Shinomonogatari read:

There's nothing better in life than reading books entirely about Sengoku Nadeko while listening to and improving your music hall of fame.  I finished my 3-star tier and have moved on to my 4-star tier.  Listening to my music and finding out who to promote and who to demote makes for a better experience in the long run, as I get to listen to my favored songs more and my less favored songs less.  But an even more important task this time was discovering which songs had been incorrectly transcribed from one hard drive to another and temporarily lost.  Because the songs all had the same titles, like '01 track 1,' they started overwriting each other.  I've already found one such overwrite in my 4-star tier and I'm only 162/1100 songs in, so the work continues.

Listening to every song in a 5500 song collection is taxing but rewarding.  It's a measure of how much I care about these songs that I don't want to lose any of them by negligence or mistake.  I want to be listening to these same songs decades from now.

Nisio Isin is a genius who managed to make Nadeko charming on a deserted island with no one to dialogue with at all.  I tip my hat off to him.  A pure stream of consciousness novel.  To me, who considers dialogue the heart and soul of all interesting storytelling, what he just pulled off is flabbergasting.  Like me, the author realizes that Nadeko is the best character in the series and thus keeps putting her back front and center into the story.  He keeps writing sequels about her for the same reason she's one of my '100 Waifus.'  I was happy to see nothing in this book exclusively about Nadeko requires I edit her portrayal in '100 Waifus,' in fact it only affirms what I've written about her.  It also affirms Christopher's judgment when he described her as one of the 100 most beautiful girls in imagination.

Speaking of my music hall of fame, I added the 2nd ending theme from Tropical Rouge Precure, 'Akogare Go My Way!', to my 3-star tier.  Humorously Shinomonogatari also mentions Tropical Rouge Precure positively, so Nisio Isin and I continue sharing the same wavelength.  Shinomonogatari 2, Nadeko Around, goes so far as to mention the Breaking Point episode of Ranma 1/2, one of the episodes of anime that got me hooked on this hobby as a kid.  Commonalities everywhere.

Ikusamonogatari is the next book to be read in the series, the first book which isn't getting adapted into an anime.  Though I have no idea how they'll adapt Nadeko Around, seeing as how she's nude for most of the book.  Of course I would love for them to just make Nadeko porn for four episodes, but somehow I feel like that won't happen.  Worst case scenario they won't adapt this segment of the story at all. . .

Edens Zero ends in a month, but that's a good thing.  Stories should have endings, and Edens Zero has done a fine job tying up all loose ends.  It was time to go.  Right now it's one of the best value-added manga because so little of it has been animated, but eventually I assume the whole series will get animated and then the manga will be worthless.  Funny how relative something's value is.  For now though everyone should be reading this dramatic finale.