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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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  • 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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  • The September House

    The September House

    A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel. When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their…

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  • Fallout Season 1

    Fallout Season 1

    The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent…

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  • It’s That Reincarnated-as-a-Virus Story Vol. 1-3

    It’s That Reincarnated-as-a-Virus Story Vol. 1-3

    ISEKAI’D BY: Overwork! A virus researcher was reincarnated into another world…as the virus itself? The virus holds incredible power, but it’s transmission may just be a matter of life or death! (just throwing this up but I really enjoyed this series thx)

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  • An Archdemon’s (Friend’s) Dilemma: How to Babysit a Crybaby Knight Vol. 1-2

    An Archdemon’s (Friend’s) Dilemma: How to Babysit a Crybaby Knight Vol. 1-2

    Archdemon Zagan hires his unsavory friend, the sorcerer known as Purgatory Barbatos, to guard Archangel Chastille Lillqvist from the shadows. Barbatos takes to watching over the girl—which really means watching her constantly screw things up, trust people she shouldn’t, and inevitably bawl her eyes out. But something about Chastille and her waterworks may just have…

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  • My Brain is Different: Stories of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders

    My Brain is Different: Stories of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders

    This intimate manga anthology is about the struggles and triumphs of individuals learning to navigate daily life with a developmental disorder. The comics follow the stories of nine people, including: a junior high dropout finding an alternate path to education; a former “troublesome” child helping kids at a support school; a so-called problem child realizing…

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  • The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality

    The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality

    Hello, and welcome to the Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality. This Audio Tour Guide is aware that this is your first visit to the museum! On behalf of the Museum: Welcome! It’s a pleasure to have you with us here today. The Audio Tour Guide will be your window into the history of…

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  • The Phantom of the Opera

    The Phantom of the Opera

    I finally watched it in its entirety!

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  • Otaku Vampire’s Love Bite Vol. 1 & 2

    Otaku Vampire’s Love Bite Vol. 1 & 2

    Hina Arukado is a modern vampire who drinks blood from bags instead of humans. But she’s also a complete shut-in who hasn’t left the house in 30 years. In an effort to reach her, Hina’s worried dad does something that changes her life—he gives her the complete box set of the Vampire Cross anime series!…

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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: 29/50
58%
Comics Read in 2026: 99/200
48%
Physical Owned Books Read: 485/848
57%


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