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This book was cute. Really, really cute.
We follow Ben, a recent English college graduate, as he tries to get a job with no job experience. Yep, hell itself, basically. He has some really supportive friends and a highly pressuring family, and he thinks he wants to work in something related to writing or reading. But the only job he gets is in a really peculiar restaurant where every new dish is tasted and approver by an endearing pib named Watson.
Also, Ben is gay and quickly develops a crush on his coworker Liam, and is adorable.
The only thing that I didn't really like was how descriptive it was of all the food and the cooking. I mean, I know it's important for the character, but as a reader I don't like finding so much descriptive text in a graphic novel.
But I really liked the story and characters anyway. 

A short graphic novel that covers every basic information about asexuality you may need as an allosexual interested in the topic. It's not exhaustive, it doesn't pretend to be, but it's really helpful to understand or refresh some concepts and misconceptions on the topic.
With a very positive and kind tone, I think it is really useful and didactic for readers beyond those who identify on the ace spectrum or have close ties to it (as myself, an allosexual with friends and family in the ace spectrum). This book could really help general audiences understand more about asexuality and dispell some of the widespread ignorance. 

   | El primer libro del famoso detective belga Hercule Poirot no decepciona con su inteligencia y su carácter, ni en al construcción de un caso de asesinato lleno de pistas y falsos indicios.
Cuando leo esta clase de libros simplemente confirmo que soy muy tonta porque incluso cuando el detective de turno te explica paso por paso cómo llego a una resolución bien construida y detallada para la cual todas las pistas estaban explícitas previamente, yo no lo termino de entender. Le creo al detective, Poirot en este caso, pero requiere mucha confianza de mi parte, porque si de mí dependiera todavía estaríamos sospechando de todo el mundo y bajo muchísimo estrés.
Pero bueno, igual disfruto estás lecturas cada tanto, me agrada leer personajes inteligentes y racionales para variar. 

When I saw that this book was about a modern witch falling in love with a bisexual baker man I knew I needed to read it because it sounded awesome. Sadly, this book didn't do it for me. I mostly liked the main characters, but the first half was too slow and didn't capture my attention and the second half, even if more interesting, found me disinterested.
The conflict wasn't really dramatic, but it wasn't funny as I would expect of a rom-com either. I just didn't feel anything at all.
The magic was cool, but I would have liked to know more about it.
Anyway, I don't think I'll check the next book since I didn't like what I saw of its main characters on this book. 

Mal que me pese, la mayor parte de mis conocimientos de mitología nórdica se los debo al MCU y búsquedas de Google impulsadas por este. Así que leer esta antología de cuentos basados en la mitología nórdica escrita por el capo de Neil Gaiman fue una experiencia interesante y educativa.
Algunas historias me parecieron más interesantes que otras, y la relación entre Thor y Loki es, obviamente gracias al MCU, lo que más me entretuvo y captó mi atención.
Pero la mitología nórdica es más complicada de lo que pensaba, llena de personajes, criaturas y tramas fantásticas. Sin embargo, me agradó comprobar que es verdad que a pesar de todo se la pasan tomando cerveza y comiendo, fue bueno saber que al menos algo de mi conocimiento por cultura general era acertado.