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Wednesday Reading Meme
May. 1st, 2013 09:56 pm• What are you currently reading?
Wild Ones manga series by Kiyo Fujiwara (more below) and Glee fanfiction. It's been a weird week. I haven't been able to put my brain into "read" mode, really.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Wild Ones, volume 1, by Kiyo Fujiwara. I'm reading these thanks to the library. This series is about a 15-year-old high school girl named Sachie, whose mom has died, so she goes to live with her grandpa. Hilariously, her grandpa is the head of a yakuza gang, so Sachie's living with a house full of tough guys.
A boy her age named Rakuto lives there, & is assigned to protect Sachie. Thus far, this is a story about paternalism that makes me feel really yucky. Rakuto follows Sachie everywhere and intimidates all other men who try to talk to her/make friends with her. He repeats ad nauseum that it's his goal in life to protect her and to be "the only one by her side."
Why am I still reading it? 1) Sachie has expressed a few times that she wants people to like her for HER, & not for being the granddaughter of a member of the yakuza. 2) There have been a few flashes of total BAMF-like assertion from Sachie, where she takes control of a situation, sets her teeth, & shouts commands. LIKE A FUTURE YAKUZA BOSS?! idk. It's enough for me to flip through for now, anyway.
I still feel like I "miss" manga but mostly read crap manga lately. Maybe I need to do some rereads, or get through things on my shelves I haven't gone all the way through yet (Angel Sanctuary, Fruits Basket, etc).
Having it All (Bringing Love Together Remix) by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
wintercreek - Rachel/Jesse/Quinn - The old Jesse St. James would have looked around himself and wondered who would believe, when the authorized biography and the many unauthorized biographies came out, that this was his beautiful life.
It Would Take an Eternity (to Break Us) bynightshifted - AU for s4 and beyond. Kurt, Rachel, Finn, & Santana living in a loft in NYC together. I loved everyone's chapters, but especially Kurt's and Santana's because the things bothering them felt SO REAL. Spoiler that Kurt's chapter involves him actually calling out Santana for continuing to call him "Lady Hummel." Basically perfect. Santana's chapter is like my GPOYest of GPOYs ever experienced in fic ;____;
• What do you think you’ll read next?
idk. I bought A Stranger in Olondria Friday at Sofia's book launch (the author is in my book club & is awesome!). So possibly that. But the things causing my brain to not focus on books very well aren't changing soon, so it might just be more comics & fic for a while.
Wild Ones manga series by Kiyo Fujiwara (more below) and Glee fanfiction. It's been a weird week. I haven't been able to put my brain into "read" mode, really.
• What did you recently finish reading?
Wild Ones, volume 1, by Kiyo Fujiwara. I'm reading these thanks to the library. This series is about a 15-year-old high school girl named Sachie, whose mom has died, so she goes to live with her grandpa. Hilariously, her grandpa is the head of a yakuza gang, so Sachie's living with a house full of tough guys.
A boy her age named Rakuto lives there, & is assigned to protect Sachie. Thus far, this is a story about paternalism that makes me feel really yucky. Rakuto follows Sachie everywhere and intimidates all other men who try to talk to her/make friends with her. He repeats ad nauseum that it's his goal in life to protect her and to be "the only one by her side."
Why am I still reading it? 1) Sachie has expressed a few times that she wants people to like her for HER, & not for being the granddaughter of a member of the yakuza. 2) There have been a few flashes of total BAMF-like assertion from Sachie, where she takes control of a situation, sets her teeth, & shouts commands. LIKE A FUTURE YAKUZA BOSS?! idk. It's enough for me to flip through for now, anyway.
I still feel like I "miss" manga but mostly read crap manga lately. Maybe I need to do some rereads, or get through things on my shelves I haven't gone all the way through yet (Angel Sanctuary, Fruits Basket, etc).
Having it All (Bringing Love Together Remix) by
It Would Take an Eternity (to Break Us) by
• What do you think you’ll read next?
idk. I bought A Stranger in Olondria Friday at Sofia's book launch (the author is in my book club & is awesome!). So possibly that. But the things causing my brain to not focus on books very well aren't changing soon, so it might just be more comics & fic for a while.
