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Books
Ned Beauman: The Teleportation Accident
Peter Edelberg: Storbyen trækker: homoseksualitet, prostitution og pornografi i Danmark 1945-1976
Note to self: watch Bundfald.
Tessa Gratton: The Lost Sun
I can't quite decide if I like this or not. I liked the story and cheerfully OT3 ship Soren/Astrid/Balder. As for the worldbuilding, though - I'm torn. Because part of me wants to just lean back and enjoy this and part of me keeps wondering about all sorts of stuff about how this world came to be? I like many things, others I find interesting (Freya = Hel, for instance), but others feel like the author basically took modern day US and gave it a Norse feel for the hell of it. So I'm torn. (Guess I'll have to read some more to make up my mind.)
Morten Haslund: Brevet fra Pave Nikolaj
Sophus Michaëlis: Himmelskibet
I think I liked the movie better than the book - and not just because I find "it was just a dream" endings very annoying and a sign of a bad writer. That said, I find how this is a utopia, while at the same time it so clearly isn't - that Mars is a lovely place, where people live in harmony and joy and don't even kill plants, let alone one another, but at the same time Mars is a post-apocalyptic society, where the survivors have ruthlessly eradicated any surviving nature in favour of heavily bioengineered world of useful plants while at the same time applying a similarly ruthless eugenics program to their own species...
That said, I find some of the bits quite interesting - or maybe odd - to read. Like how the wise priests are all intersex individuals and apparently asexual as a consequence. Oh, and there a few gems - like "Mandbarhedens Park".
Francine Prose: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
I can't quite make up my mind about this book. On one hand, it's a good story, and I like the whole rashomon/not-quite-epistolary fiction approach. On the other hand, it annoys me that Lou is the only one not actually getting a voice in her own story, and that - for a story mostly set in bohemian Paris in the 30s and 40s - that the ones who do have voices aren't, well, that bohemian. Or LGBT. But I did like Lou - the lesbian butch race driver who ends up so fucked up by how society and everybody treats her that she ends up in the warm, welcoming embrace of the Gestapo. Which is a problematic tale all on its own. So, as I said, I can't quite make up my mind about this book.
Comics
Not a one. Weird.
Total number of books and comics read this month: 6
Currently reading: Islændingesagaerne vol. 1., Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World by Anne Jamison - oh, and way too many bagginshield fanfics.
Total number of books and comics read this year: 6
Ned Beauman: The Teleportation Accident
Peter Edelberg: Storbyen trækker: homoseksualitet, prostitution og pornografi i Danmark 1945-1976
Note to self: watch Bundfald.
Tessa Gratton: The Lost Sun
I can't quite decide if I like this or not. I liked the story and cheerfully OT3 ship Soren/Astrid/Balder. As for the worldbuilding, though - I'm torn. Because part of me wants to just lean back and enjoy this and part of me keeps wondering about all sorts of stuff about how this world came to be? I like many things, others I find interesting (Freya = Hel, for instance), but others feel like the author basically took modern day US and gave it a Norse feel for the hell of it. So I'm torn. (Guess I'll have to read some more to make up my mind.)
Morten Haslund: Brevet fra Pave Nikolaj
Sophus Michaëlis: Himmelskibet
I think I liked the movie better than the book - and not just because I find "it was just a dream" endings very annoying and a sign of a bad writer. That said, I find how this is a utopia, while at the same time it so clearly isn't - that Mars is a lovely place, where people live in harmony and joy and don't even kill plants, let alone one another, but at the same time Mars is a post-apocalyptic society, where the survivors have ruthlessly eradicated any surviving nature in favour of heavily bioengineered world of useful plants while at the same time applying a similarly ruthless eugenics program to their own species...
That said, I find some of the bits quite interesting - or maybe odd - to read. Like how the wise priests are all intersex individuals and apparently asexual as a consequence. Oh, and there a few gems - like "Mandbarhedens Park".
Francine Prose: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
I can't quite make up my mind about this book. On one hand, it's a good story, and I like the whole rashomon/not-quite-epistolary fiction approach. On the other hand, it annoys me that Lou is the only one not actually getting a voice in her own story, and that - for a story mostly set in bohemian Paris in the 30s and 40s - that the ones who do have voices aren't, well, that bohemian. Or LGBT. But I did like Lou - the lesbian butch race driver who ends up so fucked up by how society and everybody treats her that she ends up in the warm, welcoming embrace of the Gestapo. Which is a problematic tale all on its own. So, as I said, I can't quite make up my mind about this book.
Comics
Not a one. Weird.
Total number of books and comics read this month: 6
Currently reading: Islændingesagaerne vol. 1., Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World by Anne Jamison - oh, and way too many bagginshield fanfics.
Total number of books and comics read this year: 6
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