may i not fuck up the rest of the year


i’m taking my own pics for the banners

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Yeah I dropped myself down to 56% and it’s been a bit of a reading hiatus in April, so I didn’t make progress at all… I’ve been really slow reading lately unfortunately, but whatever. I’ll reach 75% someday.

i have SO MUCH i want to do and reading as much fell to the backburner while I did other things.

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like drive down to st. louis and go to a half-price book fair day. it was mostly picked clean, but i did find some gems among the five million magazines or nora roberts/james patterson avalanches. mostly i try to pick up things that i’ve heard of before or are in my digital library already, but I can be a little adventurous.

pretty happy with the selection.

i also want to put this here. 🙂

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re: the RE axis is live. basically i made a chart to put isekais on to categorize them on the reLIVE/reLAX/reVENGE spectrum.

re: genres. i added the new Remy Yes genre and the analog horror genre. Remy Yes because i tend to add a bit in a lot of reviews saying whether or not i think remy would like it. i took a quick gander through the most recent of the books and added a few just to fill it out a tiny bit.

re: tw “vomit”. i deleted the extraneous one. no more double vomits on the tw banner.


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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: 25/50
50%
Comics Read in 2026: 80/200
40%
Physical Owned Books Read: 477/844
56%


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