This week I’m gonna go back to trying to link up with folks doing WWW Wednesday via Taking On a World of Words! I didn’t get a lot of return comments or anything before, but still, it’s a nice way to read more blogs and maybe find more like-minded people myself.

What have you recently finished reading?

Unusually for me, it’s actually been a couple of days since I read anything at all, but I think the last thing I finished was volume ten of the Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint manhwa, which was (as ever) fun. I’m eager for big events, though: it feels like this volume was doing some setup, and when you think about what actually happened it was important, but… it didn’t feel like it got us much further forward.

What are you currently reading?

Assuming I get round to reading ever again, I want to focus on finishing Cecilia Edward’s An Ancient Witch’s Guide to Modern Dating. It’s a bit too much on the romcom side for me, but I’m juuust curious enough to keep going with it. I knooow it’s meant to be funny, but I do find Thorn’s focus on using love potions to snare herself a guy grating, not just because she’s basing her value on whether she can find herself a husband, but also because hello, consent?! The scenes at the start with the guy she gave the love potion weren’t funny to me because of it, and I couldn’t sympathise with her (still can’t, really). So far I do not get a sense the book’s ever going to address that, but I guess I’m going to find out.

Other than that, it’s been a few days since I picked anything else up: I do still have a lot of books on the go, and would like to whittle it down, but less-than-ideal time management and a shiny new crochet project have been eating my reading time.

What will you be reading next?

Let me read anything at all and I’ll get back to you on this, heh. But most likely the next new thing I pick up will be Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint vol 3, the novel version, and otherwise I’ll focus on books I started reading but haven’t finished. One candidate there would be Feng Yu Nie’s Mistakenly Saving the Villain, because I started reading volume one and was definitely having fun. Song Qingshi’s lack of genre-savviness is very entertaining.