SQUEEE!!!

[queenbookwench]

I GOT A JOB OFFER!!

It's for a library associate position at a branch library in the city, working primarily with children and teens, but at a branch you do a little bit of everything.

I start two weeks from Monday.

OMG so excited!

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[queenbookwench.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'll definitely check out the page. The only other manga I've really read (which I liked) was Bizenghast but that's an English-language original. I think I might be bouncing off some other cultural conventions, related to plot, etc. as well.

I've also noticed a number of prose fantasy novels by Japanese writers being translated in English. Have you read the Guin Saga or Moribito, Guardian of the Spirit?

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

No, but I have Moribito on my wish list from having spotted it on a bookshelf in the local Japanese bookstore. Haven't gotten my hands on it yet, though! It's about time more fiction from other languages started to be translated into English.

If you want specific recommendations for manga that I think you might like, I could try to come up with some stuff if you tell me more about what graphic novels or fiction you like (beyond de Lint, haha). It does take some getting used to the cultural differences and the storytelling format, though, and the wildly different genres, unexpected demographic + content combinations, etc. And I've found things that I've enjoyed as manga that I'd hate in a novel format, like Paradise Kiss, which is a really stylized story about an obsessively good student who falls in with a bunch of weirdo fashion design majors. I'm sure I'd hate it if I tried reading whatever its American teen novel counterpart would be.

A friend who liked Bizenghast, which I haven't read, also liked a Korean manga (manhwa) called Tarot Cafe. But hey, maybe recommendations are pointless since soon you can just poke around your own section (if that's where they have it in your library...I hear the shelving location of manga & GNs is The Debate That Never Ends). Woohoo!

[queenbookwench.livejournal.com]

Recommendations are not pointless, they're great! That's why I'm addicted to goodreads--well, also because it's my portable brain.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Okay, well, let me know! :D