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Books
Bernard Cornwell: The Lords of the North
I love reading and coming across scenes and thinking "I can't wait to see this in the show". (Ragnar and Uhtred hanging out together at Alfred's court, please. Much Ragnar and Uhtred, oh yes).
Erastes: Mere Mortals
This felt a bit - rushed? Like there could easily have been a slower telling of the storyline, with more clues dropped. And the ending - it could have used just a page or two wrapping up how Crispin and Myles goes from orphans-whose-guardian-just-died-presumably-leaving-them-to-the-tender-mercies-of-whichever-random-stranger-was-Philip's-heir to settled-in-London-adults. But mostly I did quite like it.
Dian Hanson: Tom of Finland XXL
Deborah Harkness: Shadow of Night
Helle Hvenegård-Lassen: Et andet hjem: Kvindelig Læseforenings historie 1872-1962
This was a pretty dry read, but quite interesting. I need a novel set at the turn of the century heavily featuring a woman just randomly frequenting the reading club. While it was still at Amagertorv. And maybe I should walk past the building the club built some day. That said, I felt myself growing very unimpressed with the long-time forewoman Sophie Alberti - yes, she did an impressive piece of work for several decades, but being the forewoman of an organisation, and every time a majority in the organisation threatens to vote through something you don't want (like, say, proper working conditions for the organisation's all-female staff, or hiring an actual educated librarian), you stop it by literally threatening to flounce off if you don't get your way (and it certainly doesn't help my sympathies that the opposition basically wanted the organisation to be run democratically, being a generation younger than the people in charge). And I found myself somewhat curious about the sort-of-leader of the opposition Ellen Branth, book seller and politician for what is now the Conservative party, and I can't figure out if the description going: "Tante Ellen var altid mandfolkeklædt, gik med slips og herrehat. Hun havde et svagt overskæg og røg store cigarer. Frøken Mylle* var hendes lydige slave. Det var ikke noget, vi børn gjorde os særlige tanker om. Sådan var det bare." (*her assistant) and how she died unmarried - well, I can't figure out if I'm reading too much into it.
Steen Langstrup: Spøgelserne på Frilandsmuseet
Remind me to go listen for the horse at Ejdersted Farm the next time I'm at Frilandsmuseet - whenever that might be...
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
I'm not sure what I expected from reading this, but I found that I liked it well enough - and that I am curious enough about how the story originally was to have requested the new one from the library, even though it should have never been published.
Justin Pollard: The World of Vikings
Sjón: Mánasteinn: drengurinn sem aldrei var til
Comics
Jason Aaron: The God Butcher
Jason Aaron: Godbomb
Jason Aaron: The Accursed
Evan Dorkin: Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites
Hiro Mashima: Fairy Tail 23.
Mark Millar: Kingsman: the Secret Service
I occurs to me that I should just accept that the movies based on his comics entertain me far more than the comics themselves and just stop. I mean, the only thing in this better than in the movie was the absence of the Swedish princess. So...
J. Michael Straczynski: Superman: Earth One 2.
Yana Toboso: Black Butler 9.
Yana Toboso: Black Butler 10.
Yana Toboso: Black Butler 11.
Yana Toboso: Black Butler 12.
Mark Waid: Daredevil 3.
Mark Waid: Daredevil 4.
Total number of books and comics read this month: 22
Currently reading: The Dark Defiles by Richard K. Morgan
Total number of books and comics read this year: 176
If I keep it up I might even make it to 200 this year. Won't feel like such a slacker, then...
Bernard Cornwell: The Lords of the North
I love reading and coming across scenes and thinking "I can't wait to see this in the show". (Ragnar and Uhtred hanging out together at Alfred's court, please. Much Ragnar and Uhtred, oh yes).
Erastes: Mere Mortals
This felt a bit - rushed? Like there could easily have been a slower telling of the storyline, with more clues dropped. And the ending - it could have used just a page or two wrapping up how Crispin and Myles goes from orphans-whose-guardian-just-died-presumably-leaving-them-to-the-tender-mercies-of-whichever-random-stranger-was-Philip's-heir to settled-in-London-adults. But mostly I did quite like it.
Dian Hanson: Tom of Finland XXL
Deborah Harkness: Shadow of Night
Helle Hvenegård-Lassen: Et andet hjem: Kvindelig Læseforenings historie 1872-1962
This was a pretty dry read, but quite interesting. I need a novel set at the turn of the century heavily featuring a woman just randomly frequenting the reading club. While it was still at Amagertorv. And maybe I should walk past the building the club built some day. That said, I felt myself growing very unimpressed with the long-time forewoman Sophie Alberti - yes, she did an impressive piece of work for several decades, but being the forewoman of an organisation, and every time a majority in the organisation threatens to vote through something you don't want (like, say, proper working conditions for the organisation's all-female staff, or hiring an actual educated librarian), you stop it by literally threatening to flounce off if you don't get your way (and it certainly doesn't help my sympathies that the opposition basically wanted the organisation to be run democratically, being a generation younger than the people in charge). And I found myself somewhat curious about the sort-of-leader of the opposition Ellen Branth, book seller and politician for what is now the Conservative party, and I can't figure out if the description going: "Tante Ellen var altid mandfolkeklædt, gik med slips og herrehat. Hun havde et svagt overskæg og røg store cigarer. Frøken Mylle* var hendes lydige slave. Det var ikke noget, vi børn gjorde os særlige tanker om. Sådan var det bare." (*her assistant) and how she died unmarried - well, I can't figure out if I'm reading too much into it.
Steen Langstrup: Spøgelserne på Frilandsmuseet
Remind me to go listen for the horse at Ejdersted Farm the next time I'm at Frilandsmuseet - whenever that might be...
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
I'm not sure what I expected from reading this, but I found that I liked it well enough - and that I am curious enough about how the story originally was to have requested the new one from the library, even though it should have never been published.
Justin Pollard: The World of Vikings
Sjón: Mánasteinn: drengurinn sem aldrei var til
Comics
Jason Aaron: The God Butcher
Jason Aaron: Godbomb
Jason Aaron: The Accursed
Evan Dorkin: Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites
Hiro Mashima: Fairy Tail 23.
Mark Millar: Kingsman: the Secret Service
I occurs to me that I should just accept that the movies based on his comics entertain me far more than the comics themselves and just stop. I mean, the only thing in this better than in the movie was the absence of the Swedish princess. So...
J. Michael Straczynski: Superman: Earth One 2.
Yana Toboso: Black Butler 9.
Yana Toboso: Black Butler 10.
Yana Toboso: Black Butler 11.
Yana Toboso: Black Butler 12.
Mark Waid: Daredevil 3.
Mark Waid: Daredevil 4.
Total number of books and comics read this month: 22
Currently reading: The Dark Defiles by Richard K. Morgan
Total number of books and comics read this year: 176
If I keep it up I might even make it to 200 this year. Won't feel like such a slacker, then...