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Just this once I'll do this on an actual wednesday. Just this once.
What I've recently finished reading
Connie Willis: The Best of Connie Willis
I must confess, most of these stories were fine, but none of them would have had me looking up the author if I encountered them in an anthology. I think my favourites were "Inside Job", where the ghost of a sceptic starts haunting a fake medium, and "Even the Queen", which doesn't have much story, but I like its particular bit of future!tech.
Nella Larsen: Passing
This was quite different from Quicksand. It felt more plotted out, somehow. Tighter. I will look forward to the movie. And I've gotten interested enough in the author to get hold of a biography, as you do.
Mike Mignola: Abe Sapien: Dark and terrible and The new race of man
J. Dufaux: Murena: Le Banquet
I was annoyed with one. Murena's the main character, but he literally does - well, I suppose getting amnesia and get kept as a sex toy by a villainess is something, but. All the plot happens around him.
Gerard Way: The Umbrella Academy: Dallas
Tarleton Gillespie: Custodians of the Internet: platforms, content moderation, and the hidden decisions that shape social media
Garth Nix: Sabriel
This was fun. I like that Sabriel is young, but obviously well taught and capable, albeit ignorant about many details about the Old Kingdom.
Olivier Boucquet: Snowpiercer: Terminus
Leslie Feinberger: Stone Butch Blues
If I'd known what I was going into for the first several chapters, I might not have read it. It's an interesting book, though.
Frances Andreasen Østerfelt: Marie Curie - et lys i mørket
The art of this is gorgeous, but the narrative is weak. Which puzzles me, because Marie Curie's life story shouldn't feel weak.
Rick Remender: Venom
Greg Rucka: Wonder Woman: Godwatch
What I've recently watched
58. the Vvitch
I very much enjoyed this. The setting - New England wilderness, the tiny family trying to survive on their own after having been cast out by the Puritan villagers, the sense that you're never really sure if the things happening are simply wild beasts and starvation and paranoia, or actual supernatural events.
59. Venom
Aka the soulmate AU between a mess of a journalist and an alien tentacle monster that nobody thought to ask for. It's fun. It's not what I'd call a good movie, but fun.
60. Victoria & Abdul
Gorgeous movie, but maybe not terrible exciting.
What I'm reading now
S.A. Chakraborty's The City of Brass, which so far isn't really catching my interest, and Tommy Orange's There There, which is.
Total number of books and comics read this year: 219
What I've recently finished reading
Connie Willis: The Best of Connie Willis
I must confess, most of these stories were fine, but none of them would have had me looking up the author if I encountered them in an anthology. I think my favourites were "Inside Job", where the ghost of a sceptic starts haunting a fake medium, and "Even the Queen", which doesn't have much story, but I like its particular bit of future!tech.
Nella Larsen: Passing
This was quite different from Quicksand. It felt more plotted out, somehow. Tighter. I will look forward to the movie. And I've gotten interested enough in the author to get hold of a biography, as you do.
Mike Mignola: Abe Sapien: Dark and terrible and The new race of man
J. Dufaux: Murena: Le Banquet
I was annoyed with one. Murena's the main character, but he literally does - well, I suppose getting amnesia and get kept as a sex toy by a villainess is something, but. All the plot happens around him.
Gerard Way: The Umbrella Academy: Dallas
Tarleton Gillespie: Custodians of the Internet: platforms, content moderation, and the hidden decisions that shape social media
Garth Nix: Sabriel
This was fun. I like that Sabriel is young, but obviously well taught and capable, albeit ignorant about many details about the Old Kingdom.
Olivier Boucquet: Snowpiercer: Terminus
Leslie Feinberger: Stone Butch Blues
If I'd known what I was going into for the first several chapters, I might not have read it. It's an interesting book, though.
Frances Andreasen Østerfelt: Marie Curie - et lys i mørket
The art of this is gorgeous, but the narrative is weak. Which puzzles me, because Marie Curie's life story shouldn't feel weak.
Rick Remender: Venom
Greg Rucka: Wonder Woman: Godwatch
What I've recently watched
58. the Vvitch
I very much enjoyed this. The setting - New England wilderness, the tiny family trying to survive on their own after having been cast out by the Puritan villagers, the sense that you're never really sure if the things happening are simply wild beasts and starvation and paranoia, or actual supernatural events.
59. Venom
Aka the soulmate AU between a mess of a journalist and an alien tentacle monster that nobody thought to ask for. It's fun. It's not what I'd call a good movie, but fun.
60. Victoria & Abdul
Gorgeous movie, but maybe not terrible exciting.
What I'm reading now
S.A. Chakraborty's The City of Brass, which so far isn't really catching my interest, and Tommy Orange's There There, which is.
Total number of books and comics read this year: 219
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Sabriel is excellent, but the next two books, Lirael and Abhorsen (really they are two halves of a single doorstop-book) are my favorite part of the series.
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If I'd known what I was going into for the first several chapters, I might not have read it. It's an interesting book, though.
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Also, check this out. : ) I really liked it, even not having read Passing for years.
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