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I like to read and keep track of my conquests here.
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Started August 9 2024)
Python Crash Course (Started August 16 2024)
The Animator's Survival Kit (Started Oct 25 2024)
Campbell Biology Second Canadian Edition (Started 25 May 2025)
Darkwing (Started May 29 2025)
title redacted for privacy (Started May 30 2025)
What It's Like To Be A Bird (David Allen Sibley) (Started May 30 2025)
Theory (Started June 1 2025)
Sam & Max: Freelance Police
Vaughn Bode's Deadbone: The First Testament of Cheech Wizard, the Cartoon Messiah
Lost Tales of Ga'Hoole
The Dark Half
Siddhartha
The Alex Crow
Electronics for Dummies
| Book | Completion Dates | Thoughts and opinions |
|---|---|---|
| The Secret Life of Birds (National Geographic) | Apr 17th 2025 to May 21 2025 | Not technically a book but I'm trying not to be picky with categorising stuff. Was a nice read, with some beautiful photography included. I learned about Black-Billed Magpie funerals. Conjured up quite the visual. |
| Firewing (Kenneth Oppel) | Apr 9 2025 to Apr 15 2025 | Good exploration of religion, faith and the concept of good and evil. |
| Sunwing (Kenneth Oppel) | Mar 16 2025 to Apr 8 2025 | Enjoyed this instalment in the series more than the first. It fleshed out the world a lot better and the stakes were much clearer. It felt dangerous. |
| Silverwing (Kenneth Oppel) | Jan 15 2025 to Mar 15 2025 | I read most of this series when I was a kid and decided to pick it back up again. I enjoyed rereading this first book a lot and was surprised by how much I'd forgotten. it's not too long of a read despite it having taken me a few months to get through. There is an odd sort of feeling throughout it that makes it hard to believe there's an outside world beyond what the main characters are experiencing, however, given the nature of their predicament this may have been intentional. Two thumbs up. |
| The Shining (Stephen King) | Dec 20 2024 to Jan 11 2025 | Had a feeling I might not like it, ended up being wrong. I've never watched the movie before but have seen a few famous clips over the years and was surprised to find almost none of them in the book. I kept expecting Jack to whip the axe out and he never does. Never freezes to death either. Anyways, the way Stephen King writes women and kids sometimes irks me, but by the end of the book I liked Danny and Wendy. I thought Jack trying really hard to convince himself that "actually, the play i'm writing isn't inspired by my own life events whatsoever I AM NOT MY FATHER" was pretty funny. In the end, we really are all just some fuckshit mix of our parents. Also learned AC/DC used to be slang for bisexual through this. Overall fun, freaky read. Maybe I'll watch the movie next! |
| Book | Completion Dates | Thoughts and opinions |
|---|---|---|
| The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck (Mark Manson) | Nov 1 2024 to Dec 10 2024 | Didn't think I'd ever read a self-help book (especially this one), but I did. I've seen it in every book store ever and when I saw it on a family member's shelf, curiosity got the best of me and I borrowed it. I assumed it was going to be written like an insufferable millenial blog. It was. Not for me, but I'm sure the right kind of person would benefit from it. I think the cover being a neon orange eyesore with a bad word on it to attract attention is really funny. |
| The War of the Ember (Kathryn Lasky) | Nov 25 2024 to Dec 2 2024 | x |
| Exile (Kathryn Lasky) | Nov 15 2024 to Nov 24 | |
| The River of Wind (Kathryn Lasky) | Nov 12 2024 to Nov 14 2024 | |
| The Golden Tree (Kathryn Lasky) | Nov 3 2024 to Nov 11 2024 | |
| To Be a King (Kathryn Lasky) | Oct 29 2024 to Nov 2 2024 | |
| The Coming of Hoole (Kathryn Lasky) | Oct 25 2024 to Oct 28 2024 | |
| The First Collier (Kathryn Lasky) | Sep 23 2024 to Oct 24 2024 | |
| The Hundred Penny Box (Sharon Bell Mathis, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon) | Oct 11 2024 to Oct 11 2024 | |
| Pink and Say (Patricia Polacco) | Oct 3 2024 to Oct 3 2024 | |
| The Outcast (Kathryn Lasky) | Sep 2 2024 to Sep 21 2024 | |
| The Hatchling (Kathryn Lasky) | Aug 26 2024 to Sep 2 2024 | |
| The Burning (Kathryn Lasky) | Aug 17 to Aug 26 | |
| The Shattering (Kathryn Lasky) | Aug 12 2024 to Aug 16 2024 | |
| The Siege (Kathryn Lasky) | Aug 8 2024 to Aug 9 2024 | |
| The Rescue (Kathryn Lasky) | Jul 24 2024 to Aug 7 2024 | |
| Antkind (Charlie Kaufman) | Apr 21 2024 to Aug 7 2024 | |
| The Journey (Kathryn Lasky) | Jul 14 2024 to July 23 2024 | |
