spooky month


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good god sir perhaps i should sit and read books i own physically for once instead of the metric FUCK TON of manga i have. i have not even caught up. as usual. i can read faster than i can keep track. sometimes i wonder if i should change the layout of this blog to accommodate reading a lot and saying little.

i HYPERSPECIALIZED this blog though because sometimes i have a LOT i wish to say. it’s so specialized that i currently do not know how to display all posts together (the documentation for certain things i am using is rather lackluster and i don’t have enough of a background in web development to workshop it).

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looking at my goals, i didn’t manage to read very much word-books. i still have 57 books to finish out before year’s end. i wonder if i can manage at least 20 before the month is out? sometimes a book just speaks to me and i am ON IT. i did recently acquire a huge amount of light novels (and there are some books i long to reread, so sorry pie chart) so i may be able to just. Go.

re: my work hours changing? doubly true now because i put my two weeks in and i’m spending a lot of time away from work. right now i am catching up on watching things and reading manga while knitting and crocheting. it does feel nice to have a variety of things to do.

i changed how i write things so it’s easier, but i’m still not 100% on it… i started entering my play by plays into discord with all my screenshots. it is much more organized and i remember what i thought. there are at least 6 manga i likely will never review because the images sat in the back log for so long i forgot about what i thought and what they were etc etc. it isn’t as if i need to fluff my comic count.

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it’s likely i will end up revising some of my other sites. i am hoping for a job that has 3 on, 4 off so i can go back to school next year, but until then… hopefully i will have the time. the other job i an interviewing for is the usual 5 days at typical hours.

this site may get yet another face lift while i meander around in my recovery. yeehaw!

Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.


What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.


Truck-Kun Kill Count:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 19/50
38%
Comics Read in 2026: 39/200
19%
Physical Owned Books Read: 477/830
58%


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