OkayOkay! So, sometime ago I picked up Spencer Spears’ Adam’s Song, 8 Million Hearts Book 1, and didn’t get very far before I dropped it. I just wasn’t feeling it. Of course I didn’t remember that when book 4 came out. I didn’t even read the synopsis, but I just had a feeling about it, but […]
I created an empty draft for this post and it sat empty until now which is after I already started writing September’s post. I’m trying. Anyway. August is another month that’s kind of blurry in the rear view. But here’s what I can tell you: Things that were good: Samantha Wayland. I really like her […]
Once again, the delay in posting has caused me to lose perspective. I think July was a decent month, but I don’t know for sure. There were a decent amount of 5-star titles, at least. The trouble with delaying the post is that I question my state of mind regarding a 5-star title that I […]
I was sick at the end of June and while that didn’t stop me from reading, it did put a damper on my retention and any inclination I had to celebrate my reads with a monthly post. Now, it’s the middle of July and the reading’s going strong as ever, but the June ship has […]
The beginning of May seems like forever ago. I thought that I was going to be too busy to read as much as I usually do, but, even if I subtract the dropped titles, May still has most months beat by about 25%. I initially had a pic of The Property of Hate V02 above, […]
Another month of mostly M/M, but I’m doing good with making time for other genres. I did not manage to get back on track with my manga read-withs, so manga was not one of them. And this month sees me busy with other things, so I don’t know. I have a serious backlog of comics […]
Back to M/M this month. But not only M/M. I’ve restarted a read-with for Oda Eiichiro’s One Piece with my friend, Sam. When we first decided to do it was probably two or three years ago at this point. Maybe more. He’s Captain Procrastination and then I found myself too busy. Bad timing all the […]
Although I committed to reading books by and about Black people and their concerns for February, that wasn’t what I set out to do. It just kind of stacked up that way. It began with the last two books I read: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s pseudo-memoir, Mo’ Meta Blues and Kwanza Osajyefo and Jamal Igle’s graphic novel, Black. […]
As much as I like the people I like, I’ve never been all that interested in reading about their life. It’s not always possible and sometimes it’s not even a good idea to do so, but I prefer to separate the artist from their work in the sense that, whatever inspired them to create the […]
Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State was surprising. I enjoyed the story and the writing. The brutality was endless, but written in a way that put just enough distance between the reader and the story, so that they could get through it without breaking. Or breaking completely. Miri and Michael came from different worlds, and I […]
