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Hey, look, here I am remembering that this is "What are you Reading Wednesday"!
This last weekend, between the writing gig and fretting about the Missouri Synod funeral, Shawn and I have begun tackling the project of cleaning out the sunroom. The sunroom is this lovely space that's right above our porch, on the second floor, that is a narrow little space made up of three full walls of windows. When we first moved in, my parents custom-built a set of bookshelves to fit under the banks of windows, so that the entire room could be lined with books. It's kind of our "little library."
For these very obvious reasons, it's one of my favorite rooms in the house.
But, it's also kind of a convenient spot to toss stuff to "deal with later." We are finally dealing with all these things, moved a bunch of things out, and, among other sorting, we are going through our various book collections and rehoming anything that we no longer feel attached to for whatever reason. A huge portion of my "overflow" manga had been stored in the sunroom. I've now organized all the series that I want to keep and pulled out a big pile of volumes of titles--half of which I don't even remember intending to collect. A lot of those are clearly from library sales or HalfPrice book bargain racks. Rather than assume that they're all junk, I have been systematically reading through them and recording my impressions of them over on my manga review site, Mangakast. (If you are curious and want to read any of these, but don't want to click the individual links below, hit this one, and then start with Alice the 19th.)
So, what I've read and reviewed so far this week, include:
With more to come over the next several days.
This has been kind of a fun project because it turns out I am/was a very HAPHAZARD collector of manga. I don't know if I was at some point under the misconception that manga was in hot demand and so I should snap up any volumes I came across, NO MATTER WHAT ORDER THEY WERE IN, or what? But, so half of these last few days has been me, muttering to myself, "WTF, Lyda, volume 7 and 22???" and then tracking down any online version I can find of the title, catching up, and then writing my review of however much I ended up consuming.
I noted all of this on my review site, so where normally I only tell my readers whether or not I recommend what I'm reading, I have also added a section where I note whether or not a particular title ended up in my "rehome" or "to keep" pile. So far, I think only one (kind of surprising title) ended up in the "keep it!" pile. To be fair, I am trying to be a little ruthless.
Gods know, I need room to grow on my manga shelves.
So, that's me! What are y'all reading?
This last weekend, between the writing gig and fretting about the Missouri Synod funeral, Shawn and I have begun tackling the project of cleaning out the sunroom. The sunroom is this lovely space that's right above our porch, on the second floor, that is a narrow little space made up of three full walls of windows. When we first moved in, my parents custom-built a set of bookshelves to fit under the banks of windows, so that the entire room could be lined with books. It's kind of our "little library."
For these very obvious reasons, it's one of my favorite rooms in the house.
But, it's also kind of a convenient spot to toss stuff to "deal with later." We are finally dealing with all these things, moved a bunch of things out, and, among other sorting, we are going through our various book collections and rehoming anything that we no longer feel attached to for whatever reason. A huge portion of my "overflow" manga had been stored in the sunroom. I've now organized all the series that I want to keep and pulled out a big pile of volumes of titles--half of which I don't even remember intending to collect. A lot of those are clearly from library sales or HalfPrice book bargain racks. Rather than assume that they're all junk, I have been systematically reading through them and recording my impressions of them over on my manga review site, Mangakast. (If you are curious and want to read any of these, but don't want to click the individual links below, hit this one, and then start with Alice the 19th.)
So, what I've read and reviewed so far this week, include:
- Alice the 19th (Volume 1) by Watase Yu: https://mangakast.wordpress.com/2023/04/23/alice-the-19th-volume-1-by-watase-yu/
- Wild Adapter by Minekura Kazuya: https://mangakast.wordpress.com/2023/04/24/wild-adapter-by-minekura-kazuya/
- DN Angel by Sugisaki Yukiru: https://mangakast.wordpress.com/2023/04/25/dn-angel-by-sugisaki-yukiru/
- Time and Again (Volume 3) by Yun Ji-Un: https://mangakast.wordpress.com/2023/04/26/time-and-again-volume-3-by-yun-ji-un/
With more to come over the next several days.
This has been kind of a fun project because it turns out I am/was a very HAPHAZARD collector of manga. I don't know if I was at some point under the misconception that manga was in hot demand and so I should snap up any volumes I came across, NO MATTER WHAT ORDER THEY WERE IN, or what? But, so half of these last few days has been me, muttering to myself, "WTF, Lyda, volume 7 and 22???" and then tracking down any online version I can find of the title, catching up, and then writing my review of however much I ended up consuming.
I noted all of this on my review site, so where normally I only tell my readers whether or not I recommend what I'm reading, I have also added a section where I note whether or not a particular title ended up in my "rehome" or "to keep" pile. So far, I think only one (kind of surprising title) ended up in the "keep it!" pile. To be fair, I am trying to be a little ruthless.
Gods know, I need room to grow on my manga shelves.
So, that's me! What are y'all reading?