It’s slightly larger than your average B6 manga, with a hardback cover and thicker paper than most LNs. Also way more illustrations than usual
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I don’t think there are that many illustrations. Good to know about the other reasons though. (Not that I see those benefits on my kindle even with the higher price.)
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I’m used to seeing like max 4-6 illustrations (not counting the beginning pages), this one has about 9, if I didn’t miss anything flipping through, plus 2 pages of illustrated character intros in the back.
Idk it was enough that it stood out to me when I picked the big, and saw the page edges. I’m kinda glad I got the physical since it’s so nice… But I’m going to end up reading it on Kindle anyway, just for ease of looking 
but at least I can see the printed pictures now
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Maybe I’m just spoiled by 本好き always having a lot of artwork in each volume.
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I just finished 恋した人は、妹の代わりに死んでくれと言った。―妹と結婚した片思い相手がなぜ今さら私のもとに?と思ったら―【電子書籍限定書き下ろしSS付き】 Celicaノベルス | L30?? I bought the whole series when it was heavily discounted a couple of months ago. That series was consistently in the top of the booklive 女性向け light novels last year, and even ranked second in the yearly ranking of bookmeter, so I thought I’d give it a shot (plus, it matches one of the bingo prompts)
The world building is pretty intriguing, but the story is sloooooooow. The author keeps saying the same thing (eg, the main character saying she is not good enough to be with the guy she love; okay, yeah, I got that the first 100 times you said so, can we move on). It is quite interesting though (as the title implies, the relationship with said guy is beyond repair, but she doesn’t die obviously, and after a 23 years time skip, she meets his son, who looks just like him… he is her nephew, though, that’s a bit of a nope in my book, but they are technically not blood relatives; also she lives in a wasteland corrupted by the magical equivalent of radioactivity)
There’s a little bit more to it, but it’s still frustrating that I can sum up the major plot points in a single sentence.
Hopefully things start moving faster in the next volume…
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I finished the main part of 暇と退屈の倫理学 | L30?? (there’s an extra essay at the end that was added for the paperback edition that I still need to read). I’ve enjoyed reading this – it’s philosophy written for a popular audience by a philosophy professor, and the author explains the ideas he’s working through in a readable and comprehensible way. (There are extensive endnotes also, which he notes that you don’t need to read, and the (harder to read) quotes from the original authors are mostly relegated to the endnotes.)
The book is an examination of why we get bored and what we should do about it, working through what people like Pascal, Heidegger, and others have said about it, as well as some perspectives from anthropology and economics; the author then makes their own line of argument and conclusion from this. It fell into about the right difficulty level for non-fiction for where I am right now: not easy, but not a really slow crawl with a ton of dictionary lookups either. The author provides enough concrete examples and repetition that it’s not a pure sea of abstract concepts.
I read the conclusion last night while I had a nasty headache, which wasn’t very conducive to assimilating what the author wanted to say. I might reread that bit at some point.
Recommended, assuming “philosophy for a popular audience” is something you’d be interested in in the first place.
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Finished 東方酔蝶華 ~ロータスイーター達の酔醒 1 | L25 and wrote a review. Tldr: it was fun enough, and easy to read, but nothing really wow about it
Next up: ふたごわずらい 1 | L24?? then サボりなら保健室でどうぞ?(1) | L24?? (which I expect to be very uncomfortable reading 笑). Novels: 花物語 上 | L39 (parts), お釈迦様もみてる2 学院のおもちゃ【マリア様がみてるカラー口絵つき】 | L29
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Caught up to the latest chapter. I think it’s a pretty solid read, that’s fairly original, and has some interesting storytelling. While it does raise some ethical questions, it’s not hitting hard and deep the way say 鋼の錬金術師 1 | L29 does. Some suspension of disbelief issues, but not enough to interfere with enjoying, if you like the characters. Anyway I’m looking forward to keeping up with it, and to the anime.
Also finished:
- 恋の絶望行進曲 | L17 - 2nd yuri manga I ever gave a 1 star to. The story of “how to date someone who treats you like crap and still end up in a relationship with them 10 years later”. If it had ended at the penultimate chapter, when the MC finally broke up with the girl who was intentionally neglecting, cheating on, and lying to her, it would have actually been a solid read.
- ふたごわずらい | L18 - overall not bad, my only real disappointment was I thought it would be longer than it actually was (vol 3 is just two follow-up stories). Was tamer than I was expecting, but still has some good 煩い levels
- サボりなら保健室でどうぞ? | L18 - it’s fine. If you like the genre already, you’ll probably enjoy it. Otherwise it’s on the tamer side, so if you wanted to check out that genre, it’s probably a decent starting point. Not missing anything if you skip it tho.
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