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Books
Aischylos: Syv mod Theben
Katarina Bivald: Läsarna i Broken Wheel rekommenderar
For a book that's so happy to make book recs (some better than others) I was kinda disappointed in the lack of specific titles for the gay erotic books. Just saying...
Jorge Luis Borges: The Book of Imaginary Beings
So, I mostly finally read this because I wanted to read the original Peryton text. Actually, I suspect whoever wrote the original monster manual for D&D must have been a Borges fan. Also, I suspect Laurell K. Hamilton of having read this - at least, The Tigers of Annam would explan her technicolour weretigers - not that I kept reading her series long enough to see them introduced, but fannish osmosis and all that.
Marc Drogin: Anathema! Medieval Scribes and the History of Book Curses
A bit short and I would have liked more book curses, but it's a very interesting little book - also, it contains interesting tidbits, like St. Columba's quite literal battle against copyright. And then it has a part about the value of a medieval book - one example being a nun who copied a book and then traded the copy for a farm - and that was in the cheaper end. No, seriously, books were valuable enough that 2 was enough for it to be considered a library. Which puts a somewhat different perspective on Athelstan saving the book at Lindisfarne - "out of all the treasures I see here" - Ragnar, that bloody book was probably worth more than that silly silver candlestick you shied away from lifting moments before!
Glen Duncan: By Blood We Live
Can I just rec this trilogy? It's a very, very good take on modern werewolves (vampires too, but mostly werewolves) and it's fascinating and bloody and monstrous.
The Fan Fiction Studies Reader
This is interesting. I mean, I'd read about half the text before, but most of them several years ago, so even rereading was interesting.
Kristian Hvidt: De om os: 39 fremmede ser på Danmark fra år 845 til 2001
Martin Jensen: Edbryder
Not as good as the first, but the writing's still pretty solid.
Thit Jensen: Den sidste valkyrie
This is a very entertaining book - admittedly, I suspect it's not anything remotely historically correct, which is to say I'm pretty sure it's the opposite. And I could have lived without the villain bringing a horde of hazelnut brown naked savages with an occasional penchant for cannibalism home with him from the south, but fortunately it's a minor element and fortunately, the book is full of awesome women characters - from warrior women to the early Christian converts. But historically correct? I doubt it, but then, who am I to argue with Thit Jensen's sources?
Scott Lynch: The Republic of Thieves
Mads Peder Nordbo: Thuleselskabet
I don't really know why I chose to read this book. It's not like I was that impressed by the first one. Still, I read it - it's. Well. Between the questionable anthropology, the main character being a descendant of Odin-who-was-really-Jesus-or-was-that-the-other-way-round, and the bit where apparently aliens? Yeah, I give up.
Aaron Schwabach: Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection
Charles Stross: The Fuller Memorandum
Comics
Brian Azzarello: Before Watchmen: Comedian / Rorschach
Brian Michael Bendis: All-New X-Men: Here To Stay
One thing I like about this series is that I as reader can easily put myself in the baby!X-mens position, since I haven't been keeping up with the Marvel verse for years, just reading bits and pieces here and there (last time I tried tracking some of the main events, I got about as far as Siege) - so I'm just as puzzled as them. I mean, seriously, since when does Angel heal people?
Chris Claremont: X-men: fra asken
Warren Ellis: Ruins
Well, that was a depressing read - though an interesting counterpoint to Marvels, that's for sure.
Michael Hirst: Vikings: Blood Legacy
Mike Mignola: Hellboy: The Wild Hunt
Mike Mignola: Hellboy: The Crooked Man and others
Hinako Takanaga: Awkward Silence 2.
Hinako Takanaga: Awkward Silence 3.
Rikke Villadsen: Et knald til
Total number of books and comics read this month: 23
Currently reading: Solution Three by Naomi Mitchison and Verden i Vikingetiden
Aischylos: Syv mod Theben
Katarina Bivald: Läsarna i Broken Wheel rekommenderar
For a book that's so happy to make book recs (some better than others) I was kinda disappointed in the lack of specific titles for the gay erotic books. Just saying...
Jorge Luis Borges: The Book of Imaginary Beings
So, I mostly finally read this because I wanted to read the original Peryton text. Actually, I suspect whoever wrote the original monster manual for D&D must have been a Borges fan. Also, I suspect Laurell K. Hamilton of having read this - at least, The Tigers of Annam would explan her technicolour weretigers - not that I kept reading her series long enough to see them introduced, but fannish osmosis and all that.
Marc Drogin: Anathema! Medieval Scribes and the History of Book Curses
A bit short and I would have liked more book curses, but it's a very interesting little book - also, it contains interesting tidbits, like St. Columba's quite literal battle against copyright. And then it has a part about the value of a medieval book - one example being a nun who copied a book and then traded the copy for a farm - and that was in the cheaper end. No, seriously, books were valuable enough that 2 was enough for it to be considered a library. Which puts a somewhat different perspective on Athelstan saving the book at Lindisfarne - "out of all the treasures I see here" - Ragnar, that bloody book was probably worth more than that silly silver candlestick you shied away from lifting moments before!
Glen Duncan: By Blood We Live
Can I just rec this trilogy? It's a very, very good take on modern werewolves (vampires too, but mostly werewolves) and it's fascinating and bloody and monstrous.
The Fan Fiction Studies Reader
This is interesting. I mean, I'd read about half the text before, but most of them several years ago, so even rereading was interesting.
Kristian Hvidt: De om os: 39 fremmede ser på Danmark fra år 845 til 2001
Martin Jensen: Edbryder
Not as good as the first, but the writing's still pretty solid.
Thit Jensen: Den sidste valkyrie
This is a very entertaining book - admittedly, I suspect it's not anything remotely historically correct, which is to say I'm pretty sure it's the opposite. And I could have lived without the villain bringing a horde of hazelnut brown naked savages with an occasional penchant for cannibalism home with him from the south, but fortunately it's a minor element and fortunately, the book is full of awesome women characters - from warrior women to the early Christian converts. But historically correct? I doubt it, but then, who am I to argue with Thit Jensen's sources?
Scott Lynch: The Republic of Thieves
Mads Peder Nordbo: Thuleselskabet
I don't really know why I chose to read this book. It's not like I was that impressed by the first one. Still, I read it - it's. Well. Between the questionable anthropology, the main character being a descendant of Odin-who-was-really-Jesus-or-was-that-the-other-way-round, and the bit where apparently aliens? Yeah, I give up.
Aaron Schwabach: Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection
Charles Stross: The Fuller Memorandum
Comics
Brian Azzarello: Before Watchmen: Comedian / Rorschach
Brian Michael Bendis: All-New X-Men: Here To Stay
One thing I like about this series is that I as reader can easily put myself in the baby!X-mens position, since I haven't been keeping up with the Marvel verse for years, just reading bits and pieces here and there (last time I tried tracking some of the main events, I got about as far as Siege) - so I'm just as puzzled as them. I mean, seriously, since when does Angel heal people?
Chris Claremont: X-men: fra asken
Warren Ellis: Ruins
Well, that was a depressing read - though an interesting counterpoint to Marvels, that's for sure.
Michael Hirst: Vikings: Blood Legacy
Mike Mignola: Hellboy: The Wild Hunt
Mike Mignola: Hellboy: The Crooked Man and others
Hinako Takanaga: Awkward Silence 2.
Hinako Takanaga: Awkward Silence 3.
Rikke Villadsen: Et knald til
Total number of books and comics read this month: 23
Currently reading: Solution Three by Naomi Mitchison and Verden i Vikingetiden
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