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ladybusinessI don't know how anyone else's reading is going this year, but every time I look at a book, my brain does this:
1. Wasted Talent Volume 1: We are the Engineers by Angela Melick [Top]
I picked up Wasted Talent because it was super cheap in a Comixology sale, and it... Honestly wasn't memorable. Like, "I have 'YIKES' written in my notes and no idea why" levels of not memorable. It's a diary comic of a young woman's studies to be an engineer and her first industry placement, so some of the jokes sound like in-jokes that didn't quite work out of context, and some of the art looks like it was drawn on someone's lecture notes (... Because it was.) The jokes that do land (like letting the goth punk come to work in their own clothes, or the eternal struggle of improper documentation vs weird regulations) are pretty fun, but I wouldn't say that there was enough of them that I'd recommend it.
(On closer examination, I'm pretty sure the "YIKES" was in reference to either the exploding murder squirrels, or the page that involved the words "butt pirate" while castigating someone for considering getting a cat. Which... Yeah it's a joke, but also yikes.)
[Caution warnings: jokes about suicide, alcoholism, and studying so hard you forget to eat.]
2. How to Bullet Plan by Rachel Wilkerson Millet [Top]
I picked up How to Bullet Plan on a recommendation from![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
faintdreams, because I'd tried the Ryder Caroll book and got Quite Irked at the level of "Pretentious tech bro disrupts using a notebook" going on there. (Do not get me started, okay, I have OPINIONS.) How to Bullet Plan is a short and simple introduction to bullet journalling that didn't make me twitch.
The contents aren't particularly revolutionary; if you've ever seen a blog about how someone uses their planner, or looked at the planner tag on youtube or instagram, you'll have seen a lot of the content and ideas that's in How to Bullet Plan. But I know that some people (me!) are better off with stationery nerdery that has a fixed ending-point, so that they (... I) can't spiral down into a youtube hole for three days straight. And the pictures of her notebooks/journals/assorted stationery are very soothing, so if you like snooping at people's layouts this might be for you. I will say though that reading the ebook is sometimes frustrating, because there's so many pictures. It adds a lot of friction to paging through because there'll be enormous gaps and blank pages due to how the book was laid out, and I've not figured out the exact level of zoom I need to fix that. (I'm also kinda squinting at who the intended audience is, because I feel like suggesting using an iphone box to hold washi tape is making several assumptions.)
Not gonna lie, though, my favourite part of it is the page where the author acknowledges that the pages she's showing in the book aren't what her diary actually looks like! They're fake pages with fake information in because she is being paid to make them look good. As someone whose diary is a mess of off-centre stickers and squiggly handwriting: acknowledgement that something you use every day and might need to fill in quickly doesn't need to look perfect is pretty great! A lot of the suggestions here don't work for me, but I found it a soothing read with pretty picture of stationery and that's mainly what I wanted from it!
3. A Witch's Printing Office Volume 1 by Mochinchi and Yasuhiro Miyama [Top]
A Witch's Printing Office Volume 1 is way more fanservice-y than I expected, but I honestly had a lot of fun with it! A geeky young woman accidentally ended up transported to a fantasy world, so obviously the only solution is to start a publishing company and organise the world's first spell-book Comiket. Am I here for manga about queue management, publishing, and the cat herding that is making sure that everyone's brought appropriate spells to sell? Absolutely.
I really enjoyed all of the logistics of running and hosting a convention, and the freedom that the fantasy setting gives to come up with weird magical solutions to very mundane problems! Watching knights and mages trying to figure out how to stop people using world-ending magic in the convention centre or using tactical analysis to figure out where they needed to make improvements was fun, and I found the whole manga quite amusing. ... Especially the parts that focused just on the protagonist's own publishing company and why you shouldn't accept rush jobs with no notice, because oh boy that rang some bells.
(For everyone who's had to deal with That Guy who won't stop trying to chat you up at work when you've got a line ten people deep: SOMEONE ACTUALLY TELLS HIM OFF!)
Plus, the moments between jokes where people get to be sincere about their love of magic, conventions, or giving a chance to people who might not have another opportunity to get their work out there? Warms my nerdy little heart.
The smuttier jokes missed their marks with me, and I am still rolling my eyes at bikini armour, but for the most part it's fun. As a convention-goer who's friends with convention organisers: all of the dramas feel familiar, and fantasy settings being used to show off all the work con-runners do is exactly my cup of tea.
