+ 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
+ why
+ 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 too one-dimensional.
+
+
february
+
+ 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...
+
january
Record of a Night too brief, Hiromi Kawakami
-
-
-
february
-
-
+
+ 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.
+
2024
-
- 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.
-
december
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
-
+
+ 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.
+
november
Celestial Bodies, Jokha Alharthi
-
+
+ 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.
+
Snow Country, Kawabata Yasunari
-
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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.
+
august
DROPPEDIlluminatus! Part 1: The Eye in the Pyramid, Robert Shea
-
+
+ I did not like the meandering writing and whacky
+ storylines that kept looping back onto each other.
+
july
@@ -130,15 +106,13 @@
Der stumme Tod, Volker Kutscher
At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
Only Human (Themis Files #3), Sylvain Neuvel
-
+
+ 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.
+
june
@@ -146,14 +120,18 @@
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Convenience Store Woman, Murata Sayaka
-
+
+ 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.
+
+
+ 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.
+
While working on my custom Anki cards for learning Japanese
+
While working on my custom
+ Anki
+ cards for learning Japanese
and Turkish, I
- found that my font of choice for Japanese IPAex was not
+ found that my font of choice for Japanese -
+ IPAex
+ - was not
properly supporting glyphs used by
- Turkish, like ğ.
To fix this i am using a property of the @font-face rule
- to limit custom fonts to source their glyphs from a subset of the
- unicode range and force fallback to the next font in the set.
-
-
-@font-face {
+
To fix this i am using a property of the
+ @font-face
+ rule
+ which limits custom fonts to source their glyphs from a subset of the
+ unicode range and force fallback to the next font in the set.
+