Charles Portis - True Grit
Robertson Davies - The Manticore
China Miéville - Embassytown
Kenneth Fearing - The Big Clock

Dan Simmons - Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
William Beckford - Vathek
Banana Yoshimoto - NP
Agatha Christie - The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side

(cont.)

2025 Q4 reads:

John Higgs - William Blake vs the World
Sebastian Barry - Days Without End
Frank Herbert - Heretics of Dune
Jack Vance - Eyes of the Overworld
Thomas Pynchon - Shadow Ticket
Ursula K. Le Guin - Buffalo Gals, Book of Cats [both one-sitting reads]

(cont.)

yes! yes!!

(Yoichi Aoyama — 電波組曲)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6mm...

Bugcity is already one of my favorite albums since first hearing a few years ago. This was stuck in my head for a year.

(Yoichi Aoyama — Bad Melody Bad)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IZe...

Strong recommendation for fans of Carnation (which shares a member with Grandfathers) and Moonriders (Hirobumi and Keiichi Suzuki produced his first albums). "4D Raven" off Bugcity also has a duet from Yasuyuki Horigome from Kirinji

getting this giant poster home in 40mph winds was awesome

I sign my approval to some of the Big Ones, but if I have anything unique to contribute here, I’ve listened to every ECM release this year, as well as a lot of ambient, jazz, and country. There’s a solo lute album here, also 3 paragraphs about the latest Katamari soundtrack

I may slap some more on this before the year is up, but for now, this is my top 75 albums from between the... 534 2025 albums I have at least one play on

I finished Shadow Ticket earlier this week but needed to get the pomegranate juice for the grenadine

I think this is a one-off theme for this TV show, but she does have an album out next year and has been playing a song from it at concerts ❤️

and cover of the year, naturally