Readings, January/February 2026

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Readings 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 …

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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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“Monk Suite”

I recently mentioned a bunch of ongoing projects, including multiple musical ones. I figured I’d post about a few of those right now, one at a time. This is the first of a few that will be getting posted by scheduling, between today and the weekend.  Short version: I’ve been inputting an old arrangement of some jazz tunes by Thelonious Monk for jazz quintet plus chamber orchestra using Musescore, and it’s going well. I have no audio of that to share at the moment, but hopefully will in the coming months!

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Recent Books

I’ve been reading a fair bit this year, as far as my standards go. More than usual, anyway. This is everything so far, though, of course, a few of those I gave up on and didn’t finish: I’ve been feeling a little disappointed lately in how so much of the SFF world online is so busy talking about scandals and outrages that we never seem to talk about the books anymore. Short stories, too, but, well, that’s for another post. So I figured: do my bit. Post about what I’ve read lately. Part of why I stopped was because–on some very bad …

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Monk Suite, One Page at a Time

I’m no sure how many people out there are really tracking my notation projects, but this is an update about my current one, notating “Monk Suite”–an arrangement of tunes by Thelonious Monk for jazz quintet and orchestra that I put together as an undergrad student.

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