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Finished today and it was SO GOOD! I really enjoyed it! It took a turn there at the end that I was not expecting, but I kinda loved it. Lol. And Jo, you are so right! Mysteries are good for buddy reading because I wish I could talk about the craziness that went on! Lol.

I was planning on starting , but unfortunately it's still on its way from the library. Hopefully it will get here before my mood decides it doesn't want to read it anymore. Lol.

Meanwhile, I started on . I'm only about 50 pages in, but so far so good! I am intrigued.

Awesome that is good to hear that it was such a good read!

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Just finished, overall I¡¯m pleasantly surprised. It contained more dramatic turns than I expected but it made the story feel more real.

I finished quite some books since I have to take the train to college and read between classes.

I rated this one star 'cause I felt like a lot was missing and could use some proper editing, but for a debut story I think it was okay.

Also rated this one star even though I enjoyed reading it. There are too many harmful things in it which should be called out in my opinion. I wrote quite a long review about it in case anyone wonders why I think it's harmful.

This isn't a book I'd normally read but I cried throughout the whole story and I think deserves so much more attention because it is absolutely beautiful.

I finished the whole trilogy and I loved it even though I think the writing was quite messy. I saw a lot of people reading this so I had to give it a go and I'm glad I did.

Right now I'm reading and I finished the two previous books a few days ago. I'm also still reading but since this one is way too heavy to bring with me to college, I'm not making a lot of progress in it. I hope I'm able to finish it before the year ends.

Gwen sorry you had a few rough books there but glad you are getting some reading time!

I finished and started

I finished my 84th book

I finished my 85th book

@Brittany @Jo I'll join you on BR for A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.

As for my weekly update... I've been mostly reading romantic stories and soon going to switch back to fantasy and sci-fi.

- it was cute and festive but not my favourite.
- also cute and lots of food there but again not my favourite :)
- this was a surprise! I usually don't like books featuring sports but this one is special. Loved it!
- Surprisingly good! It's short, it's LGBT, it's asian, it has the palace setting, what could be better? This is my book of the week.

I've read the first one but need to read Good Girl, Bad Blood hoping to do so before the end of the year

Yeah same, Elena, we're both wanting to read the sequel .

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How was it? It's on my list but since I love the show I'm not sure if I want to read the book ?

Time for that weekly update and I have a lot to talk about this week.

-3 Stars
This was a collection of short stories set in the Peculiar universe and it wasn't bad. A lot of the stories had a moral to them as it was meant to be a primary for young peculiars. It made me want to go back and read the series again.

-4 Stars
Overall not a lot happened in this one as it was mostly prep work for the upcoming big event. Maple gains a bunch of new skills, the Maple Tree guild is started, new members are recruited. It's all set up for the big event coming up and I can't wait to read that. I watched the anime and it was glorious and can't wait to see what the source material was like.

-5 Stars
This is the audiobook I've been working on this month during my morning walks and I've been waiting to gush about this for a bit now. I've dabbled in audiobooks before and never with much success. I could never focus on them and I just never saw the appeal of them. This was the first audiobook where I was like "Oh, I see the appeal now". This book really helped motivate me to go out for my walks. For me it was no longer about the walk it was just more time I got to spend with this book. Story wise this is a nice mix of a cold case murder mystery, horror elements, and action adventure. They were all blended into this interesting mix that made for a compelling story. If I had to nitpick something I would have like some more world building but that is a minor nitpick. Then we get to the narration and the audiobook aspect of it. The narration added to the whole experience and just elevated the book. First the narrator had a nice British accent, or what sounded like one to my inexperienced ears, that worked with the British setting. There was voices for the various characters but I never felt like the narrator went to far or was to over the top with them. I'd say there was one voice that I wasn't an immediate fan of but I warmed up to it pretty quickly. What really sold me though was the little touches that the narrator added to the voices. If the book described a character talking with a growl in their voice, the narrator would add that. Early on there was a scene with Lucy talking in a singsong voice and the narrator did it as well and it really sold me on it. The quality of everything just compelled me to keep listening. I wish I could say the same about my current book but that is a review for another day.

