books I read in 2024

26 Jan, 2025

last modified 2 months ago

in 2023, I realized I'd accumulated a physical TBR list that was long (tall) enough to elicit a sympathetic "jesus" from discord friends, so I made it my new year's resolution for 2024 to finish one book every month. not start - and it didn't need to be a book from my TBR - but I wanted to read regularly again, something I hadn't done in a few years (...since 2020. hahaha)

and I succeeded with flying colors: I finished 22 books in 2024! almost twice my goal! so in this post I'm gonna talk about them, in chronological order of finishing them.

most of these have no star ratings, because I only came up with my own personal satisfactory method of rating books in october. just know I've calculated every quarter of a star very tightly lol. I will however in retrospect add a little sparkle emoji to my favourite things I read / the ones I consider highlights

without further ado!

Dune, by Frank Herbert (tr. to spanish by Domingo Santos)

I bought a physical copy of Dune back when the FIRST MOVIE came out and decided I'd finish it before the second movie released. and well I mean I did it. I read it at the beach a bunch - highly recommend - really immerses you particularly into the mindset of lady Jessica, pinned under the searing heat of the sun, sand in your water bottle nozzle, squinting at the pages and wondering "is Paul okay, mentally?" (he's not)

it's been a year since I read it, so obviously I'm forgetting a lot of my impressions, but honestly "is Paul okay??" could've been my review of the whole book. I can't decide if he's well written for a teenager or terribly written for a teenager - I'm leaning towards a "little bit of both" diagnosis - with the latter being more genre convention (imitating ancient epics &c) than anything else.

but there were several points midway through I got strong "ah, yeah, he's 15" vibes when he kept on going about... I think it was a whole thing of being special and emotionless and cold and calculating. I'm really fond of fictional teenagers who are Like That, maybe because I absolutely was not lol (I was more of that Mulaney bit about being childish on purpose and freaking out your parents lmao, but I did share the catastrophizing - when you're 17 everything is life-altering, so everything feels life-altering)

my bestie Daniel swears by this book, he says it changed his life when he was younger. I respect and see that, but unfortunately other books have held that spot in my life lol. hilariously, another one of my friends, A., read this book and strongly disliked it - his theory is that, the more you like philosophy (I would add "and/or theology or religious history"), the more you'll like this book

me personally, I felt at the time OK about philosophy, and I liked Dune fine. it was very good! I wouldn't call it anything like tightly-written, but the vastness is, I think, half the point lol

✨ Neuromancer, by William Gibson

this book was beautiful! it was dated (in multiple ways), but it had beautiful, maximalist prose, the exact super-greebled violently-purple kind I love, and the characters were extremely likeable and charming, despite everyone being an absolute failperson of a human being - well, not despite but because of. the ending surprised me, but it did make sense for the characters!

I also think we deserve a slightly modernized (but not too much - the zeerust is great) adaptation of this book where Case is a woman (and a lesbian, natch). throughout reading the book I had a bright and powerful vision in my mind of an Emily or Hannah Dorsett Case who even kinda looks like Ellen Ripley - but worse-kept, with black-rimmed glasses, Cesare eyebags, an unkept mullet and adult acne. she wears like, Kraftwerk merch short-sleeves over long-sleeved shirts plus sweatpants or cargo pants outside. she would wear overalls to the club. the gijinka of a tangled earbud cable. Molly, of course, is perfect as she is

I marathoned this in about two weeks at the end of February because I had signed up for a brief science-fiction themed physical book club local to my area (so, no links!). this book wasn't necessary for the book club, but my friend C. had recently read Neuromancer and enjoyed it, and I thought it'd set the mood lol

C. in general has really good book taste - you'll see throughout this list that several of my reads were recommended by them!

for the book club we actually read a translation of the first chapter of Snow Crash, which I ended up reading later in the year. so, it's a fun book-ends moment!

✨ Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino (tr. to spanish by Aurora Bernárdez)

I was put onto the trail of this book by Jacob Geller's Disco Elysium video, but took a good long while to read it. genuinely one of the most lovely to read, pleasant, wonderful books I've ever traversed through - wholehearted recommendation to everyone. it was kind of a poetry book honestly??

