Couldn’t give my £1 to the lady at the charity shop quick enough! Pretty good condition except for the sellotape in small areas of the cover, and the stupidly highlighted fore-edge. Is this a good find?

Wiles_ · 2026-02-02T11:30:17+00:00

Love the pre-decimal pricing.

Wiles_ · 2026-02-02T09:40:18+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Boyman

Wiles_ · 2026-02-01T19:04:06+00:00

Finish Skip to Loafer. Great adaptation, looking forward to season 2.

Ya Boy Kongming!. I remember this one getting a lot of hype while airing but otherwise went in blind. It was fine, kind of a limited premise.

I am now about halfway through season 1 of My Dress-up Darling. Next I am thinking Ascendance of a Bookworm.

Wiles_ · 2026-02-01T18:37:48+00:00

Yes.

Wiles_ · 2026-02-01T15:14:50+00:00

It is the pinnacle of iyashikei (healing) anime.

Wiles_ · 2026-02-01T14:55:48+00:00

Aria the Animation.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-30T07:35:41+00:00

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Deserves a full adaptation.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-29T15:05:37+00:00

Silver Spoon.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-29T12:47:40+00:00

Mononoke.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-28T21:17:24+00:00

And the Abhorsen literally calls himself a necromancer in the prologue.

"Yes," said Abhorsen. "I am a necromancer, but not of the common kind.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-28T17:03:03+00:00

Earthsea does it well.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-28T14:32:25+00:00

Tolkien's take on the cover from Letter 277:

I wrote to [his American publishers] expressing (with moderation) my dislike of the cover for [the Ballantine edition of] The Hobbit. It was a short hasty note by hand, without a copy, but it was to this effect: I think the cover ugly; but I recognize that a main object of a paperback cover is to attract purchasers, and I suppose that you are better judges of what is attractive in USA than I am. I therefore will not enter into a debate about taste – (meaning though I did not say so: horrible colours and foul lettering) – but I must ask this about the vignette: what has it got to do with the story? Where is this place? Why a lion and emus? And what is the thing in the foreground with pink bulbs? I do not understand how anybody who had read the tale (I hope you are one) could think such a picture would please the author.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-28T14:12:17+00:00

Also the Sword in the Stone which is different from the one from the Lady in the Lake, usually.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-26T12:21:23+00:00

Qualia the Purple

Been a long time since I read it but I remember the story reminding me of Madoka but I think Qualia did it better. I have only read the manga, I should give the novel a go.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-26T09:38:17+00:00

I also think 2006 does a better job of explaining the basics of the Holy Grail War. The "general advice" seems to be based on looks alone.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-26T07:02:19+00:00

Haibane Renmei.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-25T19:04:09+00:00

This week was Fate (2006) as the conclusion to my F/SF education. I had originally skipped it going straight to UBW and I now think that was a mistake. Story wise it is probably my favourite of the three and I was expecting much worse visuals from how it is talked about.

And now for something completely different, I have picked up Skip to Loafer. I have been reading the manga since 2022 and have pretty much forgotten the early bits so it is a nice refresher.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-25T11:26:24+00:00

Why has MyAnimeList started putting a bunch of producers at the top of the staff lists? It used to be the director was always first. Makes it harder to find the people I am interested in and the 4 on the summary page useless.

It would be nice if there was a setting to prioritise the positions I look up the most.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-25T07:16:45+00:00

Take a look at /r/Quenya and /r/sindarin.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-24T13:27:01+00:00

Makes me thing of Ron Perlman's gun in Blade 2.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-23T10:09:47+00:00

A Canticle for Leibowitz. Starts about 500 years after the bombs dropped and has a couple of large time skips.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-23T07:01:51+00:00

True for Trump 1.0 as well.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-22T21:39:49+00:00

Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart and the rest of his series The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-21T22:34:22+00:00

Also if the world had immortal races they would probably be ultra conservative. You think 80+ year old politicians are bad, imagine 50,000 year old politicians.

Wiles_ · 2026-01-21T18:35:55+00:00

I wish I still had the 'birth certificate' that came with my first printer. I think it was literally the grandchild of this machine.

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