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Books
Svetlana Alexievich: Voices from Chernobyl: the oral history of a nuclear disaster
Considering the subtitle, I'm pretty sure Max Brooks must have read this one. Of course, he has the advantage of fiction to let him make stuff obvious and hammer you over the head with it - this is a more quiet horror. People living in the shadow of Chernobyl still, refugees from various wars going to the Zone because where else should they go, authorities doing nothing or doing the wrong thing and people dying, then and later. And there's the continuing theme of normal people, the people living around Chernobyl and the soldiers sent for the clean-up, of the normal people having absolutely no idea what they were dealing with, of fundamentally not understanding it. Now that's a horror story. Except, of course, it's not. It's a tragedy.
Hans Christian Andersen: En Digters Bazar
So, I'd never actually sat down and read something not-a-fairytale by good old HC before, so this was an interesting experience. And while I'll agree that it's a bloody long book, then I find the description of what is basically a tourist trip fascinating and beautiful - and sometimes jarring, when you are reminded that the past is a different country, and you read HC waxing poetic about the women slave market in Constantinople or randomly describing a cat-piano as good, clean fun for the whole family at carnival.
Arthur Arnheim: Truet minoritet søger beskyttelse: jødernes historie i Danmark
Interesting book, though I wish it might have had more details about the earliest centuries. Also, the author's own political opinions are pretty obvious, especially once we get into the 20th century.
J.G. Ballard: High-rise
Someone should have mentioned the cannibalistic housewives tribe sooner. (Any chance J.K. Rowling might have been top-secretly prevailed upon to play their leader? Probably not, we would have heard by now...)
Jørgen Duus: Fantastiske opfindelser - til lands, til vands og i luften...
Jørgen Duus: Fantastiske opfindelser - i by og på land...
Jørgen Duus: Fantastiske opfindelser - til ham og hende
Jan Guillou: Blå stjârnan
Well, it's no Code Name Verity, but I do like the story of Johanne and her involvement with the Norwegian resistance and her continual fight to get respect from her male coworkers.
Gareth Hanrahan, Jason Durall & John Snead: The Laundry
Thit Jensen: Prins Nilaus af Danmark
I'm sorry to say I didn't like this. Thit Jensen has some nice descriptions here, especially the tapestries with heathen motives (especially Nidhughr) - but the plot is a bit dull and frankly, I disliked each and every character here.
Platon: Samlede værker i ny oversættelse 6.
Which is actually not stuff by Plato, but stuff that used to be claimed to be by Plato. Except possibly one of the letters. And apparently I missed book 5 somewhere along the way (on account of my local library having not bought it, apparently).
Simon Stålenhag: Ur varselklotet
Can I just recommend this? It's lovely - gorgeous paintings of an 80's Sweden that went a somewhat different way, so it's full of robots and floating machines and the occasional dinosaur, and all told through the eyes of grown man looking back on his childhood, so there's the nostalgia and the "this is just how things are" that a child's POV can give. And it's gorgeous.
Comics
Jason Aaron: Thor: The Goddess of Thunder
Jason Aaron: Thor: Who Holds The Hammer?
Kelly Sue DeConnick: Captain Marvel: Higher, Further, Faster, More
Gerry Duggan: Deadpool: Dead Presidents
Jerry Frissen: World War X: Hélius
Kieron Gillen: Angela - Asgard's Assassin: Priceless
Marvel's Asgardians are just getting weirder and weirder, aren't they?
Jeff Lemire: Trillium
Todd McFarlane: Spawn origins collection 1.
I would have liked this better ten years ago. Or maybe 15...
Yana Toboso: Black Butler 13.
Yana Toboso: Black Butler 14.
Mark Waid: Daredevil 6.
Kurtis J. Wiebe: Rat Queens: Sass and Sorcery
Bill Willingham: Fables: Happily Ever After
Bill Willingham: Fables: Farewell
It always makes me sad to reach the end of a series, especially one I've liked as much as I've liked this - and I've literally been reading Fables for a decade now. :-(
G. Willow Wilson: Ms Marvel: Generation Why
Total number of books and comics read this month: 27
Currently reading: Mark Waid's Daredevil 7., Allatta! 2040 and War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich.
Total number of books and comics read this year: 27
Well, the year starts well - I mostly blame an embarrassing number of comics.
