May 2025 Books and Reading Notes

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

17. Jim Harrison, The Theory and Practice of Rivers (Copper Canyon Press) [2025.05.06] – Purchased from the publisher.
18. Frank O’Hara, Lunch Poems (City Lights Books) [2025.05.07] – Purchased from The Book Nook and Java Shop in Montague, Michigan
19. Jack Hirschman, Front Lines: Selected Poems (City Lights Books) [2025.05.07] – Purchased from The Book Nook and Java Shop in Montague, Michigan
20. Naomi Klein, Doppelganger [2025.05.09] – Purchased from Books and Mortar in Grand Rapids, Michigan
21. Soliloquey #2 [2025.05.13] – Purchased from the author at a Grand River Poetry Collective meeting.
22. 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.
23. Metal Hurlant #1 [2025.05.20] – From a Kickstarter campaign run by the publisher.
24. SJ Kim, This Part is Silent – A Life Between Cultures (And Other Stories) [2025.05.23] – Received from the publisher.
25. Heavy Metal #001 [2025.05.27]

Reading List

Books

11. Robin McLean, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.08]
12. Frank O’Hara, Lunch Poems [2025.05.13]
13. Soliloquy #2 [2025.05.19]
14. Dyrk Ashton and David Estes, Kraken Rider Z [2025.05.24]
15. Dyrk Ashton and David Estes, Kraken Rider Z: Thunder Kraken [2025.05.26]
16. Jack Hirschman, Front Lines: Selected Poems [2025.05.31]

Short Prose

48. Kameron Hurley, “When the Stars Fell” (Patreon post) [2025.05.01]
49. Jim C. Hines, “Launch Day Milkshakes” (Patreon post) [2025.05.01]
50. Kameron Hurley, “The Wake” (Patreon post) [2025.05.01]
51. Kameron Hurley, “The Sea of Ruin” (Patreon post) [2025.05.01]
52. Robin McLean, “Get ’em Young, treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.02]
53. Robin McLean, “True Carnivores”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.02]
54. Robin McLean, “Big Black Man”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.02]
55. Robin McLean, “Judas Cradle”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.03]
56. Robin McLean, “Cat”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.03]
57. Robin McLean, “House Full of Feasting”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.04]
58. Robin McLean, “Cliff Ordeal”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.06]
59. Robin McLean, “Alpha”, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing [2025.05.08]
60. Jim C. Hines, “The Haunting of Jig’s Ear” (Patreon post) [2025.05.19]
61. Frey Lylark, “Changeling” (Patreon post by Apex Book Company) [2025.05.20]