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Books
Ben Aaronovitch: Foxglove Summer
It's still not quite the urban fantasy law enforcement novel I dream of (mostly because that one would have involved a completely clueless police having to actually deal with suddenly appearing supernatural world), but it's still good. Wait - next novel isn't until next year? I take it back, it sucks.
Blue Rose: The Roleplaying Game of Romantic Fantasy
Jakob Brodersen: Jeg gjorde danerne frie
You know, the cover of this book wound up on one of those tumblrs mocking crappy book covers - which it deserves, really, it's not a very good cover. The book itself is okay, though - an alternate history Denmark, where the vikings were never converted to Christianity (the Jelling Stone proudly proclaims that Harald "Made the Danes Free") and now we're in the present, which is actually pretty much like ours, except for the occasional bloody animal sacrifices, random public orgies at political conventions, and that the strange, dangerous foreign religion the more shrill conservatives argue against is Christianity. And then somebody finds an extra Jelling stone, the one we have in our world, and suddenly it no longer seems so natural that Denmark did not become Christian way back when - leading to shriller politicians, of course, and Icelandic terrorists planning to blow stuff up...
Jung Chang: Empress Dowager Cixi
Bernard Cornwell: The Pale Horseman
Still looking forward to the tv show. We might even finally get ship-to-ship fighting at some point!
Jeremy Crawford: World of Aldea
Kvindestudier 6. - Kvindens naturer
On one hand it's interesting to read feminist writing as old as myself. On the other hand I regularly find myself wanting to hit the feminists. Like every time I see the word asexual used to describe an artificial, negative stereotype of women created by the patriarchy (yes, I know, time and place and meanings change - it's still annoying).
Steen Langstrup: Amerikansk olie
Moira J. Moore: Heroes Return
Moira J. Moore: Heroes at Odds
Okay, nobody can accuse these of being high literature - and to be honest, the forced marriage plot bit in "at Odds" squicks me - apparently, one suitor can challenge the other to a contest for a person's hand, and that person then has to marry the winner, whether she wants to or not, legally. Mind you, it's hard to tell whether Dunleavy would have been forced, if the unwanted bethrothed-since-childhood-except-local-legal-matters had actually won, instead of her actual love interest. Anyway. And apparently the next book in the series has only been published as an e-book, which makes me wonder. Well. At least it's just one dollar on Amazon. I might get around to it.
Jon Stewart: Earth (the Book) - A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
Comics
Brian Michael Bendis: The Mighty Avengers: The Ultron Initiative
Does anybody even care about Sentry? I never see references to him online, no lists of characters you want in the MCU feature him, he's nowhere. Mind you, he's dull - Superman copy/comic book nerds wet power dream with "dark secrets". Boring.
Patrick Cothias: Les 7 vies des L'epervier: Quinze ans après
Not as good as I had hoped, but now I really want to go back and read the two first series.
Jaime Hernandez: The Love Bunglers
I really should sit down and figure out which of these comics I haven't read.
Chris Miskiewicz: Thomas Alsop vol. 1.
Tim Seeley: Revival: You're Among Friends
It's not that this is bad - in fact, it's perfectly entertaining, it's just - well, it's not the amazing reinvention of zombie tales that the foreword likes to pretend. It falls squarely within an established subgenre with stuff like Les Revenants and The Returned.
Mikkel Sommer: Burn Out
J. Michael Straczynski: Superman: Earth One 1.
Total number of books and comics read this month: 18
Currently reading: Tyven by Ulrik Langen and The Corn King and the Spring Queen by Naomi Mitchison
Total number of books and comics read this year: 136
Ben Aaronovitch: Foxglove Summer
It's still not quite the urban fantasy law enforcement novel I dream of (mostly because that one would have involved a completely clueless police having to actually deal with suddenly appearing supernatural world), but it's still good. Wait - next novel isn't until next year? I take it back, it sucks.
Blue Rose: The Roleplaying Game of Romantic Fantasy
Jakob Brodersen: Jeg gjorde danerne frie
You know, the cover of this book wound up on one of those tumblrs mocking crappy book covers - which it deserves, really, it's not a very good cover. The book itself is okay, though - an alternate history Denmark, where the vikings were never converted to Christianity (the Jelling Stone proudly proclaims that Harald "Made the Danes Free") and now we're in the present, which is actually pretty much like ours, except for the occasional bloody animal sacrifices, random public orgies at political conventions, and that the strange, dangerous foreign religion the more shrill conservatives argue against is Christianity. And then somebody finds an extra Jelling stone, the one we have in our world, and suddenly it no longer seems so natural that Denmark did not become Christian way back when - leading to shriller politicians, of course, and Icelandic terrorists planning to blow stuff up...
Jung Chang: Empress Dowager Cixi
Bernard Cornwell: The Pale Horseman
Still looking forward to the tv show. We might even finally get ship-to-ship fighting at some point!
Jeremy Crawford: World of Aldea
Kvindestudier 6. - Kvindens naturer
On one hand it's interesting to read feminist writing as old as myself. On the other hand I regularly find myself wanting to hit the feminists. Like every time I see the word asexual used to describe an artificial, negative stereotype of women created by the patriarchy (yes, I know, time and place and meanings change - it's still annoying).
Steen Langstrup: Amerikansk olie
Moira J. Moore: Heroes Return
Moira J. Moore: Heroes at Odds
Okay, nobody can accuse these of being high literature - and to be honest, the forced marriage plot bit in "at Odds" squicks me - apparently, one suitor can challenge the other to a contest for a person's hand, and that person then has to marry the winner, whether she wants to or not, legally. Mind you, it's hard to tell whether Dunleavy would have been forced, if the unwanted bethrothed-since-childhood-except-local-legal-matters had actually won, instead of her actual love interest. Anyway. And apparently the next book in the series has only been published as an e-book, which makes me wonder. Well. At least it's just one dollar on Amazon. I might get around to it.
Jon Stewart: Earth (the Book) - A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
Comics
Brian Michael Bendis: The Mighty Avengers: The Ultron Initiative
Does anybody even care about Sentry? I never see references to him online, no lists of characters you want in the MCU feature him, he's nowhere. Mind you, he's dull - Superman copy/comic book nerds wet power dream with "dark secrets". Boring.
Patrick Cothias: Les 7 vies des L'epervier: Quinze ans après
Not as good as I had hoped, but now I really want to go back and read the two first series.
Jaime Hernandez: The Love Bunglers
I really should sit down and figure out which of these comics I haven't read.
Chris Miskiewicz: Thomas Alsop vol. 1.
Tim Seeley: Revival: You're Among Friends
It's not that this is bad - in fact, it's perfectly entertaining, it's just - well, it's not the amazing reinvention of zombie tales that the foreword likes to pretend. It falls squarely within an established subgenre with stuff like Les Revenants and The Returned.
Mikkel Sommer: Burn Out
J. Michael Straczynski: Superman: Earth One 1.
Total number of books and comics read this month: 18
Currently reading: Tyven by Ulrik Langen and The Corn King and the Spring Queen by Naomi Mitchison
Total number of books and comics read this year: 136
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