Svetlana Alexievich: Voices from Chernobyl: the oral history of a nuclear disaster
Considering the subtitle, I'm pretty sure Max Brooks must have read this one. Of course, he has the advantage of fiction to let him make stuff obvious and hammer you over the head with it - this is a more quiet horror. People living in the shadow of Chernobyl still, refugees from various wars going to the Zone because where else should they go, authorities doing nothing or doing the wrong thing and people dying, then and later. And there's the continuing theme of normal people, the people living around Chernobyl and the soldiers sent for the clean-up, of the normal people having absolutely no idea what they were dealing with, of fundamentally not understanding it. Now that's a horror story. Except, of course, it's not. It's a tragedy.
Hans Christian Andersen: En Digters Bazar
So, I'd never actually sat down and read something not-a-fairytale by good old HC before, so this was an interesting experience. And while I'll agree that it's a bloody long book, then I find the description of what is basically a tourist trip fascinating and beautiful - and sometimes jarring, when you are reminded that the past is a different country, and you read HC waxing poetic about the women slave market in Constantinople or randomly describing a cat-piano as good, clean fun for the whole family at carnival.
Arthur Arnheim: Truet minoritet søger beskyttelse: jødernes historie i Danmark
Interesting book, though I wish it might have had more details about the earliest centuries. Also, the author's own political opinions are pretty obvious, especially once we get into the 20th century.
J.G. Ballard: High-rise
Someone should have mentioned the cannibalistic housewives tribe sooner. (Any chance J.K. Rowling might have been top-secretly prevailed upon to play their leader? Probably not, we would have heard by now...)
Jørgen Duus: Fantastiske opfindelser - til lands, til vands og i luften...
Jørgen Duus: Fantastiske opfindelser - i by og på land...
Jørgen Duus: Fantastiske opfindelser - til ham og hende
Jan Guillou: Blå stjârnan
Well, it's no Code Name Verity, but I do like the story of Johanne and her involvement with the Norwegian resistance and her continual fight to get respect from her male coworkers.
Gareth Hanrahan, Jason Durall & John Snead: The Laundry
Thit Jensen: Prins Nilaus af Danmark
I'm sorry to say I didn't like this. Thit Jensen has some nice descriptions here, especially the tapestries with heathen motives (especially Nidhughr) - but the plot is a bit dull and frankly, I disliked each and every character here.
Platon: Samlede værker i ny oversættelse 6.
Which is actually not stuff by Plato, but stuff that used to be claimed to be by Plato. Except possibly one of the letters. And apparently I missed book 5 somewhere along the way (on account of my local library having not bought it, apparently).
Simon Stålenhag: Ur varselklotet
Can I just recommend this? It's lovely - gorgeous paintings of an 80's Sweden that went a somewhat different way, so it's full of robots and floating machines and the occasional dinosaur, and all told through the eyes of grown man looking back on his childhood, so there's the nostalgia and the "this is just how things are" that a child's POV can give. And it's gorgeous.
Comics
Jason Aaron: Thor: The Goddess of Thunder
Jason Aaron: Thor: Who Holds The Hammer?
Kelly Sue DeConnick: Captain Marvel: Higher, Further, Faster, More
Gerry Duggan: Deadpool: Dead Presidents
Jerry Frissen: World War X: Hélius
Kieron Gillen: Angela - Asgard's Assassin: Priceless
Marvel's Asgardians are just getting weirder and weirder, aren't they?
Jeff Lemire: Trillium
Todd McFarlane: Spawn origins collection 1.
I would have liked this better ten years ago. Or maybe 15...
Yana Toboso: Black Butler 13.
Yana Toboso: Black Butler 14.
Mark Waid: Daredevil 6.
Kurtis J. Wiebe: Rat Queens: Sass and Sorcery
Bill Willingham: Fables: Happily Ever After
Bill Willingham: Fables: Farewell
It always makes me sad to reach the end of a series, especially one I've liked as much as I've liked this - and I've literally been reading Fables for a decade now. :-(
G. Willow Wilson: Ms Marvel: Generation Why
Total number of books and comics read this month: 27
Currently reading: Mark Waid's Daredevil 7., Allatta! 2040 and War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich.
Total number of books and comics read this year: 27
Well, the year starts well - I mostly blame an embarrassing number of comics.