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1. What are you currently reading? 

nothing! I finished my main novel read last night and haven't started a new one yet. 

2. What have you recently finished reading?

why yes I am still mainlining manga.

• Stars of Chaos/Sha Po Lang vol. 5 by priest: the last volume! I'm done! What a good book. I liked the extras better than I expected to based on what other people had said to me, though I do kinda wish we'd gotten more of the immediate aftermath of the actual end of the story. I'd have loved some "wtf do you mean EMPEROR" from Gu Yun. Regardless, overall, really really enjoyed this. It's no Modu but eh. priest continues to be my favorite danmei author, absolutely.
• Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! vol. 3 and 4 by Yuu Toyota
• Demon Slayer/Kimetsu no Yaiba vol. 12 by Koyoharu Gotouge
• Number Call by Nagisa Furuya (modern BL): I've been poking around Libby looking for more BL manga with no wait times and I spotted this one, by an author I've read before. It was fine! Cute! Kinda supremely unmemorable, but eh, can't have it all I guess lol.
• Yona of the Dawn vol. 10 by Muzho Kusanagi
• Go with the Flow by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann: this month's "read this banned book with no hold times" YA graphic novel on the New York Public Library Libby. It's about a group of girls trying to understand their periods and to convince their school to put feminine hygiene products in the bathroom for all students. There's a little hint of wlw with a couple of the characters.
• My Summer With You: The Sequel by Nagisa Furuya: despite being called "sequel" this is actually the third story in the 'verse, and it was nice and fluffy. More memorable than the middle one, not as good as the first.
• Mashle: Magic and Muscles vol. 1 by Hajime Komoto: continuing my "tour of popular shounen," I had this from the library. I probably won't be continuing? It was funny but the secondhand embarrassment came on too strong for me pretty often.
• Hitorijime My Hero vol. 5 by Memeco Arii: this is a modern BL series and I spent most of this volume supremely confused and I thought it was just me but no, the reviews are full of equally confused people. I probably wouldn't keep reading the series except I've got four more physical volumes from the library so like. I might as well I guess.
• Haikyu!! vol. 23 by Haruichi Furudate

3. What will you be reading next?

As I've said the last few weeks, The Missing Piece by Kun Yi Wei Lou is next, and I expect to start today. It's short enough that if I get enthusiastic about it, I could finish it this week, and if I do, after that is Babel by R. F. Kuang. My next graphic novel is vol. 6 of Hitorijime My Hero, tho if I don't like it better than the last couple, idk, even though I have more from the library after vol. 6 I might just. not. I haven't decided.