Sunday, January 07, 2018
I may have had some New Year's resolution, but some things stay the same. BOOKSTORE HAUL! BEGINS AGAIN!
I believe I bought the first volume of this manga series a while ago. I only started reading it over the winter break. It was good enough that I want to read the rest. I believe they are up to three volumes released in the US. So here's the second one.
They've also done a drama series based on this manga in Japan. Let's find the torrent.
Erased Vol 2
Labels: bookstore haul, manga
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10:51:00 AM
Sunday, December 17, 2017
Today I am not gonna list out the haul. That's because I bought your present. I don't want to spoil it, so you'll have to wait until the 25th for a better understanding of this blog post.
Of course, I didn't report the first time I went for presents last week. It's still the same. If I could, I would get all presents at the bookstore. They don't just have books. They have other stuff. Games. Toys. Cards. Just stuff for presents.
And I get a discount. Which came in handy. Last week it was an extra 10% on top of the 10% discount of being a member. This week it was 20%. Plus, I had coupons. So I saved on my presents. Cool.
Merry Yule to you to!
Labels: bookstore haul, tis the season
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7:43:00 PM
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
I wanted to go to Japan this year. It was one of my
resolutions. I didn't get to it. There's still a month left but I doubt I will go on the spur of the moment.
When I heard Nogizaka46 was going to be in
Singapore this Friday for an anime festival, I had looked at tickets. I didn't get them, and now I completely regret it.
I would like to travel more. Having tons of vacation time, I should. But alone and by myself, it ain't happening. I wish.
The Best American Travel Writing 2017 edited by Lauren Collins
Labels: bookstore haul, go there now
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10:14:00 PM
Saturday, November 04, 2017
Had a coupon for ye ol' Bookstore. Twenty percent off a cookbook. Also, had another couple of coupons. Twenty percent off of any one item. I used the cookbook one.
The cookbook I picked up is another one that I want to use to synthesize my recipes rather than following them. I don't really cook. I try to make some food. I'm going by feel most of the time. And these cookbooks that kind of explain the science help guide me. Maybe my food may turn out decent.
Also, on the way out I picked up a National Geographic. It's been a while since I read one of these. I picked it up because the cover had the happiest places on the planet. Lord knows I need some happiness at the moment. I am really sad at the moment. The most recent event to make me sad is that my truck has a nail in one of the tires. Flats make me angry sad. I hate this about owning a car. Now I have to get this tire fixed. Groan. Just great. I hate flats.
Cook's Illustrated Cook's Science
National Geographic November 2017 Issue
Labels: bookstore haul, places
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7:48:00 PM
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Plenty of birthdays in October. While in the bookstore, I bought cards. A couple of birthday cards. And a Halloween card. One for the nephew. One for the sister-in-law. One for the niece. Nice.
Also, an issue of Monocle.
Monocle Issue 107
Halloween Card for the niece
Labels: anniversaire, bookstore haul, spooky
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7:02:00 PM
Saturday, October 21, 2017
I'm not really buying manga as much anymore. Too much idol stuff. But when they release a new volume in the series I still sort of read I will buy it. Here's two I bought just because they are one of the last few series I still am reading.
No Matter How I Look at it, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular 10 -- Watamote!
A Bride's Story 9Labels: bookstore haul, manga
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8:00:00 PM
Sunday, October 15, 2017
I received for my birthday
a book I bought this year. Luckily, they gave me a gift receipt. So I returned it and picked up this. Lot's to ponder from this considering our current presidential situation. We'll look back on Obama's presidency fondly. I wish the rapture would happen soon.
We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Labels: bookstore haul
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6:38:00 PM
Friday, October 06, 2017
It's been a while. A LONGGGGGG WHILE! Months have gone by but that doesn't mean that I didn't buy stuff at the bookstore. I did. I just didn't bother blogging about it. Seems like my
New Year's resolution did not last past the third month of the year.
I kind of fell off with blogging, but now I'm back. At least for the month of October! It's the spooky month. Not as good as
NewsRadio Quote Month, but it's kind of fun, too. I want to write a bit more blog posts. Stretch out my typing so that I am actually using a keyboard. I'm not doing that at work. Blah.
Monocle issue 106.
Experience Required: How to become a UX leader regardless of your role. I bought this not because I want to be a UX guy, but because it gots some advice on how to persuade people. I need to stop being passive-aggressive and be assertive. Get me out of this task!!!!