-3 Stars
This was a Halloween buddy read and it was just alright. This was the book that inspired the Hellraiser movie from 1987. I never made a connection with this book so I just never ended up caring for anyone or anything. I saw a lot of reviews talking about the level of gore and I felt it was pretty tame overall. There was definitely gore in the book but it never felt over the top or anything. Overall this just kind of felt dated.

-4 Stars
Another book in the Alex Rider series and it was a fun read. I'll be honest this was the greatest book but it was a fun adventure to read.

-3 & 4 Stars
The first volume was alright for this and had the trappings of a usual yuri manga. The biggest thing I didn't like was the genki girl. She seemed a little to oblivious to what she was saying and it felt like it was pushing the believably of things a bit to far. That was explained in the second volume and I really started warming up to the main couple during the second volume. I've now got the third hold requested from the library.

-3 Stars
This was the start of my descent into horror manga that happened yesterday. This was an alright manga. It's about a married man who plans to murder his wife on this tropical island and finds himself hunted by a monster. The art work was that heavy black style that I normally associate with Seinen manga. It's great for still shots but it can make some action shots kind of hard to track. Overall it was alright and it got me craving some good old bloody and violent manga. This leads me to...

Prison Lab Volumes 1-10 3 Stars descending into 2 Stars
I'm not going to be bothered loading all 10 volumes of this manga onto this message. Lets start with the good before I devolve into a raving mess. The art work in this was good and that was all the good. I was a bit hesitant to start this manga as I was getting some weird vibes from things. Basically this is about young male who is relentlessly bullied at school. One day he gets an invitation to participate in a captivity game where he can select one person to be held in captivity for one month and he can do what ever he wants to them with no repercussions. He of course picks the young girl who was the mastermind behind the bullying he suffered. I was really worried that this was going to devolve into some author sick fantasies about stuff he suffered and his revenge fantasies. By the end of the first volume that fear was lessened and the overall mystery of the game had sunk its hooks into me. I was really curious about why the games were happening, about the other participants, and about who was planning these games. This lead me down this dark path full of twists and turns as the story unfolded. I noticed about halfway through things that I was starting to get burnt out and I blame that on the nonstop twists and turns the series was taking. A good twist in a story is amazing but when it's nothing but constant twists and turns the shine of them starts to wear off. It starts to become less of "Wow! I didn't see that coming!" and more of "oh look someone else was lying about stuff and we have another twist...wow." This leads to the ending. I'm not going to spoil anything about the ending directly but I do not encourage anyone to read this series. I don't think this has ever received an official translation but if it does avoid this series.

The ending, oh the rage I felt after reading this ending was very real. One of the big mysteries of the series is who was the big mastermind behind everything. Now it tried real hard to misdirect you but it also fumbled the ball and dropped some pretty big hints about who it was. As a result when the big reveal happened it wasn't that much of a surprise. Instead of a mind blowing reveal it was more like a wet fart. Listen, that analogy made sense in my head at some point. Then we get the final sequence of events. There was a minor fight that got stretched out way longer than it needed to be wasting so much time at the end. Then the actual ending, supressing my rage here, was a giant failure. It essentially dropped the entire main plot line and gave us no resolution to anything. We never see how things ended for anyone involved in the game at the end. Put aside the various dropped story lines this was the worst. Then the cherry on top of all of this the final page was a cliffhanger for one of the side characters about a previous game. There was no hints that this was going on, that this was even a possibility, and honestly had no impact on the main story itself. I felt so let down by this ending. I spent nearly a full day read 10 volumes of manga, over a thousand pages of material, and that was the ending I get. To say that I am upset with that ending is a bit of an understatement.

