This is just a brief note to share that I have recently added a new RSS feed to the website. I've started keeping my book-related writing in a different corner of the site, and rather than shimming all of that back into the main feed, I've opted to set up a new dedicated feed:
https://cyberb.space/shelf/feed.xml
For context and to quickly level-set expectations, these reviews are not rigorous or in-depth. They're here precisely because I haven't put enough effort into them to try to have them published somewhere else. For the most part, you can think of them as the brief note I might post in a social app like GoodReads. I typically type them out on my phone right after I've finished reading and I don't feel the need to revisit or revise them too often.
If you've been following the blog at all, you know that I've been tinkering with how I track and syndicate the list of books that I have read (see previous posts: Bookish Concerns & Shelf Life). So far I've enjoyed the self-managed workflow. There's something energizing about building something exclusively for my own needs and knowing I can change it whenever I feel the urge.
The only sense of lack that I feel, and it's by no means acute, is that this is a pretty antisocial approach to a public reading tracker. I'm broadcasting my thoughts and impressions, but I have no mechanism for hearing what other people think about the books I'm reading. It's a social node that is not plugged in to any network. But that's not necessarily a feature of the approach. If you come across a book review and want to discuss, feel free to ping me on social media or send me an email. I can't guarantee a prompt response, but I can say that I'll read with interest.
The work of setting up a separate feed was pretty straightforward. If you're interested in how I set these two feeds using my static generator, 11ty, you can look directly at the changes & additions I made to my template files over here.