Because Goodreads sucks.
| Date | Title | Author | Rating | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/23/2023 | Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin | ★★★★1/2 | Was on the waitlist for this one for a while! Some of the references seemed a bit Ready Player One at first, so I was skeptical, but it ended up living up to the hype. |
| October 2023 | His Dark Materials trilogy | Philip Pullman | ★★★★1/2 | Genuinely worth reading for the first time, even as a grown adult! |
| July 2023, probably | Scars of the Golden Dancer | NightEyes DaySpring | ★★★★ | And so the delve into furry fiction continued. |
| 06/16/2023 | Feed Them Silence | Lee Mandelo | ★★★★ | Continuing the pattern of "me loving protagonists that people on Goodreads seem to hate". Also, this is tagged as horror? It's not a happy story, necessarily, but I don't know if I'd define it that way. |
| 06/06/2023 | The Captain's Oath | Rick Griffin | ★★★1/2 | Like the previous installation, rating this was hard -- I got invested in the story, but I don't think the writing measures up against anything I've rated 4 stars or higher. Still want to see what happens to these furry freaks in book 3! |
| 06/01/2023 | Traitors, Thieves, and Liars | Rick Griffin | ★★★1/2 | Fun read, regardless of my rating. I'm always glad to get into some decent furry fiction, and Rick Griffin's art is a nice touch. Moving on to the sequel! |
| 05/30/2023 | Open Throat | Henry Hoke | ★★★★★ | Woah |
| 05/27/2023 | The Salt Grows Heavy | Cassandra Khaw | ★★★★ | Today's word of the day is... Enucleation! |
| Early May 2023 | Some Desperate Glory | Emily Tesh | ★★★★★ | Currently experiencing the utter pain of really enjoying a book, and, as a librarian, being unable to convince anyone else to check it out. |
| 03/18/2023 | Gateway | Frederik Pohl | ★★★★1/2 | "Freudian loot box fiction" is second only to "Catholic spaceship fiction" for me, so naturally I enjoyed this a lot -- although, spoiler alert, the big psychiatric revelation aged (hilariously) poorly. | 03/12/2023 | The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting | Anne Trubek | Served its purpose | I have a bookshelf with a backlog at least a hundred strong, and I choose to read this? It was fine. Did you know medieval monks went through dozens of quills every day? |
| 02/17/2023 | Hell Bent | Leigh Bardugo | ★★★ | Okay, never mind. I made it two-thirds of the way through and realized I didn't care anymore. Sorry, Bardugo. At least the cover is cool. |
| 01/25/2023 | Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo | ★★★1/2 | My last few stabs at fantasy had me worried that I was outgrowing the genre, but I'm glad to see I can still have fun with it. |
| 01/14/2023 | Dead Silence | S.A. Barnes | ★★★★ | Fun -- read within a 24-hour window. |
| 01/13/2023 | Mistborn | Brandon Sanderson | ★★★ | Good worldbuilding... Bad prose... And too many ellipses... |
| Early January 2023 | A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | ★★★★1/2 | Empathized with Ignatius more than I reasonably should've. A character after my own heart. |