Category: Books

  • Just Like Home

    Just Like Home

    “Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories — she’s come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there. Coming home is hard enough for Vera, and to

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  • Nightbitch

    Nightbitch

    One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else… An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her

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  • Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations—and Take Over Our Lives

    Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations—and Take Over Our Lives

    (re: the content warnings pertain to the discussion of what the cults have committed. the book stays away from graphic depictions and distances itself from items to deliver them in an informative manner.) this book is beautiful. i’m just as taken in by the typography and typesetting as i am by the subject matter. details:

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  • This Delicious Death

    This Delicious Death

    Four best friends, one music festival, and a cooler filled with human organs: this summer is about to get gory. ​​​ Jennifer’s Body fans will clamor for this new sapphic horror standalone from New York Times bestselling author Kayla Cottingham. Three years ago, the melting of arctic permafrost released a pathogen of unknown origin into

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  • Art Before Breakfast: A Zillion Ways to be More Creative No Matter How Busy You Are

    Art Before Breakfast: A Zillion Ways to be More Creative No Matter How Busy You Are

    Packed with the signature can-do attitude that makes beloved artist Danny Gregory a creativity guru to thousands across the globe, this unique guide serves up a hearty helping of inspiration. For aspiring artists who want to draw and paint but just can’t seem to find time in the day, Gregory offers 5– to 10–minute exercises

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  • Journal Revolution: Rise Up & Create! Art Journals, Personal Manifestos and Other Artistic Insurrections

    Journal Revolution: Rise Up & Create! Art Journals, Personal Manifestos and Other Artistic Insurrections

    Rise up and CREATE! No borders, no truth, journaled wherever you find it. Grab your mess kit – we’re starting a Journal Revolution . Overthrow your inner critic’s tyranny of fear and rules, and discover fresh techniques and inspiration to rant, whisper, beg, stomp or sing your truths. Celebrate your rough edges with a revolutionary

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  • Learn to Crochet in 10 Easy Lessons: All the stitches and techniques you need to know, plus 28 patterns to make right away!

    Learn to Crochet in 10 Easy Lessons: All the stitches and techniques you need to know, plus 28 patterns to make right away!

    i have now decided that i am unable to do basic learning from the books because i can’t quite. follow. if anything i got more confused. i have lots of crochet books digitally but i thought, well, let me try this. (immediately has a stitch i can’t comprehend)

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  • Dinner for Vampires: Life On a Cult TV Show – While Also in an Actual Cult!

    Dinner for Vampires: Life On a Cult TV Show – While Also in an Actual Cult!

    A deliciously witty and inspiring memoir by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free. In the early 2000s, after years of hard work and determination to breakthrough as an actor, Bethany Joy Lenz was finally cast as one of the leads on the

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  • Victorian Psycho

    Victorian Psycho

    Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines and the more she learns of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds

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  • Motherthing

    Motherthing

    She’s dead in the basement. And she’s refusing to leave… When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with Ralph’s mother, Laura, Abby hopes it’s just what she and her mother-in-law need to finally connect. After a traumatic childhood, Abby is desperate for a mother figure, especially now that she and Ralph are trying to become

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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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