WWW Wednesday

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1. What are you currently reading?

• Lout of Count's Family vol. 7 by Yu Ryeo-Han: I did not know this was coming out yesterday until I got the e-mail that my pre-order arrived. I have already read a quarter of it. 
• 盗墓笔记 vol. 2 by 南派三叔

2. What have you recently finish reading?

• The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter vol. 3 by Yatsuki Wakatsu: pretty satisfying finish. Apparently there IS another volume coming out in Japan later this month...
• Don't You Like Me vol. 1 by Lv Tian Yi: they're finally together thank god.
• Northranger by Bre Indigo and Rey Terciero: kinda weird but kinda interesting modern mlm about two high school students in conservative parts of Texas. Explores the horror of homophobia with... literal horror, like extensive use of horror tropes. I'm not sure it quite worked, since so much could have been solved if any of the characters just used their dang words.
• I read three children's books for the National Day of reading, tho I'd read them all before. All have trans/NB/GNC vibes: Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love, What Are Your Words by Katherine Locke, and Red: A Crayon's Story by Michael Hall.
• A.N.A.L.: Paradise at 30,000 Feet by Kei Azumaya: a modern gay thing (it's not exactly mlm, cause it has no central relationship) with exactly one (1) joke about All Nippon Air Line's name, which it then spends 200 pages beating to death.
• West Hollywood Monster Squad by Sina Grace: I liked the characters in this queer story (including a couple gay men, a trans woman who is a drag queen, and a f/nb relationship) but the ultimate lesson I think would have worked better if the villain had been someone more like JKR.
• How Do We Relationship vol. 2 by Tamifull: still can't quite decide if I actually like this or not. The focus on jealousy this volume was annoying. Why is jealousy such a common theme of the GL manga I read???
• Yona of the Dawn vol. 22 and 23 by Mizuho Kusanagi: so I started vol. 23, was like wait none of this is familiar wtf is going on, realized I'd accidentally skipped vol. 22, went back, and here I am.

3. What will you read next?

Novels: Lout of Count's Family threw a wrench in my plans, but I've still got the next volume of Apothecary Diaries due imminently, so that, then Don't You Like Me vol. 2.

Graphic Novels (Physical): the last volume of the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation manhua (vol. 13) came out yesterday, so I'll read that now that I have it, and then Sleepless Domain vol. 1 by Oscar Vega and Mary Cagle is my next library book.

Graphic Novels (Libby): I have so much due in the next week, oops: Love and Gravity by Ari North, SHWD episode 3 by sono.N, Just Like Mona Lisa vol. 1 by Tsumuji Yoshimura, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol. 9 by Fuse, and A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow vol. 6 by Makoto Hagino.