log(book)
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The last time I was up to date with reviews was 2022-01-31. Since then, 208/383 books (54.3%) have been reviewed. We'll get there … eventually.

Welcome to log(book)!

This is where I valiantly try to keep track of The data gets synced to Goodreads, but this site is the primary source. If you're really interested in what I'm reading, you can subscribe to the feed. Thanks for the content go to our civilisation and the preceding ones, to the people involved in the publishing industry – authors, editors, layouters, translators, printers, illustrators, agents, publicists, marketers, book sellers, antiquarians –, to my family for hooking me early and understanding that all a child needs to be happy are eighteen hours of uninterrupted reading per day, and to my friends for their consistently good-or-interesting recommendations and their patience with what they call my "reading habit".

Here are a few of the books I’ve read recently:

Cover of The Book of Elsewhere.

The Book of Elsewhere

by China Miéville · published 2024 · read 2024-10-24
★★★★☆
Finally, a new Miéville book! I didn’t end up reading the graphic novels it is based on beforehand, even though I wanted to, because that’s just not my genre, no matter how hard I try. Oh well. I had a lot of fun reading this book once I got past the beginning, which felt stuttering and stilted – not sure if I just needed to get into the book or if the beginning is genuinely choppy – at book club, I wasn’t the only one taking a while to warm up to it. Speaking of book club: we also had a lot of fun taking shots at the worse version of the cover, and in particular, the amazing author:title ratio. Plot-wise, I just had fun, and felt like the author was having fun, too, which is relaxing. It’s not Perdido Street Station, sure, but it’s entertaining and thoughtful and has a finale that could’ve been written by Diane Duane. Plus, it gave me some cool new symbolism to play around with, and was just … engaging and fun, while also portraying a mind that is both very human and very removed from many human experiences – how do you even deal with being alive for 80k years? (Take it one millennium at a time …) Oh, and bonus points for the casual queerness throughout. That was nice.
Cover of Time of the Basilisk.

Time of the Basilisk

by Arsinoe de Blassenville · published 2010 · read 2024-10-07
★☆☆☆☆
The fluff continues escalating, and the author has decided that they are, uh, whimsical and funny. They are not.
Cover placeholder for Influence.

Influence

by MarauderLover7 · published 2024 · read 2024-10-06
★★★★☆
The story continues escalating with real stakes, real character development, and tons of accumulated background that is used well instead of ignored as in the og series. For example, in the very first installation, the series introduces life debts as serious and binding (within a limited context), and this book then sees the bad side working to exploit this mechanism. Characters are also still growing and feeling very vivid and real. Good work.
Cover of The Best Revenge.

The Best Revenge

by Arsinoe de Blassenville · published 2010 · read 2024-10-06
★★☆☆☆
Infinite fluff. It's just … mountains of fluff. Not even a good take on competent adults or anything, just "what if everything just worked out forever".
Cover placeholder for Intensity.

Intensity

by MarauderLover7 · published 2021 · read 2024-10-02
★★★★☆
It's wild how this series started out worse than mediocre – because here, it's actually good. Maybe good-for-fanfic, but the upper end of that, at the very least. Characters come together, and act with intelligence (especially the villains, aswell). They have relationships that influence how they live and act in wider society. There's plotting and storytelling, and the writing is decent, too. Huge improvement over anything before, and especially over the first three books.