reading japanese light novels

instead of going through those textbooks, i've gotten myself a number of japanese light novels as study materials. can anyone recommend me some sites for referencing while reading through the runes?

Japanese assk questions thread

http://www.alc.co.jp/     for more colloquial phrases
http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C    for dictionary action

that's about all you need, unless you really suck (then nobody can help you)