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[swampcowboy]

Mid-April progress check for @batmanisagatewaydrug’s 2025 Book Bingo! This month I completed two bingos, which I’m pretty pleased about.

Notes below the cut.

Reread a childhood favorite - Carry On (2015) by Rainbow Rowell - calling this a “childhood” favorite might be pushing it, but I was obsessed with this book in high school. It’s interesting to re-read ten years later—it’s much more fanfic-y than I remember in some ways, and more literary in others.

Published before 1950 - Passing (1929) by Nella Larsen - this was a first-time read for me but I really enjoyed it! Larsen’s prose was really clear and the characterization really compelling; Irene, the narrator/protagonist, makes such a clever little heel turn, and I really didn’t see the ending coming.

Graphic novel, comic book, or manga - Under the Red Hood (2005) - I have Jason Todd disease and it’s incurable

Animal on the cover - Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez (2025) - honestly the dog on the cover was barely in this book and also this book fucked me up, emotionally-speaking. Idk why Jimenez shoehorns a random pet into every book but it boggles the mind.

Memoir - You Could Make This Place Beautiful (2023) by Maggie Smith - I wanna fight this woman’s ex-husband so badly

Nonfiction - Everything is Tuberculosis (2025) by John Green - I wanna fight healthcare injustice so badly

Romance novel - The Wedding Date (2018) by Jasmine Guillory - PURE fluff but honestly I needed it this month.

I read a ton of other romance also. Up to 31 total books for the year!

[ofmisfitsandmagic]

life got my ass and I am only now getting to watch the last two episodes of mismag s2 and only bit by bit!! I am being SO brave about it!!!!!!!

[spnscripthunt-inactive]

2.04 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things

Casting Sides for Angela Mason (Production Draft, 10 pp.)

Casting Sides for Neil (Writer's Draft, 10 pp.)

*You can see all of the other scripts we have here. If you hit the Slideshare viewing limit, Google → slideshare ngelmat. To buy scripts we need donations, and the more people are involved the smaller the hit everyone takes. To help with this, we have set up a discord server. It is a fandom neutral zone so as many people as possible feel comfortable joining. Since the supply in eBay sellers' inventories has dried up, we are also looking for folks willing to share PDFs (phone app PDFs are fine, e.g. Genius Scan) of scripts from their personal collections. Crossposted from Twitter.

[swampcowboy]

Mid-March progress check-in for @batmanisagatewaydrug’s 2025 Book Bingo! Getting close to a few bingos, but nothing yet.

brief star ratings for all books under the cut

Literary fiction - Martyr by Kaveh Akbar - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 (4.5/5 stars)

Short story collection - Buried Deep by Naomi Novik - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5/5 stars)

Sequel - Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3/5 stars)

20th century speculative fiction - Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5/5 stars)

Fantasy - The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5/5 stars)

Indie Publisher - Time Out by Michael Marshall Smith - ⭐️⭐️ (2/5 stars)

Set in a country I’ve never visited - The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4/5 stars)

Romance novel - Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5/5 stars)

Horror - Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio - ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3/5 stars)

Published in the aughts - His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 (4.5/5 stars)

Historical fiction - A Lady For a Duke by Alexis Hall - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4/5 stars)

Recommended by a librarian or bookseller - The Prospects by KT Hoffman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4/5 stars)

I’ve read 19 books so far this year! The full list and longer reviews for each can be found on my Storygraph, where I am @irisnebula.