Fiction log - September 2025

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Fiction books
Steven Carroll. Death of a Foreign Gentleman
Uri Orlev, tr. Hillel Halkin. The Island on Bird Street
Mordecai Richler. Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
Tom Scioli. Godzilla's Monsterpiece Theatre (e)
Arthur Upfield. The New Shoe (e)
Naoki Urasawa, tr. John Werry. Asadora! volume 1
Naoki Urasawa, tr. John Werry. Asadora! volume 2
Jules Verne, tr. FP Walter. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (e)

In progress
Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit (e)

In hiatus
Cory Doctorow. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (e)
William Morris. The Well at the World's End (e)
Julian Rathbone. The Last English King
Helen Simonson. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (e)

Picture books
Juliette MacIver, Sarah Davis. The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist! (e)
Juliette MacIver, Sarah Davis. That's Not a Hippopotamus! (e)
Eve Sutton, Lynley Dodd. My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes (e) (re-read)

Non-fiction books
Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (e)
Richard Fidler. Ghost Empire


Short fiction
James D. Macdonald. "A Tremble in the Air" (e)

Fanfic, novel-length, in progress
acuteneurosis. We Will Not Wear Chains (Star Wars, canon divergence au)

Fanfic, novella-length
motleyfam. "Turkey with a Side of Stressin'" (Batman, canon divergencee au)

Poetry, abandoned
Robert Herrick. The Hesperides and Noble Numbers (e)

Film
(none)

Films partially re-experienced through reaction videos
Arrival
Casablanca
Dark City
The Dark Crystal
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
ET The Extra-Terrestrial
The Fifth Element
The Fugitive
Ghostbusters
Highlander
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Iron Giant
Jurassic Park
Labyrinth
The Matrix
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Mummy
The Neverending Story
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Shawshank Redemption
The Sixth Sense
The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Tron
Up
Wicked Part I
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Wizard of Oz

Theatre
Tasty Bites

Television serials in progress
Bluey
Jet Lag, season 15
The Muppet Show

Television serials partially re-experienced through reaction videos
Babylon 5
Blackadder
Doctor Who

Audio drama in progress
The Hidden Almanac

Web serials in progress
Natural Six

Webcomics in progress
DM of the Rings
Triangle and Robert (re-read)


Books bought
Martha Wells. The Book of Ile-Rien (e)
Martha Wells. City of Bones (e)
Martha Wells. The Emilie Adventures (e)
Martha Wells. System Collapse (e)
Martha Wells. Wheel of the Infinite (e)
Martha Wells. Witch King (e)

Books borrowed
Steven Carroll. Death of a Foreign Gentleman
Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (e)
Juliette MacIver, Sarah Davis. The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist! (e)
Juliette MacIver, Sarah Davis. That's Not a Hippopotamus! (e)
Tom Scioli. Godzilla's Monsterpiece Theatre (e)
Arthur Upfield. The New Shoe (e)
Naoki Urasawa, tr. John Werry. Asadora! volume 1
Naoki Urasawa, tr. John Werry. Asadora! volume 2

Free ebooks
Charles Dickens. Bleak House (e)
Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit (e)
Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist (e)


Top of the to-read pile
Jules Verne, tr. George Towle. Around the World in Eighty Days (e)