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Reader of manga and graphic novels. Sometimes I read actual words.

★☆☆☆☆ - Bad

★★☆☆☆ - Okay. Not good, not bad

★★★☆☆ - Good

★★★★☆ - Great

★★★★★ - One of the best

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2024 Reading Goal

12% complete! isa has read 44 of 365 books.

Tatsuki Fujimoto: Look Back (GraphicNovel, 2022, VIZ Media LLC) 2 stars

The overly confident Fujino and the shut-in Kyomoto couldn’t be more different, but a love …

Not Convinced

2 stars

This was an interesting oneshot. There was really no growth in the main character. The twist at the end was definitely sad but I wasn't convinced by the impact of the ending.

Sophie Lucido Johnson: Dear Sophie, Love Sophie (GraphicNovel, 2022, Blackstone Audio, Incorporated) 2 stars

What would you say to your teenage self if you could?

Inspired by the journals …

Took me four months to read (but it's not bad!)

2 stars

It took me longer to read this than it took for me to read Dune. I realize that this is very much a me problem. In fact, all problems I have with books are me problems.

I tooted about this but I was constantly annoyed by how self-congratulatory this came off. Which is the point!! The point of the book is to console, reassure, and validate Sophie’s past self. But I was just so tired of it maybe two thirds of the way through. Still, a very wholesome and feel good book.

reviewed センシティブ・ボーイ 2 by Fourty-Six (センシティブ・ボーイ, #2)

Fourty-Six: センシティブ・ボーイ 2 (GraphicNovel, Japanese language, 2023, GANMA!) 3 stars

Responsible adults wanted

3 stars

Content warning Mentions of rape

Julia Rothman: Hello, NY (Paperback, 2014, Chronicle Books) 3 stars

Anyone who hearts New York will love this illustrated homage to the city. Artist, author, …

Made me hungry

3 stars

I want to go back to New York City. Cute and intimate read. I don't know if I would want to go to all of the places mentioned in the book, other than like, allll the food places. The art is really nice, I love the sketchbook journal feel. It's a great art style for memoirs.

reviewed Satoko and Nada Vol. 1 by Yupechika (Satoko and Nada, #1)

Yupechika, Marie Nishimori: Satoko and Nada Vol. 1 (GraphicNovel, 2018, Seven Seas Entertainment) 2 stars

Satoko, who is Japanese, has a new roommate in America: a Saudi Arabian woman named …

Wholesome

2 stars

Very cute and wholesome. I was originally to this book by the spine. I was not expecting to see a Hajibi on a manga volume. Also the typography on the spine was sleek.