Ranma 1/2 (2 in 1 Edition) Vol.1 by Rumiko Takahashi Series: Ranma 1/2 1 and 2 Published July 27, 2021 Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Romance Format: Paperback Buy: Amazon
One day, teenaged martial artist Ranma Saotome went on a training mission with his father and ended up taking a dive into some cursed springs at a legendary training ground in China. Now, every time he’s splashed with cold water, he changes into a girl. His father, Genma, changes into a panda! What’s a half-guy, half-girl to do?
Years ago, Genma promised his old friend Soun Tendo that Ranma would marry one of Soun’s three daughters and carry on the family’s martial arts school. Except that the girl picked to be Ranma’s bride doesn’t seem to like him, Ranma keeps getting into fights, and did we mention that whole changing into a girl thing?
This book is about Ranma, a boy who one day went to China to train in martial arts and fell into a cursed spring, and so did his father. His father turned into a Panda and Ranma into a girl, this happens when they get in contact with cold water. Hot water changes them back.
Now, his father decided to do good on his promise to an old friend, to marry Ranma with one of his three daughters. Akane was the chosen one.
Ranma keeps getting into fights at his new school and with everything happening, he keeps on changing at times and confusing everyone.
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
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This week’s topic is: Books I’ve Read/Want to Read Because of Top Ten Tuesday (books you discovered through Top Ten Tuesday, or they kept appearing in top tens and you got intrigued) (submitted by Ellie at Curiosity Killed the Bookworm)
Hey guys! This is going to be a mix of books I’ve seen or heard about in other platforms too. I definitely saw them in TTT, but I don’t know if I added them just for that. Let’s see what I came up with!
High School Debut Omnibus 1 by Kazune Kawahara Series: High School Debut Vol.1-3 First published February 4, 2014 Publisher: VIZ Media Genres: Manga, Romance Pages: 542 Format: Paperback Buy:Amazon
Hapless Haruna needs help finding a boyfriend! After failing to win the eye of any guy in high school, Haruna enlists the help of cute upperclassmen Yoh to coach her on how to make herself more appealing to the male species. Yoh agress, with one catch: Haruna had better not fall for him!
With Yoh’s help, Haruna starts to discover all sorts of things–how to dress better, what guys to avoid, and what it feels like to fall in love for the first time. Haruna’s foray into love has its ups and downs, but nothing’s going to prepare her for when she actually lands herself a boyfriend!
This is about a girl Haruna, who just started high school. She dedicated herself to sport in middle school and wants now to dedicate her life to finding love. Except, she is completely clueless. She asks for upperclassman Yoh’s help in finding what clothes she should wear, how she should act and finally achieve her goals of finding love.
Strawberry Panic “The Complete Manga Collection” by Sukurako Kimino and Art by Takuminamuchi Series: Strawberry Panic vol.1 and 2 First published September 28, 2010 Publisher: Seven Seas Genres: Manga, Romance, Yuri Pages: 352 Format: Paperback Buy:Amazon
For new transfer student Aoi Nagisa, St. Miator Girls’ Academy offers her the chance at a fresh start and a way to redefine herself. But these noble intentions go out the window when she catches her first glimpse of honor student Hanazono Shizuma, whose porcelain white skin and goddess-like beauty leave Nagisa speechless.
It’s puppy love at first sight, but naive Nagisa is unaware that Shizuma is a serial heartbreaker who has set her sights on Nagisa herself. Will Nagisa end up as another notch on Shizuma’s belt, or does fate have other plans in store for the new couple?
This is about a girl named Ali Nagisa, who just started in her new boarding school – St. Miator Girls’ Academy – a religious school for girls.
In her first day she already gets to meet by chance the most honoured student of the academy – Hanazono Shizuma. From then on, things start getting more intense and new bonds are made.
Yona of the Dawn Vol.1 by Mizuho Kusanagi Series: Yona of the Dawn #1 First published January 19, 2010 Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Romance Pages: 200 Format: Paperback Buy:Amazon
Princess Yona lives an ideal life as the only princess of her kingdom. Doted on by her father, the king, and protected by her faithful guard Hak, she cherishes the time spent with the man she loves, Soo-won. But everything changes on her 16th birthday when she witnesses her father’s murder!
Yona reels from the shock of witnessing a loved one’s murder and having to fight for her life. With Hak’s help, she flees the palace and struggles to survive while evading her enemy’s forces. But where will this displaced princess go when all the paths before her are uncertain?
Princess Yona lives in a castle. Her life is easy. Until it isn’t.
She has her father – a super kind king, her bodyguard Hak, a childhood friend and her cousin Soon-won.
She just turned sixteen and she finally confessed her feelings for Soo-won, but that doesn’t matter anymore because he is not Soo-won anymore.
Aristotle an Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz Series: Aristotle and Dante #1 First published February 21, 2012 Genres: Young Adult, LGBT, Romance Pages: 390 Format: Paperback Buy:Amazon
Dante can swim. Ari can’t. Dante is articulate and self-assured. Ari has a hard time with words and suffers from self-doubt. Dante gets lost in poetry and art. Ari gets lost in thoughts of his older brother who is in prison. Dante is fair skinned. Ari’s features are much darker. It seems that a boy like Dante, with his open and unique perspective on life, would be the last person to break down the walls that Ari has built around himself.
