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🥳🎈🎊🍾🎉 100 books!

It is not all a slog. There is a nice romantic moment leading up to him confessing his love for his second wife. He even fainted when they kissed. The closest I have ever come to romantic fainting is crashing a Bixi when falling in love and falling down in the street when getting dumped over a text message.

I find myself relating to some of the stuff in this novel in a cringey way. These ruminations about a certain set of authors riffing on nihilism, Stockholm, and Borges have all bounced around in my head too at points too, lol.

This is gonna be hard for me to read since I am reading it off one of those manga reading sites.

The punch line of the first chapter made me burst out in laughter in middle of a quiet cafe.

I opened up the French edition of this in the library today and was completely awestruck by the images on the last pages (proving I am also a vampire from Clan Toreador).

This is the English edition, which I own but have never read.

Osamu Tezuka is my favorite manga writer, hands down, far ahead of any other. I think I will close out my “read 100 books in 2024” with him.

@peoplelikebooks Wow, impressed… because when these books are slow, they are ~~~slow~~~.