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diff --git a/src/inc/read.htm b/src/inc/read.htm index 4736c1f..9b6aa3b 100644 --- a/src/inc/read.htm +++ b/src/inc/read.htm @@ -1,304 +1,153 @@ -<style> - .covers img { - filter: saturate(40%); - } -</style> -<aside class="covers squish"> - <!-- <img src="/media/content/read/kowalczuk_freiheit.jpg" class="size-s"> --> - <img src="/media/content/read/grrm_fireblood.jpg" alt="cover of grrm_fireblood" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/rek_devine_bears.jpg" alt="cover of 100r_bears" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/gould_jumper.jpg" alt="cover of gould_jumper" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/grrm_dunkegg.jpg" alt="cover of grrm_dunkegg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/kaestner_emil.jpg" alt="cover of kaestner_emil" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/hunt_thomas_pragprog.jpg" alt="cover of hunt_thomas_pragprog" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/atwood_testaments.jpg" alt="cover of atwood_testaments" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/kuang_babel.jpg" alt="cover of kuang_babel" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/goenawan_miwako.jpg" alt="cover of goenawan_miwako" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/miller_circe.jpg" alt="cover of miller_circe" class="size-s"> -</aside> -<details open> - <summary>2026</summary> - <section> - <h2 id="now">now</h2> - <ul> - <!-- <li>Freiheitsschock, Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk</li> --> - <li>Blood & Fire, GRRM</li> - <li><a href="//100r.ca/site/no_bears_none.html">No Bears, None</a>, - Rek Bellum & Devine Lu Linvega</li> - </ul> - <h2 id="aug26">august</h2> - <ul> - <li>Jumper, Steven Gould - <blockquote> - picked this up because i remember liking the movie. turns out the book - is just a much more emotionally grounded story. i liked how the ability - was basically just dropped into an otherwise - ordinary world. - </blockquote></li> - <li>Tales of Dunk and Egg, GRRM</li> - <li>Emil und die Detektive, Erich Kästner</li> - </ul> - <h2 id="jul26">july</h2> - <ul> - <li>The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt & David Thomas</li> - </ul> - <h2 id="apr26">april</h2> - <ul> - <li><code>DROPPED</code> - <i>Neongrau, Aiki Mira</i> - <blockquote> - while the premise what somewhat promising, i got bored with the world - and couldn't get myself excited about reading past 20% - </blockquote></li> - </ul> - <h2 id="mar26">march</h2> - <ul> - <li>Testaments, Margaret Atwood</li> - <li>Babel, R.F. Kuang</li> - <li>The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida, Clarissa Goenawan</li> - </ul> - <h2 id="jan26">january</h2> - <ul> - <li>Circe, Madeline Miller - <blockquote> - fun way to get into greek mythology - </blockquote></li> - </ul> - </section> -</details> +{[/read_2026]} <hr> -<aside class="covers squish"> - <img src="/media/content/read/murakami_miso.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/mann_venedig.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/smith_shore.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/cronin_passage.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/broad_japan.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/bradbury_martian.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/elgin_tongue.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/kawakami_night.jpg" class="size-s"> -</aside> -<details> - <summary>2025</summary> - <section> - <h2 id="dec25">december</h2> - <ul> - <li>In the Miso Soup, Ryu Murakami</li> - </ul> - <h2 id="nov25">november</h2> - <ul> - <li>Tod in Venedig, Thomas Mann - <blockquote> - at the start the style of writing was preventing me from getting into - the story fully, as i was reading i got used to it and by the end found - myself quite enjoying it. apart from the style i find nothing - particularly special about it. the conclusion is quite unexpected - though. i found the epilog by terence james reed contextualised the - writing of the book in thomas manns life really useful. - </blockquote></li> - </ul> - <h2 id="oct25">october</h2> - <ul> - <li>The Burning Shore, Wilbur Smith - <blockquote> - while it kept me awake until 3am for 3 days i really disliked the - tonal shift between the second and third acts. how can he portray the - lifestyle of the san the way he does and then have centaine tear up - their sacred place of ancestor worship for diamonds. then the in-world - justification, that it will provide "good water" for her son. to me is - just blatant sugarcoating of an act that