a very ✨SURPRISING✨ book haul (aka me accidentally not reading blurbs before buying books🤦🏻‍♀️)

[@itsmimiduong]

excuse me, the ML is your brother? 💀 that definitely got my attention. I LOVE Little Free Libraries! I got Reckless pretty recently from them! They literally put one in a couple week after the release?! 😳 Was so happy since I've been getting Powerless on my Libby loan, and been putting it off. Gave me a good reason to start reading it 😂 I've been hearing nothing but good things about A Crane Among Wolves! It's supposed to be super slowburn. I can't wait to hear what you think about it 👀 If you enjoy it, I might try to get a physical copy. I'm waiting for my copies of Blue Flag (5-8) from my library right now 😂I'm glad someone is enjoying it but, please I WANT TO READ IT AND FINISH IT! LMAO "it's just for decoration, I don't care" 💀😭 Same mood. I find that a lot of mangas have good premise and then just... gets too dragged on and idk why. I'm not reading Kaiju 8 because I have too many things to read 😭😭 But it's on my TBR. AHHH, I LOVED Wotaku Koi but I need more of the two ML 😭 I needed MORE!! I can't believe it's already done!! But that series had such great relationship and friendship. I think I also really like it because there was like a time in the USA where it was weird for liking manga/anime and it was a little relate-able (mainly for the FL). Love that the ML is just like dgaf. Enough that I was willing to look over his smoking habits 🥴 LOL my favorite is always when you start reading the back and you're SHOOK. HAHA. I'm the opposite though, I watch the anime first before I invest into the manga. Honestly, Yakuza Fiance sounds interesting until YOU SHOWED ME HIS FACE 😭😭😭😭 NOT THAT FACE. NO. I'm SUCH a snob when it comes to art. A little too much. 😭😭 YESS! I really liked Funny Story. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT IT. I'll be calling you out if I don't see it at the August wrap up 😏

[@love.lauren...]

AHAHAH yep i didnt know that going in and when i realised it was (kind of) her brother at least publicly i was like???? im sorry? genuinely i have never seen one in a little residential side-street before (granted it was in the city) but i was like OMG! I was surprised they actually had really good stuff too! I'm gonna make Crane Among Wolves a priority because it sounds amazing and I LOVE a slow burn so i will certainly be sure to update! this is so me with books on reserve like i got so happy seeing the next kaiju no. 8 had 5 reserves but also like WHEN WILL IT BE MY TURN😭😭😭yeah especially LONG ass manga series like at this point you have said what you wanted to say, just wrap it up so i can see a satisfying ending 😭 KAIJU NO.8 MUST FIND ITS WAY TO YOU!!! jokes aside take your time but it is probably my favourite series of the year at this point like its just giving me everything i want! omg in the US too??? same for australia, i kind of got bullied for my nerdy interests as a kid (manga, anime, video games, etc.) and now its mainstream and cool? i feel so happy for this generation of kids but at the same time i am a LITTLE bitter 🥺🥲😅 thank god another smoking hater, like i can overlook it in fiction but i dont think i could ever DATE a smoker irl just a deal breaker for me 😭im so excited to read it though i love their dynamic and DEFINITEKLY related to the FL! genuinely i need to start reading the full blurb because im like catfishing myself with books hahaah sometimes in a good way and sometimes in a bad way! THANK YOU LIKE THE ART??? his face pisses me off like i wanna cry because it sounds interesting but like that face? nooooo 😭😭😭 okay im starting funny story today thats my sign!!!!!!!!!

[@itsmimiduong]

@@love.lauren... YESS, I think you'll like it from your preferences but I haven't actually read it so who knows 😂 Like honestly, I've been marketed plenty on Tiktok and... some of them are not it 😩 Good idea, poor execution. Honestly... I think slowburn is growing on me, between The Cruel Prince series and The Poppy War. Me squinting to try to get a crumb of their romance. I love that people are reading but I'm just impatient 😂 I was surprised that they had Blue Flag! Technically it's available on Viz but it just feels so much nicer to have in hand 🫢 Plus I think they more it gets checked out, the more alert the library near me will know there's a manga reader 👀I think, I hope. We don't have much except for the super popular one... meaning Kaiju is not on the list 😭I say all of this but I pay for Viz monthly so technically I can just binge it LOL. Yeah, in the US too and I lived in a pretty progressive area 🫠 I'm happy for the new generation but I'm also bitter. Like these kids don't know we fought TOOTH AND NAIL for them!! oisetoiset I really hate it in manga (I feel like it can be kinda common sometimes), so I just try to ignore it but yeah, I'm not a fan 😩The manga was so cute! I love the friends too! I think you'll enjoy Funny Story!! Though, after reading Just for the Summer, I don't think anything can top that LOL

[@Chronicallyd]

LOOK, I see your video and I instantly click. House of Salt and Sorrow is definitely vibes and fairytale like! A good cold weather read ❄️ BLUELOCK 🦅🦅🦅🦅 LMAO manga is one of those things I go in blind and am like ?????!!!!!! If I had a dollar for every weird sibling romance I accidentally read it would be only 2 but that’s already too much.

[@love.lauren...]

that is me with your videos too!! (I have a bunch of your recent vlogs in my Watch Later folder for when I'm not so busy I PROMISE IM GETTING TO THEM!!) OOOOH I'll definitely have to jump on it then! BLUELOCK RARRRRR 🐎🐎🐎 no fr because like why do I jump into manga blind and its an incestuous, age gap, assault story like.....and then why do I get to like volume 6 before DNFing like manga are so easy to read that my threshold for slop is so much higher haha 🥹😭

[@Chronicallyd]

@@love.lauren... No worries!! I've been slammed with work so I totally understand not having time ☺ Ughhh so true. The things I let go in manga would be instant DNFs in novels for me. The SA to being a couple pineline in manga drives me up the wall! I always say I'm going to be more selective...but here I am not learning my lesson 🥲

[@brooklinslibrary]

Queen if you read Funny Story, Ill read Happy Place 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

[@love.lauren...]

THIS. THIS IS THE MOTIVATION I NEEDED! i am holding the book in my hands as I write this right now, this is happening!!

[@brooklinslibrary]

@@love.lauren... Tea now I need to buy Happy Place LOL

[@rinnie_cakes]

I can look past the Sado-masochism but I draw the line at bad art 😬😬😬 Damn, way to ruin an actual cool sounding premise RIP

[@love.lauren...]

HAHAHA omg wait is that a Community reference!!? and ikr like im actually devastated, ill still give it a go buttttt like the art? his face? it's giving me NOTHING 😭😭😭

[@rinnie_cakes]

@@love.lauren... Yes, it was a Community reference 😎