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Apollo

apollo@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 years ago

Speculative fiction and comics enthusiast.

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Apollo's books

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2025 Reading Goal

17% complete! Apollo has read 9 of 52 books.

Shelly Mazzanoble: Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Dungeons & Dragons (2011, Wizards of the Coast) 3 stars

"With tongue-in-cheek humor, the creator of the award-winning Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress takes on …

More Memoir Than Self-Help

3 stars

I love Mazzanoble's voice and it comes across so well in this book. This book is packed with stories from her life but the connections to D&D don't feel as substantial as I hoped. There are fun references to the game throughout but it doesn't quite land as either an introduction to or advocate for D&D.

Kathe Koja: Under the Poppy (2010, Small Beer Press) 3 stars

Tragic, Character-Focused, Unsettling

3 stars

I had Under the Poppy on my to read list and in my collection for longer than any other book but happily finally sat down to read it this month. It's a dark, troubling novel with a heavy emphasis on characters saddled with trauma and desperate situations. The writing is evocative and pulls the reader into the world with a dire gravity.