Books

Currently reading: The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability by Annette Kehnel, translated by Gesche Ipsen

Yay books!

This is a section of my website I hope to expand with book recommendations, maybe reviews or even essays, and lots of lists. Speaking of lists, here's a bunch of long ones: the 150+ books I read in 6 years. No clue if that's above or below average but my hands sure hurt typing most of that out by hand in the wee hours of the morning! Ah, the joys of autism...

Justify my joyous suffering by perusing the list:

Are YOU a transsexual? Or mysteriously drawn to their mystery and swag? Do you like looking at words, and digesting them through a series of natural miracles occuring in fat and electrical impulses? Do you like freebies? Then TRANSREADS.ORG is the site for you!. According to them, they're the biggest collection of trans lit on the 'net. I've read some niche zines and mysterious short stories on there, and am crossing my fingies they'll eventually have someone upload Otres Valles...Go check 'em out.
[Unsuprisingly, considering the spaghetti code here, but they didn't pay me to say this; I'm just an anarchist who loves free stuff, especially free gender tomfoolery.]

Recently I've checked out some articles from this new site - it's pretty cool stuff; I recommend giving it a read: thetransfemininereview.com

Books Pseudoblog

22/01/2026
Just counted up the total for what I read in 2025. I can't help being dissapointed at how few books I read. Out of 37 items including zines, short stories etc, only 18 were books. That's an average of one book every 20 days, which does make me feel a bit better. I also should remember that reading more books isn't necessarily better, especially if I'm reading at maximum speed, because forcing myself to read faster would only mean I wasn't taking in the info as well. Another reassuring fact is that there were still periods of time where I'd switch to the bad habit of going on social media instead of reading. Although somewhere in the year I re-deleted the instagram app, which helped, I still occasionally get stuck on tumblr or youtube shorts (cringe). This means that I can fit more reading in this year, if I stick to turning to the book instead of the phone! Yay! And of course, non-book writing is still very important even if it doesn't feel as much of an accomplishment to finish reading.

Another update for this year in the written sphere: I've been continuing to write poetry (which I may eventually publish on here) and have dipped a toe back into the stream of prose fiction that I've not been in since I was about 15. So far I've written a short erotic story and am trying to figure out where to publish it. Literotica is the most well known site, but would require me to format dialogue in the 'correct' way, and I don't like their rules about stories not promoting breaking US law... I've also started to write a fanfiction for A Door Into Ocean. Shockingly there was no fanfic for it on Ao3, and I really want to explore the gender and textiles themes in the book more.

Speaking of which, if there was a book from my 2025 reading I would overall recommend to everyone, it's the one I started at the end of the year - A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski. Not sure if it counts as I finished it in 2026, but it is absolutely AMAZING. The worldbuilding, plot and ethical debates are so relevant and so thrilling. Hence me writing fanfic for the first time ever. Other than that, I'd recommend The Compost Reader #2 to anyone interested in writings about nature, disability, climate change, eating rocks, spirituality, etc. It's an incredibly crafted collection of essays, art and poetry.

27/10/2025
I keep thinking I've read more books than I have, every time I update my huge list of books I've read (see below). It's kinda confusing, because for the most part I've been fairly good at reading at breakfast and before bed, but I guess that still means I'm reading pretty slowly. Ah well!

Was introduced to Rare Mags in Stockport by a friend and it's a fantastic little shop of interesting (mostly) new writing. It has some regular fiction and non-fiction, but it's primarily magazines and these cool journal-esque books with essays and poems and so on. I've only got one book from there so far, it's called The Compost Reader #2 and I've only read some little snippets but it's fantastic! There's an essay on ecology and disability and health and the idea of crip time as it relates to 'sick' landscapes.

31/03/2025
HELLO folks I've nearly finished Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H. and it's SO GOOD! it's got me tears in my eyes a good few times and it's also very funny and relatable in some ways. I recommend you check it out!