clearly violates the memory - and principles of the people she has her life to thank for. though she - had already all but forgotten them, when it was time for the story to - move on from including o'wa and h'ani. - <br> - another gripe with the writing i've had is the way the female lead is - written. it is so obvious, that the author is a man of the last - century... centaine in both instances immediately falls for the male, - that is so clearly set up to be her love-interest. - <br> - The book - <i>is</i> - from 1985, that might put some of this into perspective. - </blockquote></li> - </ul> - <h2 id="sep25">september</h2> - <ul> - <li>The Passage, Justin Cronin - <blockquote> - i can't quite remember where i even found this book. specifically the - part after the timeskip pulled me in and i just needed to know what - happens next. the book sets up a series and i am quite curious what - else they are going to do with the characters - i am personally happy - with what they did and wouldn't - <i>need</i> - more. - <br> - one small detail from the epilog i like is that apparently he co-wrote - the concept for the book together with his daughter. - </blockquote></li> - </ul> - <h2 id="aug25">august</h2> - <ul> - <li>Abroad in Japan, Chris Broad - <blockquote> - after reading the first half, i would already recommend this - book. even without any context on the author or japan, this has - some really funny stories. i also like how i can almost hear - chris' voice in the writing. - </blockquote></li> - <li>The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury - <blockquote> - this one took a while. started reading pretty much right after - Native Tongue at the end of march. the book works well for piece - meal reading, since it's a collection of stories set in a - shared world. my favorites were the one where 'and the moon be - still as bright' and 'the million year picnic'. - overall i think i prefer this over fahrenheit if i had to - recommend one. this one executes the almost educational tone - better while telling actually great scifi stories, which often - left me thinking about them later. - </blockquote></li> - </ul> - <h2 id="mar25">march</h2> - <ul> - <li>Native Tongue, Suzette Haden Elgin - <blockquote> - read most of this in two long sessions while we were in - turkey. after a bit of a slow start i liked the spin on - "dystopian future-not-future society"; the world building - is reminiscent of handmaid's tale, but i felt like there - was more exploration of the inner workings of - <i>why</i> - society is that way; the feminist context shines through - especially towards the end, when the plot only works because the - men are all arrogant assholes, which was satisfying but a - bit one-dimensional. - </blockquote></li> - </ul> - <h2 id="feb25">february</h2> - <p class="notice"> - started reading a weekly newspaper which had quite the - impact on my reading time. i have a test subscription for - 10 weeks, let's see if i can figure out how to balance my - reading out... - </p> - <h2 id="jan25">january</h2> - <ul> - <li>Record of a Night too brief, Hiromi Kawakami - <blockquote> - the first half consists of surreal dreamlike short stories - that only refer to their protagonists as 'me' and 'the - girl'. second half is two longer stories. i enjoyed - interpreting what everything might mean, but wasn't - particularly drawn to the book because of the episodic - nature at the start. read the second half in one afternoon. - </blockquote></li> - </ul> - </section> -</details> -<aside class="covers squish"> - <img src="/media/content/read/stephenson_crash.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/alharthi_celestial.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/kawabata_snow.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/rek_devine_busy.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/shea_illuminatus.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/kutscher_stumme_tod.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/lovecraft_madness.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/neuvel_only_human.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/vonnegut_champions.