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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 100 out of 178 pages.

Gakuen Prince 2 - Jun Yuzuki

I'm finally getting back to this.

 

Surprisingly, the author has managed to set up a potential love interest for Rise who doesn't suck. This, as it turns out, was not exactly part of the plan. There's an author's note at this point in the volume where the author is literally begging readers to root for Azusa (the series' supposed actual love interest) more than Akamaru (the accidental better love interest).

 

I have a feeling Jun Yuzuki gives her editors ulcers. Earlier in the volume, she included a couple examples of her rough drafts, as well as a list of comments she often gets:

 

"I can't tell who's who. And I can't read your writing."

"Can't tell who's who, and I also can't figure out what they're doing."

"I mean, it's indecipherable."

"I have no idea what's happening until the final draft is sent to us."