For me I didn’t so much dislike it as want it to deliver something more. Reading my review I said something about feeling like the author maybe wasn’t great at short form content, and I would be open to reading something by them again. Just, perhaps long form instead since the bite I want from shorts wasn’t there for me.
I do love Terrible People Doing Terrible Things, so it’s firmly in a loved genre, just not 100% my flavor of it I suppose
I have now added it to my wish list, which now reaches the 3rd page despite my best efforts to control it…
Sure! And I often have that issue with short stories too. Case in point, I would have loved the first story to go on longer than that (even be a full book). That’s what made your review even more effective (?) on me. 
(Luckily, I didn’t get that issue this time around)
I would read that book…what happened next with yummy 係長?! I want to know!!! 
That’s the thing I was thinking about! Plus, what about the other woman who was gunning for him? She certainly wouldn’t let りな get ahead like that. Will she figure out that the surgery was fake and use it to put more social pressure on りな?
She could try, but I have faith りな would prevail 
I finished 亡びの国の征服者 1 ~魔王は世界を征服するようです~ | L32 - solidly enjoyed it. Probably the best one can expect from isekai fantasy that’s playing things completely straight and without wallowing in the tropes of the genre too hard. Also feels a bit like the story hasn’t actually started though.
Yesterday I polished off Gunslinger Girl. Could probably have done without the second epilogue, but overall big fan of the series. Maybe I should go back to reading manga…
I’ve just started ひとつ火の粉の雪の中 (新潮文庫 あ 81-1 nex) | L32??. No real opinion yet, but seems like an easy read.
I finally finished reading 夏の終り | L35??! Can cross that off my TBR after 10+ years now. 
I think I would’ve enjoyed it more if I read it in one go instead of stretched out across 4 months with multiple pauses in between but sometimes that happens. It was an interesting “私小説”, although kind of emotionally tiring to read at some points. I think that speaks to the writing and how well the feelings and inner turmoil of the narrators came across. All in all I’m glad I finally finished this after owning it for so long.
I just have the square “found for free” left on my bingo card and it was surprisingly hard to find something in my physical TBR that I could use for this. I decided to go with 越境者が読んだ近代日本文学―境界をつくるもの、こわすもの | L36??, which I quite literally found on a book of free Japanese books that were being given away. It appears the author is (was? The book is from 1999…) a scholar of Japanese literature who grew up in America and the book looks at both national literatures from a comparative literature pov.
It’s 450 pages and has the potential to be dry because it appears to maybe be a university literature(?), so I’m kind of worried about finishing this in 2024 since I’m not reading so much in Japanese lately but let’s see how it goes. Gotta finish the bingo square!!!
I’d also note it’s an absolute steal that I got it for free. The obi says the selling price is ¥4600 and the Amazon listing says ¥5000 for a used copy. 
Not exactly sure it’s in high demand on the retail market, but free is the best price!
I’ve got some Life 
going on which has utterly shot my focus for the past several days, and I absolutely cannot focus on my bookclub books because I have this sense of “I need to read them properly to discuss them” and since I’m too distracted to do that, I’ve been reading nothing 
Hopefully next week things will settle down, but if not I’ll just play catchup after the jlpt that I also have completely stopped studying for 
So naturally I started a new book. New book good. New book solves all problems 
It’s a random 恩田陸 book that has only been added to Natively as a 上・下 set, but I have the combined hardcover so I’ll probably just wait til I’m done and list them both finished. Having duplicate versions of books kind of annoys me so I don’t want to add my version 
