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Posting on a tuesday, because if I don't do it now...
What I've recently finished reading
Tommy Orange: There there
I could have lived without the entire bombing plot, but I found the look into the world of the modern Urban Indian very fascinating.
Erik Hjort Nielsen: Hvid og sort som mælk og blod
Kieron Gillen: The Wicked + the Divine: Imperial Phase part 2.
S.A. Chakraborty: The City of Brass
The first half of this book was such a slog, but it picked up in the second half. I'm still not convinced I need to read any more of this series though. Also, I'm not entirely sure why the author bothered to set the opening bit in Egypt. The entire world of the djinn feel like such a pure fantasy world that it feels weird to me that it's co-existing with the Napoleonic Age.
Kai Ashante Wilson: A Taste of Honey
Ralf König: Djinn djinn
Jean Dufaux: Blackmore
Mike Mignola & John Arcudi: BPRD Hell on Earth: Gods and Monsters
Birgitte Jørkov: Når himlen falder ned
I liked this a lot less than the first book, mostly because it always annoys me to see a main character that is likeable and succesful basically spend an entire book having everything go wrong and bad, which most of the way this was.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet vol. 1.
Maggie Stiefvater: The Raven King
And so we meander to an end. Which, because of the meandering nature of the entire series, feels deeply unsatisfying in the way endings do when they could just keep meandering on their merry way.
Martin Puchner: The Written World
Emil Ferris: My Favourite Thing Is Monsters
Tim Seeley: Grayson: Nemesis
Mike Mignola: BPRD: Russia
Det tredje Fantoms krønike
Erika Fatland: Grænsen
This is a very interesting book. The author travelled along the entire Russian border by way of their neighbours, starting in North Korea and ending Norway (and then jumping a cruise ship sailing around the northern parts, which are apparently a lot more ice free these days than they used to be). It's a book about meeting all the diverse cultures along the way, and about the experience of countries being neighbours to a country as huge and, well, restless as Russia at the moment. (Apparently, the only current neighbour of Russia that hasn't at some point been wholly or partly claimed by Russia is Norway.)
Jan Guillou: De som dödar drömmar sover aldrig
So, now we've got two author avatar characters reenacting the journlistic unravelling of the Swedish espionage stuff that I already read about in JG's autobiography. Seriously, at this point - the books are okay written, but they are no longer the series I started reading. Though I suppose that's always the risk of writing a family chronicle apparently mostly based on his own family? At some point, you reach your own generation, and at the end of the day, how many people of your own generation can you truly write about. (Also, surprise Hamilton cameo. Hmmm. Should I try the first of those books?)
Robert Arthur: The mystery of the stuttering parrot
Oh, my nostalgia.
Dan Slott & Rick Rememnder: Spider-Island
Greg Rucka: Lazarus: Lift
Jean Dufaux: Lady Gerfall
Valdemar Holst: Manden der tænkte ting
The novel is a fairly straightforward doppleganger horror story, and as it turns out, apart from moving the whole thing to Denmark (the novel is set in Paris - probably because things like this never happens in Denmark) - the movie is quite faithful to the book.
Donny Cates: Redneck: Deep in the Heart
G.D. Falksen: House of the Far Earth
I'm still enjoying this series, though I am beginning to tire of both the whole Varanus' son must absolutely not know about his mother being a vampire and the entire the vampires doesn't know about the goat-goddess worshipping werewolves (and vice versa) things. Can we get stuff out in the open soon?
Poul Duedahl: Velkommen på bagsiden
This was an interesting collection of glimpses into some corners of the 19th century that doesn't get trotted out that often. And I need to read more about that woman executioner.
M.V. Carey: The Mystery of the Singing Serpent
What I've recently watched
61. Loving Vincent
The animation is gorgeous.
62. You were never really here
63. Ready Player One
So - the future stops inventing new culture entirely and everybody gets obsessed with one dull 80s pop culture VR world?
64. Wild Nights with Emily
This was fun. Probably not entirely historically correct, but who cares.
65. Call Me By Your Name
66. The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell
This - was utterly delightful. It's like Jim Henson wanted to do a cooking show after binge watching The Addams Family, and I can only recommend it.
67. Ever After
68. The Brothers Bloom
This was utterly ridiculous and I highly recommend it as an utterly ridiculous heist movie.
69. Queen Christina
I really do need to watch more old movies. Anyway, this is an absolutely gorgeous movie, and I especially loved the scenes where Christina accidentally ends up pretending to be a young nobleman.
70. Babylon Berlin season 1.
It seems to take great pride in being convoluted, but it's such a gorgeous show, and I find myself - well, not liking the characters, but being interested in where this story is going. And of course, I know where the Weimar republic is going, we all know, but more specifically, you know?
71. Lord & Ladles season 1.
Maybe not great television per se, but I am here for utterly undramatic wandering around historical buildings and cooking modern day replicas of historical feasts. And I kinda want this concept to get bought by 20 different countries, because I want all the different national varieties of this.
72. Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
73. Mordets melodi
Like I said, I need to watch more old movies. This is nice and quiet, and maybe somewhat more stilted than I'm used to, but it works well enough for me.
What I'm reading now
Andrzej Sapkowski's Skæbnens sværd, Maggie Stiefvater's All the crooked saints, which isn't really catching my interest, and Robert Arthur's The Mystery of the Screaming Clock
Total number of books and comics read this year: 246
What I've recently finished reading
Tommy Orange: There there
I could have lived without the entire bombing plot, but I found the look into the world of the modern Urban Indian very fascinating.
