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Manga Blogging Part One Million - Hikaru no Go

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:52:44 GMT

I meant this to be a single post, but I think it's going to end up being another multiparter chronicling my journey through sports shounen/WSJ series: one post each for Hikaru no Go (1998-2003) and Medalist (2020-ongoing), and a final post exploring the narrative structure of shounen series that incorporates Akane-banashi (2022-ongoing), which I've touched on before in other reviews and has some new developments and fandom responses that I want to explore in more depth.

I love all three of these series for different reasons, and, looking back on them, I feel like they create a nice set way of thinking about sports and sport-ish cultural/game shounen manga within the Weekly Shounen Jump tradition and shounen manga more generally. Keeping in mind that I'm not a manga scholar, just a casual manga enjoyer who regularly subjects himself to manga he does not like in the hopes it will magically transform into something that he'll enjoy… keeping in mind, too, that I love imposing my rigid standards of narrative effectiveness on works… keeping in mind that I am trying to meet these works on their own terms… keeping in mind that I am a genius and an idiot, etc.

Okay, Hikago time.

( 2500 words of Hikaru no Go )

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Reread Detour

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:23:19 GMT

All my friends are reading Sebald, so I checked some of his books out from the library and chose to reread two books I originally read in 2018: The Idiot by Batuman and Invisibility Cloak by Ge Fei. The Idiot touches on a few books I've covered recently, while Invisibility Cloak is more of a "I don't know what the fuck the reviewers are going on about and I'm also not sure what's going on in this book?!" style of a review.

As with everything I've reread recently, I like it more on reread than I did when I first read it… Let's start with The Idiot, since I have less to say there.

( The Idiot, Batuman )

( The Invisibility Cloak, Ge )

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never ending manga posting

Mon, 04 May 2026 04:44:44 GMT

Journal with Witch/Ikoku Nikki (2017-2023), Yamashita - The dominant metaphor in my mind right now is "ach, I've been poisoned!" Like, ah I read the news… poisoned! This metaphor of poison feels appropriate for an age of active hostility… anyway let's move this back to manga

I find most stories about parenthood to be tiring or depressing to read, whether they're happy narratives or sad ones. The relationship we have with our parents holds enormous expectations on both ends and at every stage; failure is both inevitable and memorable. And on top of that, it's not even particularly instructive?!

Ikoku Nikki covers three years of Makio and Asa's life together, starting when Asa's fifteen and about to graduate middle school to her high school graduation. Makio is a reclusive writer; Asa is cheerful, outgoing, and gets lonely easily. She is the daughter of Makio's beloathed older sister. Makio hated her older sister in life and continues hating her in death, and I find the petty mercilessness (and eventual tempering) of her hatred excitingly honest. Makio's a lone wolf, the kind of character who's easy to like: uncompromising, passionate, bad tempered, off-beat, minimally sociable. In other words, an unconventional weirdo people find hard to get along with in real life.

( even more manga thoughts )

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Discipline + Blank Canvas

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:17:15 GMT

Discipline, Pham - I've been in a prose reading rut lately and checked out a few recently published books for some light reading. Discipline is a novel about Christine, a former painter, who writes a novel heavily inspired about her romantic and sexual relationship with her male mentor. She abandoned painting after her experiences at her MFA and "disappears" into her persona as a writer. While on tour for her novel, the mentor contacts her and invites her to his cabin in Maine. She goes, seeking—revenge? Closure? Affirmation? All of the above?

Naturally, this made me think of Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist Journey, an autobiographical künstlerroman manga by Akiko Higashimura, a prolific shoujo manga artist most famous in the anglosphere for Princess Jellyfish. Higashimura details her childhood ambition to be a manga artist and her relationship with Hidaka, the man who ran an art school/cram school in her hometown. The mentor-mentee relationship is totally different here, along with the perspective, tone, and genre; on the other hand, it's hard to think of another work that's similarly preoccupied with painting, talent, fine arts, and not becoming the artist you thought you'd be despite your mentor's expectations. Putting these two works together really made me think about some of my dissatisfaction with contemporary novels from an aesthetic perspective…

( manga is amazing...... novels are okay )

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Reviewing is My Job!

