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  • Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations—and Take Over Our Lives

    Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations—and Take Over Our Lives

    (re: the content warnings pertain to the discussion of what the cults have committed. the book stays away from graphic depictions and distances itself from items to deliver them in an informative manner.) this book is beautiful. i’m just as taken in by the typography and typesetting as i am by the subject matter. details:

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  • The 9Lives Vol. 1

    The 9Lives Vol. 1

    Alien refugees have come to Earth. They call themselves 9-Lives. Humans call them cat-boys, and force them to live as collared pets. Conri, a rebellious young 9-Life, ran away to escape this fate. But when a human named Adrian saves him from capture, Conri is torn between his desire for freedom and another desire he

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  • Becoming a Princess Knight and Working at a Yuri Brothel Vol. 1

    Becoming a Princess Knight and Working at a Yuri Brothel Vol. 1

    ISEKAI’D BY: Truck-Kun! Talk about your extreme career changes! Naruse Soushi, a middle-aged man and private secretary to a politician, lies on the verge of death. Meanwhile, in another world, the princess knight Reina has been captured by an enemy nation. The princess’ soul is removed–and Naruse is summoned into the empty husk of her

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  • Back Street Girls Vol. 1-3

    Back Street Girls Vol. 1-3

    Would you give up being human—or would you become… an idol? A trio of yakuza achieve the impossible and debut as idols—and become a big hit to boot! Under the guidance of their fiendish and overcontrolling boss, three former yakuza men undergo a complete makeover and debut as the back street girl idols “Gokudols.” In

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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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  • Motherthing

    Motherthing

    She’s dead in the basement. And she’s refusing to leave… When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with Ralph’s mother, Laura, Abby hopes it’s just what she and her mother-in-law need to finally connect. After a traumatic childhood, Abby is desperate for a mother figure, especially now that she and Ralph are trying to become

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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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  • 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: 23/50
46%
Comics Read in 2026: 51/200
25%
Physical Owned Books Read: 470/809
58%


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