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		<title>Banana Fish 7-8 by Akimi Yoshida: A</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In these two volumes, Ash largely leaves the follow-up concerning Banana Fish to reporter Max Lobo and his colleague, Steve, and instead sets his sights on exacting bloody vengeance against Arthur, a former member of Ash&#8217;s gang who betrayed him. At first, it seems like two major events are going to complicate things for Ash—namely, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flaminggeeks.com/swanjun/?p=10850</link>
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		<title>When the Heavens Smile by Aki Senoo: B+</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book description:
Takagi, a rather cute and innocent guy, is best friends and classmates with Kumoi, a tall, intellectual guy. One day, Takagi is stunned to find a pencil sketch of a man between Kumoi&#8217;s notebook pages that resembles his older brother&#8230; who passed away six years ago! Could Kumoi have possibly known his brother?
Review:
I&#8217;ll admit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flaminggeeks.com/swanjun/?p=10836</link>
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		<title>Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham: A</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the back cover:
Lionized by literary society, Edward Driffield is married to his second wife, a woman of iron will, indisputable rectitude and great charm. Her request to Alroy Kear, lightweight novelist, to write a biography of her husband seems both flattering and agreeable. But on delving into Driffield&#8217;s past Kear revives the spectre of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flaminggeeks.com/swanjun/?p=10707</link>
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		<title>Bakuman。1 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata: B+</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I reviewed the first volume of Bakuman, a new series by the creators of Death Note, for Comics Should Be Good. I really loved the manga-making aspects of the story and didn&#8217;t find the sexism (about which I had been warned) to be as off-putting as I&#8217;d expected.
You can find that review here.
Bakuman is published [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flaminggeeks.com/swanjun/?p=10701</link>
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		<title>Yotsuba&amp;! 2-8 by Kiyohiko Azuma: A</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The theme of this month&#8217;s Manga Moveable Feast is a Kids&#8217; Table featuring discussion of Yotsuba&#038;! and other kid-friendly manga. Here is my take on the former; be sure to check out this week&#8217;s Off the Shelf where Melinda and I will talk about the latter!
My opinions on these seven delightful volumes of Yotsuba&#038;! can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flaminggeeks.com/swanjun/?p=10509</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Get Visual: Warm-Up Exercises</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MICHELLE: Welcome to a brand-new Feature here at Soliloquy in Blue: Let&#8217;s Get Visual! Each month, Manga Bookshelf&#8217;s Melinda Beasi and I will select a page or sequence of pages from our recent manga reads that we find intriguing and attempt to develop our visual-critiquing muscles by sharing our thoughts about it. Neither of us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flaminggeeks.com/swanjun/?p=10744</link>
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		<title>Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by R. L. LaFevers: B-</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the back cover:
“Frankly, I&#8217;m not fond of surprises, as ones around here tend to be rather wicked.”
For poor Theodosia, however, surprises abound. She spends most of her time at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities in London. There, all the artifacts that her parents dig up around the world are put on display and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flaminggeeks.com/swanjun/?p=10442</link>
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		<title>Sugarholic 1-5 by Gong GooGoo: B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jae-Gyu Sin is a lazy and listless twenty-year-old living with her mother and grandmother. When a mudslide destroys their house, her grandmother ships Jae-Gyu off to Seoul with very little money and instructions to stay with her brother, a university student, for a while. On her way there, she manages to tear the shirt being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flaminggeeks.com/swanjun/?p=10536</link>
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		<title>Causing a Scene by Charlie Todd and Alex Scordelis: B-</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the back cover:
From the infamous No Pants! Subway Ride to the legendary Grand Central Freeze, Improv Everywhere has been responsible for some of the most original and subversive pranks of the Internet age. In Causing a Scene, the group&#8217;s agents provide a hilarious firsthand account of their mischievous antics. Learn how they created a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flaminggeeks.com/swanjun/?p=10582</link>
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		<title>One Piece 25-27 by Eiichiro Oda: B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard a lot about the Skypiea arc of One Piece, though I actually knew zero specifics about what Luffy and his crew would encounter once they reached the legendary island in the sky. More, I seemed to absorb the general idea that this arc is really awesome and everyone loves it. Alas, I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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