May was a pretty good month for both reading and acquiring reading material. A brief illness over the Memorial Day weekend allowed me more quiet time, and I took advantage of it by binge-reading the excellent Kraken Rider Z books. This was the first time I binge-read a series in at least a decade. Highly recommended.
Acquisitions
- Jim Harrison, The Theory and Practice of Rivers (Copper Canyon Press) [2025.05.06] – Purchased from the publisher.
- Frank O’Hara, Lunch Poems (City Lights Books) [2025.05.07] – Purchased from The Book Nook and Java Shop in Montague, Michigan
- Jack Hirschman, Front Lines: Selected Poems (City Lights Books) [2025.05.07] – Purchased from The Book Nook and Java Shop in Montague, Michigan
- Naomi Klein, Doppelganger [2025.05.09] – Purchased from Books and Mortar in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Soliloquey #2 [2025.05.13] – Purchased from the author at a Grand River Poetry Collective meeting.
- Dan Davies, The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions and How the World Lost Its Mind (The University of Chicago Press) [2025.05.19] – Purchased from the publisher after reading about it in a comment on a Naked Capitalism post.
- Metal Hurlant #1 [2025.05.20] – From a Kickstarter campaign run by the publisher.
- SJ Kim, This Part is Silent – A Life Between Cultures (And Other Stories) [2025.05.23] – Received from the publisher.
- Heavy Metal #001 [2025.05.27]
Reading List
Books
- Robin McLean, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.08]
- Frank O’Hara, Lunch Poems [2025.05.13]
- Soliloquy #2 [2025.05.19]
- Dyrk Ashton and David Estes, Kraken Rider Z [2025.05.24]
- Dyrk Ashton and David Estes, Kraken Rider Z: Thunder Kraken [2025.05.26]
- Jack Hirschman, Front Lines: Selected Poems [2025.05.31]
Short Prose
- Kameron Hurley, “When the Stars Fell” (Patreon post) [2025.05.01]
- Jim C. Hines, “Launch Day Milkshakes” (Patreon post) [2025.05.01]
- Kameron Hurley, “The Wake” (Patreon post) [2025.05.01]
- Kameron Hurley, “The Sea of Ruin” (Patreon post) [2025.05.01]
- Robin McLean, “Get ’em Young, treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.02]
- Robin McLean, “True Carnivores”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.02]
- Robin McLean, “Big Black Man”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.02]
- Robin McLean, “Judas Cradle”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.03]
- Robin McLean, “Cat”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.03]
- Robin McLean, “House Full of Feasting”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.04]
- Robin McLean, “Cliff Ordeal”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.06]
- Robin McLean, “Alpha”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.08]
- Jim C. Hines, “The Haunting of Jig’s Ear” (Patreon post) [2025.05.19]
- Frey Lylark, “Changeling” (Patreon post by Apex Book Company) [2025.05.20]