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Books
Jason Durall, Gareth Hanrahan & John Snead: Laundry Files: Agent's Handbook
Martin Holmslykke: Frejas blod
I really didn't like this book. The concept might have been nice - one of those Da Vinci Code spawned thrillers, except with two secret societies - an old Norse feminist society and a patriarchal Christian one. The problem - apart from the story never being that exciting - is that the author succeeds in making me dislike pretty much every single character in the book on pretty much the same page as he introduces them. There's no heroes - the closest thing is the slightly wimpy Christopher, who spends more of his time thinking about food and drooling over half the male characters who appear in the book than on his supposed quest to solve the murder of his daughter's mother. And it took me some time to realize where I'd seen Isabella before - which would be each and every time I've made the mistake of reading the comments on some mainstream media article on anything gender related. She's so straw feminist it hurts. If the book had left me with an impression of it having been more competently written I might have been charitable and thought that had been foreshadowing, but no - I don't think so. Actually, I'm halfway convinced that the author wrote Christopher as female and Isabella as male and then just gender-flipped the characters in editing or something. I don't know. But the book sucks.
Tété-Michel Kpomassie: L'africain du Groenland
Ursula K. Le Guin: Worlds of Exile and Illusion
Kim Leine: Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden
License to Summon
The Man Behind the Queen: Male Consorts in History
Per Nielsen: Fru Jensen og andre vestindiske danskere: dansk-vestindiske sømænd, tjenestefolk og arbejdere i Danmark 1880-1920
Interesting. (Also, considering the latest discussion in Denmark about whether or not the word "neger" is racist (my say? probably), I find it interesting to see the author analyzing the words used to describe the Danes of West-Indian origin back around 1900 and apparently neger was, if not exactly rude, probably a pretty lower-class kind of word to use at all.)
Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan: God Game Black
Karen Syberg: Ved nærmere eftertanke: Nynne Koch ser tilbage
If I were to pick my primary problem with second wave feminism, it is this: like so many pre-postmodern movements, it constructed a big story, and its big story was the story of the Woman. And while they might have disagreed in details, the image of the woman as mother and reproductive being always seem terribly prominent. And, well, I don't fit that. Plenty of people don't fit that, that's why the third wave is, uhm, waving. But - I read this memoir, and it's interesting, and I'm rolling my eyes at the entire "ages of the woman" thing, because oh yes, loving and sex is a universal constant, of course it is, not, and then there are bits where Nynne Koch tells about the times when she herself didn't fit her own image of the Woman, and she blames herself for that, talks as if she was broken, and I just... So yeah. Nevermind.
Eva Tind: Astas skygge
You know, I don't think I've ever actually seen any of Asta Nielsen's movies...
Comics
Brian Azzarello: 100 Bullets: The Hard Way
Warren Ellis: Supreme: Blue Rose
Matt Fraction: Hawkeye: L.A. Woman
Mark Millar: Starlight: the Return of Duke McQueen
I loved the concept, the idea of this - but frankly, the comic was boring...
Brian K. Vaughan: Ex Machina book 5
You know, the more this became superhero vs invasion from alternate dimensions, the less interesting I found it...
Mark Waid: Indestructible Hulk: Humanity Bomb
G. Willow Wilson: Ms. Marvel: Last Days
Yay, team-ups.
Total number of books and comics read this month: 18
Currently reading: The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel and Cirkeln by Mats Strandberg and Sara Elfgren
Total number of books and comics read this year: 123
Jason Durall, Gareth Hanrahan & John Snead: Laundry Files: Agent's Handbook
Martin Holmslykke: Frejas blod
I really didn't like this book. The concept might have been nice - one of those Da Vinci Code spawned thrillers, except with two secret societies - an old Norse feminist society and a patriarchal Christian one. The problem - apart from the story never being that exciting - is that the author succeeds in making me dislike pretty much every single character in the book on pretty much the same page as he introduces them. There's no heroes - the closest thing is the slightly wimpy Christopher, who spends more of his time thinking about food and drooling over half the male characters who appear in the book than on his supposed quest to solve the murder of his daughter's mother. And it took me some time to realize where I'd seen Isabella before - which would be each and every time I've made the mistake of reading the comments on some mainstream media article on anything gender related. She's so straw feminist it hurts. If the book had left me with an impression of it having been more competently written I might have been charitable and thought that had been foreshadowing, but no - I don't think so. Actually, I'm halfway convinced that the author wrote Christopher as female and Isabella as male and then just gender-flipped the characters in editing or something. I don't know. But the book sucks.
Tété-Michel Kpomassie: L'africain du Groenland
Ursula K. Le Guin: Worlds of Exile and Illusion
Kim Leine: Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden
License to Summon
The Man Behind the Queen: Male Consorts in History
Per Nielsen: Fru Jensen og andre vestindiske danskere: dansk-vestindiske sømænd, tjenestefolk og arbejdere i Danmark 1880-1920
Interesting. (Also, considering the latest discussion in Denmark about whether or not the word "neger" is racist (my say? probably), I find it interesting to see the author analyzing the words used to describe the Danes of West-Indian origin back around 1900 and apparently neger was, if not exactly rude, probably a pretty lower-class kind of word to use at all.)
Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan: God Game Black
Karen Syberg: Ved nærmere eftertanke: Nynne Koch ser tilbage
If I were to pick my primary problem with second wave feminism, it is this: like so many pre-postmodern movements, it constructed a big story, and its big story was the story of the Woman. And while they might have disagreed in details, the image of the woman as mother and reproductive being always seem terribly prominent. And, well, I don't fit that. Plenty of people don't fit that, that's why the third wave is, uhm, waving. But - I read this memoir, and it's interesting, and I'm rolling my eyes at the entire "ages of the woman" thing, because oh yes, loving and sex is a universal constant, of course it is, not, and then there are bits where Nynne Koch tells about the times when she herself didn't fit her own image of the Woman, and she blames herself for that, talks as if she was broken, and I just... So yeah. Nevermind.
Eva Tind: Astas skygge
You know, I don't think I've ever actually seen any of Asta Nielsen's movies...
Comics
Brian Azzarello: 100 Bullets: The Hard Way
Warren Ellis: Supreme: Blue Rose
Matt Fraction: Hawkeye: L.A. Woman
Mark Millar: Starlight: the Return of Duke McQueen
I loved the concept, the idea of this - but frankly, the comic was boring...
Brian K. Vaughan: Ex Machina book 5
You know, the more this became superhero vs invasion from alternate dimensions, the less interesting I found it...
Mark Waid: Indestructible Hulk: Humanity Bomb
G. Willow Wilson: Ms. Marvel: Last Days
Yay, team-ups.
Total number of books and comics read this month: 18
Currently reading: The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel and Cirkeln by Mats Strandberg and Sara Elfgren
Total number of books and comics read this year: 123
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So did you like it? I feel beyond convinced I'll hate it.
I still have lots of Hawkeye to go, but I only like the Fraction/Aja issues, and I get annoyed with the not!Aja ones.
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It's a book about culture clash and it's got rape and an abortion and people going mad in the middle of it and far too many bodily functions everywhere, and everybody's so angry in it. I dunno.
I mostly picked it up because most of the women in my department at work seem to be united in a private Leine fanclub and since I usually quite like historical fiction, I thought I'd give it a try. And it is a well-written and very dramatic historical novel - but I'm not exactly sure I'd say I liked it, you know?
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