[Caution warning: characters overworking themselves to literal (albeit temporary) death, boob plate. ... Okay convention organising/running isn't a really a WARNING but some of this is gonna ring bells]
4.The Kingdom of the Gods by In-Wan Youn, Eun-Hee Kim, and Kyung-Il Yang [Top]
Fear not, anyone who was worried that this would contain spoilers for the show Kingdom! It turns out that they're about as similar to each other as the Howl's Moving Castle books and movie are: same basic elements, but assembled completely differently. In this case, the common elements are a zombie apocalypse in Joseon-era Korea, a Crown Prince trying to do his best by his subjects, and some of the inciting events. I enjoyed The Kingdom of the Gods a lot more once I managed to mentally divorce it from Kingdom, because it felt unfair to compare the two. They're both doing very different things! What The Kingdom of the Gods is doing is honestly more like Sword of the Stranger than Kingdom; it centres on a ferociously competent swordsman who turns to banditry during a famine and accidentally discovers new meaning in his life through protecting a small child! The small child in this case is the Crown Prince, of course, who wants to find out what's happened to his people. There are magical assassins, zombies, a doctor who actually understands the plot, creepy happenings in a library... It's my sort of nonsense!
It's very gory. There is blood and rotting zombies everywhere, people's faces are ripped off like fabric – it's gross. I'm not gonna lie, there are bits that are just plain gross. But the art style is pretty good! There's a lot of line and shadow, which looks cool and really helps to set up the tension when people's silhouettes start blurring into the background, or when shadows start to look ominous.
It doesn't feel like it has an ending though. The final page is very dramatic and visually cool, but the Kingdom of the Gods doesn't answer any of the questions it raises. The pacing feels a bit weird as well, but I think that could be because I was expecting the Crown Prince to be the protagonist, when the character with an actual arc is Jae Ha, the swordsman.
The Kingdom of the Gods actually contains two stories of roughly equal length. The other one is Burning Hell, about two serial killers exiled to a deserted island who decide to devote themselves to murdering each other, and what happens when another ship arrives. I liked this story a lot less though; all of the murders (and there are a lot of murders) feel like gore for gore's sake, and the art looks a lot flatter and out of proportion. Like, the expressions and reactions are goofier and more over the top, but there wasn't really anything to hook my interest. (Plus, I'm not sure that the Loa work how the writer thinks they do, but I'm happy to be corrected!) Plus, the female character's portrayed as naive to the point of wilful obliviousness, which is weird but not particularly surprising.
What I'm saying is that Burning Hell is so-so, but I enjoyed The Kingdom of the Gods! It was worth reading for me to see where the roots of Kingdom started, and what questions from that story are being answered in the show.
[Caution warnings: gore, cannibalism, mutilation, displays of corpses, attempted human sacrifice, death of children] [This review is based on an ARC from Netgalley.]
5. Spy x Family Volume 1 by Tatsuya Endo [Top]
My initial summary of Spy x Family was "Sometimes a family is a spy and an assassin getting fake married to fly under the radar of compulsory heteronormativity with their tiny telepathic adopted daughter," which translates to "Spy x Family is absolutely bananas, but I'm here for it."
A more reasonable summary is that Twilight, a master of disguise, needs to procure a family to infiltrate a school for Spy Reasons, which are explained but honestly are just a vaguely plausible excuse for the fake family thing. (It's more sensible than the Despicable Me franchise's vaguely plausible excuse for the fake family thing, so if you coped with that, you should be fine here.) To that end, he adopts Anya from a shady orphanage, not realising that she has telepathy and an obsession with spy dramas, and asks Yor to be his fake wife, not realising that she's actually an assassin looking for a cover. As you might be able to guess, it's incredibly silly in ways that work for me. Twilight and Yors frantically trying to hide the truth about themselves (while Anya is there squeeing about how cool her new parents are) is fun! The proposal scene was ridiculous and dramatic and I absolutely adored it. The school interview – complete with traps, slapstick, and quick costume changes – makes even less sense, but I still enjoyed it. And as is tradition for fake relationships, there are points where Twilight has to choose between his new family and his mission (a bullying interviewer, judgemental coworkers, armies of spies and muscle for different factions, Anya's burning desire to play with his spy gear...) which are predictable but delicious. A lot of the humour comes from none of them quite understanding how people work and their excellent deflections, which didn't set off my embarrassment squick! I'm impressed.
