WWW Wednesday

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1. What are you currently reading?

A Gentleman's Gentleman by TJ Alexander, which I got from a Libby hold. I've been interested in it ever since I heard the premise and so far it hasn't disappointed, I read more than half of it last night and didn't particularly want to stop, I stayed up later than I usually do and had to force myself to put it down. I could wish for a little less second-hand embarrassment but oh well. 

 

2. What have you recently finished reading? 

These are all manga or graphic novels.

• Just Friends by Ana Oncina Tortosa: modern wlw, weird story about two girls who met at camp and now see each other every few years and hook-up. The "current" part where they hook-up was a bit uncomfortable.
• Haikyu!! vol. 24 by Haruichi Furudate
• Chainsaw Man vol. 7 by Tatsuki Fujimoto
• Puppy Love by Tsuchida Haru: cute modern BL with an odd premise where one character is the reincarnation of a dog and thinks the mc saved him during that previous incarnation.
• Delicious in Dungeon/Dungeon Meshi vol. 6 to 14 by Ryoko Kui: having borrowed these from the library, I mainlined the rest of the series and I have zero regrets. Surprisingly deep given the initial premise.
• Moriarty the Patriot vol. 4 by Ryosuke Takeuchi: it's been so long since I read the first three that it took me most of this volume to remember who was doing what and why. But now I can keep going - my local library has every volume BUT vol. 4 and I've been trying to get my hands on this one for like well over a year.
• Star Trek: Celebrations: a short collection of Pride-inspired queer Star Trek stories. It was fine. I especially liked the Sulu one that opened it.
• Koimonogatari: Love Stories vol. 2 by Tohru Tagura: modern BL, definitely showed more signs of mlm than vol 1 did, but it ends on a cliffhanger and it's been 7 years since it came out soooooo... 
• Heat x Beat: I May Be an Omega But I'm Going to Be an Idol by Ken Homerun: omegaverse BL, pretty standard, the title kinda says it all.
• Demon Slayer/Kimetsu no Yaiba vol. 15 by Koyoharu Gotouge
• Hitorijime My Hero vol. 11 by Memeco Arii
• Lunar Boy by Cin Wibowo and Je Wibowo: cute middle grade sci-fi about a trans boy moving with his mom to New Earth and dealing with the related changes. Most of the characters are some flavor of queer, sometimes to a heavy-handed extent, but then - middle grade. I especially liked a vision of the future that was so thoroughly not Western - it's Indonesian through and through and by Indonesian authors.

 

3. What will you read next?

I'm traveling until Sunday, which limits me to books I brought with me and stuff on Libby. I did bring Babel by R. F. Kuang, which I have been procrastinating reading like whoa, but I'm fairly determined to actually make myself start it after I finish A Gentleman's Gentleman. I also have like 4 volumes of manga on Libby that are due back in the next week, so presumably those. Two are vol 2s of things I was pretty meh about vol 1 of so I've been procrastinating starting them. I'm kinda figuring if I end up flaking on reading vol. 2 of one or both that kinda says it all about continuing those series and I'm not going to worry about it (the two are Acid Town and My Beautiful Man).