Looking back on 2025
byAnd what a ride it has been! I don’t know if any year so far has been as massive an upheaval in my life….
Reading
My Beloved Life
byMy Beloved Life had been sitting unread on my bookshelf ever since I finished We That Are Young. I’d got the two back-to-back, craving…
Watching/Listening
Anime, Hentai, and the New Age of AI Fantasy
byThere was a time when anime felt like a world you had to enter slowly. You found it through late-night TV, fan forums, pirated…
Older posts
7 Learned By Heart: A Review
byEver since I started reading Sarah Waters, I have been partial to a good Sapphic romance (especially a historical one), and I never miss…
8.5 A World of Secrets: Piranesi
byI picked up Piranesi with great reluctance. Nothing about the blurb sounded interesting to me, and there were mixed reviews on the web. Still,…
9.1 A Haunting Look at History: The Complete Maus
byMaus is the only comic book to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. It tells the real-life story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of…
8.6 Bryson’s Witty Guide to the Human Body: A Review
byI got this book sometime during Covid, but I wasn’t in a state of mind to focus on health and body. All I wanted…
7.2 Enchanting or Eerie? A Review of The Porpoise
byI read The Porpoise before starting on The Starless Sea. Still, I hesitated to write this review because both books invoked similar feelings, and…