRY to finish Clash of Kings before April 1st so I can watch the second season without being spoiled! Reading GoT has made me really want to rewatch the first season though.

At least so far, I sympathize with her more.

In the books she's not as haughty and she's not horrible to her sister. Although she doesn't understand Arya and she gets frustrated with her, her intentions aren't bad and she's at least sweet most of the time. Also Joffrey isn't as obviously horrible. It's more understandable that she would fall for that thing in the books. In the show it's just so obvious that he's a horrid little shit that you're just like OMG SANSA, REALLY?

Just finished the first volume of the second 3-in-1. So basically I'm starting vol. 5 of Fullmetal Alchemist.

I'll probably get murdered for saying this, but so far I'm not impressed with the manga vs. the anime. The music and the voice acting and everything about the anime is just lovely and moving. And it seems to delve more deeply into the stories too. There's a couple things that are in the manga that are not in the anime, but it seems like there's more stuff in the anime that's absent from the manga. I miss Barry the Butcher. ;__; We don't get to see the crazy bastard before he's already a soul in a creepy skull suit. It takes away the entire surprise of his identity. DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I'M BARRY THE BUTCHER! Okay... and I care because...? And just the pacing of the whole thing feels extremely rushed.

Instead of starting a new classic, I'm doing manga! (surprise!)

It just came about because I went to Barnes and Noble today (no one should ever let me in there) and found these 3-in-1 FMA books which makes each volume HALF the price they would otherwise be, and I just needed them. So I got them. So now I have the first 6 volumes of FMA.

"The Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban."

It's a lovely, lighthearted book that's always pleasant to read. There's no plot and it's all true so there's not a lot to comment on. Although I have to say, Lily Gilbreth is my HERO. She had 12 kids, put up with Frank as her husband, and then finished raising them without him when the youngest was still only 2. It could not have been easy to live her life.