The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser is collection of non-fiction poetry about the Hawk’s Nest tunnel disaster of the 1930s.

In Summer 2025, getting a good tablet changed the game for both my reading and posting to this blog!

My Kitten Got Sick is a poetry and art zine by Greer Stothers about their kitten Belphegor’s ordeal with and recovery from FIP.

I read All Systems Red in a single day and had finished Artificial Condition and Rogue Protocol in short order as well.

The back half of my semester reading!

"The Lilac People" by Milo Todd is truly a masterpiece of queer history and worth a read by all.

So, I’ve become a little obsessed with the works of Charles Busch recently.

National Park: Monster Ranger is an absolute delight of a choose your own adventure book by Matthew Buchholz.

Introduction and updates: Thank you for bearing with me and allowing me a quiet March so I didn’t burn out terribly following a deeply strenuous February. I've been in a literature course this semester, which has been a challenge as it's been a long time since I've read literature at the pace required for the class. In undergrad I could read a novel a week, and, in fact, did for a while for this very blog before I moved from weekly to bi-weekly to the current monthly schedule.

Opal Charm: Light of Civil Dawn, the final installment in the Opal Charm saga, is a story about truth, lies, belief, and suspicion. A familial legacy of magic coming together, events set in motion to quickly to fully react to, and time is running out. But let’s rewind before we get there, because it’s 2025 and this series has been going since 2016.

I had a shockingly rough January, and was honestly a little worried that I wasn’t going to be able to get a review out. Ultimately, I decided to a review of a short story that I’ve read before—one I actually talked about it briefly during a behind-the-scenes quarterly reading round up a few years ago. “Blood Libel” by Leigh Ann Hussey is…

The great skill of Sir Terry Pratchett is that he could take words that do not make any sense together and turn them in to sentences that make perfect sense.

I read a lot this semester. Here are some highlights.

The Writer is a Jewish supernatural tale is working to unpack the complexities of being Jewish today the way that Jews have been doing for centuries, by telling stories.