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Stefan Brink: Lord and Lady - Bryti and Deigja: some historical and etymological aspects of family, patronage and slavery in early Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon England
Well, it sounded relevant to my interests, the title - but not so much. Ah well...
Jasper Fforde: The Woman Who Died A Lot
Iselin C. Hermann: Cirkus Manera
Now here's a book that's trying too much - too much family drama and incest and jealousy and random secret adoptions and... and too little circus. It feels - unbalanced. Like the author wanted too many things - honestly, maybe she could have settled for half as many dramatic bits and then spent some time developing a circus populated with artists you actually cared about instead of mostly stereotype-feeling characters...
Ibn Fadlan's Journey to Russia: A Tenth-Century Traveller From Baghdad to the Volga River
Very interesting. (Also, I am now left with a desire for a future season of Vikings to involve a journey down the rivers to the Middle East, maybe even a visit to Baghdad.)
Lene Kaaberbøl: Det levende kød
Jack Kerouac: On the Road: the Original Scroll
Johannes Lilleøre: Nowhere
John Ajvide Lindqvist: Lilla stjärna
Previously, JAL has written about vampires and zombies in modern Sweden - it takes a while before you realize that this novel is about werewolves. Mostly because they're not, it's not supernatural, except possibly just a bit, but not overt - it's X Factor and crappy childhoods and everything backfiring gloriously, Carrie only without the telekinesis and with nothing as blatant as pig's blood. These girls don't need that. And it's not my favourite of JAL's books, but it's okay.
Litteraturens nätverk: berättande på internet
Svend Åge Madsen: Pigen i cementblanderen
I really should be reading more SÅM, shouldn't? I mean, when I read one of his books, I enjoy it - and I'm beginning to catch connections, a little, even if it was mostly the one to Tugt og utugt i Mellemtiden (which of course refers back to Se dagens lys), and some mentions of the Laveran family. As for the short stories themselves, my favourites were Det her er ikke en fortælling, about a journalism student interning at a smalltown paper and seeing horrible crimes everywhere, and Anica & Sophus, a cross-time correspondance story with the twist that time does not pass at the same pace for both partners, so poor Sophus has to wait longer and longer between the missives from his strange future friend, who is busily working on her paper on string theory...
Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen: The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch
I admit I kept up better in the evolution than the string theory chapters. Also, I find myself growing to - well, not like Rincewind (sorry, but the guy was never a favourite of mine) - but like him more as an integrated part of the UU wizards (and one of the more sensible ones) than as a hapless guy spending most of his time running away from stuff trying to eat/kill/dismember/defenestrate/hurt him.
J.D. Robb: Rapture In Death
Comics
Misuzu Asaoka: Glass Wings
Catel & Bocquet: Kiki de Montparnasse
Terry Dodson: Songes
When did Coraline become a common name in fiction? I can't remember seeing it before reading Gaiman's book, but now it crops up from time to time, but I can't tell if I just hadn't read the right books before reading Coraline?
Ian Edginton: Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies
So, I must admit, my favourite part of this is how Mrs. Hudson reacts in the face of the zombie apocalypse. Unfortunately, the story itself - well, it never actually made it seems as if it mattered particularly that it was Sherlock that was fighting the zombies - the British government already had anti-zombie tanks, for crying out loud!
Warren Ellis: Freakangels vol. 1.
Brandon Graham: Prophet: Remission
Knud V. Larsen: Dr. Albert Merlings samlede bedrifter bind 3.
Hiro Mashima: Fairy Tail vol. 20.
Hiro Mashima: Fairy Tail vol. 21.
Yana Toboso: Black Butler vol. 2.
Yana Toboso: Black Butler vol. 3.
I'm kind of considering investigating the anime version of this. Any thoughts?
Brian Wood: DMZ: M.I.A.
Norihiro Yagi: Claymore vol. 20.
Norihiro Yagi: Claymore vol. 21.