Anyway I'm really not sure what I'm reading next. I've got a few books lined up but right now I'm just going to take a bit of a break from reading for a bit. Maybe watch some cartoons or something.

Sorry about the terrible end to your reading week Gord! Glad you loved the audiobook though! I have it queued up to start soonish.

Finished , it was very cleverly done and the plot twist I definitely didn't expect, though it was a little too slow and the characters not fleshed out enough for me. I'll be starting , which I'm really excited for, as the first book was one of my favourites of last year.

finished now I am caught back up
Starting as per Gord's recommendation

I finished my 86th book

Finished it was a fun listen.
Not sure what I am starting next on audio. Too many options!

Yes! Another successful recommendation *breaks into a happy flailing called dancing"

I¡¯ve started ace of spades

Gord wrote: "Yes! Another successful recommendation *breaks into a happy flailing called dancing""

Yeah you do pretty well on those! I didn't love it as much as you did but it was a good listen and worth my time for sure :)

Time for that weekly wrap once again

-4 Stars
Just a great feel good story about a young girl discovering that she is a witch and how that fits into her world.

-3 Stars
A reread for a buddy read and my opinion of this really hasn't changed much since I first read it. This isn't a bad book but it didn't exactly blow me away either. It's written by Jennifer Estep who does great popcorn reads in my opinion and that is exactly what this is.

-4 Stars
This audiobook divides me honestly. I love, LOVE, the story that this book tells. The characters are great, the snarky dialogue is great, the premise is great. The audiobook side of things though is not so great. Lets start with the positive shall we. The narrator has a great voice and for pure narration I could probably listen to him all day. He has a nice deep voice that is easy on the ears. That voice is where all my problems start though. While it is easy to listen to for narration of the story the "voice acting" for various characters is no where near as enjoyable. It really starts with the MC. This deep voiced man is trying to do the voice of the MC who is a 12 year old girl. I think you can already see the problem. For voices that are deeper the voices aren't bad but as soon as he tries to raise his pitch, especially for female characters, it just gets bad. The worst I'd have to say would the voice for China Sorrows who is this woman who can essentially seduce you with her voice. The voice we get is far from seducing in any way. I will admit though that by the end of the book and into the second book I am kind of getting used to the voices. They still aren't great but I'm getting used to them. The audio quality isn't the greatest either. This was probably ripped from a CD as they still have the "end of disc one, please insert disc two" left on the MP3 version of it. Then there are the chapter breaks. At the end of every chapter we get this little music number before the next chapter. The second book has it as well and it just feels like padding. I feel like I need to break out into a little dance that ends with jazz hands every time I hear it.

-4 Stars
This was a pure Lackey book through and through. Every little Lackeyism is here in this book. The orphan getting pulled out a bad situation, the slow moving story until the final third, etc, etc, etc, it's all here. The thing is the story isn't bad and if you don't mind the Lackeyism's it's a bit of a page turner. The story starts with Mags, an orphan working in a mine, and it's probably one of the bleakest story starts we've had so far. Mags did not have a good life in any way. When he got chosen he had to be nursed back to health for the ride back to Haven because he simply didn't have the strength. While he is the Lackey super gifted character he doesn't feel like that for some time. I'm finding myself very curious about where this series is planning to go as it's looking to be a bit of a spy thriller kind of story.

-4 Story
More New Game and there is nothing wrong with that. We have finished the Dodgeball video game story arc and we are starting into the Fairies 4 arc. While it is a super sweet story for the most part there are some character moments dealing with inadequacy that are a bit more serious.

-4 Stars
I've seen the anime for this and was curious about the manga. Basically a young girl is pulled into the land of demons after her grandfather passes away. She finds out that her father owes a massive debt and she was promised as collateral. She is supposed to marry the owner of the Inn as payment but she is rather opposed to this idea and proposes that she works it off instead. What we get is a romantic story with lots of food related stuff in it. It's a pretty good story start and sets up the scenario well. I'm definitely planning to read more in this series.

