It’s June, and that means that we are almost halfway through 2026. It also means that it’s time for me to share some of the books I’ve been reading this year. To this point, I have read about seventy five books. That puts me halfway to my goal of one hundred and fifty books for the year. As usual, I rotate my reading, moving … Read More What Have I Been Reading in 2026?
Over the past few posts I have been writing about some of my favorite comic issues and how these issues use the comics’ medium in engaging and experimental ways to tell compelling stories. Today, I want to continue that thread by looking at Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo’s Nightwing #87, an issue that, Like Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Hawkeye #11, present readers with a new way to … Read More One Continuous Image in Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo’s “Nightwing” #87
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In my last post in 2025, I wrote about some of the books I read last year. Today, for the first post of 2026, I want to do a deep dive into my 2025 reading summary, looking, as well, at information about Americans’ reading habits and at what I plan to read during the first part of 2026. Before I get started, I will … Read More Breakdown of My 2025 Reading Habits
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For the past few years, I have set various reading goals for myself. I initially did this to keep myself on a schedule with reading because I know that if I have a goal to reach, I will do my best to reach that goal. I started off small, with a bar of 60 or so books a year, and once I hit that, … Read More What Did I Read in 2025?
I read R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface over the summer, with the intention of adding it to my “Lost Voices in American Literature” course. After reading it, I was very interested in the discussion that would arise when we finally discussed the book in class. I thought, on the first couple of days, that students wouldn’t say much and that we just look at the way that June … Read More Is It Literary Theft?: Looking at Writing in R.F. Kuang’s “Yellowface”
Interminable Rambling 