March and April of 2026 were a little rough for reading. The ol’ work schedule is basically flat-out insane, and a lot of my spare time goes into translation work, so the fact that our son’s back in school again has helped less than I thought it might. (We lost a teacher at work and, well, nobody’s hiring anyone these days, so I’m teaching a lot more hours than I’m actually supposed to be.) Whew. Anyway… I’m still off-and-on reading some of the same things I mentioned last time, like: Sir Thomas Malory’s Complete Works edited by Eugène Vinaver. Max …
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Readings, January/February 2026
January and February of 2026 were not so great for reading. While I didn’t have to teach after mid-January, I spent a lot of my energy in that month working on music for an upcoming computer game that my friend Jeremy’s working on, and February, well… besides working on a translation due in the middle of the month, my son was on school holidays for most of February, so… yeah. I didn’t get to read as much as I would have liked. Still, I did get through four books, which is not nothing, especially when one of them was like …
Best Reading of 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 …
November/December 2025 Readings
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.
September/October 2025 Reading
Here’s what I read in September and October of this year! I didn’t really read any RPG-related stuff in the past couple of months, at least not cover-to-cover, so this will be the only readings post for these months.