Nonesensed's writing corner

Time sure keeps moving forward whether I keep track of it or not 😆 I'm still playing catch-up on everything, but by doing one thing at the time, I'm actually making progress - huzzah!

One thing I'm getting to today is going through what books I read last year.

In 2025 I read 90 books, which I'm fairly pleased with. Sadly had to give up on the Book Bingo I was doing because I didn't have the brainpower to think through my book choices - but there's always next/this year 😊

If you're curious about what those 90 books were, here's a link to a summary on Storygraph.

( Some thoughts and comments )

Those were my book thoughts from last year! And I've already got started on my reading for this year 😁

Any books/comics/manga people are really looking forward to read?

Last month I finished the book bingo kingstoken created for 2024, but I’ve not had time to post about it until now 😅

( Book Bingo Summary here )


( Favorite books of this year )

Too much inspiration, too little time

I've had Thursday and Friday off work this week and was hoping to get some writing and reading done. I've managed the reading part, but the writing has been limited to world building 'cause I read the latest volume of Monstress (excellent comic series but WITH ALL THE TRIGGER WARNINGS).

( Explanation under the cut )

Here are five book trilogies I've recently read that I really enjoyed! Posted in alphabetical order, I enjoyed them all equally:

1) Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. Love its wonderful, surreal world. Horror yet not. Will definitely re-read one day!
2) The Children of Time trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky. What if non-human-animals developed 'sentience', in SPAAACE~?! Loved this exploration of self-awareness and how different animal species might take to it should humans meddle with their genetic code. Update: I've been reminded that, unlike myself who think they're adorable, a looot of people are uncomfortable reading about spiders. So yeah, this is a book series about sentient spiders, beware!
3) The Last Binding trilogy by Freya Marske. Do you want cool descriptions of magic, a high-risk mystery to solve, a secret-magical-side-to-our-world NOT tainted by transphobia, and hot sex scenes? This is the trilogy for you!
4) Rook & Rose trilogy by M. A. Carrick. Grifter with a heart of gold doing her best to secure her and her sister's future by tricking a noble family she's their long lost relative ends up tangled in a magical conspiracy. An epic adventure that's still character focused! It has excellent worldbuilding and so many fascinating people running about it. I've already written fic for this 😊
5) The Unraveled Kingdom trilogy by Rowenna Miller. A story about revolution from the POV of a reluctant revolutionary. A very realistic take on how complex a revolution can be - not shying away from the danger this puts everyone in -while still adding the fantastical element of probability magic.

If you want to see the covers of these books/texts and read more about them, you can hopefully see them over here on GoodReads (I'm hoping my reading challenge list from 2022 is visible to everyone, but GoodReads is a mess, so who knows).


( Books/Texts I didn't vibe with )


( Collections & Non-fiction )


( Game books )


( Fantasy )


( Horror )


( Science fiction )