Spending far too much money

[hildy89]

The apartment calmed down while I was gone, which is something of a relief. I decided to visit the newish Borders at Tysons. My parents had mentioned the new store when they were in town back when it first opened, but they had already gone already. The store layout is a bit confusing, but at least I found more or less what I wanted and with my birthday gift card, I didn't spend as much as I could have. Nick Bantock has a new book Urgent 2nd Class: Creating Curious Collage, Dubious Documents and other art from Ephemera. If you fell in love with Griffin and Sabine and his other works for the artwork, this is a perfect book for you. It mixes a lot of the different paper crafts from rubber stamping and collages and postcard collecting. Borders is also doing a Buy 3, get the 4th free for their Manga/Graphic Novels, so I caught up on my manga buying, including Pretear, Hana-Kimi, Pet Shop of Horrors and Tokyo Babylon. I also caved badly buying Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell about two British magicians in the age of Napoleon. I did not remember to check for Chris Baty's Nanowrimo book, though.

As a Replay member with Suncoast, I received an "Anime Network quarterly" mailing with fall manga and anime previews. Obviously a lot of focus on the ADV titles in the ads, but some other ones that pique my curiosity.