Gluten Free Brötchen: Book Reports

  Finished 08/09/2024 My first report on a manga! I'm still unsure of how to fully put this together, I feel like the best way is just to include more pictures of what I'm talking about since various elements of this story are entirely visual? But I could also just describe scenes as well? I think that doing reports on manga will be a work in progress and I'll change my approach as I do more. This manga is both written and illustrated by Inio Asano, but I couldn't find who translated it into English (which is the version I read), my guess is that it was a company and not one person alone. Goodnight Punpun  is about the cyclical and hereditary nature of mental illness and abuse. The main character, Punpun, holds on to this idea of love for over a decade, only to experience that love in its unhealthiest form. The main character is also this weird ghost-bird looking thing, but he's actually a human and everyone else sees him as a human. His appearance changes as he age...

  Finished 29/08/24 I got the urge to read this book after the disaster of the last one. I read some excerpts of this while in college and always liked the way Christa Wolf wrote. I thought I better read the English translation since my German is beyond rusty right now. This book is a collection of short stories by Christa Wolf, the most famous one being What Remains . Christa Wolf is a German woman who lived through WWII and the soviet occupation of East Germany. These short stories are categorized as "realistic fiction." However, most of these stories follow a girl or woman who went through things eerily similar to what Christa Wolf went through; because of that, I choose to believe that most of these are her own memoirs and will be writing as if she is canonically the main character. How I'll order this report is by going through each short story individually and give the years each one was published and the German translation of the title if I can find them. Because C...