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:10:03 GMT

This review took forever to write because, in the process of writing it, I decided I needed to rewatch/review all of Maria-sama ga Miteru… and that in itself was so much fun that I kept rereading my favorite bits and then when I did that too much, I went back to the beginning and started rereading from there. I read a short paper that got a bit deeper into the current state of girls' novels in Japan, and it seems like Cobalt magazine, which published Marimite and other works of girls' fiction, stopped print publication and now only releases series online. The news does make me a bit sad... in any case, reading Marimite is really fun, while reading this series here was lmao less so... as such, I have not bothered to write beautifully... I can only ask for your forgiveness after the fact.

Yuri is My Job!, ongoing - I had pretty conflicting feelings towards this one—like, there's something inherently absurd about the idea of a themed cafe where all the workers pretend they're lesbian high school students in order to sell you hot chocolate and sausages, but in a world where season four of Maria-sama ga Miteru had a Pizza Hut sponsorship, it's a surprisingly apt piece of commentary. Yuri sells. Would you like tea with your pizza?

( a polite review of yuri is my job! )

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review-sama ga miteru part 2 (class s [short] edition)

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:57:26 GMT

While writing up the review of another series that's doing seventy Marimite callbacks, I started writing up Marimite and the next thing I knew, it's a solid half of the post... time to do a spin-off

I've been rereading the Maria-sama ga Miteru light novels due to my poisoning, and I recently hit the difficult stretch of Yumi's second year where we're really stretching the limits of what the soeur relationship is. Yumi and Sachiko's relationship hits a rough patch; there are comparisons to adultery, cheating, abandonment, and so on, before they have a loving embrace, forgive one another, acknowledge their love for each other, and return to status quo.

This span of time is also the spot where Konno uncomfortably brings up queerness in an all boy's school environment. There's an arc where the neighboring boys' school needs the student council of Lilian's help and we're introduced to a student who's likely a trans woman in terms so transphobic that lmao I'd recommend just skipping that whole arc/novel if you don't want to get mad. This is compounded by the constant motif of Sachiko's gay (but also a selfish jerk, so points there, I guess) cousin, Kashiwagi, being a potential sexual threat to straight men, a straightforwardly homophobic trope presented as a punchline. It's obvious Konno's trying to make queerness something outside of Lilian—defined, literally, as something confined to the boy's school, where the threat of queerness and (male) sexuality can be lumped together and put away. In actuality, people attending an all girls' school do engage in their romantic and sexual feelings, but, within Marimite, the soeur system is used to actively shunt those feelings of romance and sexuality to "safe" targets to preserve the students' purity.
( for real short post )

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Review-sama ga Miteru

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:54:06 GMT

Mary Watches Over Us/Maria-sama ga Miteru, 1998-2012 (light novel), 2004-2009 (anime), there are somehow even more spin-offs but I'm not listing them here - I tried finding streams of the anime, only to find that, in the years since I've been absent from anime/manga, RightStuf folded, the DVD/Blu-rays were sold at firesale prices, and all the rights have expired?! I wound up picking up pirating a bunch of the anime episodes and rereading the translated volumes of the light novel and will probably pick up the Blu-rays on eBay later, too.

It's hard to state just how influential Mara-sama ga Miteru (also called Marimite by fans) is in the world of yuri anime and manga. The most enduring impact is the reintroduction of Class S to the contemporary anime scene, popularizing a new strain of yuri with the otaku crowd, and laying the groundwork for the subsequent growth of explicitly queer yuri series in the years that followed. To this day, I can't help but see pigtailed protagonists and long-haired, classic beauty love interests who scold and reprimand their love interests and think, "I know what you are… I know what you've seen…"

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More Manga

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:05:22 GMT

I finished my three-part (or two and one part in three…?) review of Shimura thinking, "Wow, I've purged the demon! I can read other manga!" but it's really hard?? In the time that I'm writing this, I've flipped back to Sweet Blue Flowers to evaluate the Viz translation and, you know, I've done little partial rereads to get a good look at her panels and art evolution...

