Candy Bunny Reader

  I also do this tag every year in September! If you choose to do this tag, I hope to see your answers. 1.  A popular book or series you didn't like.  As always, I have too many answers for this one. I guess I'll have to go with one I read this year that was pretty disappointing: Josee, The Tiger, and The Fish by Seiko Tanabe. 2.  A book/series a lot of people don't like, but you liked.  I think these two books are more divided than widely disliked. They are The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett and A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I really liked those two books, especially A Little Princess! 3.  A love triangle where the main character ended up with the person didn’t want them to end up with/an OTP that you don’t like. I will try to keep it as spoiler-free as possible, but let's just say I do not like who Xingyin (the MC) ends up with in Heart of the Sun Warrior (the sequel to Daughter of the Moon Goddess ) by Sue Lynn Tan. Very disappointing ...

  All the books I read in August! I read a total of 13 books .  It was a mostly positive reading month. Although I did have one 3 star book (the Josee manga).  Here are the books and links to their Goodreads summaries (click on the titles): The Witch Boy , The Hidden Witch , and The Midwinter Witch all by Molly Ostertag . All three got 5 stars! The Remarkables by Margaret Peterson Haddix . 5 stars. A Sign of Affection Omnibus (Volumes 1, 2, and 3) by Suu Morishita -5 stars. Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish by Seiko Tanabe -3 stars The Golden Road by LM Montgomery (sequel to The Story Girl )-4 stars Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin -4 stars Call the Name of the Night Volume 1 by Tama Mitsubushi -5 stars Siuil a Run Volume 1 Deluxe Edition by Nagabe -4.5 stars Witch Hat Kitchen Volume 1 by Kamome Shirahama and Hiromi Sato -5 stars Willa of Dark Hollow by Robert Beatty -4 stars Ellen Tebbits by Beverly Cleary -5 stars

  Aw man, this was kind of disappointing... Josee the Tiger and the Fish by Seiko Tanabe and Nao Emoto is about Tsuneo, a college student who likes scuba diving and wants to study abroad in Mexico. He works various jobs to save up for his travels. One day he accidentally runs into a wheelchair user and artist (painter) named Kumiko who prefers to go by Josee, and her grandmother. Things get off to a rocky start, but Josee's grandmother decides to hire Tsuneo to be Josee's caretaker. As he keeps coming to take care of Josee every day, he finds out she's been isolated by her grandmother practically her whole life due to her disability. Only now as Tsuneo keeps taking her out, she slowly starts to experience things she never has before.  This story sounded like something right up my alley, and it did do plenty of things I liked. I liked the disability rep, Josee's art, a new friend she makes who is a librarian, Josee's picture book story that's loosely about her a...