What We Read Last Week - August 3

Last week I read Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, the English translation of the first book of an enormously popular series of Japanese fantasy novels.  Enjoyed it a lot--really interesting world (based loosely on medieval Japan), good characters.  A lot of interesting fantasy and sci-fi gets published all over the world in many different languages, but not too much of it gets translated into English unfortunately. :(

For the anime fans, this series is a big enough deal that it was made into a TV series a few years back.  Here's the opening and ending:

Alan H is a web librarian at Toronto Public Library.  He reads all over the place.

What did you read last week?  Let us know by commenting!

Comments

[Mary]

YAY firt post, well wow this anime looks pretty cool, and i know my sister will lvoe it 'cause over this summer she's beome a huge anime fan, and the song is nice

[Mary]

That is true, ther are so many amazing animes and manga's out there but we canadian may never see them becuase there's very little chance of them getting translated to english. and even if they were it'd take a very long time sometimes i'd even stop. but this anime looks very intresting indeed so thanks for posting it i might jsut watch it myself

[Mary]

One question is the short one a girl or a boy

[Mary]

I always love japanese singing it's so beautiful and strong, and has such great meaning

[MaryAnn]

Wow this looks like an amazng anime. i'll make sure to put it into my must watch list of animes for the summer time

[MaryAnn]

Well i'm pretty sure the short one is a boy. in the ending theme he looks like a boy.

[Mary]

Though i think i might have mentioned this already since it's almost school time and i'm getting furhter in high school. i'm reading more non-fiction books about class and leadership, and pretty much textbooks. and i have ti say when you read this stuff on your own time with no pressure it's actually more fun than you'd think it'd be

[Mary]

I mean last week i was reading this book on business at my work place and my friend was like is that a textbook and i said no. but then she pointed that there are question and since i'm answering them it's a textbook. So pretty much this summer i've been reading class related books even MATH

[Tasfia]

wow looks good...

right now, i'm reading "the pillars of creation" by terry goodkind.... it's really good...

[Mary]

OMG you're reading those too awesome. i'm not sure if i've passed that one or if i'ms till on it.

[Mary]

But i'm still on it. and i really wanna try and finsish the series. Just seems that i never have time though. but i'll try as soon as i can

[Mary]

Oh and last week i read an updated manga called onidere. It's about a couple where the girl is the deamon head of the school (top gangster) and her guy is just a normal dude and them trying to work te realtionship around that and her crew

[MaryAnn]

Hmm ahh last week i finished reading Maldehere. i think that's how you spell it. but it's a book about the war years ago following the life of one young soldier. and seeing everything he lost and gained from the war. it was really sad and emotional but very well written

[MaryAnn]

This anime is lovely. what i really like about it though is the Music. truly lovely

[Devi]

Hm......I went to Ottawa this long weekend and when i was coming back i started reading a book called 'Blue Bloods' by Melissa de la cruz. Its all about how every one is turning into a vampire. I soooo need to get the 2nd book in this sequel i want to know what happens. ANd by the time i reached home I only had 20 pages left to read. That's how intresting it is. I just couldnt put it dowm or stop reading.

[Devi]

OOOOOO I got the last dance at the frosty queen. And i just started reading it and so far its soooo ............................................................................................................................................... soo.... touching and ........um...... dramatic!!!!!

[Sakshi]

interesting =)
cool

[Shel]

Japan has a interesting way of telling stories.

[Hamdi]

Moribito:Guardian of the Spirit must be a really good book enough to make it into t.v! Unfortunetly, i couldn't be able to watch the series (abovee)/ One of the books i read last week was "Wicked" by Sara Shepard. Aria, Emily, Spencer, Hanna and Alison have been best friends since the third grade. They go everywhere together. If anyone is the ringleader of their group it is Alison, and the other girls but tell all their secrets to her.
One night, during a sleepover, Alison goes missing.Her body is never found. The girls are sadden by her death, but move apart after time, assuming their secrets have disappeared with Alison too. Three years later and Aria is having an affair with her teacher, Emily is questioning her love life, Hanna is a thief and is bulumic ,and Spencer is flirting with her sister's hubby which leads to family troubles.They all think their secrets are safe, until they start receiving messages from a person who calls themselves "A" .... who knows exactly what they are all up to, and is threatening to spill all their secrets. So you see, they are all a mess! I'm not giong to ruin the ending but it is a series the first book is called "Pretty Little Liars" the second book is called "Flawless" the third book is called "Perfect" and the fourth book is called "Unbelivable" which reveleves who "A" is but it contuines because there is another "A"... i know lots of drama! The Fifth book is called "Wicked" which i just read and the Sixth book is called "Killer" which just came out and the Seventh and Eighth book never came out yet. So yea there are eight books in the series! So i recommded this juicy series to everyone WORD OUT MEMBERS!!!!

[Ruby]

Looks good! I just started out here. Anyway I am a huge twilight and vampire knight fan:)
And I really agree with Shel (commenter)!

[Mary]

OK omg i jsut finsihed an amzing book the i started last week called lover Avenged by J.R Ward AMAZING i just loved it and wished there could have been more in the already 430pg book

[MaryAnn]

I also just started reading this excellent book last week called scent of darkness. though i'm not finished it's very good so far

[Iffat]

Last week I read two of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries- The Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They were amazing.

[Oshin]

My name is Japanese. lol. and I'm not Japanese! I'd love to visit Japan though.

[Oshin]

SO, I'm not a fan of anime, but that's because I've never really been introduced to this kind of literature properly. I mean I don't know which ones would be good to read, especially as this would be my first time. Could anyone suggest anything?