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What are you currently reading?
This week's tumblr book club theme is to "read a story you've already experienced once as a film, tv series, or other media.

As soon as I saw this theme I knew exactly what I was going to read. It is in fact one of the books I briefly considered reading for the first round as it's also something I bought aaaaaaages ago and then never read. The book is Ao no Jidai by Komatsu Eriko and it's a novelisation of a drama, written by the same person who wrote the screenplay for said drama.

1. How do you feel about the film/tv series/etcetera? When did you see it?
Well, I don't feel anything about this drama because I watched it about fifteen years ago and I'm not even sure I ever watched the whole thing! In fact, I'm pretty sure I didn't watch more than an episode or two, because I really, really don't remember anything about it, even more than I usually don't remember much about things I watch or read. ^_^;; (If I can find it to download, I might watch it after reading the book, just to compare.)

2. Are you aware of changes in the adaptation? What are you expecting from the book?
Considering both the screenplay and book were written by the same person and it's a novelisation of the drama rather than the drama being based on an already existing book, I don't think it's very different, but as I said in answer to the first question, I really can't judge.

3. Do you watch a lot of adaptations? Do you normally try and read the book first?
Usually I prefer reading stuff to watching, so if I see that something interesting is based on a book or manga, I will often go read that instead of watching. (Oddly enough, I'm actually watching two anime right now that are based on written works, but I chose to watch the anime instead of reading. In the case of Shingeki no Kyojin, I will probably read the manga as well, but just have so much other stuff on my plate, I decided to watch the anime first. With Hataraku Maou-sama, it's based on a series of light novels and generally the writing in light novels tends to be pretty dire, plus I dislike never-ending series and thus would prefer to just watch the anime.)

Anyway, the new round started Monday and I've been good about reading every day, so I've already read two and a half chapters. I'm really enjoying it so far. It's very much a drama plot, though. XD Very melodramatic.

I also started reading vol. 19 of Meitantei Conan. I only read a couple pages last night before getting too sleepy to continue, though.

Oh, and I'm reading this week's Jump. So far I just read One Piece, which was okay. It's been in the middle of a long fight for a few chapters, so kind of boring right now, but Luffy in a fake beard never gets old.

And I'm still reading All I Asking for Is My Body, since I didn't manage to finish before the new book club round started (in fact, I only read two chapters). It's on hold for the time being, though. Not sure when I will get back to it.

What did you recently finish reading?
I read vol. 12 of Yotsuba&! (or rather, read the last chapter of it, since I had actually read the rest of it as the chapters were released) and it continues to be the most adorable, wonderful series and I hope it never ends. I also got caught up on Silver Spoon, which is another heartwarmingly awesome series that I want to go on forever (but I know will probably end with graduation, as school stories often do). And I read vol. 12 of Aozora Yell, too. Which is also really great? That's pretty much it, though. I didn't really do a lot of reading last week.

What do you think you'll read next?
Nothing new, just continuing to read the stuff I'm reading. I know for sure I won't be finished with Ao no Jidai in one week.