Finished 4 books in May 2026. Way ahead of my roomie on #Spellmonger now and trying to wait patiently for them to mention certain events. 😅 They are enjoying the side trilogies, so I think I'll loop back and read those after I get current on the main storyline.

May's #nonfiction selection was the #audiobook version of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo. This is part of the Be A Better Person challenge on #StoryGraph. Kind of surface level and a bit repetitive, but it's a decent introduction. A reviewer recommended following up with So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo, which is also part of the challenge, so I've added that to my #TBR.

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In April 2026, I finished reading 8 books. I'm now caught up on the #DungeonCrawlerCarl series and awaiting the next book on May 12. And still making progress on #Spellmonger. I didn't realize just how many books there would be when I started (19 and counting!? plus several anthologies and two side trilogies). My roomie opted to read the trilogies in story order, but I'm skipping the side quests for now. I want to know what happens!

My #nonfiction selection for April was the audiobook version of Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick. I needed something lighter, and that fit the bill. I added a couple of her movies I haven't seen to my watch list. And I think I'll watch Into The Woods again. Boy, do I hate Annie, though.

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I finished 9 books in March 2026. Still enjoying and making progress on the #Spellmonger and #DungeonCrawlerCarl series. Both have a lot of books, and they're on the longer side. My roomie is also listening to the Spellmonger books and had spoiled a few minor things for me when they were ahead. I have now passed them by roughly two books, to my estimation. 🎉

My #nonfiction book this month was James Nestor's Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, which I listened to sped up. It was fascinating and kind of blew my mind a little bit. I highly recommend it, especially for anyone suffering from sleep apnea and/or crooked teeth. (CW: medical procedures, animal testing, and a passing mention of cannibalism.)

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Prologue: Loving the conversation’s detailed analysis of why MC did the thing when he did it. Somehow “his little girl asked him to” didn’t come up…

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Plus: the new book #Seamage in the #Spellmonger series is out.

However, I'm only 20% in and already wish the series. would. finally. invest. in. professional. copyediting. for punctuation and grammar in particular.

And, heck, English isn't even my native tongue.

Though at this point in this timeline, I guess that suggests almost no AI use, so, ... a plus?

Reading the latest installment in the Spellmonger series, I'm amazed at the combination of some of the most fascinating and epic world-building paired with the most glaring absence of proof-reading.

By Luin's knobbly staff, I'm sure it'd be within the budget. Or a few beta readers would do it for free, even.

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Surprised and impressed. Started Court Wizard, and Mancour seems to be halfway decent with women when they’re main perspective characters. Will see how the rest goes, and then how the 14-yo girl romance thing plays in Shadowmage.
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Carmella is a woman he develops well. Mancour definitely focuses on her autism as primary personality trait. But so far the women-perspectives have actually done a half-decent job with them. And she’s always rocked. Suddenly curious about Court Wizard. #Spellmonger

Ho. Lee. Cow. (SO MUCH in-joke there.) Carmella did not. Just... Did she? I think she did! I think she did!

Not put important things in a short story my ass. (TBF it was clearly sarcastic when he said it.)

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