I have been able to tear myself away from Shimura's works to reread Yotsuba&!, a series with absolutely superb comic art decisions (visual complexity vs. simplification, the rhythm and arrangement of panels and images, constructing just enough of a narrative to give us the sense that time is passing without shoehorning a narrative that makes no sense for the story it wants to tell). I mean, we all know Yotsuba&!'s strengths as a comic. I feel like I don't have any urge to review it… I just like it and want to reread it all the time… Also reread/caught up with Skip and Loafer, which is somehow totally faithful to the emotion of being fifteen/sixteen. Also finished the fantastic Ikoku Nikki, which will be getting its own little write up and review later.

I still am reading other books, but reading and writing about manga's keeping the novel engine humming. This post covers three series: Yuria-sensei's Red String of Fate by Kiwa Irie and Run Away with Me, Girl and My Sister's Friend, both by Battan.

( Yuria-sensei's Red String of Fate ) ( Run Away with Me, Girl and My Sister's Friend )

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Shimura posting, part 3 part 3 (Even Though We’re Adults/Otona ni Natte mo)

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:08:39 GMT

Friends, countrymen, listen to my tale of woe… I've written ten thousand words for an audience of five.

Most authors would've chosen to end Even Though We're Adults with Ayano's "Goodbye, Okubo-sensei." Instead, Shimura writes another ten chapters of manga about overpowering guilt, lingering resentment, and the fear of the future. A recurring motif of the final two volumes is people wondering when their punishment will be carried out. What will happen to those they love after their deaths? References to feeling so miserable that death would be preferable suddenly start cropping up. And I'm sitting there holding the pages like, "What??? I thought this was a romance? Happily ever after…?"
( it is pretty happy! )

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Shimura posting, part 3 part 2 (Even Though We’re Adults/Otona ni Natte mo)

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:11:47 GMT

According to my library, I requested all ten volumes of this series on January 4th, checked out the first four volumes on January 13th, and had all ten volumes in hand on January 23rd. This book blog special feature does feel like playing with a shiny new toy, where the "toy" is "my stubborn commitment to not using any images to review a manga, a visual form of storytelling." This part will address the live action drama, return to the It's Complicated Girls, and a selection of bullet points, mostly pertaining to the first half of the manga. The next part will cover the ending and the remaining bullet points. I'm crying on the inside…

In a blog post, Shimura mentions that there have been offers to adapt her works into a live action series before, but things always fell through. Shimura's series are surprisingly tricky to adapt: one part of it is the that her early series use nudity often and explore unseemly expressions of sexuality; the other part is Shimura's high fidelity to character psychology and her love of pathetic people. (I'm thinking of you, Mame, and your twenty year crush. Sorry!) Her characters can often accurately-ish state their dilemma and observe their actions and the effects of their actions, but they can't stop themselves. They'd feel even worse if they tried.

Anyway, if any series would make it to the screen, it'd probably be this one. The 2025 production of Even Though We're Adults stars Kuriyama Chiaki as Akari and Yamamoto Mizuki as Ayano. Special shout out to Hama Shogo as Wataru, who puts in a great performance as a composed Wataru, similar but distinct from constantly stressed and pushed about by his mother Wataru in the manga. It works for the tone of the drama as a whole. Kuriyama nails Akari's casual mannerisms and expressive, needy nature. Every scene where Akari's saying five things at a time and trying desperately to fix her last statement, then turns around and mutters, "Stupid stupid stupid!!!" at herself is perfect. On the other hand, I can't tell if Yamamoto is miscast as Ayano or if the show's direction didn't know how to do a woman who's sweet, dependable, and buttoned up in most aspects of her life, but also constantly lying to herself until it blows up in her face. Yamamoto plays Ayano as meek and subdued to the point of dullness. She somehow comes off as super straight, too?! Whereas I feel like in the manga, part of Ayano's charm is that she's often surprising herself and others with her boldness.

The most challenging aspect to adapt in Even Though We're Adults is, by far, the friendship drama between the It's Complicated girls (Ikka, Yuka, and Mana). The child actors are doing their best, but Shimura gives the It's Complicated girls the standard Shimura child character treatment—that's to say, they, too, have backstories, family lives, and routines that exist separately from Ayano and Akari. Side characters in a Shimura series have functional roles for the narrative, yes, but they're never fully absorbed into its machinery. One thing that makes her series feel unruly is that it becomes quickly obvious each character exists in their own sphere, and each sphere intersects with other spheres only briefly. (You can read 100 Views of Awajima, an anthology series, and the less unruly Runaway Girl to see her going full throttle with this mode.) The live action kids have clearly been directed to be Ideal Children. They cry beautifully, for sure, but it's not the right choice for this series.

