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Books
Paul Auster: Report from the Interior
Italo Calvino: Our Ancestors
Entertaining. Well, until the very last pages of "The Nonexistent Knight", where the Lady Knight Bradamante decided to take up with her rapist... but apart from that, three very entertaining, if occasionally a bit too absurd stories.
Julie Sondra Decker: The Invisible Orientation: an Introduction to Asexuality
Well, it's not like there was a lot of new stuff in it, but at this point that doesn't surprise me.
Palle Eriksen & Niels H. Andersen: Stendysser - arkitektur og funktion
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Buried Giant
Now, see - this is good fantasy. Quiet and contemplative and it's got dragons and knights (well, one of each) and ogres and it basically goes its own way entirely.
Wendy Lower: Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
Kim Newman: The Bloody Red Baron
Thing is, I enjoyed the extra novella, "Vampire Romance", more - being a take that against all the romantic vampire literature, set in a world were vampires are real and definitely upper class, sort of Agatha Christie-style murder-at-a-party with added school girl adventures. It was fun.
Ebbe Preisler: Happy end - et essay om ugeblade, kiosklitteratur og en familie i branchen
Palle Schantz Lauridsen: Sherlock Holmes i Danmark
Leonora Christina Skov: Hvor intet bryder vinden
I can't quite make my mind up about this book. It's well written, it's tangled, it's composed of nothing but unreliable narrators (or at least unrealiable tight 3rd person POV thingies) and I like that. Even if it's annoying that at the end, when you finally think you've got the puzzle piecees, you get an extra thrown in, with a topsy-turvy interpretation, except that is even more unrealible and frankly, says more about the narrator of that POV than the story, and... Yeah. I'm vaguely annoyed. It's no Silhuet af en synder, alas, but I guess I'll keep hoping for the next book.
Comics
Enki Bilal: La Couleur de L'air
Luca Enoch & Stefano Vietti: Dragonero
I wonder if the writers inteded Ian the dragonslayer and Gmor the ork to seem like such an old married couple or if it's just my slashgoggles acting up again...
Kim Harrison: Blood Work
Hajime Isayama: Attack on Titan 5.
Chris Roberson: iZombie: Dead to the World
I haven't read the book that some people are accusing the tv show of ripping off, so I can't judge that - but I can say that this has only one thing in common with the tv show, and that is the effect of eating brains. The rest? Different name, different job, different supporting characters...
Boris Talijancic: Hammerfall: Le gardien d'Elivagar
Boris Talijancic: Hamemrfall: Ceux qui Savent
Craig Thompson: Habibi
Brian K. Vaughan: Saga vol. 4.
Nikoline Werdelin: Homo metropolis 2013-2014
Total number of books and comics read this month: 20
Currently reading: Marian og Robin by Minna B. Winsløw and En europæisk danmarkshistorie - fra oldtiden til i dag by Lars Hovbakke Sørensen
Total number of books and comics read this year: 59
Paul Auster: Report from the Interior
Italo Calvino: Our Ancestors
Entertaining. Well, until the very last pages of "The Nonexistent Knight", where the Lady Knight Bradamante decided to take up with her rapist... but apart from that, three very entertaining, if occasionally a bit too absurd stories.
Julie Sondra Decker: The Invisible Orientation: an Introduction to Asexuality
Well, it's not like there was a lot of new stuff in it, but at this point that doesn't surprise me.
Palle Eriksen & Niels H. Andersen: Stendysser - arkitektur og funktion
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Buried Giant
Now, see - this is good fantasy. Quiet and contemplative and it's got dragons and knights (well, one of each) and ogres and it basically goes its own way entirely.
Wendy Lower: Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
Kim Newman: The Bloody Red Baron
Thing is, I enjoyed the extra novella, "Vampire Romance", more - being a take that against all the romantic vampire literature, set in a world were vampires are real and definitely upper class, sort of Agatha Christie-style murder-at-a-party with added school girl adventures. It was fun.
Ebbe Preisler: Happy end - et essay om ugeblade, kiosklitteratur og en familie i branchen
Palle Schantz Lauridsen: Sherlock Holmes i Danmark
Leonora Christina Skov: Hvor intet bryder vinden
I can't quite make my mind up about this book. It's well written, it's tangled, it's composed of nothing but unreliable narrators (or at least unrealiable tight 3rd person POV thingies) and I like that. Even if it's annoying that at the end, when you finally think you've got the puzzle piecees, you get an extra thrown in, with a topsy-turvy interpretation, except that is even more unrealible and frankly, says more about the narrator of that POV than the story, and... Yeah. I'm vaguely annoyed. It's no Silhuet af en synder, alas, but I guess I'll keep hoping for the next book.
Comics
Enki Bilal: La Couleur de L'air
Luca Enoch & Stefano Vietti: Dragonero
I wonder if the writers inteded Ian the dragonslayer and Gmor the ork to seem like such an old married couple or if it's just my slashgoggles acting up again...
Kim Harrison: Blood Work
Hajime Isayama: Attack on Titan 5.
Chris Roberson: iZombie: Dead to the World
I haven't read the book that some people are accusing the tv show of ripping off, so I can't judge that - but I can say that this has only one thing in common with the tv show, and that is the effect of eating brains. The rest? Different name, different job, different supporting characters...
Boris Talijancic: Hammerfall: Le gardien d'Elivagar
Boris Talijancic: Hamemrfall: Ceux qui Savent
Craig Thompson: Habibi
Brian K. Vaughan: Saga vol. 4.
Nikoline Werdelin: Homo metropolis 2013-2014
Total number of books and comics read this month: 20
Currently reading: Marian og Robin by Minna B. Winsløw and En europæisk danmarkshistorie - fra oldtiden til i dag by Lars Hovbakke Sørensen
Total number of books and comics read this year: 59
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