I felt really nostalgic reading it... when I was a kid I had this book of magical realism-type short stories by some italian author that I think was written around the same time as Invisible Cities - they certainly have the same slightly 90s retro vibe when describing e.g tv antennas and such - and for some reason while reading this book I kept remembering reading those short stories in the backseat of the family car

Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity, by Byung-Chul Han (tr. to spanish by Miguel Alberti)

I basically never read non-fiction, this was a gift - but I did like this book! it wasn't too self-help-y, which I appreciate, bc I dislike self-help books (I also dislike psychology books, which seem to essentially be an offshoot of self-help books)

but this book's a philosophy book! actual philosophy, quoting actual philosophers. I should revisit it now that I've been refreshed on my Platos by my philo 101 uni class tbh. it said a lot of things I agreed with - and had kinda already been thinking, though the book said it more eloquently than me lol. its thesis is, essentially, that bumming around is morally good, which is a sentiment I, the perennial unemployed friend and proud lazybones, of course echo

honestly, probably my favourite part of this book was when the author took a sidequest out of praising inactivity and started calling out Hannah Arendt with receipts terrifyingly hard. that was hilarious - maybe not meant to be hilarious, but I think if you write a philosophy book and then single out another philosopher just to peel them like a potato, that's a form of untapped comedy gold. I had no context for who Hannah Arendt was when I read this, and now I have a little bit more context, and it makes the whole thing a good bit funnier. (that said, I have no real opinion on Hannah Arendt. they don't pay me enough to have one so I don't, as with many other situations)

Bunny, by Mona Awad

this is a very popular recent book online! it's pretty good. I mean, not earthshakingly striking or anything but I had a lot of fun with it. I love completely unintelligible surreal magic realism, breakneck thrillers, and terrible fail-loser gay-ass women, so this was a hit. I believe the main character was in horrendous, world-ending lesbians with Ms. Tango Girl (I'm terrible at names). not a lot else to say for it!

wait, no, on edit, one thing to say about it. I saw some people dislike this book on basis of being confusing. to those people I say: Lol. and in fact, Lmao¹

the entire The Trials of Apollo series, by Rick Riordan

I grew up with the Percy Jackson books and the last time I'd read any fresh Riordans had been Magnus Chase (& I was in the online fandom as a preteen when House of Hades released and that was crazy, absolutely formative for me lol). I wanted some junk food comfort reading during exam season, so I turned to Rick Riordan - how bad could it be?

and honestly I'm not gonna lie: it was pretty ass. I don't know what I was expecting from a middle grade book. they weren't HORRENDOUS - but they weren't special at all - I kept feeling like the comedy undercut the gravity of every situation, which I didn't feel with previous books, but that might've been because I read them as a child; I think... it retroactively made me like previous Percy Jackson books less??? which is wild

the lesson here, I think, is that I shouldn't read junk food stories. or middle-grade books. possibly both.

✨ Gogmagog, by Jeff Noon and Steve Beard

now THIS was a highlight of my reading year. this book was friggin awesome and straight up my alley. let's talk about ittt

Gogmagog is a fantasy, (I would argue) weird fiction novel influenced by old english folklore about a drunkard, hallucinogenics-huffing, failwoman old lady sailor named Cady, and her (+ her teenaged apprentice's) very reluctant quest to drive a magical nine-year-old girl and her robot butler up the river Nysis, which is the Thames if the Thames were the ghost of a dead dragon, and its fog banks were the remains of the dragon's spirit.

it's weird as hell and full of plants and the protagonist is a washed-up grizzled old stoner woman with the most delightfully brash and smug narrative voice. it also involves a fantasy penis nuke or something like that which is pretty cool

the sequel came out right at the tail end of 2024 and I haven't been able to snag it quite yet, but this will happen, please rest assured...

but yeah, if you like weird anglosaxon folkloric nonsense, old lady losers who swear and do shrooms, big ole dragons, and/or really weird worldbuilding, I recommend!

✨ Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, by Satoshi Yagisawa (tr. to spanish by Estefanía Asins)

my aunt lent me this one! I spedran it throughout august so I could give it back safe & sound as soon as possible (and it did get there - actually, fun fact, I had to ask my aunt to send me pictures of the book to check who the translator was, since the name wasn't online)

this book's a really sweet, relatively easy (though it touches on really heavy subjects) read about life, love, and books! I don't have much to say about it, but I enjoyed it quite a lot

✨ El Aleph, by Jorge Luis Borges

a while back I was gifted a big old brick of a book compiling every Borges story, and it was conveniently separated into the different books the stories were compiled onto. I can't find the dates I finished the previous books-within-the-book - they might've been in 2024 - but this one I definitely finished around late august, early september.

