I'm Done Buying Books for 2025 After This Haul

I read Anxious People a couple years ago and I actually kind of like his writing style, but I wasn't sure that Anxious People was the right book for me of his work.

And I read Children of Gods and Fighting Men earlier this year and really enjoyed it, but I do want to continue on with something that's a physical copy.

And of the three novels/novellas that I read of Suneater, Empire of Silence was actually my favorite, which apparently is kind of a hot take in the fandom, but that's okay with me.

And "If Cats Disappeared from the World" did not have enough cat in it, which was super disappointing.

Absolutely was blown away, especially by the last 40% of the book. Holy buckets. Oh my gosh, you guys. What an incredible, thrilling space opera sci-fi.

However, yeah, I purchased this almost as soon as it came out because I was pretty entertained by the first one.

I've now read volumes one and two, which is all that is out so far. And it kind of gives me a less crass version of Dungeon Crawler Carl, not as deep... thrown into a world of Alice in Borderland. It's it's definitely not a literary masterpiece, but I'm finding it entertaining.

This was absolutely a decision that needed to be made and it needed to be on my shelf because I love this book so much.

I read Colour of Magic last month and actually enjoyed it more than I thought I was going to, but pretty much everybody I've talked to says that you really should read Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic pretty close together cuz they do kind of flow into each other.

Now, one of my favorite books this year was The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa. And so I bought another one of her books: The Goodbye Cat.