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/gibson_neuromancer.jpg" class="size-s"> - <img src="/media/content/read/murata_convenience.jpg" class="size-s"> -</aside> +{[/read_2025]} +<hr> +{[/read_2024]} +<hr> + +<p> + The following is my reading list predating this website (exported from + goodreads): +</p> + +2023: +<ul> + <li>I Never Thought of It That Way, Monica Guzmán</li> + <li>Recursion, Blake Crouch</li> + <li>Kizumonogatari, NisiOisiN</li> + <li>Bakemonogatari (Part 3), NisiOisiN</li> + <li>The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway</li> + <li>Bakemonogatari (Part 2), NisiOisiN</li> + <li>Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu + Kawaguchi</li> + <li>Waking Gods (Themis Files #2), Sylvain Neuvel</li> + <li>The Punch Escrow, Tal M. Klein</li> + <li>The Amityville Horror, Jay Anson</li> + <li>1984, George Orwell</li> + <li>Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1), Sylvain Neuvel</li> + <li>Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad</li> + <li>The Road, Cormac McCarthy</li> + <li>Erinnerungen, Albert Speer</li> + <li>Bakemonogatari (Part 1), NisiOisiN</li> + <li>The Bilingual Brain, Albert Costa</li> + <li>Pachinko, Min Jin Lee</li> + <li>Almost Transparent Blue, Ryū Murakami</li> + <li>GRM: Brainfuck, Sibylle Berg</li> +</ul> + +2022: +<ul> + <li>The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho</li> + <li>Animal Farm, George Orwell.</li> + <li>Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck</li> + <li>Pinball 1973, Haruki Murakami</li> + <li>Hear the Wind Sing, Haruki Murakami</li> + <li>The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood</li> + <li>Asleep, Banana Yoshimoto</li> + <li>Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury</li> + <li>The Shining, Stephen King</li> + <li>Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro</li> + <li>Brave New World, Aldous Huxley</li> + <li>Children of Dune (Dune #3), Frank Herbert</li> +</ul> + +2021: +<ul> + <li>Dune Messiah (Dune #2), Frank Herbert</li> + <li>The Collectors, Philip Pullman</li> + <li>Serpentine, Philip Pullman</li> + <li>Hitching Rides with Buddha, Will Ferguson</li> + <li>Sandcastle, Pierre Oscar Lévy</li> + <li>Der nasse Fisch, Volker Kutscher</li> + <li>American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis</li> + <li>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima</li> + <li>Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse</li> + <li>Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, Kai Hermann & Horst Rieck</li> + <li>Kokoro, Natsume Sōseki</li> + <li>Just for Fun, Linus Torvalds</li> + <li>The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson</li> + <li>Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut</li> + <li>Spring Snow, Yukio Mishima</li> +</ul> + +2020: +<ul> + <li>Coin Locker Babies, Ryū Murakami</li> + <li>The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See</li> + <li>The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick</li> + <li>Ready Player One, Ernest Cline</li> + <li>The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger</li> + <li>Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut</li> + <li>Deception Point, Dan Brown</li> + <li>Müdigkeitsgesellschaft, Byung-Chul Han</li> + <li>S, Kōji Suzuki</li> + <li>Sandkings, GRRM</li> + <li>The Shortest History of Germany, James Hawes</li> +</ul> + +2019: +<ul> + <li>Ring, Kōji Suzuki</li> + <li>Nobody Is Ever Missing, Catherine Lacey</li> + <li>Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie</li> + <li>Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami</li> + <li>Am Südpol, Denkt Man, Ist Es Heiss, Elke Heidenreich & Quint Buchholz</li> + <li>Barn Burning, Haruki Murakami</li> + <li>Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami</li> +</ul> + +2018: +<ul> + <li>To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee</li> + <li>Nightflyers, GRRM</li> + <li>Meathouse Man, GRRM</li> + <li>Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami</li> + <li>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami</li> + <li>The Book Thief, Markus Zusak</li> + <li>Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami</li> + <li>La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman</li> + <li>Lyra's Oxford, Philip Pullman</li> +</ul> + +earlier: +<ul> + <li>His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman</li> + <li>A Song of Ice and Fire, GRRM</li> + <li>The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle</li> + <li>Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne</li> + <li>Das Blut des Adlers, Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich</li> + <li>Die Söhne der großen Bärin, Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich</li> + <li>LotR, J.R.R. Tolkien</li> + <li>Der Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien</li> + <li>Die Artus-Chroniken, Bernard Cornwell</li> + <li>Grail Quest, Bernard Cornwell</li> + <li>Die Welt ohne uns, Alan Weisman</li> + <li>Twilight, Stephenie Meyer</li> + <li>Kleider machen Leute, Gottfried