Rainy Days With Amanda

 This book has been sitting on my shelf on my TBR pile, and I finally made some time for it. If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you may know that I am a big Liane Moriarty fan. This is the fifth book I've read from her and I was excited to find out it was her very first one! Here's my full book review on Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty . About the Author After leaving school, Liane worked in advertising and marketing and did a business degree.   She became quite corporate for a while and wore big-shouldered suits and fretted about the size of her office. She eventually left her position as marketing manager to run her own (not especially successful) business called The Little Ad Agency. After that she worked as a (more successful, thankfully) freelance advertising copywriter, writing everything from websites and TV commercial to the back of the Sultana Bran box. Liane Moriarty acquired her Masters degree at Macquarie University in Sydney. As part of that degree...

It’s been a hot minute since I wrote a Manga Monday, not because I haven’t been reading manga, but I just haven’t been reading anything that’s finished or that I haven’t already reviewed. However, the last chapter of  Firefly Wedding  came out in January, and I needed to talk about it, so here we are.  SPOILER ALERT! About the Mangaka In 2016, while raising children, Tachibana Oreco began painting landscapes with acrylic paints and shared them on Twitter. Progressing from illustrations to creating doujinshi (self-published works). In October 2016, an original piece she posted on the illustration sharing site Pixiv caught the attention of the Shogakukan MangaONE editorial department. From January 2018 onwards, she commenced the serialization of “Promise Cinderella.” Starting from January 1st, 2023, she began serializing  Firefly Wedding  on MangaONE and Ura Sunday. About the Manga Set during the Meiji era, Satoko Kirigaya is the daughter of an earl and renowned f...