This story is about Aristotle “Ari” Mendoza and Dante Quintana and it’s set in El Paso, Texas during the 1980s.
We follow their lives starting at the age of 15 when they meet and going until 17. We see them grow and change and their relationship evolving and strengthening. We see them finding out who they are and who they want to be.
Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum Series: N/A First published April 5, 2016 Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary Pages: 328 Format: Paperback Buy:Amazon
Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week of junior year at her new ultra-intimidating prep school in Los Angeles. Just when she’s thinking about hightailing it back to Chicago, she gets an email from a person calling themselves Somebody/Nobody (SN for short), offering to help her navigate the wilds of Wood Valley High School. Is it an elaborate hoax? Or can she rely on SN for some much-needed help?
It’s been barely two years since her mother’s death, and because her father eloped with a woman he met online, Jessie has been forced to move across the country to live with her stepmonster and her pretentious teenage son.
In a leap of faith—or an act of complete desperation—Jessie begins to rely on SN, and SN quickly becomes her lifeline and closest ally. Jessie can’t help wanting to meet SN in person. But are some mysteries better left unsolved?
This book is about navigating life after the worst has happened and all is in disarray.
Jessie just moved to a new private school in LA, she was previously from California and going to a perfectly normal school where she already had her friends. She used to live with her mother and father, until her mother died of cancer. Now she has been uprooted to her new stepmother’s house and her new stepbrother.
If that is not enough, she has to start all over again. Making friends, putting up grades, everything. And she has already people not liking her.
But, just when she thinks she can’t make it she receives an email from Somebody/Nobody helping her out. At first she wasn’t really sure what was happening, was it a prank? But no, this person actually started helping her and making her new life not suck so bad. The only thing is, she doesn’t know who he is, and she wants to find out, badly.
My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth Series: N/A First published May 31, 2022 Genres: Young Adult, Romance Pages: 272 Format: Paperback Buy:Amazon
Opposites attract in this battle-robot-building YA romance from the NYT best-selling author of The Atlas Six.
Bel would rather die than think about the future. College apps? You’re funny. Extracurriculars? Not a chance. But when she accidentally reveals a talent for engineering at school, she’s basically forced into joining the robotics club. Even worse? All the boys ignore Bel—and Neelam, the only other girl on the team, doesn’t seem to like her either.
Enter Mateo Luna, captain of the club, who recognizes Bel as a potential asset—until they start butting heads. Bel doesn’t care about Nationals, while Teo cares too much. But as the nights of after-school work grow longer and longer, Bel and Teo realize they’ve made more than just a combat-ready robot for the championship: they’ve made each other and the team better. Because girls do belong in STEM.
In her YA debut, Alexene Farol Follmuth, author of The Atlas Six (under the penname Olivie Blake), explores both the challenges girls of color face in STEM and the vulnerability of first love with unfailing wit and honesty. With an adorable, opposites-attract romance at its center and lines that beg to be read aloud, My Mechanical Romance is swoonworthy perfection.
Bel is smart and practical and loves building stuff. Her teacher pushes her to try to the Robotics Team and she makes it.
Enter Teo, very rich, popular, and captain of the Robotics Club.
Together they pass Regionals and go into Nationals. They work hours and hours together to build the perfect robot to fight with.
But they also build more. They build a relationship, a team, a group of friends. Will it all hold together in the future?
This book is also about finding what you like and what you are good at. Not everyone has a life plan in high school and that’s okay. Bel doesn’t know what she wants to do, but Teo talks to her and makes her at least try for engineering. She is good, like really good, and she didn’t even know it. Whoever said girls couldn’t be good at science or math or in this case engineering were mad.
Teo might seem at first like a cocky know it all, but the more you read the more you see another side of him. He cares so much for his passion – robotics – that is contagious. It made me like robotics! I never saw any club like this in schools but they seem so cool!
I really liked Bel’s family too, they are very unconventional but her brothers cracked me up on how different they are! She was raised in a way that made her explore constructing things as a hobby, just like her father and her brother. And so began her hobby! She is the youngest and after her parents divorced things haven’t been easy and expectations are high! So she does her best at school and keeps her robotics to herself.
Bel’s relationship with her friends and Teo’s relationships with his were really interesting to explore. They were both lucky in that department and they knew it.
Also there’s some representation in this book, Bel is Filipino and Teo is Jewish with a Catholic Mexican grandmother!
The romance was really slow burning and I really enjoyed it, they were friends first, learning about each other and then it evolved into more. It was so much fun! Especially with Bel’s sharp tongue! It even teared me up!
If you want a cute and easy romance to read with a bit of an unconventional theme, go for this!
What did you think of it? Have you read it? Let’s discuss it in the comments below!
The idea is pretty simple, every week you dedicate a post to the three W’s:
What are you currently reading?
What have you just finished reading?
What are you going to read next?
Currently Reading
Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey is my current read.
So, this is about the sister of the male MC of the first books and suffice to say I’m still excited? I wanted more in this sweet town and I got it so… Can’t complain.
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