I want to point out that even though I'm spending most of this review going "Oh, it's silly and slapstick and there's a lot of humour here!" the world setting is actually pretty grim. Yor's reasoning for getting fake married is that it's actively suspicious that she's not married at 27, and there's a chance that she'll be informed on to the government! The school they're trying to infiltrate insists that every family have two parents, with no excuses or exceptions allowed! Anya is a former lab subject! Like, it's not treated as a big deal in the text yet, because it's the vaguely plausible excuse for the fake family shenanigans, but the setting reads like a dystopia – or at least an extrapolation of attitudes that are still around now, anyway. My guess from the art is that this is going to come up more later, because at the point where one of your chapter covers is literally a happy family built on skeletons, you kinda have to.
But so far I really liked it! It was fun, and whether it goes down traditional fake dating routes or not, I'm here for what happens next.
[Caution warnings: authoritarian governments, bullying, child neglect, Everyone Is An Orphan] [This review is based on an ARC from Netgalley]
6. Drifting Dragons Volume 1 by Taku Kuwabara [Top]
Today in sentences I never thought I'd say: this manga has some of the most yonic dragons I have ever seen.
Let me back up a bit. Drifting Dragons is a fantasy manga that follows a crew of dragon hunters as they fly around in their airship – a draking ship – looking for dragons to hunt, kill, and butcher. To my extremely inexpert eye, they're written like a fantasy version of Japanese whalers, especially with how people have found a use for every single part of a dragon. If whaling, hunting, and/or eating meat bothers you, this manga might not be for you.
So, back to where we started. The designs of the dragons are weird and funky, in that most of the ones that appear in volume one don't look like traditional dragons from any culture I've seen. One of the first ones we meet is – according to google – visually based on sea slugs, but is the most yonic tentacle beastie I have ever seen. Which is visually cool and gross, but not what I expected from the cover. The art isn't bad, by any means – I like the texture it has! I was just somewhat thrown when they said dragon and tentacles appeared.
Apart from that, the story is running on familiar tropes – the rookie, the badass who is a potato when out of combat, the captain, the incredibly badass lady who's my favourite, the ship that's constantly on the verge of running out of money – and I don't feel like I've got a good grasp on any of the characters yet. But so far I quite enjoyed the focus on the domestic side of keeping the ship running; every chapter has a character figuring out how to cook what they've found, and gives the recipe they're using. I quite like the balance of domesticity and keeping the ship running that's going on, and the practical attitude that all of the characters have about their job, but I can see how if you were expecting a Heroic Tale About Fighting Dragons, it might throw you.
Honestly, it turns out that I have the first three volumes from a Humble Bundle sale, so I might keep going with it, but so far I'm feeling ambivalent about it. I'll see how I feel when the characters have had more time.
7. Pulp Friction by Julie Anne Lindsey [Top]
I talked about Pulp Friction atreadandburied, but the long and the short of it is that I enjoyed it a lot but didn't necessarily follow the inciting events, and I am very here for the romance now that it looks like admitting they have feelings is going to be drawn out another book.
8. Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles [Top]
I reviewed Slippery Creatures here at Lady Business! It has an angry bookseller freshly back from WWI, an aristocrat who is definitely what he seems, and a secret society racing the government to prise secrets out of them, so of course I loved it.
I will say though that since I wrote that review I have seen people raising concerns that "Shadowy global elite funds violent anarchists" is bordering on anti-semitic tropes and talking points, which I completely missed at the time. I've not seen it mentioned in other reviews yet though, so I'll bring links when I have them.
