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Books
Ben Aaronovitch: Broken Homes
Asexuality and Sexual Normativity: an Anthology
I have to say, this was a bit too technical and a bit too dry for me.
Marie Brennan: A Natural History of Dragons
You know, I rather like how this story's protagonist doesn't initially defy convention or rebel - I like that she works within the system set out for her, finds a husband with common interests, and then together they go off dragon studying. I wouldn't like it in every story, but it works for this one. Pity the husband got fridged, though - oh well...
Drifter: 13 mørke erotiske noveller
About what I had come to expect. Thirteen stories of dark erotica - all leaning strongly to the horror side. Seven involves female predators of various sorts, two male predators (who interestingly enough has a bad ending, unlike the females of the species, who all get away with eating/raping/killing their victims), one that has a sort of combination of male and female predators (no, seriously, this anthology could have used a bit more variety - that's ten out of thirteen stories involving either rapists or things eating people during sex. Also, a story with a couple having an accident involving the use of recreational drugs during sex, one involving a dead soldier getting tortured and raped in hell, and a rather weird story about a mother getting haunted by her child - I think. Anyway, two stories deviate from the standard straight formula - the soldier getting raped in hell one (though the main narrative in that one is the soldier and his wife and how he died and was damned, so still pretty straight) and one of the female predators, a woman who develops a sexual obsession with frail, little old ladies or more specifically their skeletons. Anyway, moving on, already wasted too much time here - some of the stories are fine, none of them are that awesome - or maybe I'm simply not the right audience for this specific anthology.
Jan Fouchard, Bent Hansen & Henning Mikkelsen: Bøssepesten: historien om aids-bekæmpelsen blandt bøsser i Danmark 1981-1996
Jonas Gardell: Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar 1. Kärleken
Jonas Gardell: Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar 2. Sykdomen
More gimme more gimme more. Oh, and it's a mini-series too! Good good. But first the third book.
Jonas Gardell: Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar 3. Dödan
And that was the third. Ouch.
Peter Høeg: Effekten af Susan
Martin Jensen: En bondes ord
Warner of Rouen: Moriuht
So, I wonder how many medieval poems start off with the hero getting gangbanged by vikings?
Rainbow Rowell: Fangirl
It's quite good. As far as a tale of the fan as a young female, I think I prefer Jo Walton's Among Others, but still - it's quite good. And apparently RR is going to publish Cath's epic Simon/Baz fanfic. Hmmm. This is getting a tad meta, isn't it?
Comics
Darwyn Cooke & Amanda Connor: Before Watchmen: Minutemen / Silk Spectre
You know, I enjoyed this a lot more than the first two Before Watchmen collections I read - probably because, unlike those two, this one actually tells a story you couldn't already read between the lines in the original Watchmen.
Brian K. Vaughan: Runaways vol. 2.
Bill Willingham: Fables: Snow White
No! Bigby!
Total number of books and comics read this month: 15
Currently reading: Tessa Gratton's The Lost Sun and Kim Newman's The Bloody Red Baron
Total number of books and comics read this year: 209
Ben Aaronovitch: Broken Homes
Asexuality and Sexual Normativity: an Anthology
I have to say, this was a bit too technical and a bit too dry for me.
Marie Brennan: A Natural History of Dragons
You know, I rather like how this story's protagonist doesn't initially defy convention or rebel - I like that she works within the system set out for her, finds a husband with common interests, and then together they go off dragon studying. I wouldn't like it in every story, but it works for this one. Pity the husband got fridged, though - oh well...
Drifter: 13 mørke erotiske noveller
About what I had come to expect. Thirteen stories of dark erotica - all leaning strongly to the horror side. Seven involves female predators of various sorts, two male predators (who interestingly enough has a bad ending, unlike the females of the species, who all get away with eating/raping/killing their victims), one that has a sort of combination of male and female predators (no, seriously, this anthology could have used a bit more variety - that's ten out of thirteen stories involving either rapists or things eating people during sex. Also, a story with a couple having an accident involving the use of recreational drugs during sex, one involving a dead soldier getting tortured and raped in hell, and a rather weird story about a mother getting haunted by her child - I think. Anyway, two stories deviate from the standard straight formula - the soldier getting raped in hell one (though the main narrative in that one is the soldier and his wife and how he died and was damned, so still pretty straight) and one of the female predators, a woman who develops a sexual obsession with frail, little old ladies or more specifically their skeletons. Anyway, moving on, already wasted too much time here - some of the stories are fine, none of them are that awesome - or maybe I'm simply not the right audience for this specific anthology.
Jan Fouchard, Bent Hansen & Henning Mikkelsen: Bøssepesten: historien om aids-bekæmpelsen blandt bøsser i Danmark 1981-1996
Jonas Gardell: Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar 1. Kärleken
Jonas Gardell: Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar 2. Sykdomen
More gimme more gimme more. Oh, and it's a mini-series too! Good good. But first the third book.
Jonas Gardell: Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar 3. Dödan
And that was the third. Ouch.
Peter Høeg: Effekten af Susan
Martin Jensen: En bondes ord
Warner of Rouen: Moriuht
So, I wonder how many medieval poems start off with the hero getting gangbanged by vikings?
Rainbow Rowell: Fangirl
It's quite good. As far as a tale of the fan as a young female, I think I prefer Jo Walton's Among Others, but still - it's quite good. And apparently RR is going to publish Cath's epic Simon/Baz fanfic. Hmmm. This is getting a tad meta, isn't it?
Comics
Darwyn Cooke & Amanda Connor: Before Watchmen: Minutemen / Silk Spectre
You know, I enjoyed this a lot more than the first two Before Watchmen collections I read - probably because, unlike those two, this one actually tells a story you couldn't already read between the lines in the original Watchmen.
Brian K. Vaughan: Runaways vol. 2.
Bill Willingham: Fables: Snow White
No! Bigby!
Total number of books and comics read this month: 15
Currently reading: Tessa Gratton's The Lost Sun and Kim Newman's The Bloody Red Baron
Total number of books and comics read this year: 209
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