December 2025

[I did read before this, but there was Thanksgiving, then the LW book launch. Too busy to record.] 12/2 The Odyssey, trans. E. V. Rieu The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame TASKMASTER 12/3 Joy in the Middle, Joy Moore (finished) The Odyssey, trans. E. V. Rieu Puck of Pook’s Hill, Rudyard Kipling TASKMASTER 12/4 The Neglected Qualification, Douglas Wilson The Odyssey, trans. E. V. Rieu TASKMASTER 12/5 The Odyssey, trans. E. V. Rieu (finished) For the Time Being, W. H. Auden Winnie the Pooh and Christmas, Too! TASKMASTER 12/6 New and Selected Poems, Samuel Menashe TASKMASTER 12/7 Blink, Malcolm Gladwell The Last Straw (2014) The Spitfire Grill (1996) TASKMASTER 12/8 Reflections, Roger Deakins Flight 714 to Sidney, Hergé TASKMASTER 12/9 For the Time Being, W. H. Auden Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh TASKMASTER 12/10 New and Selected Poems, Samuel Menashe 100 Poems, George Herbert By This Standard, Greg L. Bahnsen Reflections, Roger Deakins The Neglected Qualification, Douglas Wilson Jim Croce, Photographs and Memories The Choir of King’s College, Carols from King’s 12/11 12/12 The Neglected Qualification, Douglas Wilson (finished) Boston Camerata, An American Christmas The Spitfire Grill (19 12/13 History of Idaho, Hiram Taylor French Conversations, ed. Susan M. Stacy Wordsmithy, Douglas Wilson 12/14 Wordsmithy, Douglas Wilson 100 Poems, George Herbert For the Time Being, W. H. Auden Blink, Malcolm Gladwell Winnie the Pooh and Christmas, Too! Wake Up Dead Man (2025) 12/15 The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton Wordsmithy, Douglas Wilson Handel’s Messiah Live from the Sydney Opera House December, George Winston Bob James, Jean-Philippe Rameau: Keyboard Works Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band, An Evening of Capers and Carols Waterdeep, The Unusual Tale of Mary and Joseph’s Baby 12/16 Wordsmithy, Douglas Wilson (finished) The Red House Mystery, A. A. Milne Blink, Malcolm Gladwell The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton TASKMASTER 12/17 New and Selected Poems, Samuel Menashe 100 Poems, George Herbert By This Standard, Greg L. Bahnsen The Valley of Vision The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake The Church Impotent, Leon J. Podles History of Cyrus the Great, Jacobs Abbott The Diary of a Nobody, George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame Blink, Malcolm Gladwell TASKMASTER 12/18 New and Selected Poems, Samuel Menashe 100 Poems, George Herbert By This Standard, Greg L. Bahnsen The Valley of Vision The Word Made Fresh, Abram Van Engen Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake Reflections, Roger Deakins TASKMASTER 12/19 New and Selected Poems, Samuel Menashe 100 Poems, George Herbert By This Standard, Greg L. Bahnsen The Valley of Vision The Prodigal God, Timothy Keller (finished) TASKMASTER 12/20 Mystery and Manners, Flannery O’Connor What I Learned in Narnia, Douglas Wilson Reflections, Roger Deakins Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake TASKMASTER 12/21 Studies in Words, C. S. Lewis Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake Wall-E (2008) Thomas Newman, Wall-E OST Waterdeep, The Unusual Tale of Mary and Joseph’s Baby The Choir of Trinity College, The Great British Carol Collection Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas Bing Crosby’s Christmas Gems Sting, If On a Winter’s Night TASKMASTER 12/22 100 Poems, George Herbert Studies in Words, C. S. Lewis George Winston, December Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) TASKMASTER THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS 12/23 By This Standard, Greg L. Bahnsen Studies in Words, C. S. Lewis Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake For the Time Being, W. H. Auden Eloise at Christmastime (2003) Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) 12/24 New and Selected Poems, Samuel Menashe 100 Poems, George Herbert By This Standard, Greg L. Bahnsen The Valley of Vision The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton Studies in Words, C. S. Lewis Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake TASKMASTER 12/25 Studies in Words, C. S. Lewis The Star (2017) TASKMASTER 12/26 Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake Johnny Cash, The Classic Christmas Album TASKMASTER 12/27 Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake Scott Kritzer, Classical Guitar Christmas 12/28 New and Selected Poems, Samuel Menashe 100 Poems, George Herbert By This Standard, Greg L. Bahnsen The Valley of Vision The Case for Christmas, Lee Strobel 12/29 Studies in Words, C. S. Lewis The Case for Christmas, Lee Strobel (finished) Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake Blake Mills, Blake Mills The Killers, Day & Age Alexandre Desplat, Birth OST 12/30 Slouching Toward Bethlehem, Joan Didion The Faerie Queene, 12/31 The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton New and Selected Poems, Samuel Menashe 100 Poems, George Herbert By This Standard, Greg L. Bahnsen The Valley of Vision Behind the Attic Wall, Sylvia Cassedy (finished) “In Defense of P. G. Wodehouse,” George Orwell King Charles, LoveBlood THE BIG FAT QUIZ OF THE YEAR