Mediocre-to-bad adaptation time over! Let's talk more about the It's Complicated girls.

( yes there's going to be a part 3 later )

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Shimura posting, part 3 part 1 (Even Though We're Adults/Otona ni Natte mo)

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:39:56 GMT

Even Though We're Adults/Otona ni Natte mo (2019-2023) - First love/childhood friends were major themes of the last two Shimura posts. Now we're introducing some new elements: adultery! divorce! blame! Wahoo!

This is a really fun one, with a number of inventively awful dinner parties/gatherings and a real upgrade in how Shimura shapes her narrative arcs over time. Of the series I've written up, this one is probably my favorite as a total package… but this post lol is broken in two parts largely because, lol, while skimming through the reviews, it became clear to me that it's the least understood of Shimura's longer series on a thematic and narrative level. The subject matter is somehow so inflammatory or the audience expectations are so misaligned that she's catching one star reviews for 1. writing a story about cheating (obvious if you read the backcover) 2. biphobia (opinions expressed by characters in dialogue) 3. too many subplots (they're all thematically relevant) 4. I Hate This One Character (okay??) 5. it's boring (genre mismatch) 6. not radical enough (maybe nothing ever will be?). Some of these are Goodreads problems, some of these are reader problems, some of these are the problems created by reviewing translated manga released solely in full volumes over the course of several years, but it annoyed me so much that I wanted to do my best to explore the series, Shimura's style, and her evolution as a writer and artist over the 20-ish year span covered by Sweet Blue Flowers, Love Glutton, and Even Though We're Adults… will I get to it this post? Let's see!

Even Though We're Adults starts with a question: "What kind of adult do you want to be?" The question, posed by teachers to a class of children, gets the standard set of answers popping into the panel, but the one series focuses on is, "Someone like you, sensei." With this set up, you'd be forgiven for wondering: Will this be a manga about the wretched hypocrisy of adults? Waylaid hopes and dreams? Creepy teachers? Weirdly enough, no: the protagonist, Ayano, is an exemplary elementary school teacher. The kids like and trust her, she handles their problems with delicacy and discretion, her colleagues respect her opinions and enjoy having her around. All these things remain true over the next ten volumes.

( can you believe this is only part 1??? )

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Shimura Blogging, part 2: Koi-iji/Love Glutton

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:59:12 GMT

Shimura posting continues, this time with Koi-iji (Love Glutton).

Koi-iji (Love Glutton), (2014-2018) - While listlessly refreshing Shimura's Mangadex page, I saw this series had been scanslated and was finished and decided to treat myself. I'm glad I did! Koi-iji is Shimura writing in a comic mode. It's a self-indulgent, fun, and speedy series that at once returns Shimura to a familiar mode romantic comedy feat. complicated romantic entanglements. Shimura comments that she put out chapters for this series really fast, so clearly, something about themes and characters really spoke to her.

Our protagonist is Ohara Mame, a 30 year old woman who's been in love with her neighbor, Akai Souta, age 35, for the last twenty years (?!?!). Souta owns a cafe next to the Ohara's bathhouse. His wife, Haruko, has recently died after a long illness; he has a ten year old daughter, Yu, who's very attached to Mame; his first love is Mame's older sister, Yume. Did I mention that Mame's confessed her feelings to Souta at least three times and was rejected each time? Or that, in chapter one, Mame confesses AGAIN and Souta tells Mame bluntly that he was hoping Shun or someone else would marry Mame because, he says, "In the back of my mind, I always thought, 'It doesn't have to be me.'" Ouch!!!? Or that Souta has a little brother, Shun, whose first love was Mame? Or that dead wife, Haruko, was Yume's best friend? And, and, and, and—and! And then!

( 2800 words of Shimura posting........ )

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Movie Blogging in 2026

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:13:56 GMT

Quick, off-the-cuff thoughts on two movies and some television.