I'm on holidays for the next week and I have a stack of books planned for that time. I might do a midweek update depending on how much I read by then.

@Gord Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits sounds soooo good!

I second Elena's comment that manga sounds great! I'll have to check if the library has it

Looks like a mostly good reading week Gord. Too bad about the less than stellar narration.

I finished my 87th book

Gwen I didn¡¯t read the book called You by Caroline Kepnes yet and oh that¡¯s cool Gwen and I love the show too Gwen and Gwen try to give the book called You by Caroline Kepnes a try

I wasn't sure if I was going to do this or not but I've had a busy day of reading so here is a midweek update.

-2 Stars
As some of you may have noticed I've been on a bit of a yuri romance kick lately and you will see more of it in this update here. I found this light novel when I was randomly poking through the local library and thought it had potential. It was a slice of life yuri romance which are all things that I rather enjoy. While this book was indeed all those things I did not end up enjoying it in the slightest. Before I get into why I didn't like this I'll admit that there is a chance that I might have liked this more if it was a manga or an anime. That aside my summary of this book is that it was boring, incredibly boring. As a slice of life there isn't a lot of plot to it which isn't a bad thing. It's a day in the life of these characters and that life they live. Those characters are what give the slice of life it's appeal. It could be a slice of life in a fantasy world or a slice of life about a rock star. These characters are what really makes this book fall flat. Shimamura is such a bland and dull character that I just didn't care. A lump of soggy tissue probably has more personality than this MC. We follow this MC's POV for about 3/4's of this book and I swear that watching paint dry would be considered an extreme sport compared to this girls life. Combine that with the usual teenage romance tropes (what is love? am I in love? etc) and it just made for a drag of a read. Eventually we switch over to the POV of Adachi and while it was more "eventful" it was far from enough to save this book. There was also this weird subplot about a local girl who may or may not have been a time traveling astronaut from the future. That was random but I'm used to weirdness like this in a light novels/manga/anime.

-4 Stars
I read this on the rebound and this was exactly what I needed. It also shows what a good slice of life can do. This story has a very simple premise. It's about a restaurant that once a week opens to another world. Heroes and creatures from that world come to this eatery and enjoy the fine food that it serves. Each chapter is about a different character and a different dish that is served at the restaurant. The story is simple but it's so engaging. First, the food in the manga looks delicious. This is one of those series that makes you hungry the more that you read. Second, each new character that we meet gives us more insight to this fantasy world. We learn about it's history and get glimpses of different cultures and makes you want to know more about the world. We also get one of my favorite tropes. I don't know the name of it but it's basically the trope of this all powerful being mingling with common people because they enjoy something as simple as a tasty dish of food. Without spoiling to much we get to meet a couple of dragons and I love their personalities.

-4 Stars
At long last I finally got this copy from the library and I got to read the oldest book off my TBR. I was drawn to this book, like many others, because of the TV show Bones. Now I knew going in that I had to separate the two as the TV show was an adaptation in name only essentially. The MC kept the name and the occupation and that was about it. This book had some flaws for sure but it was an oddly engaging read. In lesser hands I can see the book failing easily. It was a bit on the dry side, it was heavy on the details, and the plot was slower moving than other books that I've read but I found myself compelled to keep turning the page. On top of the issues I already mentioned the ending kind of sat weird with me. I figured I had the ending all figured out before it rolled around because I was following the simple murder mystery rules that most books set out. Here is your cast of characters, one of them is a dirty killer. I was wrong in my guess because the book didn't follow those rules and the killer had zero page presence before the end of the book. Part of me is annoyed by that but part of me also thinks it works really well with the book. The annoyed part is simply because I never felt like I had a chance to solve the case myself and there was no way that I could have ever solved it. That being said it's a "police procedural" and your killer is never going to be known up front. It works with the detailed/fact heavy book that it was. For an authors first foray into fiction books I can see why this was a success and I plan to read more in this series just to see how it improves over time.

