WWW Wednesday

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1. What are you currently reading?

• Chicago Manual of Style 18th Ed.: I'm participating in an online conference this week, and one aspect of it was setting a personal goal, and so I opted for this one, which I've been procrastinating. I wanted to really dig in and read the parts related to the work I do, cause if there's stuff I'm doing wrong that I think I'm doing right, I won't think to check it normally. So far, I'm still in the "how to format and publish things" sections and feeling pretty validated lmao. (it's over 1100 pages long, I've read most of the first 100, only skipping some parts about journal formatting that is irrelevant to me.)
• 盗墓笔记 vol. 2 by 南派三叔: pick, pick, picking away

2. What have you recently finished reading?

• Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell: I was absolutely adoring this until the last 100 pages or so, when things went off the rails for me. Oh well. It was still a decent book.
• Kisses That Taste Like Lies vol. 1 - 3 by Waka Sagami: this has absolutely terrible reviews on Storygraph and I have no idea why, I think it's a pretty good toxic yaoi con man x his mark, and much less toxic than it could be considering how quickly the mark finds out and how thoroughly the mark decides he doesn't care and wants whatever he can get.
• Pizza Witch by Stef Purenins and Sarah Graley: this was very cute but would have been better if there'd been any indication before the last page that it's not the entire story.
• Yuri Espoir vol. 3 by Mai Naoi: some of the vibes related to her forced fiance trouble me, but then, she's the main character, not him, so I guess it can't be helped.
• A Gentle Noble's Vacation Recommendation manga vol. 6 by Misaki: this vol felt more episodic than the others have, which made it less interesting to me, but I'm still enjoying it overall and it still screams BL off the page despite all being technically platonics.
• That Time I Got Recinarnated as a Slime manga vol. 12 by Taiki Kawakami: oh, I don't remember THAT happening in the anime. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention??? I should go back and check lmao.

For work, I also finished a read-through of my own novel, A Glimmer of Hope, that I started in January. With it cleaned up, we can move on to re-issuing it. I sold a few copies during our most recent Kickstarter so getting the new version done became a pretty high priority. 

3. What will you read next?

Novels: Dawning by Ice, a modern danmei in three volumes. I'd have started already if not for the CMoS reading this week.

Physical Graphic Novels (from the library): Lovely Recipe by Myra Rose Nino is next on my pile.

E-Book Graphic Novels (from Libby): Just Like Mona Lisa vol. 4 by Tsumiji Yoshimura and Yona of the Dawn vol. 29 by Mizuho Kusanagi are both due before next Wednesday, and Gachiakuta vol. 4 by Kei Urana and Hideyoshi Ando is due in 8 days, so I expect to read those this week, but tbh I'll probably read Witch Hat Aterlier vol. 14 by Kamome Shirahama first because I'm just so excited to have finally gotten my hands on it, lol.