Hey ho, squiders, how are you doing? Wait, hold on. December books: Still 2/4 (in the middle of two, read a volume of manga) We’ve talked the past few weeks how December is traditionally a hard time for me to
Rollercoasters and Mindset
October Books: 3/6 (Death on the Nile and Rest in Pink) Howdy, squiders! Hope you’re doing well. Me, I’ve picked up a cold or allergies or who knows, but definitely involves sneezing and coughing and all that jazz. Last week
Committing to Spooky Season
October Books: 1/6 (a collection of local ghost stories) Life continues to be AAAHHHHH but the books are getting read, so that’s something, at least. October, being the best month of the year (this year’s data being an outlier and
Shannara Readthrough: Angel Fire East
August books: Still 3/6 (also in the middle of 3, because I am a mess) (Also as a note, I read the last book in this a year ago. May need to speed things up a bit.) If you’re new
Still in Upheaval Mode
July books: 4/6 (Reign of the Fallen) Good evening, squiders. My major stressors are essentially taken care of, but I’m still having a lot of anxiety as this is an era of change. (I’m switching jobs, and I have now
Chaos and Mayhem
I have been having a very strange week, squiders. Also a very stressful week. Something that is not easy in general is proving to be harder than anticipated, which helps nothing. BUT. I do have a new refrigerator as of
Unplanned Books
Hey ho, squiders. Madness! And so forth. (Still 3/6 on the July books.) I don’t know about you, squiders, but whenever I go someplace for a few days for a more relaxing sort of vacation, and there’s books sitting around,
Floundering
Books Read for June: 2/9 (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 and Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old) (Still in the middle of 3 books, and doing that thing where I’m reading a little bit of
Inappropriate Gift Books
Howdy ho, squiders. How goes? (The good news is that my site is on the new host and seems to be functioning just fine, so victory!) I finished reading Hunt the Stars by Jessie Mihalik this morning. This was my
Oho! (Related to the Shannara Readthrough)
Evening, squiders. Why is summer so hot? Ugh. I’ve been reading through Terry Brooks’s Sometimes the Magic Works, which is part writing how-to and part memoir, for the past two months. It was written in 2003, and is one of