Labels: bookstore haul
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9:30:00 PM
Friday, February 24, 2017
What I haven't told you about my bookstore visits is that usually I am buying a white mocha from the cafe there. So every time I go, I am filling up on 400 calories of sugary goodness. I should stop going to the bookstore. I should stop ordering white mochas. This I should do to help me on my resolutions. So far I haven't done that.
The Temple of I & I Thievery Corporation.
Monocle Volume 10 Issue 100
Labels: bookstore haul, Thievery Corporation
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12:45:00 PM
Sunday, February 19, 2017
I'm really going to have to go to Japan. These are the next set of travel guides I bought for the trip. It's ridiculous thinking that I will find Japan and their culture in books. I will find it in their country. I must go...
Cool Japan: A Guide to Kyoto, Tokyo, Tohokou, and Japanese Culture Past and Present by Sumiko Kajiyama
Tokyo Precincts: A Curated Guide to the City's Best Shops, Eateries, Bars and Other Hangouts by Steve Wide and Michelle Mackintosh
Labels: bookstore haul, go there now
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8:23:00 PM
Sunday, February 12, 2017
I did buy some more stuff from BN. Last week and today. Here's what I got.
Concise Japanese Dictionary Samuel E. Martin
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaimann
Labels: bookstore haul
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6:15:00 PM
Saturday, January 28, 2017
The Fox God has smiled on me today. I found the Funko pop for Su-Metal at my local bookstore. She now joins Moa-Metal and Yui-Metal on my mantle. I've had the other 2 since the end of 2015, and I have been on the lookout for the lead singer of
BabyMetal since then. It's taken me a year but she finally popped up. Unsurprisingly, I there were more Moa-Metal and Yui-Metal figures there. I was almost gonna give up, but checked around the store once more and found her, staring me in the face. The Fox God is good.
On another note, Su-Metal is Nakamoto Suzuka. Her sister, Nakamoto Himeka (Himetan), is an idol in my favorite thing,
Nogizaka46, and it was just announced that
she will go on hiatus because of unspecified health reasons for the latest 17th single. I am more of a fan of Himetan because I am more of a fan of Nogizaka46. It will not be the same without
her lovely and energetic Himetan Beam. The 5th Year Birthday Live is going to be a tad bit sadder. I am hoping she has a speedy recovery so that she can continue to deliver her Himetan Beam.
Su-Metal by Funko
Labels: bookstore haul, figures, it rocks, Nogizaka46
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4:09:00 PM
Saturday, January 21, 2017
I should've made 'buying books I don't read' one of my New Year's Resolutions. I stopped into the old B&N and bought a couple of books. I wanted to pass the time and rack up some steps, but I ended up with a couple of books.
The first book is trying to get me to learn Japanese so that I can talk to my idols, Nogizaka46, at one of their handshake events in Japan. I would like to encourage them to do their best: 頑張って！ I've bought several books. And have yet to apply myself to reading and learning. At least I've got a little bit of hiragana and katakana, but without a vocabulary it will be difficult to understanding anything. Hope this book starts me off.
The second is learning about node.js. We're using it at work. And I'm trying to figure out what it is. Will I be able to read it?
Japanese For Beginners by Sachiko Toyozato
Learning Node.js: A Hands-On Guide to Building Web Applications in JavaScript 2nd Edition by Marc Wandschneider
Labels: bookstore haul, computing, learning japanese, software development
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9:08:00 PM
Friday, January 13, 2017
Here we go again back at the bookstore. Maybe I should've had one of my resolutions to avoid it as much as possible, or better yet, the resolution should be to watch, read, or use whatever I buy from there within a week. I still haven't read a majority of what I hauled in last year. I think that I am addicted to spending money and accumulating junk. Sounds like a plan for another resolution for next year.
Fighting Elegy directed by Seijun Suzuki
Step-by-step Tai Chi with Tiffany Chen
Labels: bookstore haul
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2:02:00 PM
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Last trip to the bookstore of 2016. I went just for coffee like I always do. This time I didn't get decaf; I went regular which I have done a couple times during this Christmas break. Maybe I won't get the jitters. Maybe I will, but at least I can sleep on my couch.
I bought movies. I doubt I finished the last set from the last time I bought movies at B&N. Maybe by the end of 2017 I would see these films.