-3 Stars
Another random yuri grab from the library. This series was from, what I understand, to be one of the legends in the yuri genre and it was alright. I didn't really pay attention to the synopsis going into this so I didn't quite get what I was expecting. I was expecting a romance between two adult Italian police officers. Listen, Polizi sounded Italian in my head alright. Now the two main characters were indeed police officers but that's about as much as I got correct. This was essentially another teenage girl, high school romance that was really light on the romance. This felt more like yuri bait than an actual yuri romance as we never really got an hints of romance until basically the end of the second book. Outside of that it felt like just another high school girl manga for me. It wasn't bad but it never really wowed either.

-4 Stars
Alright, this romance is heavy on all the tropes that you would expect and while I'm not the biggest fan of them this book made me feel good. By the end of the book I was feeling all gooey inside and had a stupid grin on my face. That is enough for me to chalk this up as a win for the book.

-4 Stars
After reading the first book I was excited for this book and overall this book was almost as good as the first. I just couldn't shake this feeling that this book felt a bit more preachy than the first one though. The first book was about accepting yourself and your family. This book continued that theme but really leaned into the whole bullying aspect of things. It's not a bad message but it just started to feel a little heavy handed by the end.

I still have a lot of reading time left on my time off and a lot of things to read. I thing the next book I'm going to tackle is and go from there. I've still got plenty of manga and other books to read as well.

You've had some good reading time Gord! And happy you enjoyed Deja Dead, my fave of the series is still book 8.

I got my copy of so I read that. It was fun but not as amazing as I hoped. Still it is cool to have a signed copy and a few other little things that came with it.

I finished my 88th book

I finished my 89th book

Time for that weekly scheduled update. I'm going to have a bunch of manga to talk about this time as I've kind of lost myself in that for the last couple of days.

-4 Stars
There is a special kind of slowness that just works for this series. I think a lot of it comes down to the small town settings that it takes place in. This was the second mystery in a week where I didn't call the bad guy by the end. In Deja Dead I didn't have that opportunity, in this book the bad guy was right there in front of me the entire time and I just never made the connection. I love when a book can blindside me like that. Overall just an enjoyable read for me.

-3 Stars
This is the fortieth book in the Rogue Angel series and there really isn't a lot I can say about this. It's the usual schlocky pulp action book. This one involves tracking down scrolls from the time of the Third Caliphate. A good popcorn book to read.

-4 Stars
Guys, I'm not in a good spot with this series. The twelfth book ended with our MC in a very dark place, her confidence was cut out from under her. There is only one book left and I've read the first chapter. Now I'm totally at the mercy of translators and I need to know how this all ends. I know that we will get a happy ending due to the genre and how the other books have been but I need to see how it all ends. There is something to be said here about patience and what not but I just want the last few chapters. I need to see our MC get back on her feet, I need to see that happy ending.

-3 Stars
Let me just address the giant elephant in the room. I am aware of the authors real world "legal issues", that is a very polite way to put the messed up things he is associated with, but I'm approaching this as the work it is. I'm not going to get into what the author did. If you know, you know, and if you don't a simple Google search can fill you in if you really want to know.

On to the book itself now. This is a series that started way back in 1994 and as a result has been on and off my radar for a while now. I was loading up on manga for my week off work and this one once again popped up on my radar so I snagged it. Overall this wasn't bad. It's a samurai piece set at the beginning of the Meiji Restoration time (roughly late 1870's or so) and it's about a man who was an assassin who has turned to a life of peace. It kind of shows its age a bit in the tropes and the art work but it's not a negative either. It's what I would expect from a Shonen manga honestly. For now I plan to keep on reading.

