I meant to start posting regularly again, but didn't quite muster the energy. Hopefully this year will be a return to normality, or at least something close to it.
Despite being laid up over half of 2025, I didn't spend much time reading. I mostly attribute it to the fact that I fell down the YouTube rabbit hole and it became my go-to for "I'm not feeling well but I need entertainment," and I'm far more familiar with various YouTube channels than I ever was before. When I did feel well enough to do more, I ended up gaming instead, which was good for my gaming backlog, but not so much my reading one!
So I only read one book for 2025, but at least I'm getting closer to finishing Legend of the Galactic Heroes! You can consider this one recommended even though I won't be doling out any asterisks for a top pick when it's my only pick.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Vol. 8: Desolation by Yoshiki Tanaka
We finally get what looks to be the final face off between Reinhard and Yang as Yang's forces are bottled up in Iserlohn Fortress and Reinhard himself arrives to take out the last remaining holdouts from the Free Planet Alliance. I won't get into spoilers, so unfortunately this write-up is going to be shorter than the myriad thoughts I actually had, but I definitely did not see what would happen midway through the book. In the hands of a lesser writer I could see this event substantially taking the wind out of the series' sails, but I think there's a lot of material left to mine here and I'm interested in seeing how the remaining two books will handle this.
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