I'm currently behind on reviews, so don't be surprised if the recent reviews are a bit sparse.

Welcome to log(book)!

This is where I valiantly try to keep track of

the books I’ve read and my opinions on them
useless but fun statistics
and the hilariously useless and overengineered graph

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:

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the grave of the saint

by basketofnovas · published 2022 · read 2023-02-11

★★★☆☆

Difficult to tie off a series like this (and I'm perpetually grateful for the one-shots and shorts illuminating the time after the main plot's end). There is too much going on, but I found all the moving parts interesting in the end, and was not disappointed at all. Such a good series/universe. This book is part of the 2022 Backlog Incident.

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the glass fortress

by basketofnovas · published 2021 · read 2023-02-10

★★★★☆

I could read basketofnovas for a week straight without getting sick of the stories tbh, even though I found the second part getting a bit stuck on occasion, especially in fleshing out the political system. It all comes together once you've read all the one-shots and extended universe, but the first experience was not perfect. This book is part of the 2022 Backlog Incident.

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before the door of hell lamps burned

by basketofnovas · published 2020 · read 2023-02-09

★★★★☆

The brilliantly difficult series is a top contender for my favourite fanfic series. It's ambitious, and it sometimes fails, but especially if you read the one-shots, the author ties it together so well. Possibly the only AO3 author I will read no matter what. This book is part of the 2022 Backlog Incident.

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Evitative

by Vichan · published 2020 · read 2023-02-08

★★★★☆

Spent my February reading all the good fics. This one starts as a standard re-sort, then goes sideways into a beautiful take on dark magic, rituals, friendship and love. Like, some of these rituals I just want to adopt for myself. This book is part of the 2022 Backlog Incident.

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The Same, But Different

by SomewheresSword · published 2020 · read 2023-02-07

★★★★☆

This author just gets queer fanfics. Nice takes on reincarnation, dysphoria, old wisdom and new hormones. This book is part of the 2022 Backlog Incident.