Books Read 2025: January–February

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Well, with a new year comes a new books-read series. This series will include all the books I read in 2025. It’s been a busy couple of months, between teaching a winter class and my wife and I finishing up a big translation project, but I got some solid reading done too.  Here’s what I read in January and February of this year: Rimbaud Complete is what it says on the tin: the complete verse and prose poetry of Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Wyatt Mason. My first encounter with Rimbaud was the poem “Roman” (“Novel”) which was handed to me during a …

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Books Read: May–June 2025

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Here’s everything everything I read in May and June of 2025. It’s not much: I blame my heavy workload along with the fact that my ancient Kindle died somewhere in there—and the replacement I got happens not to have a backlight, which is annoying since I usually read the Kindle at night. Besides all that, I also spent a chunk of May quite ill from some medications I was on, and we were also busy with editing meetings on a book-length translation of our own (which we edited by committee, which can be great, but takes a lot of time).  …

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

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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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July/August 2025 Reading, Part 2: RPG Books

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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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