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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:

Cover of Blindsight.

Blindsight

by Peter Watts · published 2006 · last read 2026-02-09

★★★★☆

Re-read notes: I love a couple of things about this book. I love that it is well-written, particularly for sci-fi, particularly for hard sci-fi. It reads well, if you're into sci-fi in the first place. I love that it is clever, and that i

Cover of Doomsday Book.

Doomsday Book

by Connie Willis · published 1992 · last read 2026-01-25

★★★★★

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis is the best book about time travel that I know of, with the notable exception of "This is how you lose the time war". It's started out good, and then proceeded to kick me in the feelings. Repeatedly. Time

Cover of Soulsmith.

Soulsmith

by Will Wight · published 2016 · last read 2025-06-27

★★★☆☆

After resenting the cliffhanger ending in Unsouled, I'm more reconciled with this one. Once you expect the cliffhangers, after all, they can't hurt you. This second part of the Cradle series sho

Cover of Unsouled.

Unsouled

by Will Wight · published 2016 · last read 2025-06-27

★★★☆☆

This was nice. Chinese inspired fantasy, but with a high escalation path into stellar politics among superpowered/ascended beings. The juxtaposition of the two ("low level farm boy" vs "god-like beings") was clumsy at times, and it cuts off

Cover of Hellspark.

Hellspark

by Janet Kagan · published 1988 · last read 2025-06-01

★★★★★

Hellspark is not without faults, but faults do not remove a five-star rating given out of pure joy. This is what I want my scifi to be like, and the fact that Kagan has not published much (and died in 2008) was rough to discover in a world