Reading goal: 24/80 (8 new this post) Prose: 7/20 Nonfiction: 3/12
Netgalley: 12/50 (3 new this post)
#ReadMyOwnDamnBooks: 9/40 (1 read this post)
#unofficialqueerafbookclub: 4/20 (1 new this post)
- Wasted Talent Volume 1: We are the Engineers by Angela Melick [Jump]
- How to Bullet Plan by Rachel Wilkerson Millet [Jump]
- A Witch's Printing Office Volume 1 by Mochinchi and Yasuhiro Miyama [Jump]
- The Kingdom of the Gods by In-Wan Youn, Eun-Hee Kim, and Kyung-Il Yang [Jump]
- Spy x Family Volume 1 by Tatsuya Endo [Jump]
- Drifting Dragons Volume 1 by Taku Kuwabara [Jump]
- Pulp Friction by Julie Anne Lindsey [Jump]
- Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles [Jump]
1. Wasted Talent Volume 1: We are the Engineers by Angela Melick [Top]
I picked up Wasted Talent because it was super cheap in a Comixology sale, and it... Honestly wasn't memorable. Like, "I have 'YIKES' written in my notes and no idea why" levels of not memorable. It's a diary comic of a young woman's studies to be an engineer and her first industry placement, so some of the jokes sound like in-jokes that didn't quite work out of context, and some of the art looks like it was drawn on someone's lecture notes (... Because it was.) The jokes that do land (like letting the goth punk come to work in their own clothes, or the eternal struggle of improper documentation vs weird regulations) are pretty fun, but I wouldn't say that there was enough of them that I'd recommend it.
(On closer examination, I'm pretty sure the "YIKES" was in reference to either the exploding murder squirrels, or the page that involved the words "butt pirate" while castigating someone for considering getting a cat. Which... Yeah it's a joke, but also yikes.)
[Caution warnings: jokes about suicide, alcoholism, and studying so hard you forget to eat.]
2. How to Bullet Plan by Rachel Wilkerson Millet [Top]
I picked up How to Bullet Plan on a recommendation from
The contents aren't particularly revolutionary; if you've ever seen a blog about how someone uses their planner, or looked at the planner tag on youtube or instagram, you'll have seen a lot of the content and ideas that's in How to Bullet Plan. But I know that some people (me!) are better off with stationery nerdery that has a fixed ending-point, so that they (... I) can't spiral down into a youtube hole for three days straight. And the pictures of her notebooks/journals/assorted stationery are very soothing, so if you like snooping at people's layouts this might be for you. I will say though that reading the ebook is sometimes frustrating, because there's so many pictures. It adds a lot of friction to paging through because there'll be enormous gaps and blank pages due to how the book was laid out, and I've not figured out the exact level of zoom I need to fix that. (I'm also kinda squinting at who the intended audience is, because I feel like suggesting using an iphone box to hold washi tape is making several assumptions.)
Not gonna lie, though, my favourite part of it is the page where the author acknowledges that the pages she's showing in the book aren't what her diary actually looks like! They're fake pages with fake information in because she is being paid to make them look good. As someone whose diary is a mess of off-centre stickers and squiggly handwriting: acknowledgement that something you use every day and might need to fill in quickly doesn't need to look perfect is pretty great! A lot of the suggestions here don't work for me, but I found it a soothing read with pretty picture of stationery and that's mainly what I wanted from it!
3. A Witch's Printing Office Volume 1 by Mochinchi and Yasuhiro Miyama [Top]
A Witch's Printing Office Volume 1 is way more fanservice-y than I expected, but I honestly had a lot of fun with it! A geeky young woman accidentally ended up transported to a fantasy world, so obviously the only solution is to start a publishing company and organise the world's first spell-book Comiket. Am I here for manga about queue management, publishing, and the cat herding that is making sure that everyone's brought appropriate spells to sell? Absolutely.
I really enjoyed all of the logistics of running and hosting a convention, and the freedom that the fantasy setting gives to come up with weird magical solutions to very mundane problems! Watching knights and mages trying to figure out how to stop people using world-ending magic in the convention centre or using tactical analysis to figure out where they needed to make improvements was fun, and I found the whole manga quite amusing. ... Especially the parts that focused just on the protagonist's own publishing company and why you shouldn't accept rush jobs with no notice, because oh boy that rang some bells.
(For everyone who's had to deal with That Guy who won't stop trying to chat you up at work when you've got a line ten people deep: SOMEONE ACTUALLY TELLS HIM OFF!)
Plus, the moments between jokes where people get to be sincere about their love of magic, conventions, or giving a chance to people who might not have another opportunity to get their work out there? Warms my nerdy little heart.
The smuttier jokes missed their marks with me, and I am still rolling my eyes at bikini armour, but for the most part it's fun. As a convention-goer who's friends with convention organisers: all of the dramas feel familiar, and fantasy settings being used to show off all the work con-runners do is exactly my cup of tea.
