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I reshelved my books today to filter in books I've bought over the last couple of weeks, and I'm officially out of space for new fiction books. Well, technically I still have "stacking on top" space, which is more than can be said for my non-fiction, but it's still a bad sign about my ability to keep acquiring books.

The second half of March has been a lot of books with trans themes, because of the Trans Rights Readathon.

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I've still got a few holdovers from the TRR to finish off, then I've got a couple library books to go through.

Games-wise, I got Beastieball at the weekend after watching a streamer play it, and I'm enjoying it a lot! I don't think I'm very good at it, but it's a lot of fun!

I don't expect to finish any books tomorrow, so here we are! Because of being on leave, then being ill, then having a bad brain, I've read even more this month than I did last month, and I have more to say as well! I also bought more books, so I've spared you the list of those, unless that's actively of interest to anyone? If I still read at this pace next month, I might break my wrap-up into the two halves of the month.

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So, I've done a lot of reading this month, mostly because of Storygraph's January pages challenge - the chances of winning £150-ish worth of books and a Kobo by logging reading every day was too much to pass up, even if I'm competing with 200k-ish other people. time will tell if I manage to win!

this is what I've managed to read so far, what I've bought, and a few other media things going on.

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    ♥  After abandoning it for a month accidentally, I finally picked up Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee again. I'd somehow forgotten how gripping and tense his writing style was; I was invested as soon as I opened the book again, and I'm fascinated by what might happen next. I'm hoping to finish the Machineries of Empire series by the end of the year, including the book of short stories. I need to stop waiting for the "optimal" time to read, because that just means I never end up reading at all. (Although I do have several train journeys next week that might be "optimal".

I'm also reading Peter Pan during my morning commute, on the Serial app that was recommended in the last post of Dracula Daily, and I'm having a lot of fun with that as well. The prose is so delightful (although I wish this version didn't have annotations explaining to me what words mean, because it always breaks me out of the mood). I'd never actually read it before, despite having a deep love for multiple adaptations/derivative works.

    ♥  Dimension 20's Neverafter releases tonight, so I'll probably watch it tomorrow evening. I'm glad that they clarified on Twitter that it would still mostly be comedy-centred, even with the added horror; it let me set my expectations of the tone correctly, so I don't go in hoping for Exandria Unlimited: Calamity levels of darkness. (On the topic of Dropout, they were my third artist on Spotify Wrapped. What that says about me, I don't know.)

    ♥  Speaking of Spotify Wrapped, I think my results would have been slightly different if the cut-off wasn't like... early November. Because I've had Dove Cameron's Boyfriend on a lot while thinking about an OC in the past week or so, and that didn't make it in at all. But overall, it was another year of feeling slightly too Seen by having my accumulated eclectic music taste laid out all at once.

    ♥  Two days into a virtual conference at work, and transgender rights / transgender inclusion have been mentioned in a good way multiple times, and I had a nice exchange with a co-worker in the chat who had they/them pronouns. 🏳️‍⚧️ I'm always glad to be reminded that I picked a decent place to work, as this country goes.