Category: Books

  • How to Use a Sewing Machine

    How to Use a Sewing Machine

    Listen I needed to find a reason why my machine kept jamming and then I ended up learning there are models where you can drop the feed dog. Imagine that!!! I want a model like that! Honestly I might think about picking up a physical copy because it had all these awesome diagrams AND how

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  • Bury Your Gays

    Bury Your Gays

    This is an AWESOME takedown of rainbow capitalism and AI in creative spaces. Chuck Tingle has always been a stellar writer, but holy shit, this is fantastic. It really leans into a paranormal angle at first, and it’s definitely along the lines I was thinking, but the execution turned the expected turnout into something more.

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  • The Giant Bear: An Inuit Folktale

    The Giant Bear: An Inuit Folktale

    Bonus round of research, I peeked at this trying to understand the scale of a nanurluk. Das big

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  • On the Shoulder of a Giant: An Inuit Folktale

    On the Shoulder of a Giant: An Inuit Folktale

    Inukpak the giant loved to travel across the Arctic tundra, but because of his size he is always alone, until he adopts a hunter as his son I found this as I was researched the Inukpasugjuit and holy shit, I love it? I know it’s a children’s book, shut the FUCK up. Just hold on,

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  • The Manga Cookbook

    The Manga Cookbook

    From the kitchens of the Manga University Culinary Institute comes the critically acclaimed “The Manga Cookbook,” a fully illustrated step-by-step guide to making the same sorts of foods you see in your favorite manga and anime series, including popular bento (boxed lunch) recipes! Food appears frequently in Japanese comics, but what exactly is it that

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  • Draw Stronger: Self Care for Cartoonists & Visual Artists

    Draw Stronger: Self Care for Cartoonists & Visual Artists

    Draw Stronger is a comprehensive self-care guide for artists interested in preventing repetitive stress injuries and sustaining a pain free life long drawing practice. Understand how injuries happen and what types of injuries commonly affect drawing professionals. Use practical first aide to help manage pain in the event of injury. Learn what types of symptoms should

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  • Make It Last: Prolonging + Preserving the Things We Love

    Make It Last: Prolonging + Preserving the Things We Love

    It’s sort of a first stop between me and internet from now on for minor house repairs and double checking fabric repairs. I don’t have the capacity for much of the food storage stuff (we don’t grow food atm) except for drying herbs but it will be handy when I start.

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  • Too Old For This

    Too Old For This

    A retired serial killer’s quiet life is upended by an unexpected visitor. To protect her secret, there’s only one option left—what’s another murder? From bestselling author Samantha Downing. Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her. Decades earlier, she changed her identity and tucked herself away in a small town. Her most exciting nights are

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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: 23/50
46%
Comics Read in 2026: 51/200
25%
Physical Owned Books Read: 470/809
58%


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