( Past Lives, dir. Song )

( Something's Gotta Give, dir. Meyer )

( Television )

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Shimura Blogging part 1: Sweet Blue Flowers/Aoi Hana

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:11:15 GMT

I've been a fan of Takako Shimura's manga since reading the first chapters of Aoi Hana/Sweet Blue Flowers back in high school and have read a decent number of her professionally published works, mostly through scans. Shimura is a pretty consistent author in terms of her strengths, preferred narrative beats, and sensibilities. Her settings are usually contemporary, her narratives are often romances, and her character writing is unusually excellent, both within the genre and in the wider world of manga.

It was really exciting going through the last twenty years of Shimura's works. Her art and writing are great in the early days, and they get better as she continues iterating on similar themes and concerns over the years. The pacing of her works is pretty neat when you read them all at once… it's also pretty rewarding going back through someone's work and going, Oh, I get what you're doing here now!!! … I'm better at reading things… thank god I'm smarter than high school me…

The Sweet Blue Flowers review wound up being 2,000 words, so the Shimura blogging will continue at a later date. Please look forward to it!

Sweet Blue Flowers/Aoi Hana, 2004-2013 - Looking back on this series, I'm really impressed by how fucking dire Fumi's situation is at the start of the manga… oh, so you've moved back to Kamakura, you've been in a secret relationship with Chizu, your older female cousin, and you find out you've been dumped when your mom buys a cake wishing her a happy marriage?? In chapter one?? No wonder she's crying all the time.

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Is 2025 dead yet. no?

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:16:29 GMT

Last book blog of the year! I recently read the first big story Janet Malcolm did for the New Yorker and… you know what, it rocks, lmao. Really reassuring that she published Psychoanalysis at the age of 47… never kill yourself, etc. I'm in the middle of The Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter and The Purloined Clinic by Malcolm, both which I feel strongly positive on and will write up in more detail next time. Also in the middle of Laing's The Garden Against Time, which I feel generally positively on and lol one million novels I most likely am never going to finish.

Some quick notes on two recently read books, and then some reflection on the rest of the year:

( The Bridegroom was a Dog, Tawada )

( Night's Master, Lee )

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I had a good time reading this year on a whole, in part because I dedicated myself to two or three authors (44 completed titles, 31 unique authors) and every time I hated a book, I fled back to Janet Malcolm or Tanith Lee until I stopped being mad… I was about to reflexively start writing a whole morose thing about how my attention span has been blighted by the problem of "I love dicking around the computer and playing video games" (how about Hades 2 and Silksong, eh?) but I guess I don't care that much. I'm still growing as a writer and reader, I like writing my little book blog, and that's enough to keep me pretty happy about how things are going in my chosen dumb, meaningful, and penniless occupation. Viva la 3:00am book blogging, and see you all in 2026.

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June Book Blog

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:59:31 GMT

Weird book month: I read half of many very good books that I then put down and didn't pick up again and promptly guzzled down one text-heavy video game (Hundred Line--will not be reviewing it just yet but you know it's a Visual Novel when the "prologue" is 20 hours of reading) and one game that's about getting jump-scared by mimes while a man wanders around muttering, You would do this to our family?? Clair Obscur is actually SO good that it's making me want to get back to final fantasy.

Now all that is well and good, you might say. but what of the books you have read, recog? What can you tell us about those?

I finished three books this month, none which I loved and one that I experienced a knee jerk dislike of but kept reading due to my special interest (Rebecca West)... let's goooooo

( Cue the Sun, Nussbaum )

( The Haunting of Hill House, Jackson )

( Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere, Morris )

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April Book Blog

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 07:57:24 GMT

I checked out five or eight books before I went on vacation, thinking surely I will have time to read, not realizing that I'd be jetlagged for the rest of April and not in the mood to read more than about ten pages at a time... for this reason and like the general feebleness of my own mind, I've been neutral-annoyed on most of these. Sorry for people reading these posts hoping for recommendations. Read Janet Malcolm, I guess.

