Category: Books

  • Fever Knights

    Fever Knights

    I want to make one, too.

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  • Horse

    Horse

    a horse and a boy but the horse is treated better

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  • I Was A Teenage Slasher

    I Was A Teenage Slasher

    Wherein a deadly peanut allergy becomes deadly for everyone else.

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  • Nettle and Bone

    Nettle and Bone

    “…and the history of the world was written in women’s wombs and women’s blood and she would never be allowed to change it.”

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  • My Darling Dreadful Thing

    My Darling Dreadful Thing

    Love beyond death, love in death, love truly and hard.

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  • Thornhedge

    Thornhedge

    I had once read Kingfisher’s Digger (written under Ursula Vernon) and therefore was already a fan. I follow her on various social media, watching her write stories about sheep, or spirits, or microscopic stories that you tend to get from such things. However, for some reason, it never occurred to me to read her books.

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  • Mister Magic

    Mister Magic

    Children’s programming can really fuck you up.

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  • Maeve Fly

    Maeve Fly

    “Fuck everyone,” said Maeve. Her grandmother nods in sage agreement. “Fuck everyone.” A female serial killer who looks for a feminine guide in her serial killing life? Elsa encouraging people to touch boobs? The absolute dumbest sex scenes I have ever read in my life? Like dude. That egg is going to be absolutely swallowed…

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  • Swipe Up For More: Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers

    Swipe Up For More: Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers

    The book was a bit hard to get through. I don’t fuck with influencers much, because it isn’t my jam, but I thought it would be interesting to read about them for some reason. The book brought up some interesting talking points about influencers— the effect on mental health of both the person and the

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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: 19/50
38%
Comics Read in 2026: 39/200
19%
Physical Owned Books Read: 477/830
58%


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