Manga mania

As the majority of my reading is adult contemporary romance and KU smut, I try to expand my reading into other genres, age groups, and formats. One of those expansion areas is into graphic novels and Manga. 

A couple years ago, I tried some manga and finally decided that it wasn't for me. I kept getting confused with the art style and reading right to left. It really upset me because I wanted to like manga. 

Several of the booktubers I follow have been getting into manga over the last 6 months or so. Or I'm just now realizing how much manga some of them do read. One particular booktuber, Gavin, has fallen in love with manga especially the One Piece series. He had a patreon only 48 hour readathon last month called Geekend. Where the goal was to do the things that make you a geek. So he read manga for the whole weekend. 

After watching the vlog I was encouraged to try out some more manga. So I went to the library to find some manga to read. I picked up the first volume in several series that I heard good things about on booktube and ones that just looked good to me.

I enjoyed several of the ones I originally picked up and have picked up more series to try out. And have continued in 2 series already. I'm glad that I'm finding manga that I like.

The problem with reading manga is that my reading total is so high. And it takes up all the space in my reading journal.

And my hubby doesn't think that reading graphic novels and Manga count as reading because it's mostly pictures. He calls it picture books. I count it as reading and anyone who says it doesn't count is wrong. 

Okay, I'm off to reading another manga volume before I go back to the library. 

Have a good day and happy reading.