Kirk

@elentrenadorloco

Self-diagnosed autistic. Former massage therapist. Antifascist. Antiracist. Voracious reader. Pro wrestling fan. He/him. ¡Soy el entrenador loco! ¡Prepárate para aprender la lección! el_entrenador_loco on StoryGraph ElEntrenadorLoco on Spotify

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Kirk@elentrenadorloco· 19d

Roman Reigns, acknowledge me ☝️ #StoryGraph 💙📚

Partial screenshot from StoryGraph displaying a streak of 1317 consecutive days of reading

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· 26d

July month in review, rebounded well after a slump in June. 💙📚 #StoryGraph 💬📚 Blood Over Bright Haven strongly recommended.

StoryGraph book cover collage: On the Fox Roads by Nghi Vo; How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu; Wild Poppies by Haya Saleh; Casting Off by Claribel Alegría; Karel Čapek's R.U.R. by Kateŕina Čupová; The Fish Who Found the Sea by Alan Watts; The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit; A Long and Speaking Silence by Nghi Vo; Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett; It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken; The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon; Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey; Angel Down by Daniel Kraus; Vazkor Son of Vazkor by Tanith Lee; Hungerstone by Kat Dunn; The Reign of the Kingfisher by TJ Martinson; The No Asshole Rule by Robert Sutton; Blood Over Bright Haven by M L Wang; Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker; And Having Writ... by Donald Bensen

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Jul 1

Reading slump in June. 💙📚 #storygraph 💬💙

StoryGraph cover collage: The Birthgrave by Tanith Lee; There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak; Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie; Stay for a Spell by Amy Coombe; Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu; Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Jun 2

Books finished in May 💙📚 #storygraph 💬📚

StoryGraph cover collage: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich; Carmilla by J Sheridan Le Fanu; As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman; To Anyone Who Ever Asks by Howard Fishman; The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey; Parables for the Theatre by Bertolt Brecht; A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper; The Grace Year by Kim Liggett; The X Factor by Andre Norton; The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden; Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y Davis

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· May 1

April's reads 💙📚 #StoryGraph 💬📚

StorGraph cover collage: Warm Worlds and Otherwise by James Tiptree Jr; Snuff by Terry Pratchett; Slow Noodles by Chantha Nguon; The World of Poo by Terry Pratchett; Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor; Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett; The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett; My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh; Obligations to the Wounded by Mubanga Kalimamukwento; Touching a Nerve by Patricia Churchland

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Apr 25

📚💙 #IndependentBookstoreDay 💬📚 #bookstorecrawl the haul

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood; Across the Universe by Beth Revis; Heat Wave by TJ Klune

Icefalcon's Quest by Barbara Hambly; Mother of Winter by Barbara Hambly; Abhorsen by Garth Nix

Legacy of the Sword by Jennifer Roberson; A Tapestry of Lions by Jennifer Roberson

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Apr 25

📚💙 #IndependentBookstoreDay 💬📚 #bookstorecrawl more pictures from B3 (set 3 of 3)

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Apr 25

📚💙 #IndependentBookstoreDay 💬📚 #bookstorecrawl more pictures from Beauty Beverages & Books (set 2 of 3)

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Apr 25

📚💙 #IndependentBookstoreDay 💬📚 #bookstorecrawl Second stop, Beauty Beverages & Books (aka B3) in Salem OR

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Apr 25

📚💙 #IndependentBookstoreDay 💬📚 #bookstorecrawl First stop, Reader's Guide in Salem OR

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Apr 21

That's not fair Sir Terry, I was expecting to cry at the end ...

Dedication page of The Shepherd's Crown: "For Esmeralda Weatherwax - mind how you go"

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Apr 21

On 7/8/2023 I began my journey through #Discworld and today is the beginning of the end 💙📚 💬📚

Cover of The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Apr 18

Happy #RecordStoreDay everyone, here's my haul from Harvest Music in Salem OR

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles 35th Anniversary Collection; "evil inside" button; "Support Your Local Record Shop" button; Beatles "Blue Meanie" lapel pin

"See You in Hell" sticker with retro style images of male and female devils drinking cocktails and smoking; Death Cab for Cutie sticker

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Apr 2

March was a good month. 💙📚 #StoryGraph 💬📚

StoryGraph cover collage: Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett; The Anarchist Cookbook by Keith McHenry; Damned by Genevieve Cogman; Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe; Making Money by Terry Pratchett; Being Heumann by Judith Heumann; Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future by John MacCormick; Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett; I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett; Men of Maize by Miguel Ángel Asturias; Rhialto the Magnificent by Jack Vance

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Mar 3

February's reads 💙📚 #storygraph 💬📚

StoryGraph cover collage: Firestorm by Jacob Soboroff; Melania: Devourer of Men by JD Boehninger; The Gaming Mind by Alexander Kriss; The Wrecking Crew by Kent Hartman; The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms by Nagabe; Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi; The Membranes by Chi-Ta Wei; The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling; Cugel's Saga by Jack Vance; The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman; Thud! by Terry Pratchett; We Love You Bunny by Mona Awad; Where's My Cow? by Terry Pratchett; Night Bus by Zuo Ma

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Feb 4

Not silly nor did I use it, but I found this in a book (Towing Jehovah by James Morrow) I picked up from a free library, maybe used as a bookmark by the book's former owner. A parking permit for Laveno Mombello, Italy, dated 9/20/2001. Stranded international traveller maybe?

Parking permit for the municipality of Laveno Mombello in Italy, dated September 20, 2001

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Feb 2

💙📚 💬📚 January wrap-up. Off to a slow start this year, partly because of that 2☆ read. OTOH, Anita de Monte likely to be one of the best books I read this year. #storygraph

StoryGraph book cover collage with star ratings: Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami 2☆; Going Postal by Terry Pratchett 4☆; The Ice Is Coming by Patricia Wrightson 3.75☆ Three Eight One by Aliya Whiteley 4☆; Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez 4.5☆; The Hijacking of American Flight 119 by John Wigger 4☆

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Jan 30

💙📚 What was the last book you read in 2025? 💬📚 #bookwrapup25 I finshed Post Office by Charles Bukowski on NYE

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Jan 30

💙📚 Who is the most inspiring character you met in a book you read in 2025? 💬📚 #bookwrapup25 Easy choices for me: Sam Vimes and Tiffany Aching from Discworld

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Jan 28

More like an old lesson reinforced, but power is better shared than hoarded. Among many others, The Mermaid's Song by Alida van Gores, and the Tiffany Aching books

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Jan 27

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jiminez

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Jan 27

Katabasis by RF Kuang

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Jan 27

Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Jan 26

Margaret and Charlotte, in The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick.

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Jan 26

Bird and Sadie, in Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng.

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Jan 23

💙📚 What book you read in 2025 had the prettiest cover? 💬📚 #bookwrapup25 My picks: Orbital by Samantha Harvey, The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke, Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Jan 22

💙📚 What book you read in 2025 would you want to live in or be part of? 💬📚 #bookwrapup25 Discworld is too easy an answer. I think I would choose Nghi Vo's Singing Hills world.

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Jan 21

💙📚 What series did you start in 2025 and plan to continue? 💬📚 #bookwrapup25 I started the Noumena series by Lindsay Ellis and have books 2 and 3 on my TBR list.

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Jan 20

💙📚 What book adaptation did you see and like in 2025? 💬📚 #bookwrapup25 Haven't seen it yet, but Hamnet was the one I was most interested in seeing.

Kirk@elentrenadorloco· Jan 19

Fantasy was my top genre and it wasn't close. Four of the 44: