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1. What are you currently reading?

• Don't You Like Me vol. 1 by Lv Tian Yi: it's fine but it's on hold because...
• The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter vol. 3 by Yatsuki Wakatsu: yeah, volume 3. I might be mainlining this light novel juuuuust a little. 
• 盗墓笔记 vol. 2 by 南派三叔

2. What have you recently finished reading?

• Into the Split by Tris Lawrence: I don't usually count work reading for these but I just reread the entire novel in 3 days to do my final "clean-up" edit and damn it, I'm counting that. (reread)
• The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter vol. 1 and 2 by Yatsuki Wakatsu: yeah I read two novels in four days, which is a lot for me. Vol. 1 is already covered by what I'd seen of the anime, vol. 2 focuses on the church stuff, and there's nothing deep going on here but, much like the anime, I'm just enjoying it. It's like eating candy, if by candy we mean mlm fuck-or-die fantasy isekai.
• Apple and Honey vol. 1 by Hideyoshico: I'd accidentally already read vol. 2 a while ago and I liked it so here we are. It was fine, I liked the parts about the same characters, the side story was okay but more bittersweet than I was in the mood for.
• Vampeerz vol. 1 by Akili: wlw with an interesting premise, but a lot's unanswered in this volume, and idk, the vibes felt off but I can't put my finger on why.
• My New Boss is Goofy vol. 1 by Dan Ichikawa: I'd heard people talk about this as BL-adjacent so I wanted to check it out. I'd also seen a chunk of the anime (including everything in this vol. 1). And yeah, it's cute, with definite BL vibes without actually being BL.
• The Way of the Househusband vol. 15 by Kousuke Oono
• Kiss the Abyss by Mu Huo Ran: I wanted to reread this so I mainlined the entire series while on the way home from visiting my mom in NYC (we took the train home) (reread)
• Moriarty the Patriot vol. 1 - 3 by Ryosuke Takeuchi: so while I was in NYC, mom decided to go with me to Kinokuniya, and she spotted this on the shelf, heard I'd liked it, and decided she wanted to read it, so she bought the first three volumes. It's been 2 years since I read them, so I reread 'um real quick before we left. It's really interesting to reread for me, because I really didn't like them the first time and was very skeptical, I didn't warm to the series until like vol. 5 or 6. But this time I loved them, now that I know what's going on. (reread)
• Murderous Lewellyn's Candelit Dinner vol. 1 - 6 by Sumnagi: mom gave me a budget of $100 at Kinokuniya. I spent half of it on the first three volumes of this, promptly reread them, then finished the rest of the series. (reread)
• That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime vol. 8 by Fuse

3. What will you read next?

Novels: I got the next volume of Apothecary Diaries on Libby, so that'll be in the mix somewhere, otherwise mostly finishing my reads-in-progress.

Graphic Novels (Physical): I still haven't read any more of my borrows from the library, oops.

Graphic Novels (Libby): I did give up on Firefly Wedding, I just couldn't muster the interest to read the second volume. Stuff due before next Wednesday is next - Northranger by Rey Terciero and How Do We Relationship? volume 2 by Tamifull