Total number of books and comics read this month: 26
Currently reading: Twilight Robbery by Frances Hardinge and Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Stefan Brink: Lord and Lady - Bryti and Deigja: some historical and etymological aspects of family, patronage and slavery in early Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon England
Well, it sounded relevant to my interests, the title - but not so much. Ah well...
Jasper Fforde: The Woman Who Died A Lot
Iselin C. Hermann: Cirkus Manera
Now here's a book that's trying too much - too much family drama and incest and jealousy and random secret adoptions and... and too little circus. It feels - unbalanced. Like the author wanted too many things - honestly, maybe she could have settled for half as many dramatic bits and then spent some time developing a circus populated with artists you actually cared about instead of mostly stereotype-feeling characters...
Ibn Fadlan's Journey to Russia: A Tenth-Century Traveller From Baghdad to the Volga River
Very interesting. (Also, I am now left with a desire for a future season of Vikings to involve a journey down the rivers to the Middle East, maybe even a visit to Baghdad.)
Lene Kaaberbøl: Det levende kød
Jack Kerouac: On the Road: the Original Scroll
Johannes Lilleøre: Nowhere
John Ajvide Lindqvist: Lilla stjärna
Previously, JAL has written about vampires and zombies in modern Sweden - it takes a while before you realize that this novel is about werewolves. Mostly because they're not, it's not supernatural, except possibly just a bit, but not overt - it's X Factor and crappy childhoods and everything backfiring gloriously, Carrie only without the telekinesis and with nothing as blatant as pig's blood. These girls don't need that. And it's not my favourite of JAL's books, but it's okay.
Litteraturens nätverk: berättande på internet
Svend Åge Madsen: Pigen i cementblanderen
I really should be reading more SÅM, shouldn't? I mean, when I read one of his books, I enjoy it - and I'm beginning to catch connections, a little, even if it was mostly the one to Tugt og utugt i Mellemtiden (which of course refers back to Se dagens lys), and some mentions of the Laveran family. As for the short stories themselves, my favourites were Det her er ikke en fortælling, about a journalism student interning at a smalltown paper and seeing horrible crimes everywhere, and Anica & Sophus, a cross-time correspondance story with the twist that time does not pass at the same pace for both partners, so poor Sophus has to wait longer and longer between the missives from his strange future friend, who is busily working on her paper on string theory...
Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen: The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch
I admit I kept up better in the evolution than the string theory chapters. Also, I find myself growing to - well, not like Rincewind (sorry, but the guy was never a favourite of mine) - but like him more as an integrated part of the UU wizards (and one of the more sensible ones) than as a hapless guy spending most of his time running away from stuff trying to eat/kill/dismember/defenestrate/hurt him.
J.D. Robb: Rapture In Death
Comics
Misuzu Asaoka: Glass Wings
Catel & Bocquet: Kiki de Montparnasse
Terry Dodson: Songes
When did Coraline become a common name in fiction? I can't remember seeing it before reading Gaiman's book, but now it crops up from time to time, but I can't tell if I just hadn't read the right books before reading Coraline?
Ian Edginton: Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies
So, I must admit, my favourite part of this is how Mrs. Hudson reacts in the face of the zombie apocalypse. Unfortunately, the story itself - well, it never actually made it seems as if it mattered particularly that it was Sherlock that was fighting the zombies - the British government already had anti-zombie tanks, for crying out loud!
Warren Ellis: Freakangels vol. 1.
Brandon Graham: Prophet: Remission
Knud V. Larsen: Dr. Albert Merlings samlede bedrifter bind 3.
Hiro Mashima: Fairy Tail vol. 20.
Hiro Mashima: Fairy Tail vol. 21.
Yana Toboso: Black Butler vol. 2.
Yana Toboso: Black Butler vol. 3.
I'm kind of considering investigating the anime version of this. Any thoughts?
Brian Wood: DMZ: M.I.A.
Norihiro Yagi: Claymore vol. 20.
Norihiro Yagi: Claymore vol. 21.
Total number of books and comics read this month: 26
Currently reading: Twilight Robbery by Frances Hardinge and Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
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I am very entertained by Amelia Peabody - though in recent years also more annoyed than I used to be.
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