Meanwhile, in the Woodshed…

So, for a while there I had a lot going on and wasn’t making it to the practice room, but the place where my son takes piano lessons offered a discount: ₩50,000 a month for family members to use the practice room if there’s a student enrolled with lessons at the music center. That’s way more affordable than the practice rooms used to be, and it takes a lot of the pressure to practice every day (which I felt when access was more expensive), so we jumped at it as soon as I felt up to it, which as it …

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July/August 2025 Reading, Part 2: RPG Books

This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Books Read 2025

I recently posted about the fiction and nonfiction I red in July/August here. That’s only half the story, though: I also tore through a bunch of RPG books this past couple of months—mostly at the end of June and going into August—and that’s what I’m going to discuss in this post.  (I’ve split this the two posts up because I know some people are more interested in reading about RPG books, and some aren’t at all.)

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July/August 2025 Reading, Part 1: Fiction & Nonfiction

This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series Books Read 2025

Here’s what I read in July and August of 2025. Finally, I had the chance to finish up some books I’ve been reading for ages, along with reading some new things I just recently discovered. One note: I’ve separated RPG books from everything else, since some people are not interested in that stuff.

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