Genre: Fantasy

  • Lout of the Count’s Family #3

    Lout of the Count’s Family #3

    Bro, I hadn’t even seen the announcement come out that #3 was released! (I’m behind on my email, leave me alone) Of course I dropped everything and picked it up. After all, the last book left me off right before Raon got his revenge. This one opens right up there. It’s a bit gruesome but

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  • How I Swapped Places with the Villainess, Beat Up Her Fiancé, and Found True Love 1

    How I Swapped Places with the Villainess, Beat Up Her Fiancé, and Found True Love 1

    ISEKAI’D BY: Truck-Kun! I’m The Villainess, So I’ll Just Beat Up My Problems! After dying in a traffic accident, I wound up in an otome game world. What’s more, I swapped places with a girl named Alexandra. The so-called heroine had already bewitched Alexandra’s fiancé–the second prince–and set her up as the villainess. To make

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  • The Herbalist and the Landlord

    The Herbalist and the Landlord

    Honestly, I think this counts as a zine as well. Where did I even get this? It’s a mystery.* I ended up reading it more than once— literally I read it, then read it again, and then when I went to write about it, I read it agia . It’s a short 21 pager. The

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  • Alicia’s Diet Quest 1

    Alicia’s Diet Quest 1

    I don’t like this. Sigh. You’re joking. I’m dropping this. I got 1 and 2 as part of a Humble Bundle ages ago and I thought it would be about healthy eating and such but instead it’s just… making fun of a girl desperate to lose weight… a girl who is… skinny… Like, I got

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  • Beware the Villainess 2

    Beware the Villainess 2

    A handsome prince declaring his undying love for you at a grand ball―it’s what every girl dreams of…but not Melissa Foddebrat! She knows that behind his charming smile, Ian is an insufferable, womanizing manchild. She is desperately searching for a way to dump him before he publicly announces their marriage. That’s when she spots a

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  • Lady Devil

    Lady Devil

    PLEASE BE MINDFUL OF THE TRIGGER WARNINGS. Finally. I finally finished this story. Once, eons ago, I started reading this while it was updating. It was one of those services where you need to unlock chapters with money each time so I (as usual) fell off the horse. Now I have finally read the whole

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  • Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin 1

    Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin 1

    ISEKAI’D BY: Illness 🙁 I Reincarnated As The Evil God Of My Favorite Civilization. Takuto Ira succumbed to illness at a young age and ended up reincarnating in a world that resembles the fantasy turn-based strategy game Eternal Nations. Not only did he reincarnate into his favorite game, but as the god who commands the

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  • Even Dogs Go to Other Worlds: Life in Another World with My Beloved Hound 1

    Even Dogs Go to Other Worlds: Life in Another World with My Beloved Hound 1

    ISEKAI’D BY: Overwork! Everyone Knows Humans Get Transported to Other Worlds, But Now Dogs Do Too?! Takumi is a wage slave who works overtime all the time. Only his little Maltese, Leo, can brighten his day. One day, however, he wakes up to find himself deep in an unknown forest. At his side is his

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  • The Untamed Beastiary: A Field Guide to Marvelous Monsters

    The Untamed Beastiary: A Field Guide to Marvelous Monsters

    I got this in a Kickstarter and had to get it back after my divorce (embarrassing) (worth it) (i like this book). I’ve had it sitting aside because I just really liked how it looked, but I, um. I never actually sat down to read it. The book really lives in the spirit of the

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  • My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer: The Black-Haired Valkyrie #7

    My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer: The Black-Haired Valkyrie #7

    With the party split, Angeline finds herself protecting Byaku and Charlotte—her former enemies—without her father, Belgrieve, by her side. Forces are intent on manipulating Charlotte or silencing her, and Ange has to use her wits and her S-Rank strength to keep her new little sister safe. Meanwhile, the very forest Belgrieve calls home begins warping

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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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