Library

I'm an avid reader about 50% of the year. Sometimes it's inspiring, sometimes it's technical, sometimes it's smut, but it's always sci-fi or fantasy. I might try to document what I'm reading here. I use StoryGraph decently regularly though. We'll see how this goes.

I'm also including video games here. I think it counts. They all have a plot after all. I may start including TV shows and movies. If I do, they'll be labeled.

Currently Reading

  • Audiobook cover of The Never King by Nikki St. Crowe. Image of skull with human eyes that have a red filter applied. The Never King by Nikki St. Crowe:
    Full Cast Audiobook

    : A reimagining of Peter Pan. Wendy Darling seems to have done something to Peter or caused a series of negative events to unfold generations ago. Peter is kidnapping Darling women when they turn 18. He always returns them. We're following Winnie Darling who's mother was mentally broken by her encounter by Peter. She thought her mother was crazy until she was kidnapped too. I'm 3/4 of the way through and I'm still not sure what he wants with the Darlings or what Wendy did. There seems to be some looming 3rd party we haven't been introduced to that might actually be the big bad. It's a series. I just picked an audio book from one of the popular lists on Hoopla. I expected a little bit more plot development. It seems to be focused on slowly unfolding lore to the reader. It feels like a pilot episode of a tv show instead of season 1 of a tv show. My bestie said they read all the books and they were great, so I'm going to press forward.

  • Video game cover of Blue Prince developed by Dogubomb. Image of person walking through a series of doors. A glimpse of each room is visible. The floors are a continuous wood floor. The viewer is in a blue hallway with a cane and umbrella in a pot. The next room has pink wallpaper and several photograph portraits. There is a red wagon on the left side of the doorframe and a white wooden rocking horse on the right. The next room is a green room that appears to have vines on its walls. There is a bust on each side of the doorframe. Only the doorframe is visible in the next room. The door is open and a figure is walking out into the light. Blue Prince developed by Dogubomb:
    Video Game

    : This is a rogue like video game. The premise is a boy's uncle dies and leave the mansion to him. He has a clause in his will that requires you to look for the 46th room in a 45 room house. You're not allowed to spend the night in the house, you have limited foot steps, and the house floor plan keeps changing. You solve puzzles and piece together the unusual history of the house to get closer to finding the 46th room. This is not like the old object finding games of the late 90s/early 2000s. There was some serious thought put in to these clues. They often span rooms and days. The ever changing house adds difficulty to finding the specific answers you're looking for. Determining which clues are for puzzles and which clues are just good world building adds to the fun. It's fabulous! I think it's a good game for nearly every game player.

  • Book cover of Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C Wrede. Image of crowned woman in a red velvet dress with old trim on sleeves, neckline and hem of dress. Woman has a gold hilted sword in a black and gold scabbard strapped to her waist with a black belt with gold trim. Woman is defiantly facing a green-yellow dragon standing on its hind legs with three horns on its head and a trail of spikes down its back. Both the woman and the dragon are on the edge of a clif. The dragon is closest to the edge with its back facing the cliff's edge. Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C Wrede:
    Book

    : I've gotten about 40% through my reread. I'm putting it aside for now.

    : This is my favorite book. I reread it all the time. I got it in second grade from my teacher. Her son had just gone to college and she said he loved it. It's one of those books that helps you define your personality.

  • Book cover of Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce. Image of a red-headed, short haired girl in a light blue tunic, dark blue pants, and brown leather over-the-knee boots sitting on deadwood in a desert with a black castle in the distance on the left and a saddled brown horse tied to the deadwood on the right. The girl has a knife strapped in a brown leather scabbord to a brown leather belt around her waist. The girl is leaning on a large, unsheathed sword with a silver hilt and large clear jewel on the end of the handle.Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce:
    Book

    : Did not get very far. Pausing for now.

    : Also high up there on my favorite books. Also a character defining book. It's not my favorite in the series, but it leads to so much more. I love that the series lets you follow the main character from child to adult.

  • Book cover of Metamorphoses by Ovid translated by Stephanie McCarter. Image of light pink fabric with daintily embroidered images of trees, branches, leaves, feathers, flowers and grapes. Over top the dainty embroidered images, larger images of DNA strands, ovaries, and indistinguishable text have been embroidered in pink thread. In the middle, an oval has been embroidered with a satin stitch with pink and tan thread. The book title has been written in white in the middle of the oval with a photo editing software Metamorphoses by Ovid translated by Stephanie McCarter:
    Book

    : Pausing for now. I reset my kobo after a failed attempt at some mods an my notes were separated from my book.

    : I'm working on upping my Greek mythology knowledge. I have an idea for a book that I want to be based around existing Greek mythology stories, but I don't feel like I know the original stories. I've mostly been exposed to mythology tropes and rewrites.

  • Book cover of The Pleasures of Hell by NovusAnimus. Image of demon woman with red skin, 4 horns on her head, pointy ears, white eyes, and black pointy nails. Woman is in black leather bikini and sitting on a large lava rock. A cavernous black mountain cut with streams of lava are in the background The Pleasures of Hell by NovusAnimus:
    Web Novel

    : Pausing for now.

    : This is an erotica on Literotica, but, dare I say, an erotica with a plot. It's an ongoing book still, but the author is active. It follows 2 main characters as they roam hell trying to understand why they're in hell and how they can save it.