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reads

all the stuff i've been reading recently;

includes books (fiction and nonfiction), manga, graphic novels/comics

my star rating system, explained:

0: dropped - 1: dogshit - 2: bad with a few merits - 3: meh - 4: good but didn't impact me too much - 5: changed my life

spring 2023

Priory of the Orange Tree: Samantha Shannon. 100% complete. 4.5/5 stars.

A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return: Zeina Abirached. 100% complete. 4/5 stars.

Detransition, Baby: Torrey Peters. 100% complete. 5/5 stars.

The Friend: Sigrid Nunez. 50% complete.

Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer: Satoshi Mizukami. 15% complete.

Chainsaw Man pt 2: Tatsuki Fujimoto. Serialized.

Riddler Year One: Paul Dano/Stevan Subic. Serialized.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. ?% complete.

Goals for reading during the spring/general thoughts:

There are some nonfiction books I've had for a while that I really want to get into, especially We Want Bama by Joseph Goodman (although his sports reporting has taken on... dubious credibility in recent months). Still, that book looks interesting and up my alley. I also want to read Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, of which I have a copy, when I get some time. Although I expect to read that one pretty slowly.

At some point I'd like to read the rest of the Kingkiller series (Name of the Wind). I liked the first book a lot, but I'm not in a huge rush to finish all of them. I'll get there when I get there. I definitely do need something fantasy to read after Detransition, Baby and The Friend.

I'd like to at least get through part 1 of W&P. It's actually a really good story, and I found a translation of it I like a lot better.