Best Reading of 2025

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

I’m running a bit behind on this, mostly because I’m teaching a winter course at work and those are always pretty time-intensive, but I thought I’d briefly discuss my favorite reads from last year, out of everything I read this year (pictured above, and see also here). I’m including fiction, poetry, and graphic novels (in that order). No nonfiction, but basically just because none really made the cut. No RPG books—most of those were reviewed in the same post, so there’s no reason to go over it all over again.   In no particular order, here were my favorite reads from …

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Some Recent and Not-So-Recent Listening (Podcast Edition)

My wife asked me to recommend some podcasts to her, so I made a list from some of the podcasts I currently enjoy, or have enjoyed in the past. It’s not exhaustive: there’s plenty I used to listen to that either I don’t remember anymore, or that have gone downhill. Also, I don’t listen to podcasts as much as I used to—my drive commuting to work is more often filled with music or silence and my own thoughts these days. But this is what I put on that list of things for me wife check out.  Heavyweight: A delightfully awkward …

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Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 7

This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

Here’s the play report for our seventh session of Mythic Bastionland, which we played last night. If you’re just joining us, I’d recommend starting at the first session and reading forward from there. It’s all organized in a series, so it should be easy to find the posts that follow the first.    Today’s post was helped along by some session notes, so hopefully there aren’t any big gaps in the action!

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Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 6

This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series Our Mythic Bastionland

Here’s the play report for our sixth session of Mythic Bastionland. If you’re just joining us, I’d recommend starting at the first session and reading forward from there. It’s all organized in a series, so it should be easy to find the posts that follow the first.    Today’s post is basically from memory, so there are probably some details missing, but I’ll do my best with what I can recall. 

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November/December 2025 Readings

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Books Read 2025

For this last bimonthly installment of my recent reading for 2025, I’m including RPG stuff here on this page, since there isn’t a lot of it. It’s at the end, so that those interested can find it easily, while those who aren’t interested can leave the page once they hit that bit.  Ooops, I never finished the RPG book I was reading, so… I’ve moved that to my first post for next year. Anyway, here’s the last of my reading for 2025. 

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