M's Media Menagerie

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Undertone

The host of a popular paranormal podcast is sent hidden messages within anonymous recordings, unleashing a demonic presence that is impossible to escape in this nerve-shredding nightmare that haunts long after the last echo fades. I expected more out of this one, especially since it managed to get a whole-ass ad episode in Radio Rental,
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Lincoln Library Community Cookbook

I’M IN THIS 8) It’s a bunch of community recipes, a good chunk of which are derived from internet recipes. That said, these are all real and very simple recipes, so I think I’m actually gonna use it. You can actually get a digital copy here! Also, if you browse the PDF, I’m on page
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Because I, the True Saint, was Banished, that Country is Done For! #1-3

Round and cute with a lot of low stake plot points. I mean, not for the country she left— they’re having a whole other problem— but for the Saint, she’s just having cute little day-to-day slice of life adventures. Like feeding a giant dog, or going on a date. There’s kind of some plot, but
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As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I’ll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World!

they get mawwied
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Boyfriend, Sometimes Girlfriend #2

It’s still cute but maybe I’m just getting a bit bored of it. It took me longer than expected to read it. I’m not really feeling like putting the effort in to hit all the tropes and stuff.
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Caterpillar Girl and Bad Texter Boy

Beautiful, smart, and kind Suzume Kikuo is perfect in every way, the girl of anyone’s dreams. But when she asks out her socially awkward childhood friend Akane, his response is a shocker: “You’re too perfect.” What’s a girl to do, except transform into a giant caterpillar and try, try again? This is like the opposite
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This Is My Body

A gripping, emotional, and darkly funny queer horror novel about family trauma and possession, for fans of Rachel Harrison and Catriona Ward. Single gay mom Brigid always thought that cutting ties with her extremist Catholic family was the best thing she could have done for her daughter, Dylan—and for herself. But when Dylan starts having
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The Book of Rainbow Joy

Halberd Books and Pooshie Mart present twenty-four poems about the lives we define, the loves we decide, and the joy we make together. With contributions from:Al StriderMiss BunnyEmily GraceSarah AndrewSydney LynneS. D. IsenbergLaura E. PriceAndon McGuireDavid M. BriggsSalem Addison King Not as joyous as it sounds but there are poems in here that are as
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Talking to Strangers: A Memoir of My Escape from a Cult

For fans of Wild Wild Country, Scientology and the Aftermath and Uncover: Escaping NXIVM, a spellbinding graphic memoir about a teenage girl who was lured into a cult and later fought to escape and reclaim her identity. Welcome to a place where you are valued. Where everyone is kind. Where you can be your truest
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Black Sheep

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle. Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly…something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community
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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:

11

Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 25/50

50%

Comics Read in 2026: 80/200

40%

Physical Owned Books Read: 477/844

56%

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