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I started this year with a few goals: -Include more books written by women (although not intentional, my reads have traditionally ended up being those written by Caucasian males) -Read more books written by Norwegians & Filipinos as that’s my own ethnic background (Filipina mom & Norwegian dad). I’d barely read anything Norwegian since myContinue reading “We’ve made it past the halfway mark of 2025. This is what I’ve been up to (bookwise)”

I’ve tended to plan my reads by having a subgroup of ‘prioritized reads’ at hand. I’m now finding myself pretty worn-out by the state of the world and generally a bit affected by what I assume is this year’s round of SAD. To make the start of the next year a bit more exciting forContinue reading “Something a bit different awaits me in 2025”

I’m close to unfollowing one of the horror book-groups on FB due to posts like the one below: I’m not going to touch on the content of this ‘review’ nobody asked for because that’s not the point even if I think it left a lot to be desired. -not every book is going to caterContinue reading “Common courtesy in the world of reading and reviewing”

Ugh. I’d finally just about forgotten about Tom Monteleone’s bitter, racist/transphobic/fatshaming/misogynistic rant of last year. Then he decided to regurgitate the same rhetoric once again. For those lucky enough to have missed it, but who (for some reason or other) are curious; google ‘Tom Monteleone’ and ‘Substack’. I am genuinely mystified as to what heContinue reading “Another day, another bitter man”

June was a horrible month. June 1st: My dad lost his battle against the infection they’d been treating for several weeks. The rest of the first half of June was spent somewhere in the midst of grief/stress to the point where I found myself nearly completely losing the milk supply (I have a 3 monthContinue reading “Well, sh*t. It’s July 1st, innit?”

I started a collection of cat art 3 years ago. It originally began as a bit of a joke along the lines of “cat art to keep our resident feline company at night”. It also happens that I have a bit of a horror book collection and I’m quite fond of a lot of theContinue reading “Collecting: Cat art!”