Matthew reads, I guess...

  Today I’m talking about Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky and I know that I found out about this book from Twitter. I remember I saw one of the authors that I follow interacting with Janovsky’s tweet actually announcing the book and that’s how I knew about it in the first place. But then it was also one of those that even though I bookmarked the announcement tweet, I forgot about the book until I saw it in a bookshop and bought it there. The blurb says that Wren Roland has never been kissed, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. On the eve of his birthday, he sends emails to all the boys he loved before he came out and has the Oh God What Did I Do? Moment the morning after. Then Derick Haverford, Wren’s #1 pre-coming-out crush and his drive-in theatre’s intern, comes back into his life. Everyone claims he’s coasting on his good looks, but Wren has always known there’s more to Derick than meets the eye. Too bad he doesn’t feel the same way about the in...

  In my post talking generally about graphic novels and manga I mentioned that there was a manga that I was either buying, or waiting to arrive, I don’t remember which. Either way, the one I was talking about was, like you can tell from the title, Cherry Magic . Although the whole title is wild . It’s Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! by Yuu Toyota. So, I knew about this because of the show, also called Cherry Magic (I know its Japanese name isn’t this, but its translated name is), that I’ve watched three times through. Honestly, it’s probably my favourite Japanese BL show, I can confidently say that. But because of that, I already knew the concept and basic storyline. Adachi is a virgin when he turns thirty and ends up getting the ability to read people’s minds when he touches them, and because of that, he finds out that the hotshot guy at his office, Kurosawa, has feelings for him. That’s what it was in the show, and reading the blurb on myanimel...