( spoilers ahead )

Chapter 4 is up!

By the Side of the Road: Himawari's Story

...It was amazing.
( spoilery spoilery spoilers )

Title: Shi Monogatari
Series: xXxHoLiC
Characters: Watanuki, Doumeki, Himawari
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I don't own HoLiC or its characters.
Link: Shi Monogatari, Chapter 2

The first issue of Neil Gaiman's planned prequel to Sandman, which is going to be called Sandman: Overture, is coming out on October 30.  Overture is going to be six issues long, with issues coming out in even-numbered months.

More info here.

*incoherent squeeing and flailing*

Title: Shi Monogatari
Series: xXxHoLiC
Characters: Watanuki, Doumeki, Himawari
Pairings: very briefly implied DoumekiKohane
Rating: PG or PG-13 (rated it T on ff.net to be safe)
Summary: Some years after taking over the shop, Watanuki invites his friends for a One Hundred Ghost Story Night.  Frightening tales will be told, old friendships will be ( Read more... )

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Title: The Eighteenth Charm
Series: Naruto
Characters: Hashirama, Madara
Pairing: HashiMada
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Manga spoilers up through Chapter 647.
Disclaimer: I don't own the series or its characters *sadface*.
Notes: One-shot, written for PikaCheeka's HashiMada contest.

For the past month or so, I've been reading Neal Stephenson's Reamde. I have a few friends who absolutely love Stephenson's work, but this is the first of his books I've read, and I get the sense that it's not as well-known as Cryptonomicon or Anathem.

Reamde is very much a thriller, with a complex plot composed of multiple different threads. It ( Read more... )

For a long time, I’ve been a fan of the genres of urban fantasy and magical realism-fantasy stories that are set in our own world, where magic is something either on the edges of things or unknown to most of the world (even if it plays a central role in the story). For example, I really loved Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus.

Like The Night ( Read more... )