Raw Data:
Novels/Novellas - 10 ↓
Short Stories - 1 ↑
Manga/Graphic Novels - 0 -
Comics - 1 -
Average Rating - 3.71 ↑
Pages - 2031 ↓
Words - 698K ↓
The Bad:
NONE! Wow, first month in I don't know how long where I didn't read a bad book.
The Good:
Spellbound & Warbound were both 5star re-reads by Larry Correia
Mrs Pollifax Pursued was the best Mrs Pollifax yet and I gave it 4.5Stars. On the first read.
Movie:
Afterlife (Resident Evil #4) was a good time. Alice was back to being human, which is as it should be.
Miscellaneous Posts:
- Loop Earplugs - Experience 2 Plus
- Living Lands - MTG 4E
- Llanowar Elves - MTG 4E
- Imperatoris Chronicorum III
- Lord of Atlantis - MTG 4E
- Sunshine Blogger Award - The 2026 Edition
- MC - The Acquisitioning II
- Lord of the Pit - MTG 4E
Personal:
This was a fantastic reading month. My average was 3.71. That is stratospheric for me. It helped that I finished up the Grimnoir trilogy re-read :-) I did read less, but I need to get out of the mindset of just mindlessly consuming books.
Wordpress has always had "Achievements" for big milestones like anniversaries of your start date, or getting to 500 followers, or getting your first 100 likes. Things to help new bloggers feel motivated and some things for more seasoned bloggers. Well, part way through this month Wordpress really amped up that idea. If you visit "https://wordpress.com/reader/users/ME/achievements" you can see all of the Achievements you've accomplished so far and the absolutely monster list of more accomplishments you can achieve. It's the gamification of blogging and it stinks like horse manure. THIS is the kind of content WP is spending it's time on? This is why nobody is available on the help forums? This is why basic blogging functions are now behind "premium" paywalls? swearswearswear. Why doesn't most of that effort go into customer relations and customer service? I hate to use the following word, but this is the quintessential example of "Enshittification" and it's happening on Wordpress.com. It represents the idea that Wordpress thinks empty, useless shiny things are good enough while destroying, hiding and lying about core functions like notifications, subscribers (getting randomly unsubscribed from people or having them randomly unsubscribed from me is still happening, albeit much less) and basic statistics like actual "views" instead of allowing hundreds or thousands of bot views to be recorded. Ok, vent over. Except to say that:
Free Speech has consequences and I'm willing to accept those consequences - click to open
Matt Mullenweg can get Luigi'd and I'd not shed a tear. I might not dance with joy but there would be no sadness in Bookstoogeville that day. I am also willing to say this with the full knowledge that WP the fascists might very well close down my blog.
I took last week off from work. I've been needing that for several months and I made the most of it. I'd thought about doing a separate post about it, but with this Circum et Pervagatus post so adequately placed on the last day of my stay-cation, I figured I'd just talk about it here. I do have to go back to work tomorrow after 9 days of not even having to think about work, so this is my last hurrah! ;-) I basically walked to one of several coffee shops each morning, had an iced chai, read a book and took notes on it in a separate notebook from my journal. It was wonderful! The weather even cooperated so I could do the walk (it's about a mile away) and sit outside. Ahhhh, good times.
Cover Love:
The Ghost Pirates by William Hodgson. Not a recommended book but a truly fantastic cover.
Plans for Next Month:
I did a really good job of keeping Wednesdays and Saturdays post free. So for June I'm going to experiment with going post free on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. I haven't hit a words wall in my blogging yet, but I'd like to prevent that if I can and slowing down my blogging is the best way to accomplish that goal.
It helps that I've started reading Isaac Asimov's autobiographical trilogy, which starts with In Memory Yet Green. I'll be reviewing that later this week, but it has slowed my reading waaaay down. It's a dense chunkster of a tome.
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