Bright and Shiny Shiny

I was a huge fan of her previous series Girl of Fire & Thorns so I'm pretty excited for this one.  So far I'm really enjoying it!

I'm super excited for this.  My co-worker Gloria recommended it and I'm the 4th person to get it, with everyone before me raving how good it was.  I love the people I work with!!

So...this was really well written but I don't think I would necessarily recommend it to anyone because I just didn't enjoy the time I spent in this world. There was no light at the end of the tunnel, no bittersweet resolution, no message-political or otherwise, just sadness. I found myself wanting to bail on several occasions but felt I had invested too much already.

I love this cover!

Oh my Glob!!

Oh my---I'm swooning!

I'm afraid it will all end in tragedy.

Poor Lucy & Klara.

Julian Barnes can bite my shiny metal ass-Patrick  DeWitt was robbed of the Man Booker! 

Loving it!

Thanks Dianah Hughley for the loan of your arc :)

And today I learned a little about Pepys and have a vague wish to read the Plague diary but know I probably never will.

This manga is a series of vignettes centering on a used bookstore specializing in manga.  Each vignette references a particular manga with a description in the back of the volume about the manga and the mangaku or artist as the case may be.  Each story showed how manga had positively affected people--people who maybe felt too old to read manga, friends who remembered the kids they used to be through the manga they loved, women making friends by the mutual love of a particular manga.  

Parts of it really made me smile, just seeing how happy people were remembering a favorite childhood story or talking about manga with someone else.  The only thing that kept this from being a 5 star read was that I don't think a majority of these books are available and it's very hard to read a book that rhapsodizes over books that you can't access.  But if I can get more titles in this series I will be reading more for sure! 

Nicely sweet and any book that rhapsodizes over reading is the bees knees to me!!

Not terribly excited by this one.

It's going to be a big hit this summer!