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Reading Log: March 2024
March has been a pretty busy month, between my birthday and a weekend trip away as well as work starting to get busier there hasn’t been as much…
Reading Log: February 2024
We’re at the end of February, already! A quiet month for me all told, but some exciting stuff coming up in March. With that said let’s jump into…
Reading Log: January 2024
First reading log of the year! Time to see if I’ve gotten 2024 off to a good start or not. I’ve been doing well with my gaming habits…
Reading Log: December 2023
Final reading log of 2023! This one gives me an excuse to share shiny charts, charts which completely embarrass me I must say as the backlog has only…
Reading Log: November 2023
Christmas looms and it has already snowed before we even hit December 1st. The year has rapidly run away, not helped by this month being busy with Scotland…
Reading Log: October 2023
Spooky season is here, well, at least at the time of writing. Perhaps not by the time you read this! I spent a lot of time either under…
Reading Log: September 2023
It’s the first of October which can only mean one thing – It’s reading log time! With the busy season at work extending into a lot of September…
Reading Log: August 2023
August is that killer time of year where work is insane, it’s too hot to think and nothing gets done. Well, actually this year the weather has been…
Reading Log: July 2023
Getting into the busy season at work now, which means a lot less reading time but a lot more money to sink into buying books… Let’s see what…
Reading Log: June 2023
Six months through the year, the backlog continues to tower but it was a quieter month for new arrivals so I’ve been playing catchup with my reading while…
Reading Log: May 2023
It has been a busy month! Lots of new manga and light novels arriving, and work picking up again. I’m hoping to have read away a little bit…
Reading Log: April 2023
Made it through April somehow! As usual, work got busy over Easter and I spent a good chunk of time gaming as I aimed to (and achieved) finishing…
Reading Log: March 2023
Three months into the year, unbelievably. A difficult time for manga fans in the UK as Kodansha revealed US exclusive K Manga. Although I suppose that at least…
Project Skip the Books
Finally, time for this blog to be used for something that isn’t just the monthly reading log! Last year I gave myself a new project because I realised…
Reading Log: February 2023
Time for the second reading log of 2023. I think the structure I implemented last month worked well, so going to keep that one going forward. Let’s take…
Reading Log: January 2023
The first log of the year! This year I’ve decided to change things up a bit and split all the one-shots I read into a separate count since…
Reading Log: December 2022
Final reading log of 2022! This time I can add in some fun stats and charts to see how my backlog and reading have been going this year.…
Reading Log: November 2022
Almost Christmas time again aaaa. November has been a quieter month on the whole, so for once I feel like I’ve read more steadily than usual. Let’s get…
Reading Log: October 2022
After a reasonably quiet September, things got a bit nuts in October between work, flu jab, covid jab and then going to SLA. But hopefully, I’ve managed to…
Reading Log: September 2022
Out of the busy season and into a relatively calmer month. I feel like I read less this month than usual, perhaps because I was playing Soul Hackers…
Reading Log: August 2022
This month has continued to be busy at work, but despite that, some silly part of me agreed to a bet with a friend where I need to…
Reading Log: July 2022
Into one of the hottest months of the year and busiest times at work, but hopefully despite all that I’ve made some progress on keeping that backlog down!…
Reading Log: June 2022
Given the backlog went up last month, my bare minimum this month is to have reduced the count of that. Let’s see what happened.
Reading Log: May 2022
Another month goes by, my backlog only grows and it feels like little progress is being made. But let’s find out if that’s true or not! Bold =…
Reading Log: April 2022
I have no idea where four months of the year have gone already, although Easter did eat my life for like two weeks because of work being busy…
Reading Log: March 2022
We made it through March! I quite like this month because the weather is improving (we’ll ignore the snow yesterday) and it’s my birth month, so I get…
Reading Log: February 2022
The second reading log of the year! Also the shortest month so I feel like this is where I make the least progress with getting through the backlog.…
Reading Log: January 2022
It’s the first reading log of the year and after making some sizeable purchases this month, I’m hoping I’ve managed to read away some of my January sins.…
Reading Log: December 2021
It’s 2022! A new year begins, but before I can worry about what kind of things I’ll be reading this year it’s time to find out what I…
Reading Log: November 2021
Just one more month of the year left! Time flew by so fast, I have no idea where November went! Hopefully, all my energy went into getting the…
The Woes of Self-Confidence in a Creative Industry
I open this post with a warning that there are spoilers for A Sister’s All You Need Volume 11 as well as more minor spoilers for Animeta and Pet Girl of…
Reading Log: October 2021
This month I feel like I unexpectedly made a lot more progress on reading my backlog, so I’m hoping that’s actually reflected in the stats… Bold = completed…
Reading Log: September 2021
Unexpectedly September continued to be busy at work, so I didn’t get as much read as I usually would. Nevertheless, let’s take a look at what I managed…
Reading Log: August 2021
This month has been crazy at work so I don’t feel like I’ve gotten a whole lot of reading done. Mixed with the fact I have more disposable…
Reading Log: July 2021
July went by in a flash and now I’m writing a reading log yet again. I don’t feel like I got a lot done this month but maybe…
Reading Log: June 2021
Last month I started project Attack on Backlog, but between spending a weekend reorganising my books and a delivery of new stuff to cover for AUKN, my efforts…
Reading Log: May 2021
This month I started project Attack on Backlog, which I’m hoping will see me get through all the light novels I’ve been stockpiling over the last few months.…
Reading Log: April 2021
Another month, another reading log~ This past month I decided to go all-in on binging How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord, so it’ll be interesting to see…
Reading Log: March 2021
Another month of the year down! However, March includes my birthday so it’s a pretty bad time of the year in terms of my backlog growth. Let’s find…
Reading Log: February 2021
Second month of the year! Time is already going by quite fast, but I feel like I spent a bit more time playing games this month than I…
Reading Log: January 2021
It’s the first reading log of a new year, so now I need to desperately try to remember to type 2021 while I slowly crumble under the sheer…
Reading Log: December 2020
It’s time for the final reading log of the year, where I also work out how much time I’ve wasted away reading books instead of doing anything else!
Reading Log: November 2020
It’s almost Christmas! This hell of a year is finally winding down, hopefully leading to better things next time around. I don’t think I read quite as much…
Reading Log: October 2020
Only two months of the year left, boy that flew by. This month I feel like I accomplished a lot by finally getting through the rest of my…
Reading Log: October 2020
Now we’re headed into October the weather is starting to be colder, which is the perfect time to sit around and binge books! The amount of books in…
Reading Log: September 2020
Now we’re headed into October the weather is starting to be colder, which is the perfect time to sit around and binge books! The amount of books in…
Reading Log: August 2020
August has been a busy month as I finally returned to work properly and therefore had more money to irresponsibly spend on new books… Let’s see what I…
Reading Log: July 2020
July was another continuation of the war of light novels and actually I finally cleared off the backlog of 2019!* Now let’s see what all I read this…
Reading Log: June 2020
For the month of June I continued to wage war on the backlog of light novels! Let’s find out how I did… Manga Princess Jellyfish omnibus volume 7…
Reading Log: May 2020
Time is all mashed together at this point and somehow it’s hard to believe we’re already five months through the year! Here’s what I read in the month…