... this book is very complicated to talk about and so I will try not do so at too much length. there are some very large nopes for most audiences in this book (god what the hell posessed him to write this, I say, knowing the context of his life...) (I'm trying to be brave about this online, please have patience lol)

thaaaaat said, if you're interested in delving into latin american literature, Borges is a huge name for a reason! his writing is outrageously good, incredibly precise while simultaneously also deeply evocative and multifaceted and philosophical

there's a lot of ink that's been spilled in his praise but I think the most real thing I personally can say is that his work is incredibly, giddily fun to read - every tale is a little puzzle-box - if you read for fun, and particularly if you read old adventure books and spooky little short stories for fun, you might get a kick out of it

if you have no context for what Borges's short stories are like, I think probably the best comparison for international audiences is to explain them like 1930s Twilight Zone episodes with a heaping dose of... unsure what to call it - aesthetic fetishism towards religious history and theology? something like that, plus a whole lot of Argentina (tons of gauchos!)

my favourite stories from this book were "La casa de Asterión", "El zahir" and "La escritura del dios". particularly I keep returning to the image of the overlapping tigers from "El zahir" - incredibly effective as a sort of philosophical horror

✨ A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

my first Le Guin ever, can you believe that? I loved it, obviously - I don't think it was possible for me not to like it

everything about its world, particularly, charmed me deeply. there was a real and true love from Le Guin, not just for the fictional world depicted but for our own and all the ways that fictional world mirrored our own, that could be felt on the pages and the words - with a certain tendency towards admiring the pastoral, true, but I think an earnest one. isn't there a Ghibli adaptation of one of the Earthsea books? I think that'd be accurate - the lush and vibrant life emerging from many of the most well-known Ghibli movies feels similar to this book's

I did struggle with it a bit, because I'm really weak whenever characters make a certain, specific kind of highly-telegraphed Bad Choice, so when Ged did his Shadow Fuckshit I was cringing and hiding behind my own hands - but we got through it, and Ged survived and grew as a person, and he made a really sweet friend, and the book was absolutely amazing and had incredibly beautiful prose, and everything was lovely lol

another thing to highlight here, I think, was the respect and patience Le Guin showed to her own characters - I find it's really common for authors to have characters they write without showing them respect, perennial butts of the joke or discardable asset-signifying satellites in the vague shape of a person. many authors don't do this, but Le Guin does not do this even more than average - she goes out of her way to speak with a certain poetic respect about most characters in this book, and I could still feel it even for those characters she wrote as unlikeable and/or pitiable. Ged fucked up real bad, but while he was disciplined by the narrative, I think it was done fairly, if... not harshly, but moreso strongly. does any of this make sense? unsure

kind of on the subject, my favourite quote from it was probably this random aside:

Out of the sea there rise storms and monsters, but no evil powers: evil is of earth.

it's just very true. like, yeah, I love the ocean. big fan of the ocean. evil is on the earth. it feels a bit like a microcosm of the book somehow, despite really not being. I think this highlights how much the entire book is in sync in its artstyle, priorities, and values

a fun sidenote: I finished reading the entirety of One Piece the same year I started reading the Earthsea books. I guess I'm on a Water World mood. I wonder why (not just about climate change, I also literally live atop a river)

Daniel gifted me a translation of the second book in the Earthsea series for xmas, and I actually read it between writing this post and editing it. I'll talk about it in a future post, though

✨ Djinns, by Seynabou Sonko (tr. to spanish by Sofía Traballi)

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1/2 (4.5 stars)

I went to a local independent bookstore I love with my family to hand over some old books for their secondhand section and this caught my eye, so instead of getting money, me and my mom essentially traded our old books for new ones lololol. in fact one of the employees saw me holding the book and said it was extremely good

this book is about a young woman named Penda, of senegalese origin + currently living in paris, raised by her grandma, Mami Pirate, who's a folk healer/medicine woman? (I'm not sure how it's said in english)². Penda's neighbour and childhood friend Jimmy is mentally ill, though never formally diagnosed - until, at the start of the book, he has an incident in public that lands him in the psych ward with a schizophrenia diagnosis. however, Mami is distrustful of the french psychiatric establishment and decides she'll be the one to heal Jimmy. and it goes from there!

