Soliloquy in Blue started life as a plain old blog, full of memes and quizzes and posts about kooky dreams I’d had. In April of 2006, I got the idea to start blogging about the things I was reading, and the current incarnation of Soliloquy in Blue was born. For four years, from the inception of the site through May 2010, I reviewed everything I read. Eventually, though, I decided that this entirely self-imposed rule was making it increasingly more unlikely that I would ever conquer my tremendous backlog of unread books.

I read a lot of manga (and its Korean cousin, manhwa), so most of my posts are in that vein, but you will also find reviews of novels, nonfiction, and the occasional Western comic. My tastes span genres and demographics, and I love getting recommendations for stuff you think I might like. To get an inkling of my diverse collection, you can visit my LibraryThing catalog here.

Occasionally, some of my book reviews will be posted under the Triple Take category and republished on the Triple Take blog. Triple Take is a project in which two friends and I read, review, and discuss one mutually agreed-upon book per month. Each entry of mine in this category will contain a link to their takes on the same book.

For two years, from summer 2008 to summer 2010, I wrote for Manga Recon and from January 2009 served as the Senior Manga Editor. This experience made a huge difference in my life, introducing me to a very talented crew of reviewers (as well as publishers’ representatives) and allowing me to hone my writing skills. You can find my personal archive of reviews here.

I still contribute to a couple other places. The first is Comics Should Be Good, where additional manga coverage is provided by Melinda Beasi and Danielle Leigh. The three of us team up on a bimonthly basis for The NANA Project and the archive of my solo column, Blue Moon Reviews, can be found here. Secondly, I make occasional contributions to Melinda’s blog, Manga Bookshelf. Those posts can be found here.

Special thanks to Melinda Beasi, without whom this revamped site design would not have been possible.