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Get Some Love Therapy with Saki Kawashiro’s The Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee
While February is a time of love, it doesn’t always mean we see the happy side of that love. There are many tricky and complex feelings surrounding Valentine’s Day for many, and I felt that a story about love from a different perspective would be much appreciated by readers sick of hearing about Valentine’s Day.…
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Getting my Hands on Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 1 by Gege Akutami
I have two mani manga I want to complete this year. The first is My Hero Academia, and I have already started reading it, so check out my post for My Hero Academia Volume 1 here. The other manga I want to read this year is Jujutsu Kaisen by Gege Akumati, and I can already…
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Reading Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia Vol. 1 as an eBook
In my quest to read more manga and graphic novels in 2026, I figured I would try reading them as eBooks for a change. In theory, it is brilliant; multiple volumes that aren’t physically owned and circulated by the library system can be read via Libby. I can request them and, when I am available,…
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A Therapeutic Read in Satoshi Yagisawa’s Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Forgive me, friends, but my December has been a bit muddled as of late. As such, I haven’t found the right time to read Ursula K. Le Guin’s fourth Earthsea Cycle novel Tehanu, but instead have picked up Days at the Morisaki Bookshop as a short, but soul-touching read to get some good healing vibes…
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Gripping Feminist Literature in Cho Nam-Joo’s Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
A global phenomenon and a book I have heard a lot about, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is one of those novels I have seen floating around bookish social media for some time now. It is also a novel that has never been shared without a good word in my circles. In hopes of expanding my…
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Stunning Short Stories in Claire Keegan’s Walk the Blue Fields
What’s better than a Claire Keegan story? Multiple Claire Keegan stories! Walk the Blue Fields was a library book request I made following Foster, a story I absolutely adored, and I am so happy to have more works of hers in hand. Both gut-wrenching and grand, these stories will transport you and throw you into…
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Fredrik Backman’s And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer is a Good Pain
Though small, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer is a mighty read. It is gentle and caring, yet packs a tremendous punch, and you can feel every drop of humility, love, and patience in this incredibly heartfelt read. This book rec only came across my radar maybe a week or two…
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Elena Ferrante’s The Days of Abandonment is Visceral and Has Teeth
With the summer sun making its appearance, the heat of the day drawing out the fatigue from my bones, and the long invigilating hours making themselves known, I have found myself drifting to shorter reads to keep my brain stimulated. I don’t usually read literary fiction or women’s fiction, but The Days of Abandonment has…
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All Aboard Seichō Matsumoto’s Japanese Classic Tokyo Express
Get your tickets ready for this foreign crime fiction tale. Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto is a riveting novel laced with that crime noir feel and historical setting. It is a short yet well-plotted read that delivers red herrings and dead-ends until the very end. In a rocky cove at Hakata Bay, the bodies of…
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Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector’s Short, Sombre Brazilian Classic
There’s a line on page 8 that summarises Clarice Lispector’s Hour of the Star perfectly – ‘what I am about to write can’t be absorbed by minds that are very demanding and covet refinement.’ That could also sum up her writing in general, but I found it profound in the first few pages of this…
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