Keller</li> + <li>Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe, Gottfried Keller</li> + <li>Die Kobolde, Karl-Heinz Witzko</li> + <li>Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe</li> + <li>Die Päpstin, Donna Woolfolk Cross</li> + <li>Das verlorene Symbol, Dan Brown</li> + <li>Inferno, Dan Brown</li> + <li>Illuminati, Dan Brown</li> + <li>Sakrileg, Dan Brown</li> + <li>Der Prozess, Franz Kafka</li> + <li>Kabale und Liebe, Friedrich Schiller</li> + <li>Romeo und Julia, William Shakespeare</li> + <li>Der Schimmelreiter Theodor Storm</li> + <li>Als wir träumten, Clemens Meyer</li> + <li>Faust. Erster Teil, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</li> + <li>Eragon, Christopher Paolini</li> + <li>Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling</li> + <li>Die Tribute von Panem, Suzanne Collins</li> + <li>Die Roten Hähne vom Stechlin, Hanns Krause</li> + <li>Theos Reise, Catherine Clément</li> + <li>Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis, Douglas Adams</li> + <li>Les Guerriers du silence, Pierre Bordage</li> +</ul> + <details> - <summary>2024</summary> - <section> - <h2 id="dec24">december</h2> - <ul> - <li>Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson - <blockquote> - had I not read Ready Player One and Neuromancer before, - this would surely have left a better impression. - the part about the sumarian virus is creative but feels - forced at the end when it is used to resolve - everything. - </blockquote></li> - </ul> - <h2 id="nov24">november</h2> - <ul> - <li>Celestial Bodies, Jokha Alharthi - <blockquote> - read this while in iceland. basically a family history - focused on the women. i had no background on oman's - history or society. super interesting from that angle. - sometimes a bit slow and confusing, since it's jumping - around the timeline. - </blockquote></li> - <li>Snow Country, Kawabata Yasunari - <blockquote> - i am a sucker for japanese novels and their erie vibe. - this one has it too. so many small details that feel - meaningless on the surface but add some much to the - experience of the book. - </blockquote></li> - </ul> - <h2 id="oct24">october</h2> - <ul> - <li><a href="//100r.co/site/busy_doing_nothing.html">Busy Doing Nothing</a>, - Rek Bellum & Devine Lu Linvega - <blockquote> - somehow i fell down the rabbithole (lol) of rek & - devine's world this month. their log is fascinating and - inspiring. much of their stuff makes you want to set - out to sail yourself, and much of this book does too, - but then there is also details (like the wave incident) - that make you say: hell no. - </blockquote></li> - </ul> - <h2 id="aug24">august</h2> - <ul> - <li><code>DROPPED</code> - <i>Illuminatus! Part 1: The Eye in the Pyramid, Robert Shea</i> - <blockquote> - I did not like the meandering writing and whacky - storylines that kept looping back onto each other. - </blockquote></li> - </ul> - <h2 id="jul24">july</h2> - <ul> - <li>Der stumme Tod, Volker Kutscher</li> - <li>At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft - <blockquote> - the story was mildly scary but entertaining. he kind of - overused "scary" adjective-noun pairs: cosmic fear, - blasphemous mountains. i don't understand how the pov - character thinks his report will hold back further - exploration of that region of antarctica. i would actually - expect it to inspire more attention. - </blockquote></li> - <li>Only Human (Themis Files #3), Sylvain Neuvel - <blockquote> - i did not like this compared to the other two entries - to the series. mostly takes place on the world of the - creators of the "mechs". the style feels off compared - to the first novel when we were seeing the story evolve - through the eyes of the unnamed character. - </blockquote></li> - </ul> - <h2 id="jun24">june</h2> - <ul> - <li>Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut</li> - <li>Neuromancer, William Gibson</li> - <li>Convenience Store Woman, Murata Sayaka - <blockquote> - i admit, i probably started this out of nostalgia after - coming back from japan. it's a cute little story that - nicely shows how weird japanese society can be. - </blockquote></li> - </ul> - <p class="notice"> - i left my ereader at a cafe on the 1st of january of this year - while traveling in south korea. i only got a replacement in june. - that's why there is a 6 month gap where i did not read anything - this year. - </p> - </section> + <summary>How to filter a goodreads export for processing</summary> + <pre>awk --csv -F, '($16 == "read" || $18 == "read"){print $14 "|", ($2 ", " $3)}' ~/downloads/goodreads_library_export.csv | sort -gr</pre> </details> |