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I‘m headed back into ŌOKU today! Only three more volumes until I‘ve caught up with everything the library owns.

After yesterday, I‘m at 6:46 for #20in4. A lot of that was a readthrough of an old manuscript I want to work on again, so I dunno if I‘ll do as well today, especially since Casey‘s gotta go to the vet this morning. We‘ll see what happens.

Time for tea & ŌOKU! I‘m so, so glad I finally got my hands on vol 12. I‘ve been anxious to read it for months, but my library decided not to pull holds from the branches that stayed closed when they did a soft-reopen for curbside pickup. Now they‘re getting ready to do hold fulfillment at alllll the branches, so I can continue the series!

I finished vol 11 of ŌOKU over breakfast. It‘s the last one I borrowed before the library closed again, and I‘m bitterly sorry I can‘t get the rest RIGHT NOW. Thank goodness the library still lets you place holds during the downtime; I should be in possession of the next five volumes pretty soon after they reopen, whenever that happens.

I broke with my nonfiction thing and read some more ŌOKU over lunch. It‘s a sweeping alternate history comic that posits most of the key players in Edo Period Japan were secretly women due to a plague that targeted young men. There‘s lots of gender stuff, lots of politicking, lots of actual Japanese history from a new angle, and, as of Vols 8 and 9, a fair amount of medical drama. I‘m loving it.

This was a blind pick off the library shelf before my week off started. I thought it might be about an assassin going by the cover. Boy was I off.

Superstore was out of the dumplings I wanted, but at least I got to try another Kit Kat flavour! This caramelized white chocolate is a winner.

I‘m loving ŌOKU, too. It‘s a gender-focused alternate history comic set in 17th and 18th century Japan.

Gender swapped Edo period Japan! 😮❤ Redface pox has swept through Japan, targeting young men and leading to a population shift of 25% men/75% women. Women are taking over as heads of families; farmers, merchants and in order to maintain political power the shogun.

Read the first four volumes and waiting on the last three from the library which I hope to finish during #WITmonth

This was a great book! This was suggested for me by my co-worker/friend at the library and I absolutely loved it! There are 14 volumes so I'm really looking forward to more of this story.

#Ooku #FumiYoshinaga