| The Capture (Kathryn Lasky) | Jul 8 2024 to July 14 2024 | |
| From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find The Good Death (Caitlin Doughty, Landis Blair) | Jun 19 2024 to Jun 29 2024 | |
| Débarqués (André Marois, Michel Hellman) | May 27 2024 to May 27 2024 | Liked it a lot. Unexpected ending. |
| Mort & vif (Jef Hautot, David Prudhomme) | May 24 2024 to May 24 2024 | To this day, probably my favourite comic. Abstract and bizarre with some really unique use of panels and some cool intentional tangents. Some memorable moments include characters' silhouettes transitioning into background elements in the next panel and compositions forming an image (the cover is a great example of this). |
| Far Out 2 (Gautier Langevin, Olivier Carpentier) | May 23 2024 to May 23 2024 | |
| Les vieux maudits (Leif Tande) | Mar 16 2024 to Mar 16 2024 | |
| Dans les forêts de Sibérie (Virgile Dureuil, Sylvain Tesson) | Feb 7 2024 to Mar 15 2024 | |
| S'enfuir - Récit d'un otage (Guy Delisle) | Dec 19 2023 to Jan 4 2024 |
| Book | Completion Dates | Thoughts and opinions |
|---|---|---|
| Au plus près (Anneli Furmark, Monika Steinholm) | Aug 26 to Aug 30 | Don't remember this one too well. |
| Corps vivante (Julie Delporte) | Aug 20 2023 to Aug 20 2023 | Nice art. |
| P. Mon adolescence trans (Fumettibrutti, Laurent Lombard) | Aug 19 2023 to Aug 19 2023 | Autobiographical. Didn't love this one. Art style not for me. |
| La Génétique au coeur (Amouyel Philippe) | Aug 4 2023 to Aug 4 2023 | Loved this one. The artstyle used had a nice limited palette and the panels were very creatively layed out. The whole thing ended up being a lot more scientific theory than I expected it to be but I thought that was very neat. Learned a lot. |
| Nightbitch (Rachel Yoder) | Jul 10 2023 to Jul 19 2023 | |
| Hell Followed With Us (Andrew Joseph White) | Jun 5 2023 to Jun 28 2023 | Splatterpunk lite for a very specific kind of gay teenager. Wasn't for me. Strongly suspect one of its more disagreable characters is based off a now widely disliked youtube guy, same name and everything. Funny. |
| Pédale! (Ludovic Piétu, Jika) | Jun 21 2023 to Jul 2 2023 | This one contained a sticky note that implied that the last person who borrowed it left it on a desk in a highschool somewhere. Cool that it managed to find its way back to the library. Another autobiography. I will say the art style isn't something I'd usually be super crazy about, but the text kept me engaged enough to read through it. |
| Corps sonores (Julie Maroh) | Jul 13 2023 to Jul 13 2023 to | I biked to the library to get this along with some other stuff I'd put holds on. I didn't think I would be able to bike it back since it was the heaviest of the things I'd borrowed. Despite being sweaty as sin and probably not smelling great because the ride is 45 minutes, I was motivated enough stay at the library for 4 hours and read this one cover to cover. It was a collection of stories centered around love. Positive, negative and neutral. I enjoyed how varied they all were and I liked how sorta rough and messy the art looked. Sorry to any patrons who had to smell me! |
| Shout Out (A lot of people, it's a comics anthology) | May 17 2023 to Jul 10 2023 | Lotta different stories in this one to pick from. Some good, some hard to follow (artistically and narratively) and some ok. |
| And Then I Woke Up (Malcolm Devlin) | Jul 3 2023 to Jul 4 2023 | A little on the nose with its message but I enjoyed the fresh take on the zombie apocalypse trope. |
| Eul'Blond (Bryan Perro) | Apr 2 2023 to Jul 3 2023 | Didn't realise that this was done by the guy who wrote Amos Daragon until halfway through my read. Always hard to feel any specific way about autobiographical works. I enjoyed reading it and it gave me some insights on an admired childhood author's life. |
| Utown (Cab) | Feb 26 2023 to Mar 1 2023 | I liked it. Reminded me of home. |
| Louis parmi les spectres (Fanny Britt, Isabelle Arsenault) | Mar 26 2023 to Mar 26 2023 | Beautiful art. Instilled soul-crushing sadness and hurt to read. |
| Mort de rire (Jean Lacombe) | May 11 2023 to May 15 2023 | Eh, was alright. |
| Ouagadougou Pressé (Roukiata Ouedraogo, Aude Massot) | May 8 2023 to May 8 2023 | The copy that I read of this was borrowed from the library and it had crumbs in it every four pages. Was good, very colourful. Two thumbs up. |
| Out of Salem (Hal Schrieve) | Jan 24 2023 to Feb 6 2023 | A little all over the place with an interpretive ending that I don't think fit the previously very direct storytelling. Enjoyed it nonetheless and was a good introduction to urban fantasy. |