After an off month (October), reading wise, I’ve managed to add back to my numbers a bit in November: six books read (two of then novels, four comics collected editions). Gets me up to 43 of my 75 books GoodReads 2025 Reading Challenge.
I’m not going to go crazy trying to read thirty-two books in December, even comics (which I could probably manage but don’t feel like it’s worth the effort). I’ll just see how close I get this time and try for 75 again in 2026.
Here’s what I read:
Star Wars: Iron Fist (originally released as Star Wars: X-Wing: Iron Fist; book two in the Wraith Squadron trilogy) by Aaron Allston (Bantam Spectra, 1998; Del Rey “Star Wars Essentials” rerelease, 2024)
Star Wars: Solo Command (originally released as Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command; book three in the Wraith Squadron trilogy) by Aaron Allston (Bantam Spectra, 1999; Del Rey “Star Wars Essentials” rerelease, 2024)
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: Frozen Gold (The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 2) (Fantagraphics, 2024) (reprints 1943-1945 Barks stories from Dell’s “Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories” and “Four Color” comic books)
Star Trek Vol. 5: When the Walls Fell by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Liana Kangas, et al. (IDW, 2025) (reprints 2024-2025 IDW “Star Trek” #25-30 comic books).
Star Trek: Defiant Vol. 5: No Old Warriors by Christopher Cantwell, Morgan Beem, Angel Unzueta, et al. (IDW, 2025) (reprints 2025 IDW “Star Trek: Defiant” #22-25 comic books).
Batman ‘89: Echoes by Sam Hamm, Joe Quinones, et al. (DC, 2025) (reprints 2024-2025 DC “Batman ‘89: Echoes” comic books limited series)
— David Young
(Addendum: I forgot to add that I also finally started reading “A Dance With Dragons”—A Song of Ice and Fire book five—by George R.R. Martin.
I finished the previous book, “A Feast for Crows” on June 8, 2024. So, I waited nearly a year and a half to move on to this next book which is the most recently released book in the series thus far (released in 2011(!)).
I’ve been stretching these out since there still is no sign of when book six, “The Winds of Winter”, will eventually come out (plus these are *big* books that take me longer to read).
I’ve managed to get 12% into this one, 133 pages, as of the time I’m posting this.)
