log(book)

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 On the day you spend forever with your dog.

On the day you spend forever with your dog

by Adam R. Shannon · published 2018 · last read 2022-07-08
★★☆☆☆
It must be because I never had a dog: On the Day You Spend Forever with your Dog is a short story that tries to roll heart-breaking dog love and (emotional) time travel into one, but fell flat for me.
Cover of Sweetheart.

Sweetheart

by Abbey Mei Otis · published 2010 · last read 2022-07-08
★★☆☆☆
A bit on the nose, but still nice: Sweatheart is a well-written very short story by Abbey Mei Otis that is first sweet and then chilling in the path the story takes – nothing too special either, just a perfectly fine scifi short.
Cover of Winnie ille Pu.

Winnie ille Pu

by A.A. Milne · published 1926 · last read 2022-07-07
★★★★☆
This book is, of course, adorable in every way. The dorky bear with his friends in various stages being excitable, exuberant, worried, forgetful, depressed, busy, or superior are delightful and a neat way to keep a child entertained.
Cover of Till We Have Faces.

Till We Have Faces

by C. S. Lewis · read 2022-04-12
★★★★☆
First CS Lewis since reading and intensely disliking Narnia as a kid. Was told he considered this his best work. Intrigued and prepared for the worst, very pleasantly surprised. Deep, uncanny stuff, some weird stuff – Jungian vibes throughout. Very fairytale, in the weird-unsafe-dark way. This book is part of the 2022 Backlog Incident.
Cover of We Are Satellites.

We Are Satellites

by Sarah Pinsker · published 2021 · read 2022-04-02
★★★☆☆
Let this website attest that I like Sarah Pinsker a lot – I'm not a short story person in general, and I love hers. That said: I wasn't a fan of this book. Her usual skill with small scenes and emotional gut punches showed, but the plot was so extremely on the nose that I did my best not to eyeroll my way through it. Hard to engage with the cool characters when the plot is yelling its generic dystopia blah lecture at you. (tldr: Brain enhancement that some want, others not, peer pressure, hmmm, wonder if the sleazy bigcos will have our best interest at heart, unconvincing HAPPY GOOD END. The end.) This book is part of the 2022 Backlog Incident.