[Caution warning: characters overworking themselves to literal (albeit temporary) death, boob plate. ... Okay convention organising/running isn't a really a WARNING but some of this is gonna ring bells]
4.The Kingdom of the Gods by In-Wan Youn, Eun-Hee Kim, and Kyung-Il Yang [Top]
Fear not, anyone who was worried that this would contain spoilers for the show Kingdom! It turns out that they're about as similar to each other as the Howl's Moving Castle books and movie are: same basic elements, but assembled completely differently. In this case, the common elements are a zombie apocalypse in Joseon-era Korea, a Crown Prince trying to do his best by his subjects, and some of the inciting events. I enjoyed The Kingdom of the Gods a lot more once I managed to mentally divorce it from Kingdom, because it felt unfair to compare the two. They're both doing very different things! What The Kingdom of the Gods is doing is honestly more like Sword of the Stranger than Kingdom; it centres on a ferociously competent swordsman who turns to banditry during a famine and accidentally discovers new meaning in his life through protecting a small child! The small child in this case is the Crown Prince, of course, who wants to find out what's happened to his people. There are magical assassins, zombies, a doctor who actually understands the plot, creepy happenings in a library... It's my sort of nonsense!
It's very gory. There is blood and rotting zombies everywhere, people's faces are ripped off like fabric – it's gross. I'm not gonna lie, there are bits that are just plain gross. But the art style is pretty good! There's a lot of line and shadow, which looks cool and really helps to set up the tension when people's silhouettes start blurring into the background, or when shadows start to look ominous.
It doesn't feel like it has an ending though. The final page is very dramatic and visually cool, but the Kingdom of the Gods doesn't answer any of the questions it raises. The pacing feels a bit weird as well, but I think that could be because I was expecting the Crown Prince to be the protagonist, when the character with an actual arc is Jae Ha, the swordsman.
The Kingdom of the Gods actually contains two stories of roughly equal length. The other one is Burning Hell, about two serial killers exiled to a deserted island who decide to devote themselves to murdering each other, and what happens when another ship arrives. I liked this story a lot less though; all of the murders (and there are a lot of murders) feel like gore for gore's sake, and the art looks a lot flatter and out of proportion. Like, the expressions and reactions are goofier and more over the top, but there wasn't really anything to hook my interest. (Plus, I'm not sure that the Loa work how the writer thinks they do, but I'm happy to be corrected!) Plus, the female character's portrayed as naive to the point of wilful obliviousness, which is weird but not particularly surprising.
What I'm saying is that Burning Hell is so-so, but I enjoyed The Kingdom of the Gods! It was worth reading for me to see where the roots of Kingdom started, and what questions from that story are being answered in the show.
[Caution warnings: gore, cannibalism, mutilation, displays of corpses, attempted human sacrifice, death of children] [This review is based on an ARC from Netgalley.]
5. Spy x Family Volume 1 by Tatsuya Endo [Top]
My initial summary of Spy x Family was "Sometimes a family is a spy and an assassin getting fake married to fly under the radar of compulsory heteronormativity with their tiny telepathic adopted daughter," which translates to "Spy x Family is absolutely bananas, but I'm here for it."
A more reasonable summary is that Twilight, a master of disguise, needs to procure a family to infiltrate a school for Spy Reasons, which are explained but honestly are just a vaguely plausible excuse for the fake family thing. (It's more sensible than the Despicable Me franchise's vaguely plausible excuse for the fake family thing, so if you coped with that, you should be fine here.) To that end, he adopts Anya from a shady orphanage, not realising that she has telepathy and an obsession with spy dramas, and asks Yor to be his fake wife, not realising that she's actually an assassin looking for a cover. As you might be able to guess, it's incredibly silly in ways that work for me. Twilight and Yors frantically trying to hide the truth about themselves (while Anya is there squeeing about how cool her new parents are) is fun! The proposal scene was ridiculous and dramatic and I absolutely adored it. The school interview – complete with traps, slapstick, and quick costume changes – makes even less sense, but I still enjoyed it. And as is tradition for fake relationships, there are points where Twilight has to choose between his new family and his mission (a bullying interviewer, judgemental coworkers, armies of spies and muscle for different factions, Anya's burning desire to play with his spy gear...) which are predictable but delicious. A lot of the humour comes from none of them quite understanding how people work and their excellent deflections, which didn't set off my embarrassment squick! I'm impressed.
