2022, in brief

Oh hey, I made in through 2022.


The cat remains terminally cute.



See? Terminally cute. No cure.


Storygraph tells me I finished 31 books this year, which includes comics and fiction in French and English and non-fiction in English only. I think I'd like to read at least one non-fiction book in French in 2023. Read more in French in general. I'm curious to see if my thoughts about written in French SFF vs written in English SFF hold true with a larger sample size. I'd like to read more than than one book not written originally in French or English, too.

There was only one book this year I disliked to the point that I'd happily call it the worst book I read this year: the French translation of Agustina Bazterrica's Cadáver exquisito (French title: Cadavre Exquis; English title: Tender is the Flesh). I had been told I'd be getting insightful societal commentary with body horror; I got teenage vegan edgelordy mysogynistic boringness. I wish I knew what other people saw in it.

There was only one other book I'd willingly put on a "worst books" list, but I since I don't want to do such a list and all the other books would only be there by default and undeservedly, I'm not going to.

Have a bunch of "Best Books" instead.

Best Fiction (English): Vespertine, by Margaret Rogerson. Hands down, no context. It's been a while since I read a book in one sitting and I'm currently ~60% of the way into a reread. This book is "Joan of Arc meets Venom". My favourite bbok I read this year, no questions.

( BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS: fiction, comics, non-fiction )

Anyway, if anyone wants more details on any of them please ask. There are a few I want to talk more about, but not now, and I might forget (memory whomst).


I gave blood twice (anemia ;_;) and co-ran sunflower_auction with yuuago (which, sadly, will need to run again this year and I hope I'm in health enough to do so). I mentionned these two things to my therapist as objectively good things I had done and she said she was happy for/proud of me for recognising that because I couldn't/wouldn't have done so when I started seeing her. Turns out is in fact both possible to achieve and reasonable to want a good grade in therapy!


Also schneefink stayed at my place for a bit and dealt me a grievous emotional blow by subjecting be to the last 10 episodes of The Magnus Archives s4 it was very nice.