WWW Wednesday

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1. What are you currently reading?

• Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault: I finally started! only two months behind our read-along, lmao. I read three chapters yesterday, and so far it's fine though it hasn't particularly grabbed me.

2. What have you recently finished reading?

• Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle: pretty in line with his other two horror novels. I liked it well enough! The existential themes spoke to my own struggles with the nature and importance (or lack there of) of existing.
• Girl Friends vol. 2 by Milk Morinaga: I didn't like this one either; I've decided not to keep reading this. The mc is just so insanely insecure and bad at communicating.
• The Glass Scientists vol. 3 by S. H. Cotugno: grabbed this the instant I saw it was available on Libby on Christmas morning and read it about as fast. I wish that the short story at the end had been more graphic novel instead, but other than that I'm pretty satisfied with this conclusion.
• That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime manga vol. 3 by Fuse
• The Way of the Househusband vol. 14 by Kousuke Oono
• Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation manhua vol. 12 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
• Never Let Go vol. 3 by Saki Sakimoto: cute conclusion to this omegaverse bl.
• 铜钱龛世 manhua vol. 1 by Mu Su Li: oh man all the weird Buddhism and Fengshui related vocabulary made this harder than it shoulda been. I'm glad I've read it before. 
• Dinosaur Sanctuary vol. 6 by Itaru Kinoshita
• Gachiakuta vol. 1 by Kei Urana: latest in my "what shounen is popular these days" reading. Interesting start.
• Dandadan vol. 5 - 7 by Yukinobu Tatsu: I've also been watching the anime and my daughter keeps coming in to see what I'm watching and so I'm like, "are you wondering what it's about?" and she nodded, so I told her, "it's about a girl who believes in spirits but doesn't think aliens are real, and a boy who thinks aliens are real but doesn't believe in spirits, and how they both find out they're wrong because both things exist, and both want to steal the boy's penis" and the look she gave me and the way Lisa laughed. 
• Inside Mari vol. 1 by Shuzo Oshimi: I didn't realize til I was done with the volume that this was by the same author as Welcome Back, Alice which I found iffy enough that I didn't keep reading after vol. 1 but it was. interesting. Especially the author's afterword, which pretty clearly indicates "he" is actually a trans woman who just hasn't quite come to terms with it yet (I'm not projecting, I actually find "egg" discussion really uncomfortable most of the time, but the author literally says things like "have you ever wished you were a woman? not dressing like one or acting like one, but actually being one? I wish that all the time and it'll never happen and that's so depressing." I hope he's able to transition sometime.)
• Sakamoto Days vol. 16 by Yuto Suzuki
• Sweet or Bitter Love by Conro: weird and uncomfortable modern BL that didn't see like any of its plot threads to logical conclusions. Do not recommend.

3. What will you read next?

Novels: I ended up requeueing for A Drop of Corruption because I didn't think I could finish it in time, and now I'm 5 weeks back in the hold line again. I did a little reorganization on my physical novel TBR pile; I expect to (f.i.n.a.l.l.y.) read The City We Became and The World We Made by N. K. Jemisin next.

Physical library loans: none at the moment!

Libby loans: Failed Princess vol. 1 by Ajiichi is due in six days, so definitely that. Otherwise, I've got some leeway, I'll pick whatever of these catches my eye.