(started 2022 July 25)
Github pages, which was kind of a trial because of the unclear and sometimes conflicting guidance for pages that employed collapsible sections and Github markdown. For this site, the most important fixes were:
markdown: GFM processor in the site config file (_config.yml) -- see below.My _config.yml file:
title: "Recreational Reading Log"
description: "List of my reading since 2022 July 25"
logo: https://mccright.github.io/rrl/m.svg
# https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-site-with-jekyll/setting-a-markdown-processor-for-your-github-pages-site-using-jekyll
markdown: GFM
I did not originally format this resource for Github-pages, which left me with a lot of page layout sloth and a little legacy technology debt to deal with before these pages would display properly. Native Github repos support sloppy authoring practices that do not appear to transparently port over to Github pages. Unfortunely, the source repo required material format updating...
The Github pages GitHub Action build logs for my repo identified jekyll-theme-primer-0.6.0 as its default theme (Github pages support a number of themes). It displayed bright white pages, but I prefer dark background with white text. The RubyDocs for jekyll-theme-primer said that adding a new style sheet (/assets/css/style.scss) with the following content starts the customization process:
---
---
@import "jekyll-theme-primer";
To that add your customizations. To get a simple dark theme, you can use the body CSS recommended by Mark A Vitale at https://github.com/pages-themes/primer/issues/64#issuecomment-975787330 for a simple style.scss that looks like this:
---
---
@import "jekyll-theme-primer";
body {
background-color: black;
filter: hue-rotate(180deg) invert(90%);
}
There is some valid criticism of this approach, but it works for this github-pages site.
https://www.overdrive.com/media/5067417/hamnet
By Maggie O'Farrell (1972 - _)
Reader Notes: Enter one family's world, more than 4 centuries ago. Maggie O'Farrell delivers the magic (her expertly-tuned imagination, skilful editing and extremely hard work) of helping the reader join the extended family of William Shakespeare. The primary lens for this exploration is Agnes (Anne) Hathaway -- William Shakespeare is only a minor supporting role. Marriage, motherhood, power, loss & grief, along with the daily life in late 16th century England are made so rich, immediate, intense, and so real that it is easy to lose yourself in this story. In addition to exceptional writing, the reading by Ell Potter seemed a perfect fit.
Literary Review by : https://literaryreview.co.uk/love-in-the-time-of-plague-2
Wikipedia Summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamnet_(novel)
Review by Miranda France in the Literary Review: https://literaryreview.co.uk/love-in-the-time-of-plague-2
https://www.overdrive.com/media/1372669/shaman
By Kim Stanley Robinson (1952 -_)
Kim Stanley Robinson bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson_bibliography
Reader's Notes: What an excellent book! We go on a fast-moving journey with a young apprentice shaman, his teacher, a small band of hunter-gatherers, and the others who join the story along the way. We learn a lot about stone age / ice age European early modern humans and their cultures.
3rd Party Summaries:
Wikipedia Summary/Review: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaman_(novel)
https://www.overdrive.com/media/2234713/aurora
By Kim Stanley Robinson (1952 -_)
Kim Stanley Robinson bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson_bibliography
Reader's Notes: Another excellent book!
A generation ship is launched from Earth in 2545 at 0.1 c (i.e. traveling at 108,000,000 km/h or 10% the speed of light). It includes twenty-four self-contained biomes and an average population of two thousand people. Their destination is the Tau Ceti system to begin colonization of a planet's moon, an Earth analog, which has been named Aurora.
The book follows Devi (the ship's de facto chief engineer and leader) and Freya (Devi's daughter) and the ship's AI quantum computer through a journey of discovery.
3rd Party Summaries:
Wikipedia Summary/Review: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(novel)
https://www.overdrive.com/media/4581755/the-giver-of-stars
By Jojo Moyes (1969 -- _)
Reader's notes:
Wikipedia summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver_of_Stars