अमरूद f.k.a. phenakistoskope

This site was created to practice coding and as a place to station stray thoughts and scraps of information gathered from the world. The information found here will be poorly organised, the thoughts fragmented and incoherent, the code barely functional. And yet, it will persist.

So far, i've found myself using this space to think about the books i read, by writing about them. Consequently, this site is mostly composed of text, which has, thus far, largely been in English. Certain scraps have been rendered in Bengali, Hindi, or French, and this sporadic bilingualism will continue.

The site is written in HTML and CSS; it is hand-coded by a beginner, and supplemented by the occasional snippet of JavaScript, inserted to save time. The site is mostly mobile friendly, but in case it isn't, i'm troubleshooting as i go.

Updates
13.04.26 migrated the journal to bearblog
09.04.25 added mycelium
04.04.26 march log added, bookbug and reading log updated.
23.03.26 simplified everything considerably.
05.03.26 new journal entry.
28.02.26 february log is up.
21.02.26 updated the reading log.
13.02.26 i had the evening off and things got out of hand.
12.02.26 redid the january log
11.02.26 experimenting with CSS only tabbed navigation.
31.01.26 january log added, reading log and bookbug updated
15.01.26 tweaked the theme a third time
03.01.26 updated the reading log
06.12.25 tweaked the theme again
02.12.25 tweaked the theme + review of Under the Skin
29.11.25 review of Temple of the Golden Pavilion
28.02.25 review of Despair
01.02.25 review of Invisible Cities
11.01.25 review of American Psycho
24.12.24 bookbug page + review of The Death of Ivan Ilyich
14.12.24 review of The Vegetarian