Books of October

[oneiriad]

Books

John Boswell: The Marriage of Likeness: Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe
Do you know what annoys me? When somebody says Europe, but what they actually mean is: only the bits that used to be covered by the Roman Empire. That's not Europe, you blithering idiot!

Patricia Briggs: Night Broken

Jon Courtenay Grimwood: The Outcast Blade
I wonder how many Shakespeare plays are mixed into this - so far I count Othello, Hamlet, The Tempest, Merchant of Venice... and I bet I missed some.

Madeline Miller: The Song of Achilleus

Sven Okkels: Indtil Diamanten - en skildring af Det kongelige Bibliotek

Sofia Samatar: A Stranger in Olondria

Charles Stross: The Apocalypse Codex
I would probably have enjoyed this one more if I had been a fan of Bashful Incendiary...

Viking
Step one: go see museum exhibit
Step two: wait a year
Step three: finally read anthology/exhibit catalogue book

Jonas Wilmann: Udkantshistorier

Zosimus: Historia Nova


Comics

Glenn August: Lava
Oh look. The tale of brave explorer-man happening across a mysterious tribe of seemingly lovely, but actually monstrous women. How - boring. How utterly, utterly dull. Didn't they write those stories back in the 19th century? It sounds like something Alan Quatermain might have had to deal with. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Henrik Rehr: Gavrilo Princip - manden, der ændrede et århundrede

Brian K. Vaughan: Runaways vol. 1.

Bill Willingham: Fairest in all the land


Total number of books and comics read this month: 14
Currently reading: Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom and Kim Newman's The Bloody Red Baron

Comments

[luzula]

Sofia Samatar: A Stranger in Olondria

How did you like this one?

[oneiriad]

I liked the setting and I rather liked the characters. The main plot I found somewhat - unsatisfactory. Mostly because it meant exploring different parts of this universe than the ones I'd really have liked to read about. But it is a good book, well worth reading.

[luzula]

Okay! I haven't read it, but it's on my books-to-check-out list.