WWW Wednesday

I'm a in community on Pillowfort that does WWW Wednesday - every Wednesday they ask three "what" questions about reading - and since I'm participating there, figured it might be a decent thing to xpost here? idk, I'm never sure what to post on this DW.

The three questions are:

1. What are you currently reading?
2. What have you recently finished?
3. What will you read next?

If any of my mutuals wanted to join in, I'd love to see your answers too. It's adjacent to what we do on our Book Lover's Discord Server, where we do "What we're reading Wednesday."

Anyhoo, my answers for this week are:

What have you recently finished reading?

I didn't manage to finish any books this week, only graphic novels. My focus and oomph have been in the dumps.

1. Out of Left Field by Jonah Newman: inspired by the author's real life, about an in-the-closet gay guy in high school. It was fine? Very unmemorable, and also the focus on "masculinity" was uncomfy, like, I actually think it would have been better if it had just been written as a full-on autobiography.

2. My Hero Academia vol. 12 by Kohei Horikoshi

3. Escape From St. Hell: My Trans Life Levels Up by Lewis Hancox: autobiography of a trans man as he goes from high school to college and from an environment where everyone knows him as "the girl who became a boy" (I don't think that - the transphobes at his high school thought that) vs. going to a setting where he can start fresh as himself. In a lot of ways, I think this book is what Out of Left Field was trying to be, and this did a better job of it, though I personally struggled with it because Lewis is just SO anxious and I don't react well to that kinda thing cause of my own history. Like basically, I found his anxiety a little triggering and that impacted my opinion but I don't think that's a problem with the book. Also apparently this is a sequel? I think? He wrote about his high school years in a previous graphic novel. I might check it out, if I spot a copy.

4. Solo Leveling manhwa, vol. 3 - 7  by Chugong. I read all of these yesterday, which I think probably says it all. I actually had to pirate vol. 7, cause vol. 6 absolutely did not leave off at a spot where my brain would let me stop. :facepalm: If it's at the library I'll borrow it anyway, since I'm not sure that where I stopped correlates to the end of the volume (I just stopped when the plotline tied off enough that I COULD stop).

What are you currently reading?

1. Still reading Silent Hearts by Jing Shui Bian. Vol. 2 for some reason hasn't grabbed me as much as vol. 1? I've only read like 80 pages or something. Once I just sit down with it, tho, I expect it to go pretty fast.

2. I joined a read-along for Legend of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong and I'm. not on track already. I've just not been reading much this week idk. We're doing a chapter a week and I've read the first some-thousand words of the first chapter.

What will you read next?

Next on my "graphic novels from the library" pile is Blackwater by Jeannette Arroyo and Ren Graham. Next up on books is The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison.

 

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