(Catboy) Virgins and Vampires

So yesterday I met up with slashers, for the first time ever! There’ll probably be a happy, squee-ful post about it tomorrow. For now I’ll just mention that we stopped in two bookshops and I now own three new mangas. Have read Gravitation already and I love it. The hero wants to be a rockstar and he’s so emotional and melodramatic and has constant pratfalls; he goes after Eiri Yuki, the slick blond writer, in utter fury when he’s told his lyrics are no good. Adorable.

And there’s this clever, sexy, cheerful best-friend guitarist named Hiro. *sigh* Once again, I’m falling for the secondary character.

I got the first volume of Loveless too, because lilith1631 told me to. Virgin boys with cat ears and tails! LOVE. And I’m now reading June’s Freefall Romance. Not what you’d call great literature, but there’s a blond and a brunet, and they’re both in suits and ties when they’re not naked and there’s delicious explicit boysex.

Besides, I also have Diana Wynne Jones’ new book! House of Many Ways is extremely awesome so far, even counting its Fiery Redheaded Heroine (TM), and the Entirely Unsurprising Exploitative Uncle (TM to DWJ). This is fantasy everyone should read, unlike... Well.

Youngest Sister, who’s thirteen, has finally picked up a book for the first time in a year.

It’s Twilight.