High and Low directed by Akira Kurosawa. BluRay
The Mermaid directed by Stephen Chow. DVD
Love and Friendship directed by Whit Stillman. DVD
Labels: bookstore haul
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11:30:00 AM
Sunday, December 18, 2016
It's getting hard blogging about my bookstore purchases if I am purchasing something almost every week. Especially during Christmas, I buy presents there. So SPOILER ALERT! Some of these are presents. Others a presents for me.
This is my haul for the last two weeks. I've been to the bookstore about 4 times. I should stop. Yet I keep going.
It is a place to buy Christmas presents. Sometimes I want to shop for everyone there. Except no one reads books let alone in paper back. Not too sure why not. I wish for all the books in the world.
Developer Testing: Building Quality Into Software by Alexander Tarlinder
Smuggler's Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki by Martin Cate with Rebecca Cate
Dune by Frank Herbert
Modarri Cars
Godiva ChocolateLabels: bookstore haul, drunkeness, gifts that keep on gifting, software development
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7:51:00 PM
Saturday, December 03, 2016
I guess if I do this I have to go all the way.
First off, I forgot to put this manga on the previous haul. I picked it up because it should start to get awesome. It's about ballroom dancing, and I figure that it will be like a sports manga where the main character has to overcome his weakness to excel in ballroom dance. Perhaps. Maybe. Or I won't be getting the next volume.
Welcome to the Ballroom Volume 1 by Tomo Takeuchi
To get to the next part, let's say I have already tons of cookbooks about Japanese food. What do I do with another one besides not reading it? Sure. Maybe make something. This one's the Iron Chef's cookbook about home cooking Japanese style. Perhaps it will get me a Japanese girlfriend? O. Perhaps not.
Mastering The Art of Japanese Home Cooking by Iron Chef Morimoto
Labels: bookstore haul, manga
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8:24:00 PM
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
I'm still buying DVDs. I'm still trying to find myself in the bookstore. I'm still trying to find my bookstore girl. This time around I bought 2 more DVDs during the B&N 50% off Criterion Collection sale. It happens bi-annually, so every 6 months I'm buying another couple of foreign or arthouse movies. Maybe someday I will find that girl.
The Makioka Sisters directed by Kon Ichikawa
A Touch of Zen directed by King Hu
Labels: bookstore haul, movies
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5:16:00 PM
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Barnes and Noble is having their bi-annual
Criterion Collection sale. That means 50% off any and all Criterion DVDs and BluRays. It's the best time to stock up on any of the Criterion Collection that you've been salivating for. You can wait for few months, mark and spy on which you'll get, then buy, buy, buy once the sale hits.
I usually buy a few even though I've seen most all of the collection I want to see or own. If they find any new Ozu, I'll be there. But there are no more Ozu. So I'll make due when something comes along that intrigues me.
But let me get to the big thing. I just bought 2 Criterion Collection BluRays for cheap because of the sale. I mean I got the hookups. Check this out: not only the 50% sale and the 10% membership discount, but also the 15% off one item coupon. So I saw that the Lone Wolf and Cub box set came out. It usually cost $100, but applying all those discounts which finally amounted to a $39 deal. Now it didn't add up to 75% but that is really good for a Criterion BluRay box set considering that the other disc I bought, Mulholland Dr., sticker price was $40. That disc I got for $18!
So it pays to have been a member of the B&N club. That $25 a year always saves me more than that if you look at the last few
Bookstore Hauls. Those are only the few I started to write about. There have been tons more than that...
Lone Wolf and Cub BluRay box set
Mulholland Dr. BluRay
Labels: bookstore haul, money baby money
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3:39:00 PM
Sunday, November 06, 2016
Before each and every "Bookstore Haul" post, I put some preliminary sentences trying to sum up something I thought of as I browsed the aisles. This is one such sentence.
In reality, I don't know what I am going to say about the group of books I bought this past trip. Yes, they are comics. I'm hoping that the blue monday one is also a slice of life comic. The Bride's Story is sort of. It's really good. I'm hoping that blue monday is as well.
This is a sentence to end this segment. Bye bye!
blue monday volume 1 by Chynna Clugston Flores
Bride's Story by Kaoru Mori
Labels: bookstore haul, comics, manga
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5:03:00 PM
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