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2023 - A way late year in review post!

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Alright! Let’s just get these all out of the way in one big post, shall we? No need to create a bunch of backdated entries for a few years ago, and by setting that precedent now I won’t feel the need to for the OTHER years I want to backdate as well.

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I am ashamed to say I don’t have anything recorded? I know I was reading my usual webcomics, but most other series I had been following all ended and I hadn’t picked up new ones yet. I don’t think that it’s actually possible I went through the year without reading anything of note, even if it was only one or two books, but… I guess maybe?

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2025 - Year in Review, Books

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I hinted at this one, but for as much fun as I’ve had reading things this past year, the idea of writing about everything is… daunting, to say the least. It isn’t like I didn’t read a lot, once you factor in manga, in 2024. Like, I read the 107ish volumes of One Piece that were out at the time, I read all of Naruto, My Hero Academia, Frieren, The Case Study of Vanitas, and so on. On top of it, I got in the entire Imperial Radch main trilogy, The Locked Tomb series, started on The Expanse and Terra Ignota, and a few standalone novels. I mean, while the “list” only had 70 entries on it or so, those 70 entries represented like 200 books! I still wrote a lot about almost all of it, which was a great exercise in just parsing out my thoughts about all of those various books and making sure I still know how to retain anything, you know?

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Please read Akane-banashi.

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Onward and upward with trying to save myself some pain at the end of December in regards to all of my feelings about stuff I’ve played and read this year! There’s been so much reading, putting that new Kobo I got to good use. I know this sounds a bit like a food blog with the lead in story on most posts, but well, I normally write these while I’m doing a light treadmill workout or waiting on an appointment somewhere just to get the boredom out of my fingers and talk about something I find interesting. The worst part of this one is going to be writing this without spoilers, as of chapter 182.

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2024 review: part 2, books

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I should probably rename this section to “literature” or something, since it’s usually included webcomics and … ah well. Not changing it now.

It’s probably obvious, more than most of these lists, that I’ve been on a reading slump for a while. I still enjoy a good paper book, but I don’t like storing them, I don’t like carrying them, I don’t particularly love the lighting levels required to comfortably read them, etc. My Kindle Paperwhite, a first generation, hasn’t exactly kept up with the times either – micro charging instead of USB-C, gestures, etc. Comixology was a pretty big help, but then capitalism.

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2019 books

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:54:22 -0800

So… Die is absolutely amazing and the end of the Wicked and the Divine was perfect and I couldn’t have pictured anything better.

Reading Homestuck again to introduce Elle to it was bizarre. Not complaining, but wow that was weird.

The Ravnica book wasn’t terrible, but ugh, the follow ups certainly were and I’m so disappointed in the direction Magic story has taken.

Going through this list though just reminds me of how many things I was reading last year have ended, which is part of why my 2020 list is looking to be so sparse so far. I’ve picked up a few books I’m really excited about, so I’ll get the opportunity to fill it out a bit more, but there’s some bittersweet feelings about it.

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2018 books

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 14:01:00 -0800

Here we go! To kick off the series this time, we’ve got books.

It’s a fairly short list, but also, in the past week I’ve picked up about 30 more things that I would like to read after my first trip to Powell’s City of Books.

Yes, I’m disappointed that it took me three years of living in Portland to make it there as well, but here we are.

Tales from Earthsea was my introduction to Le Guin outside of her blog, which was perhaps a strange choice. We’re entering the final year of Wicked and the Divine, and there were a lot of other good comics that I didn’t entirely get to as well.

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mid-2018 update

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Just a quick update on things since I’ve been a bit sparse on the posts. Work and other life things have been eating up most of my time (in ways that I can’t really publicly write about), but there’s been a few things worth an update.

I’ve (as of this week) got a 500 day streak on Duolingo. I’m feeling more and more comfortable with Esperanto, I do need to get back to working on my Spanish, and I would also like to get back into the process of picking up Japanese and Swedish. I suppose a “better” fourth language to pick up would be German, though my understanding is that wouldn’t be that difficult coming from English and Esperanto.

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2017 books

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 15:08:24 -0800

Losing Dragon’s Lair as an available comics shop cut down my reading of them dramatically for 2017, but I did enjoy my re-read of Wicked and the Divine to prepare for the newer issues that came out this year as well. It continues to be an amazing comic.

The Spire, which I was able to find a collected trade for, was a huge favorite though. Solve for i was sweet, with a bit of clumsy trans character handling.

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2016 books

Sat, 31 Dec 2016 14:08:33 -0800

After how many comics and stories I read in 2015, I’m a bit sad that it cut down so drastically in 2016. Some of it couldn’t be helped, since a number of series that I read ended and having moved from Austin meant that I lost access to my favorite comics shop.

Ah well. WicDiv is still one of the best things I’ve ever read.

the wicked + the divine #17
giant days #7
giant days #8
giant days #9
giant days #10
sunstone vol 1
anatomy of melancholy: the best of a softer world
the wicked + the divine #18
the wicked + the divine #19
lady of the shard
descender (vol 1: tin stars)
rat queens (book one)
blue is the warmest color
the wicked + the divine #20
the wicked + the divine #21
the wicked + the divine #22
the wicked + the divine 1831
the wicked + the divine #23