i turn 33 this month


the image is me shedding my skin in preparation for another year

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i did read a lot this month, but it was digital, and right now I’m on a library kick again. luckily my total went up by 0.3%! partly because i bought some books that i’ve read before and partly because i DID in fact finish some owned books.

who knows how this month will go. I’ve been reading a lot on my phone again so I might… do the thing where I have two versions of books… which I have done before.

this month will likely end with a large influx of books in my physical library, so i don’t have any hope of hitting 75% like i wanted. make it a two year goal unless i really just sit and read and nothing else…

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may was a busy month. I fucked off to CA for a few days (i conked out ten volumes of manga and a book during that time, so nice) and did a Big Clean. i’ve been focusing on comics lately, so my other hobbies have fallen behind. it’s an endless cycle.

one big one is i am fixing up my digital library and doing regular purges of things i won’t like or read.

i should maybe be more concerned with that number, though. i have zipped past 25000 and right into 26000.

i should purge harder, but is it my fault that some series are over 100 chapters long and each counts as a book because of the layout???

NO

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no significant changes to the blog last month

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: 26/50
52%
Comics Read in 2026: 91/200
45%
Physical Owned Books Read: 482/848
56%


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