Books of August

[oneiriad]

Books

Ben Aaronovitch: Whispers Under Ground

Robert W. Chambers: The King in Yellow
I was actually a bit disappointed in this - probably because I had seen it referred to in so many places, so I expected more. I mean, yeah, some of the stories were creepy, but not extraordinarily so, and the writing was just fine, and then there was a surprising amount of stories about young painters in fin-de-siecle Paris...

Peter Freuchen: Diamantdronningen

Thit Jensen: Rigets arving 2.

Klaus Kjølsen: Hendes Majestæt Dronnings Håndbibliotek 1746-1996
It's kinda funny, reading about a recently completed modernisation - from about 20 years ago. All that fancy modern technology. :-)

Kvindestudier 3.: Kvindeopfattelse

Naomi Mitchison: Solution Three
I don't liked this as much as the two first NM books I read - it's well written, it has interesting characters, but - well, I think utopic stories from the 70s are really not my thing. Mind you, it's definitely a problematic utopia and intended as such - most of the characters are misfits in one way or another, not happy in this new, happy, different world. They don't fit. Anyway - to pick the next NM, am I in the mood for more science fiction, fantasy or historical fiction? Decisions, decisions...

Michelle Sagara: Cast in Sorrow

Stefan Spjut: Stallo

Jeanette Varberg: Fortidens slagmarker - krig og konflikt fra stenalder til vikingetid
So, in conclusion: not only was the distant past a foreign country, it was a bloody and violent one?

Verden i vikingetiden
Maybe I should go see the exhibit? Certainly the book is interesting - describing how Europe, the Middle East, North and East Africa and the Far East were all tied together by maritime trading networks in the 8th and 9th century. That's kinda cool.


Comics

Brian Michael Bendis: All-New X-Men: Out of their Depth
Excuse me while I really, really do not like this Jean Grey...

Brian Michael Bendis: Uncanny X-Men: Revolution
Everything is just spectacularly fucked up in Marvel's comicverse these days, isn't it?

Tony Cliff: Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant

Hajime Isayama: Attack on Titan vol. 1.

Robert Kirkman: The Walking Dead: All Out War part one

Mike Mignola: Hellboy: The Bride of Hell and others
Mike Mignola: Hellboy: House of the Living Dead

Océanerosemarie: La Lesbienne Invisible

Mark Siegel: Sailor Twain

Jim Starlin: The Infinity Gauntlet
I'm still not convinced that Warlock fellow is a good guy...

Hinako Takanaga: Awkward Silence vol. 4.

Mary M. Talbot: Sally Heathcote, Suffragette

Brian K. Vaughan: Wolverine: Logan


Total number of books and comics read this month: 24
Currently reading: None right now.

Comments

[luzula]

Mary M. Talbot: Sally Heathcote, Suffragette

Oh hey, that one's on my to-read list. Did you like it?

[oneiriad]

I liked it. It's interesting, especially how if focuses on the internal politics of the British suffragette movement, and showing a young woman going from somewhat interested in the cause to being a - well, if this was today, she might well have been labelled a terrorist of sorts.