Erik Hjort Nielsen: Hvid og sort som mælk og blod
Kieron Gillen: The Wicked + the Divine: Imperial Phase part 2.
S.A. Chakraborty: The City of Brass
The first half of this book was such a slog, but it picked up in the second half. I'm still not convinced I need to read any more of this series though. Also, I'm not entirely sure why the author bothered to set the opening bit in Egypt. The entire world of the djinn feel like such a pure fantasy world that it feels weird to me that it's co-existing with the Napoleonic Age.
Kai Ashante Wilson: A Taste of Honey
Ralf König: Djinn djinn
Jean Dufaux: Blackmore
Mike Mignola & John Arcudi: BPRD Hell on Earth: Gods and Monsters
Birgitte Jørkov: Når himlen falder ned
I liked this a lot less than the first book, mostly because it always annoys me to see a main character that is likeable and succesful basically spend an entire book having everything go wrong and bad, which most of the way this was.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet vol. 1.
Maggie Stiefvater: The Raven King
And so we meander to an end. Which, because of the meandering nature of the entire series, feels deeply unsatisfying in the way endings do when they could just keep meandering on their merry way.
Martin Puchner: The Written World
Emil Ferris: My Favourite Thing Is Monsters
Tim Seeley: Grayson: Nemesis
Mike Mignola: BPRD: Russia
Det tredje Fantoms krønike
Erika Fatland: Grænsen
This is a very interesting book. The author travelled along the entire Russian border by way of their neighbours, starting in North Korea and ending Norway (and then jumping a cruise ship sailing around the northern parts, which are apparently a lot more ice free these days than they used to be). It's a book about meeting all the diverse cultures along the way, and about the experience of countries being neighbours to a country as huge and, well, restless as Russia at the moment. (Apparently, the only current neighbour of Russia that hasn't at some point been wholly or partly claimed by Russia is Norway.)
Jan Guillou: De som dödar drömmar sover aldrig
So, now we've got two author avatar characters reenacting the journlistic unravelling of the Swedish espionage stuff that I already read about in JG's autobiography. Seriously, at this point - the books are okay written, but they are no longer the series I started reading. Though I suppose that's always the risk of writing a family chronicle apparently mostly based on his own family? At some point, you reach your own generation, and at the end of the day, how many people of your own generation can you truly write about. (Also, surprise Hamilton cameo. Hmmm. Should I try the first of those books?)
Robert Arthur: The mystery of the stuttering parrot
Oh, my nostalgia.
Dan Slott & Rick Rememnder: Spider-Island
Greg Rucka: Lazarus: Lift
Jean Dufaux: Lady Gerfall
Valdemar Holst: Manden der tænkte ting
The novel is a fairly straightforward doppleganger horror story, and as it turns out, apart from moving the whole thing to Denmark (the novel is set in Paris - probably because things like this never happens in Denmark) - the movie is quite faithful to the book.
Donny Cates: Redneck: Deep in the Heart
G.D. Falksen: House of the Far Earth
I'm still enjoying this series, though I am beginning to tire of both the whole Varanus' son must absolutely not know about his mother being a vampire and the entire the vampires doesn't know about the goat-goddess worshipping werewolves (and vice versa) things. Can we get stuff out in the open soon?
Poul Duedahl: Velkommen på bagsiden
This was an interesting collection of glimpses into some corners of the 19th century that doesn't get trotted out that often. And I need to read more about that woman executioner.
M.V. Carey: The Mystery of the Singing Serpent
What I've recently watched
61. Loving Vincent
The animation is gorgeous.
62. You were never really here
63. Ready Player One
So - the future stops inventing new culture entirely and everybody gets obsessed with one dull 80s pop culture VR world?
64. Wild Nights with Emily
This was fun. Probably not entirely historically correct, but who cares.
65. Call Me By Your Name
66. The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell
This - was utterly delightful. It's like Jim Henson wanted to do a cooking show after binge watching The Addams Family, and I can only recommend it.
67. Ever After
68. The Brothers Bloom
This was utterly ridiculous and I highly recommend it as an utterly ridiculous heist movie.
69. Queen Christina
I really do need to watch more old movies. Anyway, this is an absolutely gorgeous movie, and I especially loved the scenes where Christina accidentally ends up pretending to be a young nobleman.
70. Babylon Berlin season 1.
It seems to take great pride in being convoluted, but it's such a gorgeous show, and I find myself - well, not liking the characters, but being interested in where this story is going. And of course, I know where the Weimar republic is going, we all know, but more specifically, you know?
71. Lord & Ladles season 1.
Maybe not great television per se, but I am here for utterly undramatic wandering around historical buildings and cooking modern day replicas of historical feasts. And I kinda want this concept to get bought by 20 different countries, because I want all the different national varieties of this.
72. Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
73. Mordets melodi
Like I said, I need to watch more old movies. This is nice and quiet, and maybe somewhat more stilted than I'm used to, but it works well enough for me.
What I'm reading now
Andrzej Sapkowski's Skæbnens sværd, Maggie Stiefvater's All the crooked saints, which isn't really catching my interest, and Robert Arthur's The Mystery of the Screaming Clock
Total number of books and comics read this year: 246
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Is the Sapkowski Sword of Destiny? (Making a wild language-similarity guess.) I just bought the real first book, The Last Wish, after having bought Blood of Elves thinking that was the first, but apparently it's the third, sigh. So confusing.
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