Tag Archives: Monthly Recap

Welcome to the first 2025 monthly recap! The year is off to a good start, as I was able to hit most of my usual genres — only science fiction was neglected. I’ve already completed a quarter of the science … Continue reading →

Holy cow, we’re looking down the barrel of this year’s last month. That went by fast. While I didn’t do as much reading for SciFiMonth as I’d hoped, I think I made a pretty good accounting of myself. I didn’t … Continue reading →

It is entirely possible that I’ll finish another book tomorrow (I’m reading an interesting alt-history novel that’s told via letters, and depicts the failure of the Nazi regime in 1936), buuuut I wouldn’t bet on it given that I have … Continue reading →

Well, happy September, folks. There have been a couple of mornings in the past few weeks when the temperature wasn’t already over 90(32) as soon as I walked out the door, so here’s hoping summer’s wrath is abating. Not that … Continue reading →

July is the beginning of the Great Sticky Siege that is an Alabama summer, as we all flee inside to worship the freon god and hope our AC units can hold the line until relief breaks in October. It continued … Continue reading →

Well, 2024 is half gone. My reading this year has been unusual — lots of novels — but quite enjoyable, with a lot of five-star titles. Trying to create my top ten list for the year in December will be … Continue reading →

May proved to be a charming and busy month for reading, and continued the strange trend of my reading more novels than nonfiction, possibly because grad school and a major work project. I did make some progress on the Science … Continue reading →

Well, the year is one-fourth spent already. Criminy! March was fairly…all over the place. Didn’t do well with Lenten reading at all, but Opening Day was a solid performance, I think, and I even got a head start on Read … Continue reading →