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Jun. 10th, 2026 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
duckprintspressugggh I had a truly overwhelming number of Libby holds come in over a really short period of time and hardly got any reading done (by my standards) because I've been so fucking busy.
1. What are you currently reading?
- Twittering Birds Never Fly vol. 1 by Kou Yoneda: a BL manga that shouldn't actually have taken me two days but that's life right now I guess. It's suitably toxic and angsty but there are some weird jumps, sometimes it feels like pages are missing, that's how abruptly the scene will change.
I didn't make any progress on Paper Girls but I'm gonna try to finish it today. I'm still plugging away at DMBJ, but I realized it's 20 pages longer than I thought it was which means I won't finish it this month and that took the wind out of my sails a little. I'll still finish it next month, but.
2. What have you recently finished reading?
- Lout of Count's Family vol. 8 by Yu Ryeo-Han: we finally started getting Kim Roksu backstory yaaaaaas
- In the Twilight of Our Adolescence by Waka Hayashi: modern BL with a pre-relationship GL secondary story. I liked this both more and less than I expected, more because I was kinda worried about the youth of the characters but it was actually pretty sweet and quite well written, less because it was actually three short stories in one volume and the last didn't feel like it went with the other two at all (it was still good! just incongruous).
- Marriagetoxin vol. 2 by Joumyaku and Mizuki Yoda: ...my hold on vol. 2 came in before my hold on vol. 1 I actually think I like the anime better, idk, something about Gero feels more charming when you can hear his awkwardness oozing off the animation. But I still liked it.
- Just Like Mona Lisa vol. 6: still waiting to really like this series and it's still not happening, but apparently there are only two more volumes of the main story (then two volumes of extras) so I guess I'll stick it out.
yep, that's it.
3. What will you read next?
Apparently, a fuckton of things on Libby, cause I have 15 loans right now, siiiiigh. Taproot by Keezy Young is definitely next. For the physical library loans I really really need to finish Paper Girls so I'm not looking past that.
tbh I doubt I'll start a new novel until I pare these piles down.
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Date: 2026-06-11 12:25 pm (UTC)I discovered yesterday that my Libby libraries only have vol. 1 and 2, I'm just gonna have to hope they get more.
Have you read the manga Acid Town? I feel like it has similar vibes in some respects. It's incomplete at six volumes and I suspect it's abandoned, but I still enjoyed it.
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Date: 2026-06-12 05:41 am (UTC)Quoting one of the reviews:
And yes, I've read Acid Town!
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Date: 2026-06-12 12:31 pm (UTC)dare I ask, does Twittering Birds have a happy ending?
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Date: 2026-06-12 12:54 pm (UTC)It's not finished yet. You're gonna have to wait with the rest of us and hope it doesn't get dropped xD
... While hai no tsuki does have a full translation, I would recommend not starting with that title from Konohara-sensei because from what I read, it's A LOT. And I can't guarantee it has a HE (and her HEs are usually bittersweet in taste or just outright bitter xD). Her best "tamer" works are Hako no Naka, and Utsukushii Koto. I love both of them!
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Date: 2026-06-12 02:32 pm (UTC)and that's all good to know, thank you!!! I can handle an unhappy ending or bittersweet but I do like to know to expect that going in. :D