Genre: Nonfiction

  • Copycat Recipes 2

    Copycat Recipes 2

    When you have a craving for your favorite restaurant meal or treat, but don’t have the money to eat out , don’t fret! You can make many of your favorite recipes , from starters to dessert, at home ! Your kitchen just became your new favorite restaurant. Finding something you love at one of your…

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  • The Nib: The Death Issue

    The Nib: The Death Issue

    It’s a wild subject to start on, and it addresses statistics, perspectives, and the current sciences surrounding death. The comics are insightful. Funny. Not always something I agree with, but it does open up more about what people are thinking about when they approach death. The sacredness of the act of dying, the fear of…

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  • Queer Code

    Queer Code

    Honestly, a big agree with Panic Volkushka on this. The sense of seeing queerness in the strange and the villainous is a big one. Included is also a nice long list of recommended films to check out as well.

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  • Ten Days in a Madhouse

    Ten Days in a Madhouse

    Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book written by newspaper reporter Nellie Bly and published by Norman L. Munro in New York, NY in 1887. The book comprised Bly’s reportage for the New York World while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned insanity to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at the…

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  • A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad’s an Alcoholic

    A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad’s an Alcoholic

    A moving autobiographical manga about her father’s alcoholism that inspired a critically acclaimed live-action film. Mariko Kikuchi tells the painful story of her father’s alcoholism and her own journey through guilt to understanding her father’s illness. She rejects the common belief that family members can and should be forgiven for anything they do, no matter…

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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: 31/50
62%
Comics Read in 2026: 118/200
56%
Physical Owned Books Read: 460/823
56%


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