Familiar Diversions
I'm a librarian who loves anime, manga, and reading a wide variety of genres.
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Shopping spree plus ILL
Do I need more books? No. Do I have room for more books? Eh, not really. But I got some more anyway.
I'm posting images because most of these are new enough that I'd probably have to add them to Booklikes, and I don't have the patience for that right now.
First, the one ILL book I just got. Not a purchase, and therefore not something I have to find shelf space for. Yay!
A post on Booklikes reminded me of the existence of the Manga Classics series, and I realized that I have yet to actually read one. I own the Scarlet Letter one, but I haven't read the book on which it's based, so I decided to put in an interlibrary loan request for one where I've read the original work. It's been a few years, but I'm hoping I'll remember enough to be able to tell how good of an adaptation it is.
Manga in which feral cats are occasionally depicted like human thugs. So you have turf wars with tough guys and then occasional switches to cute kitties trying to squeeze into boxes or convince humans to give them food. Or weird humans trying to squeeze into boxes.
More manga. An impulse purchase because the title amused me. I've flipped through it, and it seems a little more angsty than I expected. Since the heroine's mother would have preferred her to end up with a guy, she does not, in fact, shut up.
My manga collection has almost no yuri (f/f) in it, so this and the previous one were an effort to branch out a bit.
My next area of shopping concentration: light novels, with a particular concentration on ones by women (as best as I could determine).
The heroine is considered gifted in school but, as a result, doesn't have anything even vaguely resembling a social life. When she dies, she requests to be reborn as someone with average abilities. Apparently this doesn't go at all like she planned.
I haven't seen the anime because, in the clips I've seen, the heroine always looks an awful lot like a pouting and/or angry child. I think she's actually supposed to be a high school student? Supposedly this is one of the better light novels available in English. I'm willing to give it a shot.
The heroine is under some kind of curse that requires regular ingestion of bodily fluids (blood, spit, etc.) from humans of the opposite sex. It sounds terrible. Here's hoping it's the entertaining kind of terrible.
This and the one right above it are published by the same publisher, Cross Infinite World. Guys, I found a unicorn: a publisher of English translations of light novels that doesn't DRM their e-books. The prices are higher than I'd like, and paper versions allow me to donate or sell them whereas e-books don't, so I'll still prefer their paper editions over e-books, but it's nice to know that I can at least consider getting their e-book-only works.
This is a twist on the "fantasy school" genre. In this case, yes, there's magic, but the school is focused on curing magical diseases. And of course the heroine is surrounded by good-looking guys who join her disease research team.
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