Category: Books

  • Dungeon Crawler Carl

    Dungeon Crawler Carl

    The apocalypse will be televised! Welcome to the first book in the wildly popular and addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series—now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition. You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion,…

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  • Agnes, We’re Not Murderers!

    Agnes, We’re Not Murderers!

    Lesbian vixens from another dead world thread through moon-drenched cornfields and opulent drawing rooms in this literary horror remix of iconic gothic sagas. Agnes is wasting away. In a bed of velvet and silk, she dreams of death—and Mary. Mary—a wraith with bloodstained gown and mouth—drips mystery and menace. She materializes beside a lake, beneath…

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  • Bats of the Republic

    Bats of the Republic

    Bats of the Republic  features original artwork and an immaculate design to create a unique novel of adventure and science fiction, of political intrigue and future dystopian struggles, and, at its riveting core, of love.      In 1843 Chicago, fragile naturalist Zadock Thomas falls in love with the high society daughter of Joseph Gray,…

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  • My Sister, the Serial Killer

    My Sister, the Serial Killer

    Oyinkan Braithwaite’s fiendishly wicked comic novel about how blood is thicker – and more difficult to get out of the carpet – than water When Korede’s dinner is interrupted by a distress call from Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This’ll be the third…

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  • Please Don’t Feed the Bears: A Heavy Metal Vegan Cookbook

    Please Don’t Feed the Bears: A Heavy Metal Vegan Cookbook

    Learn to cook a range of brutally tasty yet simple plant-based dishes, accompanied by heavy metal and punk lyrics, art, and ethos. This vegan cookbook is jam packed with recipes for stews, soups, sauces, noodle & bean dishes, baked entrees, and desserts, interspersed with illustrations of adorable armed animals, meditations on suicide, a crossword puzzle,…

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  • Filipinx: Heritage Recipes from the Diaspora

    Filipinx: Heritage Recipes from the Diaspora

    A queer, trans look at the food of the diaspora and how colonization affected the food of the Filipinos. Food for and from people like me. This cookbook was made for me.

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  • Curry Everyday

    Curry Everyday

    jesus christ there is a shitload of curry and curry related foods that span two continents in here. “Jaipur to Japan” in fucking deed. very curious to try and make a LOT of these!!!!

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  • Make It Plant-Based! Mexican

    Make It Plant-Based! Mexican

    Shockingly, soy sauce and tofu are big ingredients, and not potatoes and corn like I thought.

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  • Make It Plant Based! Filipino

    Make It Plant Based! Filipino

    I was on the prowl for vegetarian/vegan cookbooks at first and then I pivoted to Filipino cookbooks, and lo! A combination! It was perfect! Our favorite is the “Low and Slow Vegetable Stew”.

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  • Driftwood

    Driftwood

    Who is Last? Fame is rare in Driftwood- it’s hard to get famous if you don’t stick around long enough for people to know you. But many know the guide, Last, a one-blooded survivor who has seen his world end many lifetimes ago. For Driftwood is a strange place of slow apocalypses, where continents eventually…

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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: 40/50
80%
Comics Read in 2026: 222/200
100%
Physical Owned Books Read: 460/823
56%


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