Trigger Warning: Violence

  • Middle of the Night

    Middle of the Night

    In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must contend with the long-ago disappearance of his childhood best friend—and the dark secrets lurking just beyond the safe confines of his picture-perfect neighborhood. The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard. One July

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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 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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  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick. Sometimes I’ll be chilling in the living room and someone turns a movie on and I end up watching it. It’s a rather surface level morality movie that says that maybe

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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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  • Apparently, Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World: The Ultimate Party is Born Vol. 1-6

    Apparently, Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World: The Ultimate Party is Born Vol. 1-6

    Veteran adventurer Nick’s life is falling apart. Despite all the knowledge and expertise he’s devoted to his adventuring party, his respected leader kicked him out, his girlfriend dumped him, and his teammates shamelessly accused him of embezzlement. Tired, heartbroken, and looking for a drink, Nick chances upon a few kindred spirits who are jaded as

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  • Catch These Hands Vol. 1

    Catch These Hands Vol. 1

    During her high school years, Takebe was the top dog at her school. But with her old friends now living as happy riajuu, Takebe was faced with an impending sense of crisis. Takebe thus resolved herself to quit delinquency, but the result of that was a fated meeting with her old rival, Soramori. Losing a

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  • For My Adorable Fiancée’s Sake Vol. 1 & 2

    For My Adorable Fiancée’s Sake Vol. 1 & 2

    The world, it seems like it is that of the Otome game “Welcome Princess,” but there’s something off!? Elliot, the eldest son of a Marquis family and one of the targets you can go after is an insanely handsome young man, both cool and wicked, master of both pen and sword. His only weakness (?)

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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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