#Reading log

[kryptonbabe]

This first issue had many high points, but baby Diana bonding with demons in hell... I was not ready for Absolute Cuteness

From Absolute Wonder Woman #1 (2024) by Kelly Thompson & Hayden Sherman

[oooocleo]

How did you make your filofax reading log it looks so cool!

djffs through Trial And Error (still ongoing) haha - i arrange everything digitally in procreate on a4 sized pages, print out the text on tomoe river paper, fold it over + holepunch, print out the covers on photo paper & stick em in

its all little textboxes & the dividers i draw by hand (the base hobonichi grid as ive mentioned before i found just by googling - someone uploaded a digital version of it on reddit)

(italicized = i own a physical copy)

im pretty behind on the actual review pages tho (some i have finished digitally but havent printed out yet, most r just unfinished bc its hard to produce coherent thoughts when brain machine broke lol)

[literatureaesthetic]

first read of may — a cup of sake beneath the cherry trees by yoshida kenkō

moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman's hair. 'a cup of sake beneath the cherry trees' is a collection of fragments from the journal of a 13th-century monk, as he reflects on the pleasures of life and its passing moments. i think there's something in here for everyone to admire, with its reflective themes, philosophical undertones, and beautiful writing and imagery.

i definitely recommend!! 🌱

[4theitgirls]

november book journal

books read:

1. ‘the guest list’ by lucy foley

rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. ‘home before dark’ by riley sager

rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

3. ‘the last time i lied’ by riley sager

rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

4. ‘devil in ohio’ by daria polatin

rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

5. ‘nineteen claws and a blackbird’ by agustina bazterrica

rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

6. ‘the woman in cabin 10’ by ruth ware

rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

dnf:

the perfect marriage by jeneva rose

december tbr:

the bell jar by sylvia plath

and then there were none by agatha christie

the chestnut man by søren sveistrup

the exorcist by william peter blatty

[disregardcanon]

just finished reading america's first civil war: the mormon rebellion 1847-1848 and HOOOOOOO BOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYY has my understanding of 1800s america been shifting recently

[aubryjoi]

Time to tackle that book hoard 📚

New book tracker is available now in my Ko-Fi shop! Each download includes a bonus jumbo coloring page for extra fun 📖🐉

[sunflower-chai]

“there was a boy called eustace clarence scrubb, and he almost deserved it.” - the voyage of the dawn treader

vs

“his name unfortunately was eustace scrubb, but he wasn’t a bad sort.” - the silver chair

c.s. lewis still making fun of eustace’s name, but at least he can acknowledge his growth lol.

[the-busy-ghost]

Childermass assured him that the time was propitious and Childermass knew the world. Childermass knew what games the children on street-corners are playing- games that all other grown-ups have long since forgotten. Childermass knew what old people by firesides are thinking of, though no one has asked them in years. Childermass knew what young men hear in the rattling of the drums and the tooting of the pipes that makes them leave their homes and go be soldiers- and he knew the half-eggcupful of glory and the barrelful of misery that await them. Childermass could look at a smart attorney in the street and tell you what he had in his coat-tail pockets. And all that Childermass knew made him smile; and some of what he knew made him laugh out loud; and none of what he knew wrung from him so much as a ha'pennyworth of pity.

"Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell", by Susanna Clarke

[doomsayings]

darkly: blackness and americas gothic soul

[salvadorbonaparte]

I read 5 books and 12 mangas so far this year. We're so back.

[nadiea]

[kryptonbabe]

After trying to kill him as a boy and failing, Erik sends Wolverine to assassinate Herr Hitzig, the nazi official who killed his friends and persecuted him. By the end he needed to see the body, the concrete proof that the nightmare was over and so he did. The trauma would never really leave, but the man was finally dead

From Magneto #16 (2015) by Cullen Bunn & Gabriel Hernandez Walta

[oooocleo]

Oh shit your reading log is super cool AND you have super good taste in books??? Le Guin is my favorite author of all time, and I've either just read or want to read most of the rest of your 2024 list!

