Monthly Reads: November 2025

Book of the Month is Matt Dinniman’s This Inevitable Ruin, because shut up, that’s why.

Unread Shelf: November 30, 2025

… yeah, it’s gonna take two pictures again. Sigh. I’ve got two weeks off coming, I can tighten this up. I swear.

One book in one of those pictures was bought out of spite. See if you can guess which one! Your hint is that it’s new this month, but unfortunately there are a lot of those.

Monthly Reads: October 2025

I’m genuinely not sure how I pulled that off, given that this isn’t a summer month– Storygraph has me at just barely under 7,000 pages for October, which looks ridiculous until you realize June was 11,500.

At any rate, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride is Book of the Month, followed very closely by Mark Twain. Hastings’ Vietnam book is excellent as well but I’m only about halfway through it.

Unread Shelf: October 31, 2025

But hey, at least it all fits on one shelf this time!

Hahahaha lol nope:

Monthly Reads: September 2025

Book of the Month is … somehow, The Butcher’s Masquerade, by Matt Dinniman, with a special “yes, I’m serious, and no, I can’t explain it” runner-up award for You Weren’t Meant to be Human, by Andrew Joseph White.

Unread Shelf: September 30, 2025

“That’s not that bad,” you might be thinking. “Didn’t you say yesterday that your unread shelf was going to be unprecedented and absolutely ridiculous?”

Yes, I said that. Look closer.

“I mean, it’s interesting that those are all hardbacks. And it’s weird that they’re all the same size. But a bunch of them are new … wait.”

Sigh.

I’m never getting caught up.

As requested

I think this might be the best picture of Sushi anyone has ever taken.

Monthly Reads: August 2025

Depressing, I know, but remember I stared an 800-page history of London on July 31 and school started this month, so it’s not quite as depressing as it looks.

Book of the Month is Shroud, which I guess I should have reviewed.