Welcome to the third meeting of our light novel club! I don’t know how it is where you are, but where I am it is sizzling, and a hot summer is the perfect time to pick up a book and an iced drink of your choice. In that sense, our selection this time, volume one… Read More BtT Light Novel Club Chapter 3: How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom! (Vol. 1)
I hope that you all are reading along with us as we dive into the third selection of our light novel club, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom! This isekai tale of smart, rational, hard-working young man swept into a kingdom and given its reigns has been a joy to read so far. Right from… Read More Light Novel Club Kindling: Family Is Irrational
We had so much fun doing a J-Novel Club selection for our last meeting, that we’re diving in and doing another one this time! But despite a similar name, this novel is no genderbending fantasy—we’re right square in isekai territory with our newest pick, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom: “O, Hero!” With that… Read More Our Next Light Novel Club Selection Is…How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom!
The second meeting of the Beneath the Tangles Light Novel Club has officially begun! We’re already doing something a big different with this session. Last time, we stayed with the tried and true by starting with a classic light novel, but today, we’re trying out Walking My Second Path in Life, a series published by… Read More BtT Light Novel Club, Chapter 2: Walking My Second Path in Life! (Volume 1)
For our second Light Novel Club selection, we’re reading Walking My Second Path in Life!, a charming little story about a neglected princess who is married off, along with her sister, to a neighboring king who them virtually imprisons her. However, Fie, the titular princess, decides to take this opportunity to start life anew as… Read More Light Novel Club Kindling: Where Would You Have Changed Course?
Walking My Second Path in Life! Never heard of it? Well, the franchise doesn’t have an anime and it doesn’t have an English publication in book form. But what it does have is an interesting premise (taken from J-Novel Club): Fie, first princess of Daeman, finds herself isolated and stranded in the foreign Kingdom of… Read More And Our Next Light Novel Club Selection Is…
Welcome to the opening meeting of the Beneath the Tangles Light Novel Club! Today, we’ll be discussing our first selection, Spice and Wolf, a “classic” among light novels. Your host today is me—TWWK—and joining us are Frank, Annalyn, Teresa Christina, and YOU. Please chime in with your thoughts below, and feel free to use our… Read More BtT Light Novel Club, Chapter 1: Spice and Wolf (Volume 1)
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