Familiar Diversions
I'm a librarian who loves anime, manga, and reading a wide variety of genres.
Currently reading
Reading progress update: I've read 54 out of 140 pages.
I need to stop buying paper books, or I'm going to end up buried in them. I don't really have a lot of room for more unless I start offloading, and even if places are taking them right now (I think my library is currently accepting gifts still), I don't feel comfortable giving piles of my books to places right now.
So anyway, this was part of a recent order inspired by a Right Stuf review blog post. I'm not a fan of the artwork at all, but it's turning out to be sweet. An older lady named Ichinoi stops by a bookstore and picks up a manga with a cover she likes, figuring it would be like the manga of her younger days. It actually turns out to be BL (boys' love) manga - in this case, not the raunchy stuff, but the sweeter and more romantic stuff. She gets hooked and goes back to the store for more volumes, attracting the attention of one of the employees, a female high school student who badly wants to make friends but who doesn't know how to start socializing with people at school. It's looking like she'll have found both a friend and a reading buddy in Ichinoi.
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