Looking back on 2025
byAnd what a ride it has been! I don’t know if any year so far has been as massive an upheaval in my life….
Reading
Life After Life
byI stumbled onto this book pretty randomly, so I had no idea what I was getting into. The premise was interesting. The prose was…
My Beloved Life
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Second Life
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Watching/Listening
Anime, Hentai, and the New Age of AI Fantasy
byThere was a time when anime felt like a world you had to enter slowly. You found it through late-night TV, fan forums, pirated…
Older posts
7.9 Scattered Showers Review: Love and Romance
byI had gifted Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell as a birthday present to my daughter a couple of years ago. Last week while cleaning…
8.5 Stories of Your Life and Others
byIn a conversation with a friend, I mentioned I like science fiction, and then she asked me if I had read Ted Chiang, who, according…
7.9 Embroideries: A Candid Look At Iranian Women’s Lives
byHave you ever wondered about the sex lives of Iranian women? I can’t say that I have but when I stumbled upon this slim…
8 A Comprehensive Guide To The Inheritance Trilogy
byI spent the better part of 2024 reading this series. I went into it hoping it would be the next George R.R.Martin series (I…
7 Learned By Heart: A Review
byEver since I started reading Sarah Waters, I have been partial to a good Sapphic romance (especially a historical one), and I never miss…
