Category: Books

June 2025 Reading

I realized that I never wrote a June reading blog post, so here it is three months late. Classic Starts: Peter Pan - Tania Zamorsky (Adapter) This ... Read more

August 2025 Reading

Four books finished this month. Magician: Master - Raymond E. Feist The second half of the original Magician novel is incredibly powerful. It follo... Read more

July 2025 Reading

Only a couple books in July - I was pretty tired each night, so reading was pretty slow. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lo... Read more

May 2025 Reading

Another month down, some more books finished. More Than Words: How to think about writing in the age of AI - John Warner This is a critical look at... Read more

April 2025 Reading

I finished three books in April, mostly toward the start of the month. I slowed down at the end of the month because school got really busy and I g... Read more

March 2025 Reading

I only finished two books this month - it was a slow one for reading. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov I didn't know that this was a collection of short sto... Read more

February 2025 Reading

I read a ton this month. Granted, two of these entries are comics, which is not in my normal rotation, but they were both omnibus collections, so I... Read more

January 2025 Reading

New year, new books! I finished three in January and I'm on my way to however far I get in 2025. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in t... Read more

December 2024 Reading

Well, it's the twelfth month of the year, which means this is my twelfth reading log blog post. I did not hit 40 books this year, but I did manage ... Read more

November 2024 Reading

I finished two books in November, which is on par with the rest of the year. Here's what I read: Contact - Carl Sagan I picked this up because I re... Read more

October 2024 Reading

Only one book read this month. School is pretty busy, so I'm working many evenings on grades and other teaching related tasks. I'm able to read a f... Read more

September 2024 Reading

Not much reading again this month. I gave up on The Aleppo Codex because I didn't have the brainpower to follow all of the names and dates. The pre... Read more

August 2024 Reading

August was the final month of summer break, so I managed to sneak a couple books in before school started up. North! Or Be Eaten - Andrew Peterson ... Read more

July 2024 Reading

More books read this month, which felt good. I'm a little bit closer to being back on track to finishing my goal of 40 this year. Dune: Messiah - F... Read more

June 2024 Reading

I actually read some books this month. School finished a couple of weeks ago and I was able to devote more leisure time to finishing some books. Al... Read more

May 2024 Reading

I didn't finish any books in May. Shame on me. I'm in the middle of a couple of books, but reading is slow, mainly because we're up later during th... Read more

April 2024 Reading

Another month, another set of books read. I finished more in April than I did in March and I'm going to attribute that to spring break at the start... Read more

March 2024 Reading

Another slow month for reading. But, I think I've determined that trying to read nonfiction during the school year is a mistake. I don't have the m... Read more

February 2024 Reading

I read less in February, but the books were a little longer than January. We also didn't have a week-long break as part of my reading schedule. The... Read more

January 2024 Reading

A goal this year is to read more books. I finished four books this month: Pastoral Song: An Inheritance - James Rebanks Rebanks is a regenerative f... Read more

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