softlyraining’s spooky book stack 
October 23rd:
名探偵コナン (35% → 53%)
Made it through two chapters of Conan before bed! I have a little over a week to finish the volume before I lose access to it, so I want to focus my attention on it and then return to Kiki’s world.
Conan and company are trying to solve a kidnapping case. He’s still very used to being front and center during investigations, but Ran’s father will have absolutely none of that (meaning none of Conan’s incredibly valid questions get answered). Still, he discovered a workaround to get Ran’s dad’s attention to where it needs to be in order to solve the case. Conan does end up losing patience and peaces out on a guard dog to try and find where the kidnapper and victim are hiding. He successfully finds them, but with just his now 10-year-old self to take the perpetrator on, can he really save the young girl, or will they both be killed?! 
(I mean, there’s another hundred volumes after this, so…)
I’m still having a good time reading this. The characters are charming, and the way Aoyama-sensei draws them sometimes is very cute. 
Hope you had a wonderful birthday! 