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My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite’s fiendishly wicked comic novel about how blood is thicker – and more difficult to get out of the carpet – than water When Korede’s dinner is interrupted by a distress call from Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This’ll be the third…
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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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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.…
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Galatea
An enchanting short story from Madeline Miller that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. In ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece — the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen — the gift of life. Now his wife, he expects Galatea…
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Tantrum
this book left me paralyzed. it’s about generational trauma passed from mother to daughter, abuse that takes the form of “taming” and reliance. the beginning of the book seems grounded in reality and the discussions of feminine rage. of feeling underappreciated and overworked and having more problems on top of that. the deep boiling anger…
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She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat Vol. 1-2
Cooking is how Nomoto de-stresses, but one day, she finds herself making way more than she can eat by herself. And so, she invites her neighbor Kasuga, who also lives alone. What will come out of this impromptu dinner invitation…? I have two more volumes to read later but I figured I would tackle this…
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Nightbitch
One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else… An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her…
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This Delicious Death
Four best friends, one music festival, and a cooler filled with human organs: this summer is about to get gory. Jennifer’s Body fans will clamor for this new sapphic horror standalone from New York Times bestselling author Kayla Cottingham. Three years ago, the melting of arctic permafrost released a pathogen of unknown origin into…
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Victorian Psycho
Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines and the more she learns of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds…
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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…
M's Media Menagerie
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Trope: Feminine Rage
Absolutely reaching through the screen and CHOKING the shit out of patriarchal expectations of women; anarchy against the expectations of societal gender norms regarding women.
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:
13
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Absolute Asshole NPC (126) Accidentally in Charge (65) A Fetish For Suffering (71) Can't Say No (115) Chekov's Gun (66) Conveniently Cut-Off (58) Curiosity Fucks You Up (98) Cursed (88) Damsel in Distress (87) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (122) Dangerous Reputation (125) Doting Husband (84) Double Identity (61) Everyone Loves MC (114) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (58) Fan Service (125) Grumpy x Sunshine (65) Hypercompetent MC (95) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (68) I Know a Guy (82) Last Minute Hero (136) Loss of Humanity (64) Main Character Coloring (102) MC's Skewed Metrics (104) Mean Boy (146) Mean Boy Love Interest (62) Modern Morals (64) Nat 20s (121) Not Actually Dead (103) Nuclear Revenge (91) OP Protag (105) Power of Friendship (100) Power of Love (95) Self-Sacrifice (86) Shock Value (67) Sympathetic Evil (88) The Moral is Community (83) Tragic Backstory (107) Twist! (69) Uniquely Skilled (110) Unreliable Narrator (62) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (106) Western-Style Fantasy (117) Wrong Place Wrong Time (78) Zero to Hero (112)
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