Le maître des livres #3

Volume 3 of Umiharu Shinohara's Le Maître des Livres continues the quiet, bookish charm that makes this series so easy to love — the cover says it all: a young woman in a school uniform receives a book from an aproned bookseller amid shelves packed floor-to-ceiling with colorful volumes. There's something genuinely inviting about that moment of exchange, framed by the warm, intimate atmosphere of a well-stocked bookshop. Published by Komikku Éditions in 2014, this is a lovely addition to one of manga's most thoughtfully crafted odes to the written word.