Books Read: May–June 2025

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Books Read 2025

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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Saga, Vols. 2–3, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

This entry is part 51 of 56 in the series 2022 Reads

As with other posts in this series, these #booksread2022 posts get published with some lag. I’m trying to be more punctual, though, and this one’s very recent. I’ve been taking my time with this series, I think mostly just because I’ve been on-and-off busy with other things, but I’m enjoying it enough to keep coming back every once in a while and read a few more on my tablet. (I have the whole thing there, after getting the comics through a Humble Bundle deal sometime last year.) Why am I enjoying it? There’s a few reasons. First of all, Vaughan …

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Saga, Volume 2 by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples

This entry is part 32 of 56 in the series 2022 Reads

As always, I’m posting this weeks and weeks after I read it. Well, weeks, anyway.  As I recently mentioned, I’ve got the entire Saga series (so far) on my iPad. I read the second volume recently, and enjoyed it. What really grabbed me was the voice: our narrator for a lot of the volume is the future voice of the infant in the present time of the story. The other thing I enjoyed about it is the fact its handling of in-laws: they can, after all, be a real trial for any couple, but when you’re star-crossed lovers from cultures …

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