I have hit a snag in reviews due to the number of prose materials I am chugging through.
Right now I’m reading these 4 books:
Yuri Bungei Novel Contest Selection (百合文芸小説 コンテスト セレクション) from Pixiv and Comic Yuri Hime which I picked up in 2019 (yeah, it’s taken me this long to get to it,) a collection of short stories, which is really original and fascinating, Watashi ha Ongaku de Naguritai (わたしは音楽で殴りたい) by Yuruico Vraisravana, a self-published Yuri Novel I picked up at Comitia a number of years ago (even longer ago, yep.)
And I’m also working my way through The Tyrant Cormorant Baru by Seth Dickinson and The sixth Murderbot novel, Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells dropped today. So, my reading of manga is crawling along in between all of this prose. I should be back on track by next week. In the meantime, let me assure you – all of these books are great!
If you ever wonder what I’m currently reading, I have an Instagram account (@OkazuYuri) on which I document that very thing in a completely random fashion. ^_^
Gotta go get reading!
I’ve been meaning to get to the third *Baru Cormorant* novel.
I can’t seem to see your Instagram account, but do you know Arkady Martine (*A memory of empire*, *A desolation called peace*)?
I also think you might like Nghi Vo’s novellas/short stories (*The empress of salt and forture*, *When the tiger came down from the mountain*)
Thanks for the recs. I have heard of these, but not read any.
Just in case I posted the wrong URL, the Insta is: https://www.instagram.com/OkazuYuri/ (@OKazuYuri)
Try the Nghi Vo shorts, first — about a mendicant librarian/archivist and their intelligent bird familiar collecting “history” in the field. (The first book is *The empress of salt and fortune*.)
(I think the Instagram problem is me, not your link — no Instagram account on my end.)
Thank you very much.