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☆ I am not very good at this once-a-week updating thing... I suppose not much has been going on worth making a whole post about. I did finish writing that Mal/Nikolai fic!! That only took like two months lmao. I still need to type it up and edit it and toss it onto AO3 to never look at it again, but at least it's done. I did make a new fanworks comm when I created this journal just in case, I doubt people are posting fic to DW much these days? But I might use it just because I miss having a cute little personal comm with all my stuff haha. I suppose I could use it for icons too.
☆ The spring book sale at work was this weekend (I work in a public library) so Friday was pretty hectic. I love used book sales because you can so clearly see what was popular like 10 years ago and now people are cleaning house, I found multiple copies of The Da Vinci Code, Water for Elephants, etc. Didn't find much that exciting for me but I did snag a good condition paperback copy of The Goldfinch for a friend, then that friend convinced me (very easily) to get the nice paperback copy of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell I found. It's like 100000 pages longer than what I normally read but it always seems to come highly recommended so for a buck I figured why not.
☆ In terms of books, I should be reading King of Scars more diligently but instead I've mostly been reading manga this past week. I'm nearly done with Oresama Teacher, I've finished 25 out of 29 volumes. The story's been bouncing around a bit but with 29 volumes obviously things are going to go a little off track. Anyway it's still really fun, I can't wait to see how it wraps up so I'll save my final remarks for then.
☆ More importantly I sped through volumes 2-4 of Cherry Magic, the subtitle of which is "Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!" lmaooo yeah. I actually first discovered this on Crunchyroll as a live action drama and I watched about half of it, but I never finished it. I might go back and try to watch the rest though because the manga is super cute. The premise is that if you're a virgin when you hit thirty you gain the power to read minds via touch and the main character discovers that a guy at his office is in love with him. (Presumably the magic powers don't happen to everyone or else I feel like it would be a much more well-known phenomenon lol). Anyway it's a really fun rom-com, the MC is a socially awkward loner and the love interest is the hot popular guy at their work but he's really sweet. I'm definitely going to try and get my hands on more volumes because I must know what happens next with this.
☆ Still making my way through Star Trek DS9! I'm on season 5 now and it's actually had some very good episodes so far this season. I'm glad Worf became a regular because he was one of my faves on TNG, though I'm also sad they've relegated Keiko to occasional guest star. But already in S5 so far we've had Klingon courtship rituals ft Quark, an episode where they go back in time to the episode of TOS with the tribbles, the episode where Worf ruins everyone's vacation, a very gay episode where Quark and Odo get stranded on a deserted planet... High quality entertainment. I've always found Star Trek sort of inherently funny aside from all that because one episode will be like "tribbles and 1960s callbacks!" and the next episode will be "and now this teenage boy will learn firsthand the devastating horrors of war" with zero attempt to ease between the two lmao. That episode where O'Brien spends 20 years in a mind prison and gets thoroughly fucked up and then is completely normal from then on?? (The DS9 writers must really hate O'Brien because that kind of stuff is always happening to him, already this season some psychic entity possessed his wife and nearly killed her.)
☆ The spring book sale at work was this weekend (I work in a public library) so Friday was pretty hectic. I love used book sales because you can so clearly see what was popular like 10 years ago and now people are cleaning house, I found multiple copies of The Da Vinci Code, Water for Elephants, etc. Didn't find much that exciting for me but I did snag a good condition paperback copy of The Goldfinch for a friend, then that friend convinced me (very easily) to get the nice paperback copy of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell I found. It's like 100000 pages longer than what I normally read but it always seems to come highly recommended so for a buck I figured why not.
☆ In terms of books, I should be reading King of Scars more diligently but instead I've mostly been reading manga this past week. I'm nearly done with Oresama Teacher, I've finished 25 out of 29 volumes. The story's been bouncing around a bit but with 29 volumes obviously things are going to go a little off track. Anyway it's still really fun, I can't wait to see how it wraps up so I'll save my final remarks for then.
☆ More importantly I sped through volumes 2-4 of Cherry Magic, the subtitle of which is "Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!" lmaooo yeah. I actually first discovered this on Crunchyroll as a live action drama and I watched about half of it, but I never finished it. I might go back and try to watch the rest though because the manga is super cute. The premise is that if you're a virgin when you hit thirty you gain the power to read minds via touch and the main character discovers that a guy at his office is in love with him. (Presumably the magic powers don't happen to everyone or else I feel like it would be a much more well-known phenomenon lol). Anyway it's a really fun rom-com, the MC is a socially awkward loner and the love interest is the hot popular guy at their work but he's really sweet. I'm definitely going to try and get my hands on more volumes because I must know what happens next with this.
☆ Still making my way through Star Trek DS9! I'm on season 5 now and it's actually had some very good episodes so far this season. I'm glad Worf became a regular because he was one of my faves on TNG, though I'm also sad they've relegated Keiko to occasional guest star. But already in S5 so far we've had Klingon courtship rituals ft Quark, an episode where they go back in time to the episode of TOS with the tribbles, the episode where Worf ruins everyone's vacation, a very gay episode where Quark and Odo get stranded on a deserted planet... High quality entertainment. I've always found Star Trek sort of inherently funny aside from all that because one episode will be like "tribbles and 1960s callbacks!" and the next episode will be "and now this teenage boy will learn firsthand the devastating horrors of war" with zero attempt to ease between the two lmao. That episode where O'Brien spends 20 years in a mind prison and gets thoroughly fucked up and then is completely normal from then on?? (The DS9 writers must really hate O'Brien because that kind of stuff is always happening to him, already this season some psychic entity possessed his wife and nearly killed her.)
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is one of my all time favorite books! Some people bounce off of it because it's a little bit of an oddity, but I hope you enjoy it!
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Most of the people I know who've read it really seemed to like it so it's been on my radar for a while now. I've got like 10 things "up next" on my to read list sjdfshjkh so it'll probably take a bit to actually get to it but