( A Horse at Night, Cain )( In the Land of Cyclops )

( The Anthropologists, Savas )

( On the Calculation of Volume ii, Balle )

( Reading Chekhov, Malcolm )

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Bunch of Reviews

Sun, 16 Nov 2025 07:55:47 GMT

( The Emissary, Tawada )

( Canoes, de Kerangal )

( Two Lives, Malcolm )( Calamities, Gladman )

( How Should a Person Be?, Heti )

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Movie Detour (2025 edition)

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 02:03:06 GMT

Here's your annual local film festival detour, everyone

( New Group, Shimotsu )

( Black Rabbit, White Rabbit, Mokri )

( Bouchra, Barki and Bennani )( What Does That Nature Say to You? Hong )

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shounen jump detour

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 05:53:05 GMT

Would you believe I picked up Scarry's The Body in Pain right before getting surgery and thought, "Sure, that's a great reading pairing?" Anyway, lol here are some thoughts on shounen manga I've read.

( Kaiju no. 8 )

( Akane no Banashi )

( Hunter X Hunter )

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month for suffering

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:23:42 GMT

High stress last few weeks, for reasons definitely preventable but I'm still irked about them anyway in a deserving way, in my opinion!! This post has an unexpected theming on autobiographical works... well no. Some autobiography, some identity themed books... you know, let's just say I was keeping busy, book-wise.

( One! Hundred! Demons!, Barry )( My Death, Tuttle )

( Birthgrave Trilogy, Lee )

( Silver Metal Lover, Lee )( The Dry Season, Febos )

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doing this to improve my liver function

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 03:06:07 GMT

For reasons (American), I have been more in the mood to play bad, mediocre, and sometimes even good video games than to read, but my beautiful cat continues to demand his tithe... I've read a few books. Most of post will be devoted to descending into a hater fugue state.

Books I'm in the middle of: How Should a Person Be by Heti (enjoying, finding it funny, I had a funny disagreement with someone about the value of Heti's work that I am excited to write about in a blog post where I can take multiple L's at once instead of collecting them one-on-one), The Magic Mountain by Mann (I GUESS I'M UNDERSTANDING WHY HE'S A HIT), Sula by Morrison (she's doing it yet again), Uncommon Carriers by McPhee... I think it's about time I pick up another Malcolm for my spirits and to extend the dominion of the letter M in my reading list. Do you think I should change my pen name to start with m as an homag

In order of completion:

( The Third Realm, Knausgaard )

( Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud )

( Sleepless Nights, Hardwick )

( On the Calculation of Volume, Balle + Omniloop (2024) )

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August of plany?? ough time

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:16:13 GMT

This post is so, so late... the good news is that I'm writing a lot for a new novel project, which means instead of channeling my frustrated writing impulses into book reviews, I'm back to being a genius writer. The bad news is, I am so, so, so so behind.

This post covers all my July reads and some of my August ones.

( Suggested in the Stars, Tawada )

( The Empusium, Tokarczuk ) ( Exploding the Phone, Lapsley )
( The Wilderness, Savas )

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brief movie detour

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 04:17:46 GMT

I find it hard to forgive a badly done ending in a movie, even though there are plenty of books where I go, "Well, the last hundred pages were bad, but I liked the first five hundred a lot!" or even, "the first 80 pages were good and probably what got this author an agent… too bad about the remaining 270 pages of this.” A bad movie ending makes me soooo much angrier and less generous towards the film, even though a film may have sooo many more technical accomplishments.

I just finished Nightbitch the movie and lol, classic case of me going in knowing I wouldn't love it and finding even more things to not like once I was there. I find it SO funny how this movie is like, “the city artists are GAY and can’t understand the REAL pain of being stifled by a bad marriage and motherhood AND having to live in the suburbs…” It’s important for Amy Adams to be a mother and an artist, and not just a mother but a mother who loves being a mother and who feels Solidarity with other moms (take that!) AND she’s an artist who’s pushing boundaries of Art… I guess that last element is important because it’s an easy way of showing that she’s successful and that LADIES, mothers, WOMEN all over the world, you CAN have it all… I walked away from this thinking to myself, "Well, this is the power fantasy of the mediocre, I guess," and then felt bad for thinking it.

( movie woovies )

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2025 icebreaker

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:49:36 GMT

( My Lesbian Novel, Gladman )

( I'm a Fan, Patel )

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