-3 Stars
So this is me spinning off in a weird direction once again. This is a slice of life food based isekai or a niche of a niche of a niche. This kind of requires some explanation of some broader things before getting into this specific series. So an Isekai is basically some one getting transported to another world. It's basically portal fantasy. The two most common ways end up in another world is through either death/resurrection or summoning magic. This one starts with the classic trope of our MC dying in this world and waking up in a fantasy realm. This is where it starts to change things up a bit and why it initially caught my eye. Two very common things in isekai is that it's set in a standard European medieval fantasy setting and the MC is OP in some fashion. Neither of those happen in this one. This one here the MC ends up in more "tribal" setting with tribes that hunt wild boars to live. The MC is most definitely OP either. The only skills he has is the skills he had in our world which is he can cook. These were enough to initially pull me in and keep me reading but as time went along things just kind of fizzled. It felt like things weren't really going anywhere and while there was nugget of a good idea here it just never did anything with it. I'm not sure if this is a translation thing or something got lost transitioning from a light novel to a manga. I'm caught up for now and I'll see where things go for a but overall it's just meh.

-3 Stars
This series roughly translates to The Matter Regarding the Female Knight Who Came to Live With Me in the Countryside and is another level of niche to the above title. This is a reverse isekai. Basically instead of someone from our world going to a fantasy world we have someone coming from a fantasy world into our world. We have our MC who was a normal business man until his parents passed away. At that point he decided to leave the city and take over the family farm. One knight he gets a knock at the door, it's a woman claiming to be a knight who is looking for shelter for the night. From here we get the story itself. It touches on some interesting subjects such as potential disease threats, if she is actually human, and the emotional toll of losing everything you knew. While those are some heavier subjects it balances it out with a budding romance and just general wholesomeness. There are hints that the portal can be reopened from the fantasy world side and I'm interested to see what that brings to the story.

As for what I'm reading/reading next I've got a couple more volumes of the reverse isekai. I'm also working on today. After that I need to get done so I can get it back to the library as well. I also have some manga left over from my week off that I need to clean up as well.

Yay for all the manga reading too bad it hasn't been excellent. Waiting on translation sucks!

I finished my 90th book

About to start shadow and bone

Enjoy Eden!!

I finished , I liked it but not as much as the first book, which was a shame, I think maybe my expectations were too high? It was quite slow, and certain parts felt dragged out. I'm moving onto as my next audiobook, it's been a while since I last read a memoir, I think my last one was Michelle Obama's in 2019, and I really admire Malala so I'm looking forward to seeing what she has to say!

Too bad that it felt slow and dragged out Jo. Enjoy the memoir!

I just finished was so good. Happy I finally went back and finished the series was wonderful returning to Ancient Rome.

Not as much to talk about this week now that I'm back to being an adult who can't read all day every day.

-4 Stars
Going through this series on audiobook just reminds me why I love this series so much. This is a series that is tagged as "middle grade" but it really doesn't feel like a middle grade book. That feelings just grows with each book in the series as well. The situations and issues that our MC has to tackle are way beyond that faced in a normal middle grade book. There is also the feeling that our MC is not "the chosen one". She is a young girl stepping into a world of adults with a lot of history. I think it's the third book where our MC ask Skulduggery if he is not telling her stuff and he responds with "I'm over 400 years old, there is a lot I'm not telling you". She is learning magic and martial arts from others and is normally fighting adults at the age of 13. It just feels a lot more mature than the middle grade tag it gets and I really love it.

As for the audiobook aspect it's the same narrator as the first book, the third, and probably more to come. I think it's equally getting better and I'm just getting more used to the narrator. It's no where as off putting as the first time I listened to the first book. I really wish someone would get rid of the little musical numbers between chapters though. That and the CD leftovers notifying when I've reached the end of a disk. Overall I'm having a good time listening to these and it's given me the kick needed to read through this series again.

