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It's been a little bit! I was reading some manga, which I don't usually count for this cause the individual volumes are so short, and I've also just been really sleepy so kinda slow. But, I did finish another book!


Since "Justice in the Dark" dropped pretty much out of nowhere, I figured that was my cue to read Mo Du by priest. I finished volume one on Wednesday and am a bit into volume two, and really enjoying it so far! If anyone is interested in reading it too, I'm reading E. Danglars' translation here. I've still got a lot to go but I'm tentatively thinking I might read Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know.

Also...I'm looking at this card and realizing I didn't update it with Tian Ya Ke *facepalm*. Let's try this again...




SO try 2! I read finally read Tian Ya Ke by priest (the book Word of Honor is based on) and I enjoyed it! I didn't love-love it...it's very different than WoH, and I think if I hadn't read the book in a "comparing" way I'd have enjoyed it more. As it is, a lot of the things I liked best about the show aren't features of the book, and that reduced my enjoyment. Unreasonably, I think, but there we are. I read it here.

And then, as I said, I've started Mo Du and read one volume! Here's the summary for Mo Du:

Childhood, upbringing, family background, social connections, traumas...

We ceaselessly seek and explore the motives of criminals, pursue every faint trace of emotion among them, not to sympathize with them and even forgive them, not to find a reason to exonerate them of their crimes, not to bow before the so-called complexities of human nature, not to reflect on social conflicts, and certainly not to become monsters ourselves—

We are simply looking for a just answer for ourselves — and for all those who still have hope for this world.

So far, it's pretty grim with the crimes, which I definitely expected but it's been hitting me a bit.

I expect I'll be finished Mo Du before I read anything else, and probably splitting it into 3 volumes? It's actually 5 volumes but Goodreads only splits it into three so for tracking it's probably easier for me to just treat it as 3.