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It's been 100 years since I did a book update!! I just kept putting it off and then reading more books which only made me put off writing anything longer lol. But here we go finally! Regular fiction and graphic novels here, I'll probably do a separate post about the manga I've been reading. What about you guys, read anything good lately?



( many ramblings ahead )

☆ After much hand-holding from you guys, I successfully signed up for unsent_letters_exchange! Assignments have gone out so all that's left is the actual hard part aka writing the fic. Thank you to everyone who gave me tips/explained things, I really appreciate it. :3

☆ I had the day off yesterday since I worked Sunday, so I went with my mom and brother to this all-you-can-eat sushi place for lunch. I've probably talked about that place before lmao it's sooo good, it's all made to order and there's appetizers like soup and gyoza and stuff on top of a variety of nigiri and maki. It's not suuuuper close so I don't go as often as I would if it were close by (which is probably good for my wallet, though honestly the lunch prices there are a steal considering what a single roll at a regular restaurant costs). This time I stopped myself before making myself ill eating too much so that's an improvement on last time I went sjdhfsjdhfs

☆ After that I was planning on finishing Final Fantasy XVI, but they dropped a shit ton of new side quests on me right before the very last mission!! Dion's over here telling me he's ready to atone for his sins with a suicide run to the final battle and I'm like "Yeah, sorry, my dog wants to show me our old tree house, can this wait?" Absolutely bonkers place to be putting all these side quests. So yeah I did the side quests but didn't have time to do the actual final mission so hopefully I'll be finishing up this game either tonight or tomorrow! (I'm worried about Dion and Gav lmao those two seem the most expendable, so if one of the Rosfields don't die some heroic death and they feel like they've gotta kill someone off...)

☆ What's really been eating my brain for the past few weeks is the Captive Prince re-read I've been doing as a buddy read with a couple friends. I read them originally about 7 years ago? And this is my first re-read, while my one friend had never read them before and my other friend has read them like, six times or something at this point lmao. So it was interesting trying not to spoil the one friend while freaking out about foreshadowing with the other. This series is absolutely wild on a re-read, honestly even better than the first time around. Knowing the twists ahead of time turns previously innocuous or unnoticeable sections into huge red flags. Genuinely one of my favorite series of all time. I just finished the last book in the trilogy and I still need to re-read the short stories, so once I do that I'll probably make a post about the whole series. I've basically just been ping-ponging Captive Prince and FFXVI feelings back and forth in my head these past few weeks and nothing else.