-3 Stars
Another Tom Swift book. I don't have a lot to really say about the actual story. Tom creates some giant robots to help operate a nuclear reactor, bad guys get involved, shenanigans happen. The technology in this book was one where it was definitely jarring. It was accurate to the time but as someone that is a good 70 years into future it's really odd. So the robots in this book are controlled using the old punched card system which makes sense for its time. It's just jarring when you think of where we are at currently with things like Boston Dynamics and what they are doing with robots. This book feels like watching cavemen trying to create fire with sticks while you have a laser.

-3 Stars
This was one of the free Hoopla books this month and it's an interesting concept. It's the genre mashup of punk and voodoo. The book feels like the nugget of an interesting idea but I just don't feel like I got enough out of it. It's like getting a sampler at a restaurant of the main dish but never getting the main dish. We have the MC is an immortal woman raised in the punk culture of Britain who got in voodoo and became a mambo. It's set in modern day Louisiana before transitioning to Haiti. It's got all the expected Loa's and of course the spirit of Marie Laveau. It's a good story but I just wanted more.

-3 Stars
It's pretty much an open secret at this point in time that I like isekai fantasy. I know that it's not the most original genre and I know that there is a sea of generic garbage out there but for me it's like the potato chips of fantasy. I can't stop by just reading one and it's not the artisanal cream of the crop that I want to consume but the weird niche ones. That all brings me to this series here, roughly translated to Nomadic Life with the Elves' Terrible Food, this is that perfect level of trashy for me. It's got some similar elements to Cooking with Wild Food that I talked about last week but it's no where near as serious. It starts with the most casual method of throwing a character into a fantasy world. There is no violent death at the hands of Truck-kun, no mystical summoning ritual, none of that. Our MC walks into the storage closest at the restaurant he is working at and just walks into a fantasy world. The door is gone, the restaurant is gone, he is just in this fantasy world now. He is taken in by a tribe of nomadic elves who can't cook for crap. Of course he is a master chef, even though he only just started working in a restaurant, and brings "delicious" to the tribe. Listen, if this was all the series was then meh but it suddenly takes this weird spin that just flips everything on it's head. I doubt this will ever see an English release so I'm going to get into some spoilers. We meet an elf who isn't an elf and who is also from our world not the fantasy one. This leads to the revelation that these two are not the only ones to ever end in this fantasy realm. This also leads to the revelation that the elves in this world are only known as elves because someone who got transported into this fantasy realm was a Lord of the Rings fan and thought the creatures of this world looked like elves so he called them elves and it stuck. There is a lot of stuff brewing under the surface of this isekai food fantasy that is just odd and I want to know more. It's implied that the elf from our world is probably from Arthurian times, we now have a Greek character from a Greece before Jesus was born, the LotR fan was a WWII soldier. There is some weird wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff going on here.

Currently I'm trying to work through which is kind of slow going right now. I'm of course working on this weird isekai manga series as well. I'm also snagging some more comics off of Hoopla for the whole "bonus borrow" thing expires at the end of the month.

wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff can be a good time Gord! Too bad it will never get an English release though

I've read a lot this time, here is a part of what I've finished recently:

- great surprise! Very cute, adorable romantic story! Love it.

- when I started reading the series, it was really hard to read and not so interesting but the second and third books kinda grown on me and I ended up reading in one sitting :D I still think it's overhyped though enjoyed reading.

- amazing series and a very underrated one. The idea is nice, all the animages, phoenixes... magic system is very interesting. I enjoyed the story, there were also some nice twists.

- adorable short story in the best Chinese traditions.

- WHOA! The best read of the week. This book has blown my mind with all the details, world, story, twists, ideas. Definitely going to continue the series.

- a very good, sensitive, sad retelling of a well-known story. Enjoyed, cried, very emotional.

Nice that you enjoyed Raven Cycle books more as you went along. I never bothered past the first one.
I already wanted to read Crown of Feathers, now I want to read it more.
I'm intrigued by Diabolic, tell me more!
Glad you enjoyed Song of Achilles too!

I finished meh. Feel like everything here has been done better in other books. Wasn't bad just wasn't good either.