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Beast Tamer Vol. 1-11
Rein, a beast tamer who fights with the help of animals, has been a member of the hero’s party for the longest time. However, unbeknownst to him, he was dragging down his teammates because he had no other abilities. “You have no worth outside of taming animals. You’re fired.” With that, he was kicked out…
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Abu-Normal Vol 1-8
Eiko Abu, 29 years old and single. She divides everything in the world into two categories: “normal” or “not normal.” In her quest for normalcy, her obsession slowly destroys the relationships she had built. What is normal? What is abnormal? Logic is questioned and normalcy challenged in this psychological suspense. I just read 77 chapters…
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Archive 81 Season 1
Archive 81 is a found footage horror podcast about ritual, stories, and sound. It has released three seasons and two miniseries, with more to come. I don’t know that I like Archive 81 so far. I like that it questions the idea of the listener as just an observer, or a participant in a story.…
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Crime Scene Cleaner Act 2
Do me a favor and turn on this song while reading. Remy let me know the updates existed and are SUPER GOOD, so kudos to him. The Act 2 update picks up right after the end of Act 1, adding additional story alongside two new game modes: True Cleaner and Nightmare Mode. A small play…
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They Will Kill You
A woman answers a help wanted ad to be a housekeeper in a mysterious New York City high-rise, unaware that she is entering a community that has seen a number of disappearances over the years and may be under the grip of a Satanic cult. This one is on its way to cult status, I…
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Follow Her Down
The hunt is on.Sera Vale stalks her tormentor.Men stalk Sera.And somewhere in the dark, a killer waits. Will this be Sera Vale’s final unmaking? That depends. She’s not running. She’s collecting—tools, weapons, worshippers.They bow to her.Crave her.Kill for her.Follow her down, even to hell. Her monsters aren’t just lovers.They’re trophies.They’re jewels in her bloody crown.…
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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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Fired? But I Maintain All the Software! Vol. 1
Ai Sato is the sole engineer maintaining her company’s internal systems. It’s too bad being the linchpin who keeps it all running won’t protect her from sudden layoffs. Apparently, the new CEO doesn’t approve of cosplaying at work. Depressed and jobless, Ai unexpectedly reunites with her childhood friend, Kenta Suzuki, who makes her an offer.…
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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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We Had to Remove This Post
For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma’s Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star about a group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors—reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation—who convince themselves they’re in control . . . until the violence strikes…
Trigger Warning: Workplace Abuse
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.
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