this book was absolutely delightful. it's very short, and honestly a lot happened in very little time, but it never quite felt frenetic to me - I like frenetic books, but this is also very nice lol. if I had to label it anything, I would say unconventional coming of age (with wacky-plan heist elements), but mostly it's just a fun and slightly fucked up story of something that Happened To My Buddy Eric Penda. it got downright surreal at points near the end, and honestly always kept an air of surreality about it - searching for hours for a specific plant in a public park is entirely feasible in real life, but does kinda sound like something you'd do in a dream, right? obviously, all of this is a compliment

one thing I have to highlight is that every character was immensely likeable, at least to me. Penda felt like a super charming narrator, a fucked-up girl at a crossroads of her life, and while reading I got the feeling I was traveling in her pocket (or thereabouts lol); I grew very fond of her. and the rest of the cast is a riot as well: Mami Pirate, Penda's sister Shango, Jimmy, and Chico were all their own, unique flavor combination of funny / heartstring-tugging / loveable. really good stuff

I don't know if this book has been translated to english yet, but if you speak french you should definitely look into it, I loved this book lol

oh and I also developed my rating method in October, so, I rated this one. let's go

Éste es el mar, by Mariana Enríquez

⭐⭐ (2 stars)

to summarize: an urban fantasy novella about an immortal timeless succubi witch ascending through the ranks of her immortal succubi witch society by ritually driving an internationally-famous pop punk frontman to sacrificial suicide at the peak of his fame

I didn't like it very much, mostly because I hated everything about the musical scene described in this book - it felt a lot less peak-fame MCR and a lot more... comme on pourrais dire... 2019 Fall Out Boy

there is (was?) a magical earnestness to being truly emo that's not really compatible with being a stadium-buster standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Imagine Dragons, just with more goth-inspired visuals. the band side of the book just did not gel together at all for me - maybe it's my lack of Warped Tour experience, but if a band such as the one described in the book existed, it would not be this famous, or most accurately, not this type of famous - washboard-abs-on-the-american-frontman famous. Gerard Way didn't repeatedly crossdress onstage for this

I also thought the other half of this book fell very flat - the fantasy side of the urban fantasy - though mostly because it just was not developed at all beyond vague, tumblr-y gestures in the direction of an aesthetic you could find better performed in a hundred thousand gif-coloring blogs from 2019

I'm just deeply unimpressed, as a superficial little aesthete, whenever an author just kinda yanks the whole vibe from old tumblr posts the way people used to yank the "Denny's at 4am" punchline - I was there when the ancient texts were written, so it doesn't impress me at all, I've already seen it - in the wise words of hypertextdog, on the very subject of 4am Dennys:

you have to come up with your own strange places, and indeed your own strange times to be there. there's authenticity in that

this is also why I don't fuck with a lot of current fantasy and romantasy - I read basically every one of those books back in a thousand aesthetic OC pinterest boards, this brings nothing new to my table

that said, if you like short urban fantasy novellas about very sweet-hearted, very evil and toxic witch women entrapping and murdering a washboard-abbed, star-studded au version of a twenty one pilots bandmember, you might like this book

this book was actually a gift from my mom - Mariana Enríquez is an author she thought I might find interesting, because she (Enríquez) talks on instagram about liking vampires, which is something I famously do. I'm hoping to read another book by her in the future and actually like it, but this one was meh, lol

✨ Flux, by Jinwoo Chang

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1/2 (4.5 stars)

this was another one of C.'s recommendations and omg it was so good, I loved this book!! I have a lot to say about it, but I can't without spoiling it :c

if you like breakneck scifi near-future thrillers about bisexuality, absent fathers, bisexual absent fathers, emotional attachments to fictional fathers, reckoning with the general bullshit quota of the 21st century and particularly its startup/tech industry (looking at all the hackernews readers on this platform...), and the connection between your current and past you, listen to me: don't read the summary, put tape over it, it'll spoil you - just nab this book and read it. goddamn I loved this book so much

Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett

⭐⭐⭐ (3 stars)

back when I was in a reading slump, basically the only thing I got through successfully were Discworld books, but I never finished the whole series - I just read the Lipwig and Watch sub-serieses and a bunch of one-offs - so I've been tucking away at the Witches books. this one wasn't my favourite, but it wasn't my least favourite, either lol

it was kind of exhausting to get through, honestly. I mean, Pratchett can be hilarious, but just... hmmm... I really loved Perdita/ Agnes, and I'm fond of the Witches, but I kind of hated most of the rest of the cast by the end because they were so goddamn mean to the main character? just like, relentlessly?

in general it felt a bit like an in-between episode for the greater Witches plotline throughout Discworld. I'm sure the next Witches book I read I'll like more lol - I think one of the most widely-praised ones is up next?

