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Underrated Books Part 6

  Here is Part 6 of underrated books you should add to your TBR! Check out the first 5 parts on here: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 1. Kitchen Princess manga series by Miyuki Kobayashi and Natsumi Ando. I read this manga when I was in middle school and it's one of my favorites. This is about Najika, a girl who is an orphan who likes cooking and baking. Her birth parents were also famous chefs. One day when she was little she met a mysterious boy who gave her some flan and a fancy spoon to eat it with to cheer her up. Years later she still thinks about him and decides to go find him. She calls him "her Flan prince." She gets a clue about him from the spoon he gave her: it has the seal of a famous cooking school. Najika decides to attend the school to learn to make more foods but also to find her Flan prince. There she gets tangled up in a lot of drama, but also makes new friends along the way. This is such a cute, sweet, and emotional shojo manga!  2. In The...

Classics Book Tag

So I first saw this tag over on the YouTube channel of Mara from bookslikewhoa (check out her video here !), but the tag is originally from another book blog It's a Books World (the original post here ).  As always, I never tag anyone, so feel free to do this tag if you see it! I'd love to see your answers. 1. An overhyped classic you did not like.  Yikes, I have too many answers for this one! I've already said Pride and Prejudice before in two other book tags I did (the first time I did the Unpopular Opinions book tag and Musicals Go Bookish tag ), so I will go with another one I didn't like that I haven't mentioned yet, and that's The Outsiders by SE Hinton . I had this book as a required reading way back in middle school and I thought the story was sooo sad! Even my 12 year old self couldn't understand why we had to read it for school. Even now as an adult I would not consider reading it for fun. Reading about gangs fighting each other is sooo not my th...