Hello! I’m Citro and you can mostly find me on Fedi over at @citro@blorbo.social ! I like sci-fi and fantasy and read a lot of manga too. Also a bunch of non-fiction reference books.
Most of my reviews won’t have rating as I’m deathly allergic to quantifying my enjoyment of any piece of media with a star rating: I might write down some things that personally tugged at me one way or the other in my comments or reviews (and that is when I do leave reviews) but they're mostly for the benefit of future me looking back to that moment.
Things either work for me or they don’t, just like they either work for you or they don’t. It's either no rating, or 5 stars for the books I genuinely hold dearest to my heart, and my five star rating will likely only mean something to you if we have similar tastes/brain worms anyway.
I also reread Storm Constantine’s Wraeththu stories with near religious fervor at least once a year so there’s that too.
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Now in hardcover from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files.Harry Dresden's …
Ok I only just started but I love Michael and if there isn’t fanart of him and Harry kissing I will riot. (Said while fully expecting to be made to regret my deeds and words by the narrative, this is a taunt. )
Business has been slow. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undead …
Content warning Spoilers for the final confrontation of the book
[Gets to the part where Harry Dresden puts on the werewolf belt and the narration gets even hornier] Ah, I see why my boyfriend ended up like this. (extremely affectionate)
Introducing the first book in The Game Master's new "Handbook" series!
Is your roleplaying in a rut? Flip the …
Introducing the first book in The Game Master's new "Handbook" series!
Is your roleplaying …
Some very helpful tips here that I’ll be sure to use both as a player and GM. Written with 5e in mind but imho dovetails quite nicely into Daggerheart’s rules and philosophy
Business has been slow. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undead …
Back to reading during a break
The Mind Illuminated is the first how-to meditation guide from a neuroscientist who is also …
adds a 7th book to my currently reading list but makes it about meditation so you know that I know that I have a problem
On the Imperial trading ship Dea Brava, a navigator and an astropath strike up a …
Genuinely a pity this is Storm’s only 40k story. I would have loved to read more.
💪💪💪💪💪
On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female …
Bought after realizing the Humble Bundle didn’t include this book. Major gap in my scifi culture specially given my Wraeththu nerdery
The Grigori are an ancient race; powerful people who possess abilities and powers humans do …
Only just started reading Stalking Tender Prey properly today, intrigued by the characters and turn of the century setting.
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
Finally finished reading this book! Tempted to reread it as halfway through it felt like this is the kind of book that benefits from it but time runs short in my summer break… Maybe later!
The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in …
Started reading this on a break :)
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where …
Got a few Neil Gaiman books on Kobo so I’ll be reading them!
In those days the world was flat, and demons dwelt beneath. They walked among the …
A friend gave me this book because what kind of Storm fan am I if I never read Tanith Lee? Really enjoying it! ❤️
Through Yukari’s uncanny purple eyes, all people look just like robots. Her talent is both …
I first read and fell in love with Qualia the Purple sometime during college in one of my insomnia fugues. It was amazing, I finished it sometime in the late hours of the night and went to sleep knowing I’d forget all the Quantum Physics and Qualia and everything else and just stay with the love Gaku had for Yukari.
Fast forward a near decade and I saw it got officially licensed, put the manga on my to buy list and got the novel for Christmas last year. The manga itself went through a lot of mishaps and reorders and I only got to read it 9 months later.
And when I get it it’s a goddamn 618 page brick! I read it all again in two hours! Feeling the exact same way! I’m not so sleep deprived I won’t retain the concepts this time around but it …
I first read and fell in love with Qualia the Purple sometime during college in one of my insomnia fugues. It was amazing, I finished it sometime in the late hours of the night and went to sleep knowing I’d forget all the Quantum Physics and Qualia and everything else and just stay with the love Gaku had for Yukari.
Fast forward a near decade and I saw it got officially licensed, put the manga on my to buy list and got the novel for Christmas last year. The manga itself went through a lot of mishaps and reorders and I only got to read it 9 months later.
And when I get it it’s a goddamn 618 page brick! I read it all again in two hours! Feeling the exact same way! I’m not so sleep deprived I won’t retain the concepts this time around but it was the same gut punch and it made me happy!
Qualia the Purple really is the peakest of Yuri. The very essence of it. I just think you should read it. It’s amazing.