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hokaaaay I'm having surgery tomorrow so the last thing I'm gonna be thinking about is WWW Wednesday, so I'm doing mine a day early. I also read a lot, because I was trying to get through all my physical library books and any Libby borrows with imminent due dates, so I wouldn't have to worry about that either. 

1. What are you currently reading?

• Twittering Birds Never Fly vol. 2 by Kou Yoneda: this is the only due-imminently Libby borrow I didn't finish. I need to get through it today.
• The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson: I read one (1) page while waiting for a doctor's appointment. 

I read significantly less DMBJ than usual this week, I've just been stupidly busy. 

2. What have you recently finished reading?

• Saiyuki vol. 3 by Kazuya Minekura
• Millennium Darling 2006 by Maki Naruto: unusually mediocre BL short story collection. I guess it's based on some anime somewhere? and the manga contained absolutely nothing to make me care about these characters, like, it def read as "for people already invested" and was utterly pointless.
• Murderous Lewellyn's Candlelit Dinner vol. 1 by Sumnagi: reread because I got my physical releases of vol. 4 and 5. I wanted to reread them all but didn't have time, sigh.
• I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl vol. 1 by Kashikaze: modern HS yuri off to a cute, if slightly toxic, start.
• I Wanna Be Your Girl vol. 2 and 3 by Umi Takase: all the things I had reservations about after vol. 1 got directly addressed. I'm really enjoying this series, and the fourth is the last and I'm looking forward to it.
• Oshi no Ko vol. 1 by Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari: okay, I'm hooked.
• A Bite of Pepper by Balazs Lorinczi: modern story that is supposedly f/f but they read more like friends, but the world is queernormative about wlw so that's something (like, the mc is definitely wlw). Mediocre, the worst of the three I've read by this author; lots of bad communication, very little making up for it afterwards.
• Under Kingdom by Christof Bogacs: very confusing art style. m/m side relationship. Clearly a volume 1 except I don't see any sign that there's more. I did like the worldbuilding, though.
• SideQuested vol. 1 by K. B. Spangler: this was an absolutely adorable and enjoyable fantasy story that's clearly working toward f/f.
• Happy of the End vol. 1 by Ogeretsu Tanaka: one of the better volumes of fucked-up modern BL I've read recently, interested to see where its going.

3. What will you read next?

Whatever post-operation me has the brain for, but presumably I'll focus on The Raven Scholar. I have no physical library loans rn, and the only Libby loan I have due in less than a week, I already started reading.