Candy Bunny Reader

  Long title, but self-explanatory. I do not own any of the media shown here!  

What's your favorite movie/show/video game (yeah, he's voiced video game characters!) Tim Curry was in? Mine was when he voiced the Mouse King in Barbie in the Nutcracker. When a legend passes away, you have to read his life story.  Vagabond is famous British actor Tim Curry 's memoir, chronicling his early years growing up in Britain, how he got into acting, and some fun behind the scenes trivia and sentiments about his time working on his most famous projects, from The Rocky Horror Picture Show to The Wild Thornberrys.   This was very digestible! Tim Curry wrote his book with a lot of dry humor but also warmth. He has never been one to stayed tied down to one place for too long (hence the title "Vagabond"), and he hopes that his memoir touches his readers' in some way (it did for me!).   I gave this 5 stars ! 

  Yup, another graphic novel I picked up on a whim. My Tokyo Summer by Abby Benson is semi-autobiographical, and is about the author and her experience being a new and young manga creator in the 80s and 90s. Y'know, back when anime and manga wasn't as mainstream in the US as it is now. Abby gets her start writing her comics in zines and distributing them in select shops in New York City. At the same time, a Japanese girl named Yuuko comes across one her zines and loves it! The girls end up connecting and writing their own original manga when Abby goes to study abroad in Japan during her college years. They sell their works at a Comiket. They also bond a lot over food.   This was a very cute and fun graphic novel. It was so interesting to see how being an otaku in America was like back in the 80s and 90s. And how people made and sold things without the Internet. And how people learned other languages without technology! I gave it 4 stars , but that's only because I though...

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  Honestly, I felt pretty burnt out last month with other things going on in my personal life. That's why I didn't read as much. But hopefully this month I'll have more energy and read more!  

Well, as an AroAce person myself I had to do this!    By the way some of these are series (the manga in particular).   I am still planning to read more books with this kind of rep! And aromantic rep too. 

  Okay, honestly, I haven't seen every Studio Ghibli movie yet, and more are likely to come, but this is what I love so far.

This was on my TBR for a while! Sensory: Life on the Spectrum is a comic anthology edited by Bex Ollerton . It's a compilation of comics by popular autistic artists (mostly based in the UK) about their personal experiences being autistic.  The comics vary from sad, to funny, to a mixture of both. Some are even educational! With so many unique art styles! They all have the same message: there is nothing wrong with you and you are not alone.  I loved this book so much! It gets 5 stars from me. This book was especially helpful for me as an autistic adult that was diagnosed later in life. A lot of the artists featured in this book were just like me! But anyone whether your are neurodivergent (autism or anything else) or neurotypical should read this. 

  I love One Piece but I almost never talk about it on here! Since I am mostly caught up with the story I thought I would share who my most favorite characters are.  I actually have a lot of ideas for One Piece content in the future! I just need to make the time to make and post them. I do not own One Piece. One Piece is written and illustrated by Eichiro Oda.    

  A cute graphic novel I picked up on a whim.  Fae and the Moon by Franco and Catherine and Sarah Satrun is set in a fantasy world. The main character, Fae, is a girl living all by herself after her magical witch mother mysteriously disappeared. She spends most of her days tending to her mother's moon garden and feeding the animals near her house. She sometimes talks to a talking rabbit named Percival.  One day Fae thinks she is one step closer to finding her mother because of her connection to the moon. Fae takes the moon from the sky (literally) because she thinks if her mom doesn't see the moon in the sky, she might come back. Unfortunately, the moon is stolen by a huge colony of mice living underneath her house. At the same time, a dragon appears and seems to attack Fae, but he was really trying to protect her from someone or something.  Fae eventually learns why the mice stole the moon, and where her mother went, and the mystery of the dragon that suddenly appe...

  Man, I keep forgetting this is an ongoing post series on my blog. Note to self: when you run out of ideas, just talk about underrated books.  The previous parts can be seen on the navigation page! 

I liked most of these. See any you recognize?  

So I somehow forgot this tag existed until I saw people I follow in Instagram do it. As it turns out I did do this tag for the first time back in 2023. So if you interested in those year's answers you can check them out here .     

A crossover of Western classic isekais (stories where characters get transported to another world. The word is from Japanese).  Cheshire Crossing by Andy Weir (yes, of Project Hail Mary  fame and other sci fi books) and Sarah Anderson  is a story of Alice, Wendy, and Dorothy of Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and the Wizard of Oz fame all come together in a school/boarding house of sorts to be studied by an eccentric scientist named Dr. Rutherford. He believes they possess the inherit ability to just move between worlds willingly. Taking care of the girls' needs is a nanny named Ms. Poole (she's also another famous magical nanny you might of heard of...).  Alice in particular doesn't like this setup and kicks off the conflict by deciding to escape by stealing Dorothy's silver shoes. Wendy and Dorothy follow her to Oz (as it turns out they do have the innate ability to move without actual objects), and they all end find out the Wicked Witch of the West who is someho...

  Just another chill reading month...   The single DNF was so disappointing because it came from an author where I normally love her books. But this one was so...lackluster? It had an interesting premise but the characters were just not interesting. It's hard to care about the plot when you can't care about the characters. 

  I saw one of my followers do this tag on Instagram and I had to do it too! The tag was originally created by @readromanread (over on Instagram). 1. The Queen of Hearts: A book with great villains. Both books in the The Avatar Roku duology by Randy Ribay. 2. Alice: A book with a smart FMC Evie von Rath in the Blight Harbor series by Lora Senf!   3. Mad Hatter: a character that comes across the opposite of how they really are We got two of these kind of guys in the same book: Wundersmith (book 2 of the Morrigan Crow series by Jessica Townsend. If you know, you know.  4. White Rabbit: A book everyone has been recommending Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro  5. Cheshire Cat: a book that surprised you.  The Poet X by Elizabeth Avecedo. I don't usually like books written in verse, but this was so good! 6. March Hare: a character you'd share the tea with Nicola and Simon from Nicola Traveling Through the Demon Realm manga series.  7. Caterpillar: A book ...

    Drop everything right now and go read this!  Navigating with You by Jeremy Whitley, Cassio Ribeiro, and Nikki Foxrobot is a graphic novel set in North Carolina! It follows two girls who become best friends and then girlfriends, Neesha and Gabby. Neesha just moved from New York after her parents divorced. She also has cerebral palsy and is an  ambulatory wheelchair user . Gabby just moved from Florida after her father got a new job. She also has PTSD. The two girls become friends through bonding over hunting down the volumes of, and rereading, their favorite childhood manga: Navigator Nozomi. It's a very slice of life-ish story of the girls having fun as regular anime-loving friends do, and dealing with their trauma by learning to get vulnerable and communicate more openly with each other.  If you couldn't already tell, this book had everything that I love: an ethnically diverse cast, sapphic romance, anime references, fandom culture, and mental health repre...

  As the title says. I picked out these books based on their vibes.