Catfishing on CatNet, by Naomi Kritzer

⭐ 1/2 (1.5 stars)

(sighs). near-future sci-fi novella about the world's first AI, who is undercover online working as a sort of Discord moderator, and a young girl forced to live off the grid and constantly moving because of her mother's fear towards the girl's father...

not how the internet works and it irritated me the entire time. funny to try to adapt it to my understanding of the internet and imagine a Mastodon instance manned by a benevolent AI though. also, cat pictures aren't this worthy of unexamined worship, cats are way better in motion and particularly in person - you could've explored the idea of an AI who's very attached to cat pictures because it has no idea how absolutely adorable cats are in person, kind of an Allegory of the Cave scenario. just generally super glurgy tbh

honestly the most interesting plotline here was the protagonist's mom and her unresolved tension with Xochitl. I believe in my heart of hearts Xochitl spent Carla's decade+ of exile pining like crazy (with Carla pining, of course, right back, but thinking - in Mili's immortal words (sung over a gacha rpg boss) - that "Love must be the reason why / I still believe in this lie / That you'll live a better life without me by your side")

oh yeah and I guess the AI can blow up the planet or something. I don't really remember

I did read a short story I think by this author that I liked, a while ago, about life and community in the post-apocalypse. that one felt glurgy too, but it at least offered up a really pleasant fantasy, and you came out of it motivated to talk to your neighbours. this, though... not nearly as good

✨ Kraken, by China Miéville

⭐⭐⭐ 1/2 (3.5 stars)

a note before I unveil the twist in this review: I also found this book through a Jacob Geller video, specifically Fear of Big Things Underwater.

and going into this book - well, I expected really weird squid-centric urban fantasy, and I sure got really weird squid-centric urban fantasy (albeit less squid-centric than advertised, sadly). and I'm not sure if I expected a prolongued spy/mystery story, but I wasn't surprised when it turned out to be a prolongued spy/mystery story.

but you know what surprised me? goddamn those bitches were gay.

seriously - this had like, Supernatural levels of star-crossed adult man with stubble-type yaoi. I checked and this book has maybe 10-12 AO3 fanfictions, which would be obviously nothing if this was released this year - but this book is from 2010, so over the past 14 years of China Miéville's fanbase having almost zero overlap with your typical AO3 writer circles, multiple people read this thing for unrelated reasons and came out of it concluding that these two men were gay enough that they'd dedicate a couple thousand words to it. a couple of them were even rated explicit (though the tags scared me a little so I skipped those, but I did read quite a few of the rest and proudly)

there were several books I read this year that I thought were deserving of a TV/movie adaptation, but if I had to only pick one to realize I think I'd pick Kraken, just to see Billy/Dane skyrocket to the Top AO3 Ships of the Year list. it's what we deserve, I think, as a society (or what I deserve as a treat from the universe, maybe? big question mark)

& for the record my Vardy fancast is Dan Olson. from Folding Ideas. I know Vardy is supposed to be english and Olson is canadian, and that Olson is not an actor, and finds it challenging to act out fictional anger in front of a camera - none of this knowledge impedes my fancasting, it continues on regardless

aside from that: really liked the worldbuilding in the book, the fucking weird magic underbelly stuff - I'd recommend this book as a good nicotine patch for Neverwhere now that, well, you know - I was a huge fan of the Magic Familiar Union and of the Star Trek guy and the Londonmancers. and of course Marge deserves the entire planet and the stars. I was less of a fan of the fuckin cops in this book but I think that was on purpose?

