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My last month has been so busy that I completely neglected to update my bingo card, even though I've been reading. Currently I'm burying myself in a book for work and manhua on the Bilibili app, and none of those will fit for any of my remaining squares (though I could maybe stretch a couple to fit "Mythology." Like, does a modern manhua about Pixiu and other Chinese mythological characters count as mythology??? idk..).  I definitely think the remaining squares will be hard for me, with what I read, but I'll see what I can do??? I did just realize I can count the Minecraft books I'm always reading to my son as books for my hobby square, so I just gotta pick one and put it in, cause heck knows I've read plenty. Books about building with legos, too. It's not MY hobby, but they're hobby books....

Anyway, I've added Dinghai Fusheng Records as my historical fiction book; it's very deliberately set a few centuries after the Warring States period, and the historical context is important and referenced often.

I read six volumes of the Black or White manga, too, and eh that might as well be my Free Square I guess??? Gotta put something there.

I still expect MDZS Vol. 3 to be my Banned Books square, I'm just reading it stupidly slow cause it's all flashback and I don't like it that much lmao. But I'll get there. Person's Name in the Title is still gonna be my dad's book, I've just been procrastinating. But I'm kinda forbidding myself from starting another danmei book until I finish some of the things I "have" to read, so.

Also I'm neck deep in the Poyun manhua and there's a good chance that, as a result, the book has vaulted from being "somewhere down on my TBR list" to "next," lmao.

So yeah, as long as I'm willing to bend "mythology" until it screams, which...I am...the only one of these remaining that'll really have me stumped is a book from the year I was born. I don't want to read something from 1982. I want to read gay shit. What gay shit were they publishing then???

I'll figure something out. Maybe I'll get lucky and one of the books I read to the kids will fit???

AHA! I just googled Children's Books Published in 1982. I've heard of almost none of these BUT one I have heard of, and own, and have read before, is The BFG. Could give me kids a worse introduction to Dahl...

I might just manage a black-out on this yet...

(Also I really enjoyed Dinghai Fusheng Records, and Black or White is hot af.)