This book talks a lot more about the author’s family, including their reactions to the first book. Still, it’s a little sad to be doing one by yourself, but this book is still very much about exploring the loneliness in the author’s life. Japanese exchange diaries are embellished and have directed activities (like “write your 5 favorite movies”) and I could kind of see why the author might choose to use one over a regular blank diary. Usually an exchange diary is a physical book that is passed back and forth between two friends, alternately writing things about their lives and little bits of trivia that they want to share with each other. The idea to make a “solo exchange diary” came from her editor, who saw a post Kabi made on Twitter about doing an exchange diary by herself when she was in middle school. Kabi actually says at the beginning that she couldn’t think of what to draw for a month after she signed on to draw a series. The art in this sequel to My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is even better than that in the first one, but this book seems to be struggling to find more content to talk about.
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