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favorite ongoing comics:
💥 Indie:
- The Power Fantasy
- Doll Parts: A Lovesick Tale
💥 Marvel:
- Storm
- Uncanny X-Men (stop with the crossovers tho)
💥 DC:
- Batman & Robin: Year One
- Absolute Wonder Woman
The Power Fantasy #4, cover artist: Caspar Wijngaard Doll Parts: A Lovesick Tale #2, writer and artist: Luana Vecchio Storm #4 variant, cover artist: Karen S. Darboe Absolute Wonder Woman #3, cover artist: Hayden Sherman, colorist: Jordie Bellaire
January 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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most:
- informative: All in Her Head
- surprising: Song for the Basilisk
- disappointing: The Luminous Dead
- hopeful: The Spellshop and The Anthropocene Reviewed
- viceral: Metal From Heaven
- gorgeous: The City in Glass
January 2025 Wrap-Up 12 books, 3169 pages, 3.86 average rating average book length: 291 pages average time to finish: 15 days 83% fiction, 17% nonfiction 83% print, 17% digital 8 fantasy, 4 romance, 3 manga, 2 LBGTQIA+, 1 comics
January 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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my january reading 💙📚🪐 #booksky

📚 5 novels
📚 4 manga and graphic novels
📚 2 nonfiction
📚 1 short story
📚 32 individual comics

top three books:
📖 Metal From Heaven by August Clarke
📖 The City in Glass by Nghi Vo
📖 The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

stats and superlatives below
all in her head: 4 stars the luminous deep: 3 stars call of the night, vol 1: 4 stars the city in glass: 5 stars black widow by kelly thompson: 3.5 stars the spellshop: 4.5 stars the wood at midwinter: 3 stars call of the night, vol 2: 3.5 stars song for the basilisk: 4 stars metal from heaven: 5 stars call of the night, vol 3: 3 stars the angthropocene reviewed: 4 stars
January 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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two achievements in 17 hrs damn i'm so good at this. at this rate i only have two thousand one hundred fifty point five hours to go
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, 2 of 153 achievements earned: Devoured by Darkness and Defender's Heart
January 31, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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just three books away from a full hardmode board now!
January 30, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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my pulls this week. it's kind of impossible to take a nice picture of a stack of comics huh
Ultimate Spider-Man #13 The Uncanny X-Men #9 Absolute Wonder Woman #4 Detective Comics #1093 The Tin Can Society #5
January 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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also (minor spoilers) this whole passage and the way our mc's religion and upbringing strongly influence the words and cadence they use, it all feels v smart and purposeful and i appreciate
Cisran was almost like Ignavian, when Cisra and Ignavia were one nation, that short-lived Rasenna, they'd shared the same post-Bellonan bastard tongue, once. Two hundred years ago Ignavian revolutionaries had decided it was unjust to have a class-based trust tense and hearsay tense, that is, it was a moral injury for the poor not to be taught truth's grammar, for everything a working man said to be assumed to be half figment, for the privileged to be the authority on all things. So they stopped teaching truth tense entirely in Ignavia, and then the language ls drifted apart, and the barons regained dominion and cordones the senate from the rest of the populace by requiring aristocratic merit for entry and anyway...
January 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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ugly graphic of my top 10 books this yearrr
summer sons by lee mandelo, those beyond the wall by micaiah johnson, prince's gambit by c.s. pacat, the privilege of the sword by ellen kushner, the unspoken name by a.k. larkwood, empire of exiles by erin m. evans, the spear cuts through water by simon jimenez, the warrior's apprentice by lois mcmaster bujold, saga vol 7 by brian k. vaughan and fiona staples, icarus by k. ancrum
December 23, 2024 at 7:54 PM