Books I Read in 2025 - Part 2!

After a slow start, my reading habits seemed to have picked up as the heat of summer gives me another reason to just stay inside.  I have a peculiar trilogy of books this time, including a few sequels that I had been putting off.  Once again, this is mainly to try and read through the books I've gathered in my shelves.  Here's what I've just finished reading lately!

Books I read in 2025 - Part 1!

Well, this took longer than I care to admit to pull together.  I thought I would try to put out more book reviews this year, like I had been doing with my movie reviews, but then I got my hands on Tears of the Kingdom, and suddenly reading took a nose dive as a consequence.  Still, I did want to make these into more of a series instead of having just one or two long articles at the end of the year, so here are the first three books I've read for 2025!

The 1984 Music Project!

So, because I was turning 40 this past year, I started a bit of a project where I listen to a bunch of albums that are as old as I am.  I thought it would be fun to go through the year of 1984 and listen to the albums as they came out 40 years ago.  Basically, in chronological order.  I did a monthly report of the albums to a music server I’m on and then later decided I should collect my thoughts in a document.  Many of the albums are ones I've heard before, but I also threw in some ones that were new to me, spicing things up.  I tried to include each album's released date when I could, but some just had a month without a date (at least as best I as could tell).  Given my current listening tastes, a vast majority of this article is going to feature hard rock and heavy metal (though there are a few oddballs thrown in.)  This is going to be a long one, so settle in!

Recently Watched 2024 - Part Three

Well, dang.  I was hoping to get in a third film before the end of the year, but it didn't happen, for one reason or another, so here's two movie reviews to finish off last year.  Interestingly, they're both epic films building on franchises, and while neither were bad, they certainly had different ways of respecting the legacies they were building on.

Books I Read in 2024!

Yup, it's time for another one of these!  I had planned on doing two articles like I had in previous years, but I definitely did not read as much this year.  (I mostly blame the Nintendo Switch I picked up last December.)  Still, I did read some pretty interesting stuff, and I ended up having a lot to say about these books.  This one is a long one, but here are all the books I read in 2024.