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it's five days into a new year and i'm accepting my flaws. reading list! please feel free to hit me up for recs and/or reviews for the majority i never logged here. bolds are favorites, italics rereads.

Books

1. Ocean's Echo, Everina Maxwell
2. Nettle and Bone, T. Kinfisher
3. Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
4. Villette, Charlotte Bronte (1 | 2)
5. One True Outcome, K.D. Casey
   
6. The Ill-Made Knight, T.H. White
   
7. Once and Future King, T.H. White
8. Antigone, Sophocles tr. Robert Bagg
9. So You Want to Be a Wizard, Diane Duane
10. Antigone, Sophocles trans. Slavoj Žižek
11. The Faerie Queene Book 1, Edmund Spenser
12. Alanna: The First Adventure, Tamora Pierce
13. Thud, Terry Pratchett
14. The Seagull, Anton Chekhov
15. An Unauthorized Fan Treatise, Lauren James (.5 review)
16. Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov
17. The Three Sisters, Anton Chekhov
18. The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov
19. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
20. The Aeneid, Vergil tr. Shadi Bartsch (.5 review)
21. Diamond Ring, K.D. Casey
22. Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin (.5 review)
23. The Sirens Sang of Murder [Hilary Tamar 3], Sarah Cauldwell
24. Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night, Katherine Fabian & Iona Dott Sharma
25. A Garter as a Lesser Gift, Aster Glenn Gray
26. Breadcrumbs, Anne Ursu
27. Railsea, China Mieville
28. Maybe This Time, Jenifer Crusie
29. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
30. The Pushcart War, Jean Merrill
31. Unraveller, Frances Hardinge
32. Spirits Abroad, Zen Cho
33. Tamsin, Peter S. Beagle
34. The Idylls of the Queen, Phyllis Ann Karr
35. Gilgamesh, trans. Sophus Helle
36. All the Horses of Iceland, Sarah Tolmie
37. The Navigating Fox, Christopher Rowe
38. Siren Queen, Nghi Vo
39. The House in Paris, Elizabeth Bowen
40. The Apothecary Diaries vols 1-4, Natsu Hyuuga
41. Mammoths at the Gates, Nghi Vo
42. The Inquisitor's Tale, Adam Gidwitz, ill. Hatem Aly
43. Sabriel, Garth Nix
    
44. Wise Child, Monica Furlong
    

Comics and Manga

1. Stages of Rot, Linnea Sterte
2. Yotsuba&!, vol 6, Kiyohiko Azuma
3. Surviving Romance, ch.59 to the end [yearlong], Lee Yeon
4. Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun, ch. 125-141, Izumi Tsubaki
5. Tiger, Tiger, ch. 148-600, Petra Erika Nordlund
6. My Dress Up Darling, ch. 78-90, Shinichi Fukuda
7. Dungeon Meshi, ch. 72-end [yearlong], Ryoko Kui
8. More Than Meets the Eye, vol. 1-3, James Roberts (.5 review)
   
9. Deeply Dave, Mike Grover & Eric Michael Hunterson
10. Yotsuba&!, vol. 1, Kiyohiko Azuma
11. One Piece, ch. 260-440, Eiichiro Oda

Currently Unfinished But Going to! Swearsies!

1. Middlemarch, George Eliot
2. Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake
3. An Orestia, tr. Anne Carson [various authors]
4. An Immense World, Ed Yong
5. Firelings, Carol Kendall
6. ETA! The Annotated 1001 Nights, tr. Yasmine Seale

Funny year! Read a bunch of classic-classics, but didn't finish a single non-fiction book, it looks like. Hmm. All of the books I'm not done with I have liked a lot to immensely--they just are hovering around. This coming year I'd like to finally get the Odyssey and Iliad under my belt, and more of the books I have stacked up--friend loans and nonfiction, especially!

Hello. I've realized, despite my desire to remember anything of the books (+) I interacted with this year, that's not enough motivation. So I ask you, dear friend and reader, to provide impetus. To be my chemical catalyst. Choose a number at random, or survey the list below, and I'll give you a brief comment on what I liked, disliked, thought, and imagined about the associated title. Bold indicates favorites; italics, rereads.

2021 in Medias!!!*

1. New Times, New Hell
2. Fantasy High S2
3. Goldfinger
4. Busman's Honeymoon (play)
5. Ace Attorney: Justice for All
6. Om Shanti Om
7. Hotel del Luna
8. Much Ado About Nothing
9. Unnatural Death
10. Strong Poison
11. Space Sweepers
12. Have His Carcase
13. The Mummy
14. Clue (script)
15. Adolescence of Utena
16. Get in the Fucking Robot
17. Murder Must Advertise (+)
18. This Is Chance!
19. Ookiku Furibatte S2 (Big Windup)
20. Gaudy Night
21. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
22. Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts
23. The Valley and the Flood
24. Hexwood
25. Busman's Honeymoon (+)
26. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
27. Unnatural Magic
28. The Daughters of Ys
29. Antigonick
30. Thor: Ragnarok
31. The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry
32. Princess Tutu (S1&2)
33. Winter's Orbit
34. Persuasion
35. Fugitive Telemetry
36. Howl's Moving Castle
37. My Next Live as a Villainess (anime)
38. Guide How to Fail at Online Dating
39. Toradora!
40. Memory Called Empire
41. Black Water Sister
42. Enter Title Here
43. Paladin's Strength
44. Desolation Called Peace
45. Face/Off
46. Con Air
47. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
48. Kentucky Route Zero
49. Where I End and You Begin
50. Witch Hat Atelier, vols 1-7 (3, 4, 7)
51. Gekkan Shojo Nozaki-Kun vols 5-12
52. Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
53. Dungeon Meshi vols 6-9
54. Unsleeping City S1
55. Disco Elysium
56. Face Like Glass
57. Genius of Birds
58. The Emissary
59. The Master of Djinn
60. Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations
61. Emma and Gogol Misread the Silmarillion
62. "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth"
63. Ted Lasso S1
64. Disco Elysium
65. Los Espookys
66. Infinity Train S1
67. Infinity Train S2
68. The Green Knight
69. Small Gods
70. Coming into the Country
71. The Silmarillion
72. Infinity Train S3
73. Cabin Pressure BBC S1-5 (S4&5)
74. Les Mis, (Book 5 "Jean Valjean")
75. Teppu
76. The Return of the Obra Dinn
77. Infinity Train S4
78. Ted Lasso S2
79. Thus Was Adonis Murdered
80. Gorogoa
81. The Fellowship of the Ring (movie)
82. True Pretenses
83. Rebecca
84. Bet Me
85. Check, Please
86. Guards, Guards
87. The Poisoner's Handbook
88. Natsume's Book of Friends, S4
89. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage


*It's a bit early for an end-of-year, but I'll update throughout the next couple months. Thanks for your help capturing the evanescence of experience!