WWW Wednesday

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1. What are you currently reading?

• I'm still on pause on The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin and The Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault, tho I expect to resume The Baker Thief today, as I've only got about a week left on my current Libby borrow.
• 盗墓笔记 by 南派三叔
• Cooking with Monsters: The Beginner's Guide to Culinary Combat vol. 1 by Jordan Alsaqa and Vivian Truong: started this yesterday, it's fine but the pacing seems very slow, I wonder how long it'll end up being. It's definitely queer - there's an NB character and pronoun sharing - but I'm not sure beyond that yet. Otherwise, it's what it says on the tin, they're going to culinary-combat school to fight and kill and cook monsters.

2. What have you recently finished reading?

• The Apothecary Diaries light novel vol. 2 and 3 by Natsu Hyuuga: I haven't given up yet lmao. I think it's that when it's good it's really good but other times it drags. Anyway, I've got a hold on vol. 4.
• Spy x Family vol. 15 by Tatsuya Endo
• A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow vol. 4 by Makoto Hagino: a little more happened than in last volume, I think we're actually inching toward a relationship now...
• Entangled Circumstances by Kikuko Kikuya: decent modern BL one shot. Era-typical pressuring the bottom for sex but I expect that.
• Flip by Ngozi Ukazu: this was interesting, if not what I expected. Based on stuff I thought it would have trans allegory stuff, but it was much more focused on race than gender.
• Return of the Prince by Junko: I'd give so much for these BL volumes to be clearer about when they're one-shots versus when they're short story collections, sigh.
• That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime manga vol. 7 by Fuse

3. What will you read next?

Novels: I've got A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett on Libby, so that. Gotta get through all the books I borrowed before they run out.

Physical Graphic Novels: next on my new from-the-library pile is It Rhymes with Takei by George Takei and others.

Libby Graphic Novels/Manga: I've got a couple due within the next week: Killer Queens by David M. Booher and Kase-san and Shortcake by Hiromi Takashima, so I'll start with those and go from there I guess.