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read up to #53 via webtoons: https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/loving-reaper/list?title_no=353275

I love a good portrayal of Death or The Reaper. I very much appreciate Jinya's view of Life and Death. Great art style and yup reading these all at once made me tear up.

Will try to keep up as it seems that this is pretty current with #53 coming out this August.

More a diary entry rather than a true review.
Today Living Classroom had our first graders made vegetable soup from the garden vegetables that they grew themselves. It went really well.
Before we harvested they read this book. The kids seemed to like it and I enjoyed that they caught on to the repetition and the concept.
I'm not a fan of the art style on this one.

3.5
For most of the story I loved Barbra/Sophie, and then there were moments when that I felt she was flat or too ‘Sue'.

But I loved the time period, the look of London/England at that moment and Hornby's tying together of that collection of characters, even if it got muddled sometimes.

Gorgeous, clever art.
Annoyed though: carrots can be purple, flamingos are born grey, deer can be white.

Kiddo wanted me to read it again and again, I even read it backwards.

It started to lag a little and I was going to give it four stars, but I really liked it towards the end when he went on the meditation retreat for 3 days, talked about MSF pulling out (and why), heroin use and treatment.

I related to some of Delisle's experiences as I visited Thailand around 2013 and I saw some similar cultural quirks such as locals bundling up when it got below like 75 degrees, motorbikes, monks, interesting shops, haggling and favorable exchange rates.