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-<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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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>