I didn't care about high school or have a particularly good or bad time, so reading about it doesn't bother me. That said, some of the things that happen in GSNK made me feel kind of nostalgic. Dunking on the guy your friend likes because you don't understand why she likes him (and dunking on her in the process) happened so much when I was in high school; we judged each other more on the people our friends wanted to date than the friends themselves. So I could definitely relate to Sakura's friends making fun of Nozaki and dismissing him as uninteresting while suggesting that including him in activities is a way to guarantee Sakura would join in. Unless things take a serious turn, this series is definitely going to stay a comfort series!

Rick Riordan never fails to impress with great characters and stories of adventure.

Fun story and great imagery

Interesting account of what it is like for women in prison. Infuriating at times, it will leave you wanting to know where these women are now, and if they were able to recover from the trauma inflicted on them by our unfair prison system.

In this volume Nana gets swept up in love for the first time. We also learn that something happened between Yamamoto and Yano. "I wonder if there's a limit to love."

Great backstory of the Queen of Hearts!

Loved it! Great summer read. Enjoyed the era is was written about

The jock-nerd divide didn't really exist in my high school, at least not in my class. There was way too much overlap, and there were so few people, everybody just kind of hung out. But if it *had* existed, it probably would have been more aggressive than one of the "nerds" getting flustered and confused about one of the jocks possibly having non-sports interests. The empty-headed jock isn't a nice stereotype, but Wakamatsu is so earnest and hopeful that he's still fun to read.

Fun manga series

A fun sequel to Inkheart