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Familiar Diversions

I'm a librarian who loves anime, manga, and reading a wide variety of genres.

Currently reading

How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, Vol. 1
Dojyomaru, Fuyuyuki, Sean McCann
Progress: 103/374 pages
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
Progress: 424/470 minutes
Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Progress: 184/184 pages
Parental Guidance
Avery Flynn
Progress: 40 %
An Offer From a Gentleman
Julia Quinn
Progress: 102/358 pages
The Twisted Ones
T. Kingfisher
Progress: 385/385 pages
Educated
Tara Westover
Progress: 315/730 minutes
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Vol. 2
Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka
Progress: 24/171 pages
Graphic Medicine Manifesto
MK Czerwiec, Kimberly R. Myers, Scott T. Smith, Michael J. Green, Susan Merrill Squier, Ian Williams
Progress: 26/172 pages
Ao Oni: Mutation
Kenji Kuroda, Karin Suzuragi, Alexander Keller-Nelson
Progress: 30/152 pages

Reading progress update: I've read 150 out of 152 pages.

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Vol. 1 (light novel) - Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka, Shirley Yeung

There's an interview with the translator at the end. Here she addresses one of the things about this book that she disliked:

 

"While the different perspectives from the various characters were somewhat helpful in fleshing everyone out, the repetition really does have a tendency to drive me insane. I would like to see less of that in the future."

 

Oof, yes. I suspect third-person POV could have cured a lot of this, but for some reason it's rare to find third-person POV Japanese light novels.

 

Despite its enormous problems, however, I enjoyed this book and will likely buy a credit for the next one rather than wait for the one credit to get added to my account on the 15th. If I continue at this rate, I'll have read through this entire series before I even get that credit. I wish I had a week or two off just for reading.