one criticism: I may be biased saying this, given, you know, my biggest impression of this book, but I did think the ending was kind of a... nihilistic implosion? I understand Miéville's choice, and I don't think a completely happy ending would've worked either (way too glurgy for what the rest of this book was), but also: come on. I shall say nothing further, for spoilers reasons lol

if you've read this book and also thought "damn those bitches gay" ... contact me?? please?? I have thoughts on the subject and also fanart. I might have a contact email somewhere on here when you're reading this - if I don't, you can drop a comment on my guestbook with your email and I will uh, endeavour to fight off the social anxiety, just for you xx

✨ Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson

⭐⭐ 3/4 (2.75 stars)

Don't Worry About Why A Book With Less than 3 Stars I Would Consider a Highlight of the Year. a book does not need to be good for me to really like it

anyway, the full circle moment reveals itself: I did get around to reading the rest of Snow Crash, now in english!

it... hmmmm. it said a lot of interesting things about the USA that felt extremely refreshingly honest as a non-USamerican, and it also did the same of late-stage capitalism - which at some point is kind of one and the same thing... and I think I'm gonna be thinking about the fucking gated franchise micronations for the rest of my life, what a goddamn concept...

... but all of that was ultimately, I think, a sidequest in Stephenson's frenetic drive for The Funniest/Coolest/Funnest Fucking Shit He Could Think Of, which was mostly fine at first but eventually did bring the book down quite a bit. mostly I was let down by the severe xenophobia (and the bad weird sex shit near the book's end, a lot of which I skipped) but this book also shows the epic highs and lows of breakneck gonzo plots (I definitely like breakneck, but I'm not sure if I like gonzo - the infodumps got to a point of being overwhelming)

it also (I'm assuming) kind of suffered from the Seinfield-is-unfunny problem of its entire sense of comedy being woodchippered through somethingAwful and into the wanton mouths of reddit and cracked.com, and therefore being a lot more stale - albeit I will admit through gritted teeth still pretty funny - for a veteran zoomer such as I. we've evolved as a nation³ away from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash

it did make revisiting Folding Ideas's decentraland video very funny though

All Systems Red, by Martha Wells

⭐⭐⭐ (3 stars)

and to finish off the year, I binged the first novella in the Murderbot series at some point in december!

I liked it - it felt undercooked, but I think at this point that's a general problem with novellas, and it's the first book in a series, so it'll probably develop more of an identity and higher stakes as it goes on

honestly, I wanted to read it to test if I'd like the Murderbot books, since I'd heard good things about them and they seemed up my alley, and the answer is... they're fun enough! thumbs up. they're in the positive

the real highlight of the book is its absolute autism creature protagonist. Murderbot is just like me for real (does their job and then goes into a hole to look at trashy fiction for eight hours straight) (don't ask me how many times I've reread those 99 chapter fix-it fanfictions don't ask don't ask don't ask)

the worldbuilding is very tumblr so far, and you know my grievances with this already⁴, but, you know what, if the rest of the book is actually entertaining, I can forgive this. I can forgive so much, you would not believe, for one little autism robot

I'll probably keep going with the rest of the series further into 2025 when I don't have as much time to read full-fledged novels (though I did see they eventually become full novels, which I'm tentatively excited about lol). if I make another post like this next year (or post throughout the year about the stuff I'm reading), you might see this series pop up again

and those were my books for 2024! my plan for 2025 is to finish 24 books, since I was pretty close to it last year

I could've crunched it, but I don't like crunching with books. honestly I could do an entire separate post on my philosophy re: reading (I'm a lifelong bookworm/book woodchipper despite my 👑🦠-induced hiatus, from a prestigious family line of absolute nerdingtons), and you know what? yeah, it's gonna be a separate post lol

anyway, I hope you enjoyed these reviews. I have a storygraph account, but I'm not sure if I should link it publicly... (I also don't think it's public?) if I've set up a contact email by the time you're reading this, if you want you can shoot me an email about it? that sounds about right for barriers of entry, lol

I also read a whole bunch of manga and comics and webcomics and terrible, terrible webtoons and metric tonnelages of fanfiction in 2024 - but those I don't keep that much track of, and I'm not really feeling like keeping track of them. plus it's outside the scope of this post which is already an absolute beast lol. I might make a post talking about like, My Opinion On The Villainess Isekai Genre or Top 10 Long Fanfics or whatever, but this will be another post (as will the post where I talk about where I get my reading recommendations)

it feels good to be reading again, I'd love to continue this. hopefully this year I'll make more progress through my actual TBR since I kind of abandoned it very quickly haha

thank you for reading!

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