Happy Monday!
This Week I’m Reading:
Obnoxious Hero-Kun Volume 1 by Amanda Rashimi
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Volume 1 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
and Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
And I Finished:
I Hear the Sunspot: Limit Volume 2 by Yuki Fumino
My Hero Academia Volume 21 by Kohei Horikoshi
That Blue Sky Feeling Volume 3 by Okura and Coma Hashii
Shiver by Junji Ito
and Rewrite the Stars by Jo/Tonyxstevestony
Hello! How’s everyone’s week going?
This week I’m going to be reading Obnoxious Hero-Kun (which you can read for free on the Tapas app!) it’s soooo good and I’m super excited for this reread since I just got these books and the series just finished.
No matter how excited I am for OHK, my main focus will be Scarlet for my book club with @books-take-flight. We’re reading the second third of the book, and I’m curious about grand-mére and Wolf and how Cinder is going to further her goals!
And I’m still trying to finish Sherlock Holmes, but I’m making great progress!! I’m currently reading “The Musgrave Ritual” which is super interesting as one of the focuses is on a butler, so I’m really curious to see how it turns out. I’ve read a few stories since last week and I think my favorite was “The Yellow Face” or “The Stock-Broker’s Clerk”. Yellow Face is much more sentimental than what you’d expect from Sherlock Holmes, but I loved the family story we got. It wasn’t action packed by any means, but I found the husband’s reaction at the end to be heartwarming. And The Stock-Broker was much more of a mystery, centered around a stock-broker with a too good to be true job offer. In his suspicions, he goes to Holmes who is able to clear the air of any mysteries surrounding the job!
The two books I was most excited to read were That Blue Sky Feeling and I Hear the Sunspot. I’ve mentioned both of these several times before, but they deserve the hype so much!!
That Blue Sky Feeling has been on my radar since around the time it got published by Viz and I was thrilled that it met my expectations. Volume 3 was the final volume, and while there are problematic elements (a 26 year old previously dated one of the high school protagonists, for example) this is, in general, a very sweet romance. Noshiro wasnts desperately to not only understand his friend, but the feelings inside of him. It’s very heartwarming and a quick read and I can’t recommend it enough!
And finally, I Hear the Sunspot! I can’t even believe how much I love this series! I almost forced myself to buy it and didn’t really want to read it. But I’m SO glad I did! I can’t get enough of Kohei and Taichi’s relationship! They go through the highs and lows of a relationship together and struggle to learn how to care for each other without smothering the other. Taichi wants to learn how to better understand Kohei’s inability to hear. But Kohei doesn’t want to be babied, or for his disability to get in the way of their time together. I love them so much, and scoured the Internet after I finished to make SURE there was going to be another volume (there is!) because I couldn’t believe that the series would end on this note. Go read I Hear the Sunspot, you won’t regret it!!
That’s it for this week, happy reading!
-Kero
