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  • The Invisible Man & His Soon-to-Be Wife Vol. 1-5

    The Invisible Man & His Soon-to-Be Wife Vol. 1-5

    Yakou, a gentle human woman, works at a detective agency. Tounome is a smart and gentle invisible man. The invisible man’s ability is perfect for detective work. However, the blind Yakou can still figure out where Tounome is, even if he disappears. Before they know it, the two become attracted to each other…? THE INVISIBLE

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  • Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

    Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

    This one took me a long time to read. Not because it was bad, but because sometimes reading one story was like being hit by a bus, and then I needed a long break before I went back to it. Horror is a reflection of the writer’s struggles, a very open dialogue about the problems

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  • I Left My A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths! Season 1

    I Left My A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths! Season 1

    Harem Scale H: Yuke has a pretty solid sense of justice. That sense is shared by Clover (the party). A: Yuke is very aware of the fact that he is the only man in a party of women and brings it up repeatedly. He is actively trying to support the women and tries not to

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  • A Beast’s Descent into Love

    A Beast’s Descent into Love

    When thief Karim sneaks into a clandestine auction, he finds Asena, a beautiful young man with animal ears and a tail. On impulse, Karim steals him from the bidder who bought him for a hefty sum and decides to take responsibility, making arrangements to live with him for a month while he waits for the

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  • Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith

    Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith

    A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators

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  • New World: An Anthology of Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    New World: An Anthology of Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Aaah… what a stupendous collection, with so many big names in comics! My favorite in this anthology ended up being Written in Stone, by Carla Speed McNeil. I ended up reading it three times back to back, and then once more before I put down the book. (I reread it when I opened the book

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  • Stab the Rabbit

    Stab the Rabbit

    This book is just a way to alleviate some masculine violence, bro. I’m not joking. It’s got a few stories in it and it takes a juvenile delight in using slurs and doesn’t really have a care for being “politically correct”, as angry male comics would put it. They let you know right in the

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  • Life with Picasso

    Life with Picasso

    Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Paris when she first met Picasso – he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she became mother to two of his children, Claude and Paloma. Life with Picasso, her account of those extraordinary years, is filled

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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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  • 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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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: 19/50
38%
Comics Read in 2026: 39/200
19%
Physical Owned Books Read: 477/830
58%


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