Report 1: KonoSuba: Blessings on this Wonderful World!

 Title: KonoSuba: God’s Blessings on this Wonderful World!

Author: Natsume Akatsuki

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Isekai.

KonoSuba is a story that breaks the mold of stereotypical fantasy novels, since it is a satire of the nowadays overused isekai genre, where usually the protagonist is transported to another world with very powerful abilities. The series of novels is written by Natsume Akatsuki, whose career started as an independent writer of web novels. Now, the reason why I chose this novel is the brilliant comedy of the series, and of course, the enormous charisma each character has.

First of all, the story takes place in the city of Axel, also known as “The Beginner’s Town”, where every novice adventurer decides to start their journey. However, a very particular duo turns up out of the blue: Kazuma and Aqua, a recently formed “party” by a normal human and the goddess of water. But, how did they end up in such a place? Well, Kazuma was a shut-in NEET who died from shock after almost getting run over by a tractor. Later on, while in the limbo Kazuma meets Aqua, who offers him the opportunity to resurrect in another world with a very powerful “thing” of his choice, and after a series of comedy twists, he ends up choosing her as his power and so it begins their adventure.

Once they realize where they are, Kazuma uses his knowledge of games in order to find the Adventurers guild, but his character features are extremely weak, leading the pair to end up as construction workers… Thus, blessings upon this wonderful world start to appear.

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Diego Santiago Cervantes Chi

                                                   Reading Report 1 by Mauricio López

The Great Gatsby

The title of the book is The Great Gatsby, the name of the author is F. Scott Fitzgerald and the genre of this novel is tragedy.

I chose this book because it's a book that I have already been interested before, in the TV and shows I have seen different parodies of the book, however, the book itself I have never read it and by just looking at the description of the book I was trapped because I enjoy the genre of tragedy and with a touch of suspense I believe that this book is definitely a must read.

The novel is set in and around New York, in the 1920s, post World War One, at a time known as the Jazz Age. 

The main characters are:

-Nick Carraway who is an ex-Yale alumni and a veteran of WW1. He is easy-going and optimistic.

-Jay Gatsby who is a young, mysterious millionaire with shady business connections. He is a mysterious, passionate and intelligent man.

-Daisy Buchanan, she is Nick's second-cousin and member of the high socialite. She is a shallow, self-absorbed and young woman. 

-Thomas "Tom" Buchanan is a millionaire who lives in East Egg and is Daisy's husband. He is selfish and an arrogant man. 

-Jordan Baker is an amateur golfer with a sarcastic streak and an aloof attitude, and Daisy's long-time friend. She is Nick Carraway's girlfriend.

-George B. Wilson is a mechanic and owner of a garage. He is dumb and lunatic. 

-Myrtle Wilson who is George's wife and Tom Buchanan's mistress. She is unloyal and a liar. 

On the first part, we are able to meet Nick Carraway, he starts to introduce himself, being a Yale ex alumni and also a veteran of WW1. He decides to return to a place he had a house, being this set in the village of West Egg on Long Island. When he starts to prepare for everything as he was moving, he discovers that he is a neighbour of a wealthy man by just looking at the magnificent mansion that he owns. At the front of his house, at the other side of the lake in the refined part of the village, it's the place where Thomas Buchanan lives, with Daisy his wife and who's actually Nick's cousin. Tom. At the very beginning of the summer, because of the news of Nick´s arrival he was invited to a dinner party to celebrate and met everyone.