I want to point out that even though I'm spending most of this review going "Oh, it's silly and slapstick and there's a lot of humour here!" the world setting is actually pretty grim. Yor's reasoning for getting fake married is that it's actively suspicious that she's not married at 27, and there's a chance that she'll be informed on to the government! The school they're trying to infiltrate insists that every family have two parents, with no excuses or exceptions allowed! Anya is a former lab subject! Like, it's not treated as a big deal in the text yet, because it's the vaguely plausible excuse for the fake family shenanigans, but the setting reads like a dystopia – or at least an extrapolation of attitudes that are still around now, anyway. My guess from the art is that this is going to come up more later, because at the point where one of your chapter covers is literally a happy family built on skeletons, you kinda have to.
But so far I really liked it! It was fun, and whether it goes down traditional fake dating routes or not, I'm here for what happens next.
[Caution warnings: authoritarian governments, bullying, child neglect, Everyone Is An Orphan] [This review is based on an ARC from Netgalley]
6. Drifting Dragons Volume 1 by Taku Kuwabara [Top]
Today in sentences I never thought I'd say: this manga has some of the most yonic dragons I have ever seen.
Let me back up a bit. Drifting Dragons is a fantasy manga that follows a crew of dragon hunters as they fly around in their airship – a draking ship – looking for dragons to hunt, kill, and butcher. To my extremely inexpert eye, they're written like a fantasy version of Japanese whalers, especially with how people have found a use for every single part of a dragon. If whaling, hunting, and/or eating meat bothers you, this manga might not be for you.
So, back to where we started. The designs of the dragons are weird and funky, in that most of the ones that appear in volume one don't look like traditional dragons from any culture I've seen. One of the first ones we meet is – according to google – visually based on sea slugs, but is the most yonic tentacle beastie I have ever seen. Which is visually cool and gross, but not what I expected from the cover. The art isn't bad, by any means – I like the texture it has! I was just somewhat thrown when they said dragon and tentacles appeared.
Apart from that, the story is running on familiar tropes – the rookie, the badass who is a potato when out of combat, the captain, the incredibly badass lady who's my favourite, the ship that's constantly on the verge of running out of money – and I don't feel like I've got a good grasp on any of the characters yet. But so far I quite enjoyed the focus on the domestic side of keeping the ship running; every chapter has a character figuring out how to cook what they've found, and gives the recipe they're using. I quite like the balance of domesticity and keeping the ship running that's going on, and the practical attitude that all of the characters have about their job, but I can see how if you were expecting a Heroic Tale About Fighting Dragons, it might throw you.
Honestly, it turns out that I have the first three volumes from a Humble Bundle sale, so I might keep going with it, but so far I'm feeling ambivalent about it. I'll see how I feel when the characters have had more time.
7. Pulp Friction by Julie Anne Lindsey [Top]
I talked about Pulp Friction at
readandburied, but the long and the short of it is that I enjoyed it a lot but didn't necessarily follow the inciting events, and I am very here for the romance now that it looks like admitting they have feelings is going to be drawn out another book.8. Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles [Top]
I reviewed Slippery Creatures here at Lady Business! It has an angry bookseller freshly back from WWI, an aristocrat who is definitely what he seems, and a secret society racing the government to prise secrets out of them, so of course I loved it.
I will say though that since I wrote that review I have seen people raising concerns that "Shadowy global elite funds violent anarchists" is bordering on anti-semitic tropes and talking points, which I completely missed at the time. I've not seen it mentioned in other reviews yet though, so I'll bring links when I have them.
Currently Reading
- The Way of the Househusband Volume 3 by Kousuke Oonu — I usually enjoy the silliness of "former yakuza attempts to live a normal life" but it got to him being Santa and I had to nope out. Couldn't do it.
- The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant — ... No, seriously, I am intrigued by the premise but my brain got to "Oh no, the poor baby has put so much effort into being safe and she's about to undo it all with one request" and had to stop, because I can't read suddenly.
Reading Goals
Reading goal: 24/80 (8 new this post) Prose: 7/20 Nonfiction: 3/12
Netgalley: 12/50 (3 new this post)
#ReadMyOwnDamnBooks: 9/40 (1 read this post)
#unofficialqueerafbookclub: 4/20 (1 new this post)
