Hi friends!

I hope you had a good start to the week! I haven’t been reading all that much, but I have managed to finish:

• Totto-Chan by Kuroyanagi Tetsuko – This is one of my childhood favourites! Although I generally enjoyed school, I really wanted to go to either Whyteleafe or Tomoe. While this is basically a series of vignettes about Totto-chan’s childhood, it has a lot of charm and a lot of heart to it. Loved it then, love it now.
• One more chapter of The Tale of Genji – Genji has managed to make all this big mistakes, so if I remember correctly, he’s going to be exiled fairly soon. One thing that gets me about The Tale of Genji is how Genji basically gets by on his good looks. For example, his father-in-law tends to be exasperated by Genji’s neglect of his wife, but when he looks at Genji or sees him dancing, he can’t help but spoil his son-in-law/be so moved by Genji’s dance he cries. Genji is spoiled, is what I’m saying.

Currently, I’m reading one of my NetGalley books and I seem to have borrowed quite a few ebooks from the library (and for some reason, books seem to take a longer time when I’m on my kobo) so we shall see how that goes!

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