Candy Bunny Reader

    It's such a great feeling when you finally get around to reading a popular manga you've know about for a long time, and end up liking it! This is the omnibus edition (they combined all the manga volumes into one big one).  Puella Magi Madoka Magica by Magical Quartet is about teenage girl Madoka, who gets pulled into a magical girl contract by a mysterious creature named Kyubey. The contract guarantees that one wish of theirs will be granted, but they have to fight these monsters called "witches" in order to maintain balance in the universe. Madoka wishes to protect everyone she loves. Madoka's best friend Sayaka gets pulled into to a contract, too, and she wishes to see her childhood friend Kyousuke get better after an accident.  While this is all going on, a mysterious girl named Homura keeps showing up and tries to get the girls (mostly Madoka) to stop doing magical girl duties.  Well, the girls find out very quickly part of the reason why that is. The...

Um, I think I expected a little too much from this one... The graphic novel adaptation of Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (and illustrated by Celia Moscote) is about 19-year old Juliet, who is queer, Latina, and lives in the Bronx. She gets accepted to do a writing internship with her favorite queer feminist author, Harlowe Brisbane. After coming out to her mother as a lesbian goes wrong, and her girlfriend Lanie starts to seem distant with her, Juliet hops on the first flight to Portland, Oregon to work with Harlowe. Harlowe lets Juliet room and board at her house, and she gets familiar with people in her social circle, mostly Harlowe's ex named Max and her new girlfriend Zaira (they first meet at a writer's club). Juliet also goes a lot to the library to do research and gets close with an intern there named Kira. Juliet is happy to be surrounded by a lot of like-minded people at first, but Harlowe is probably not who she seems to be... This story did a lot of things th...

  This is the stand-alone sequel to When it All Syncs Up by Maya Ameyaw , which I read and reviewed earlier this year! You can read that review here .  Under All the Lights follows Aisha's (from the first book) boyfriend Ollie, who is a amateur musician. Recently his family has fallen on hard times financially, and he has been having a lot of conflicts with his dad. When a homemade music video of his goes viral after being shared by popular singer Jesse Jacobs after a musical festival, he is given an offer by Jesse's record label to tour around the country (Canada) with him! Ollie accepts the offer. His goal is to help his family, and maybe the tour will be his one way ticket to a good music school. But he has to do all of this while managing his anxiety, which isn't easy. Just like When it All Syncs Up , it's a book that deals with a lot of heavy stuff (but handled in a good way!) while also pursuing ones dreams. The book is also very diverse, too. Ollie is Algerian-Ca...

  This is not a typical review. It's just that I read the entire Bone series by Jeff Smith a few years ago when I first started my blog, and it was epic! I need to reread the series sometime, and the rest of the supplemental material. This book is the prequel about the character Thorn's grandmother, and the events of what led to the conflict that we see in Bone (if you know, you know). I gave it 5 stars !

  At least one of these are actually quite well known.  You can look at the previous parts under the Navigation page, as usual! 1. Morisaki Bookshop duology by Satoshi Yagisawa --Takako just broke up with her boyfriend and left her job...and finds herself living with and working at her eccentric uncle's used book store. Slowly Takako starts enjoying life again with all the new people she meets--and finds out something shocking about her long-lost aunt.   2. Mysteries of Trash and Treasure Trilogy by Margaret Peterson Haddix --of course I have to share something by Ms. Haddix! Each book follows Colin and his new best friend Neveah figuring out life-changing mysteries through the junk each of their parents collect.  3.  I Want to be a Wall manga series by Honami Shirono-- A 3 volume manga series about an asexual lady and a closeted gay man navigating their new life as a married couple not in love with each other. They also learn more about what it means to be...

  I had a great reading month! I read a total of 11 books and DNF 6 . Links to reviews if applicable. 5 stars: 1. The Awakening of Roku by Randy Ribay 2. A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll 3. Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi 4. Somali and the Forest Spirit Volume 4 by Yako Gureishi 5. She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat Volume 3 by Sakaomi Yuzaki 6. Nicola Traveling Around the Demon's World Volumes 1-4 by Asaya Miyanagi (I reviewed the first two volumes)   The 4.5 star book: One Piece Heroines Volume 2 by several authors (original creator Eichiro Oda)   The 4 star book:  In Over Their Heads by Margaret Peterson Haddix    Books I DNF because I thought they were bad:  1. Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree 2. Sorceline by Sylvia Douye 3. Jane and Dan at the End of the World by Colleen Oakley.     Books I DNF because I thought they were boring: 1. The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan 2. The Queer Girl is Going to by Okay by Dale Walls ...