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WWW Wednesday
Jun. 25th, 2025 09:05 am1. What are you currently reading?
Unusually for me, I have multiple "actual book" (as opposed to manga/graphic novel) reads-in-progress, mostly because two of them are on Libby so I need to get them read before they're due, or something, and the last is from the library, so ditto.
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine: it finally managed to grab me enough to keep me turning pages yesterday, or at least it did until [SPOILERS REDACTED] and now I'm like... and I kinda don't want to bother. But I will. I only have like 40 pages left. So I'll probably finish it later today.
- What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You by Heather Corinna: need to give myself permission to skip parts that aren't relevant to me. like brain. it's okay to be "completionist" but I have absolutely zero need to read the part about quitting smoking I've never smoked in my life.
- Kaiju No. 8: Exclusive on the Third Division by Keiji Ando and Naoya Matsumoto: this is a light novel and relatively pointless but eh. The secondhand embarrassment when these characters clown is harder to read in prose than as manga, lmao. But it's also a really quick read and I'll get through. It's mostly slice-of-life set between events around idk vol 6 of the manga or so.
2. What have you recently finished reading?
- Haikyu vol. 30 - 33 by Haruichi Furudate: the Big Dramatic Match against a team I didn't care about was engaging. the Big Dramatic Match against another team with characters I actually know, on the other hand, is less so. I don't want to see either team lose, sigh.
- Replay by Saki Tsukahara: modern BL about baseball players. I hate "give up your awesome dream you are actually good enough to accomplish for ~love~" in all my media, this one included. why doesn't the other guy keep playing baseball instead, huh?
- Fire Force vol. 5 by Atsushi Ohkubo: keeps being what it is but the plot is kinda interesting
- George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl: in an effort to get my son reading more long-form prose, we're reading together. I remember loving this book when I was like 9 but not remembering anything else at all about it (despite having read it multiple times) and man. I was a weird kid.
- Acid Town vol. 5 by Kyugo: there's only one more volume after this, and the story is incomplete, and sigh
- Sakamoto Days vol. 3 by Yuto Suzuki: continues to be good fun. I like how their found family of "weirdo assassins who don't fit in elsewhere but will still totally murder people" keeps growing.
- The Man Who Shattered My World by Osamu Moriya: tried too hard to play the weird manipulative extremely dubcon as romantic.
3. What will you read next?
I've really gotta tackle my (physical) library borrows of manga and graphic novels, so I'll probably focus on that aside from the novels? And I've got a couple Libby loans due within 7 days - The Science of Ghosts by Lilah Sturges and El Garing, and vol. 14 of Yona of the Dawn by Mizuho Kusanagi. I need to finish What Fresh Hell is This, as it's due in 7 days, so between that and the Kaiju No. 8 thing I probably won't start a new novel, but if I do, I'm finally about to circle back to Babel by R. F. Kuang.
