WWW Wednesday

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1. What are you currently reading?

​I ended up shuffling around my tbr order a little because my Libby hold of Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle came in for the third time and instead of bump it, I decided to read it, cause I had a good moment for that amidst other reading. I'm about a quarter in, and so far it's interesting. I feel like it's a bit creepier and also more mysterious than Camp Damascus, like, in Camp Damascus I felt like what was going on was pretty obvious and not that scary? But in this I still have no idea what's going on and that makes it tenser. There's a lot of different pieces, I'm interested to see how they'll come together. 

2. What have you recently finished?

My novel read for the week was The Missing Piece by Kun Yi Wei Lou. I ending up motoring through it, to my surprise, considering I'd bounced off the first page the previous time I tried to read it. It wasn't amazing or anything but it was enjoyable and had some interesting twists. The rest is graphic novels...

• Jujutsu Kaisen vol. 4 by Gege Akutami: I feel like I still don't get it. idk. I guess I'll keep reading. 
• I Hear the Sunspot vol. 1 and 2 by Yuki Fumino (modern BL, hard of hearing ml): an interesting college story with a lot about disability and disability advocacy related to hoh and deaf people in Japan.
• Spy x Family vol. 5 by Tatsuya Endo: I'm a little surprised how fast I'm losing interest in this, considering how much I liked the start. It feels like it's settling into "now we have our premise, let's have episodic zany stuff happen" and that's not that interesting to me. But I'm not stopping yet.
• Hitorijime My Hero vol. 6 and 7 by Memeco Arii: vol. 6 was more interesting to me, but vol. 7 was all over the place again. I still plan to read all the ones I've got from the library, but also... meh.
• The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal by E. K. Weaver: modern mlm, really liked this
• Go For It Again, Nakamura! by Syundei: I hadn't been all that enthusiastic about vol 1 and only grabbed this cause I spotted it on Libby and it was imo pretty much entirely pointless.
• How to Be a Werewolf vol. 1 by Shawn Lenore: very interesting premise, with various queer going on and lots of werewolf shenanigans, of course. I can't find any evidence of a vol. 2 despite it being a decade old? It might be webtoon only, idk. I don't have time to check right now.
• Demon Slayer/Kimetsu no Yaiba vol. 13 by Koyoharu Gotouge
• Dekoboko Sugar Days by Atsuko Yusen: modern high school BL. Fine and fluffy, a decently strong example of the genre, otherwise unremarkable.

3. What will you be reading next?

As I mentioned, I shuffled my tbr a little to make room for Bury Your Gays, so now next is Global Examination vol. 1 by Mu Su Li (a reread for me), then Babel by R. F. Kuang, which I'll probably not get to until next week. Next physical library graphic novel is volume 1 of Witch Hat Aterlier, and next Libby one is whatever the next volume of Yona of the Dawn is.