wahaha there r some Stars (the dispossessed.....................yea) in there but also some stinkers

some months back i made a list of the faves up till that point, but let me list some more:

dark places by gillian flynn (if u like fucked up characters shes SO good at writing them... mayb find trigger warnings for this one tho, its darker than gone girl content-wise)

salt slow by julia armfield (short story collection where my enjoyment ranged a bit, but the title story was sooo delicious)

the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson (i didnt enjoy we have always lived in the castle that much so i was hesitant, but this was rly interesting! i believe one of the first novels that went hard on the unreliable narrator bit)

the last unicorn by peter s. beagle (woggghhhh the prose.... this surprised me by how incredibly it captured the essence of fairytales)

fight club by chuck palahniuk (i mean. it was more enjoyable than american psycho lol.. and well structured 🤔 and absurd)

[huurrefanfictionreadinglog]

It is here! Version 2.0 of my fantastic Huurre's Fanfiction Reading Log!

What has changed? A lot!

Apps Scripts for doing some of the things for you, for example picking up fanfic's name and tag information from open fics in AO3. For more questions about this, especially relating scraping, please check my faq from my new website.

More comprehensive statistics with better logics.

For more detailed list of new features will be published here and in the website within next 30 hours because I'm already running late from the time I have given for the release. :'D

I have two versions of the file available:

Starting 2024: For anyone who has logged their reading during 2024 and wants to move their history from 2024 to this new file.

Starting 2025: For anyone who wants to start from the "clean table".

For full setup guide, please see the link below:

I've also set up Discord server for this. It is complete work in progress for now, but it is also in the place where you can suggest what direction to take it!

And with any problems, don't hesitate to contact me!

Now, I'll let you see and look for the file. Have fun!

[laciere]

Bo Ruberg: We Know The Devil is, as you say, about women who love other women, yet you've written online about being "against representation" in video games. What does that mean and how do you reconcile those approaches? Aevee Bee: That article was a little manifesto. When I say that I'm "against representation," I mean that representation can't just be a list of identity categories. It's not really representation unless you're creating complexity; without complexity, characters feel insincere and incomplete. The dumbed-down version of a queer person, or the queer person that never expresses their sexuality--these characters don't actually require you to empathize with queer people, because these characters have no sexuality. When you erase that, you erase their anchor, their passion, their frustrations, or their flaws even, especially their flaws. You're not doing empathy work if you're not engaging with these things, because these are the stumbling blocks for empathy. Sometimes people are like, "I like gay people who don't act gay." You know? Those are the people you're catering to when you make those sorts of characters. Identity is so important to talk about, yet it can be so limiting. I've been having a lot of discussions with queer activists and queer scholars about this desire to all call ourselves "queer," like we're this amorphous blob. That can actually be incredibly unhelpful because it doesn't acknowledge the very real differences that often exist between queer people. Our experiences are specific to our lives. Focusing only on identity, especially identity without experience, reduces everyone to an abstraction. Ruberg: Given how much you value the specifics of individual queer experience, how would you describe the complexities, as you call them, of your own queer identity? Bee: Being a woman is really important to me. Transness is also really important to me. In terms of sexuality, I tend to talk about how sexuality is practiced and understood rather than talking about specific attractions. What's the point of trying to say, "Oh, I have this very specific sexual identity" when sexuality is really hard to separate from gender identity and expression? Sexuality is more complicated than we often give it credit for. For example, I'm less interested in saying "I identify as bisexual," than I am in thinking about the ways that I love women and the ways that I love men and how those are unfortunately incredibly different because of all these social pressures, my own histories, and my internalized baggage. How do we navigate that together with another person? What does a relationship with someone like me look like? it's one thing to be like, "We have this list of labels," but we have so few models for what those labels are supposed to look like.

"Aevee Bee: On Designing for Queer Players and Remaking Autobiographical Truth", in The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining The Medium of Video Games (2020, Duke University Press)

[aubryjoi]

First quarter reading check-in 📚 Steadily filling the shelf up!

Kitty book tracker & coloring page download available in my Ko-Fi shop 📖💜