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Well. It's almost like posting it on a wednesday, right?
What I've recently finished reading
Andrzej Sapkowski: Skæbnens sværd
The second short story collection in the Witcher universe, for those who can't read the Danish title. I'm still quite enjoying this. It felt - more like there's starting to be a coherent story and less like the more disjointed twisted fairytale stories of the first collection, and I continue to enjoy the Danish translation, which is a rare thing (probably because most fantasy is translated from English, which gets done by all sorts of people (don't ever touch the Danish Discworld translations if you value your sanity), and this is being done from Polish, which means somebody who actually knows the language properly is doing it).
Robert Arthur: The Mystery of the Screaming Clock
Geoff Johns: 52 vol. 2.
Maggie Stiefvater: All the Crooked Saints
I enjoyed the Raven Cycle and its meandering storytelling and its characters, for all that Stiefvater's ending was unsatisfying, so I decided to read another book by her. I regret that. This was - I never really feel engaged by the characters, and it just - never caught my interest. Oh well. It's not like she'll be the first author I read one thing by, enjoyed, then went looking for more and ended up concluding that nope, that first one was the fluke.
Robin Sloan: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
I find the idea of Google as some sort of all-encompassing savior/good guy business - yeah. Some books date really quickly, is what this book left me feeling.
Ashley J. Barner: The Case for Fanfiction
Kim Leine: Trojka: Skarabæens time
Pretty typical Kim Leine - gritty and arctic. I mean, it's a comic, but apart from that - it feels pretty standard for its genre of survival in an apocalypse situation. It doesn't really bring anything new to that, and I'm not convinced Leine's usual core readers are going to leave the thick historical novels behind to venture into graphic novel territory, if my colleagues are anything to go by.
Mike Mignola: BPRD: The Devil's Engine & The Long Death
Birgitte Possing: Argumenter imod kvinder
Thomas Hvid Kromann: Saksehånd
Disappointingly not particularly gothic and honestly? Not as amusing at it thinks it is. It's the story of a volunteer at a second-hand bookstore/minor publisher being part of the avantgarde literary scene of Copenhagen, and I'm just left feeling that everybody are more there for being part of scene and not for being literary, if that makes any sense.
What I've recently watched
74. A Quiet Place
This doesn't make sense to me. Either the creatures should be starving for want of food or they should be rarer. They seem to have nearly eradicated humanity, leaving just a few struggling survivors, and yet they gather immediately in great numbers at the smallest sound a human makes. How the hell do they cover all that ground?
75. Wilding
Having seen the Swedish movie Gräns recently, I find myself comparing them, as they have a somewhat similar premise - supernatural wild people being raised by humans after a genocide of their species. Except, this being an American movie, of course the wild person in question remains a pretty girl for most of the movie, growing claws aside, and has a cute human boyfriend, while the Swedish movie has the main character look more along the lines of a proper Neanderthal from the get go, the romance ain't a romance and is - well, I'll be curious how fandom will react to this movie, if fandom ever discovers it - and, well. Maybe I just find it telling how the two parts of the world tell similar stories so very differently.
76. Bon Cop Bad Cop
77. The Mummy
Question: why didn't everybody just hide themselves under a small mountain of fluffy felines and figure out a plan to fight Imhotep?
What I'm reading now
Frygt, fælde, fabrik vol. 1. by Steen Langstrup, Blood Communion by Anne Rice and The Edge of the World by Michael Pye.
Total number of books and comics read this year: 256
What I've recently finished reading
Andrzej Sapkowski: Skæbnens sværd
The second short story collection in the Witcher universe, for those who can't read the Danish title. I'm still quite enjoying this. It felt - more like there's starting to be a coherent story and less like the more disjointed twisted fairytale stories of the first collection, and I continue to enjoy the Danish translation, which is a rare thing (probably because most fantasy is translated from English, which gets done by all sorts of people (don't ever touch the Danish Discworld translations if you value your sanity), and this is being done from Polish, which means somebody who actually knows the language properly is doing it).
Robert Arthur: The Mystery of the Screaming Clock
Geoff Johns: 52 vol. 2.
Maggie Stiefvater: All the Crooked Saints
I enjoyed the Raven Cycle and its meandering storytelling and its characters, for all that Stiefvater's ending was unsatisfying, so I decided to read another book by her. I regret that. This was - I never really feel engaged by the characters, and it just - never caught my interest. Oh well. It's not like she'll be the first author I read one thing by, enjoyed, then went looking for more and ended up concluding that nope, that first one was the fluke.
Robin Sloan: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
I find the idea of Google as some sort of all-encompassing savior/good guy business - yeah. Some books date really quickly, is what this book left me feeling.
Ashley J. Barner: The Case for Fanfiction
Kim Leine: Trojka: Skarabæens time
Pretty typical Kim Leine - gritty and arctic. I mean, it's a comic, but apart from that - it feels pretty standard for its genre of survival in an apocalypse situation. It doesn't really bring anything new to that, and I'm not convinced Leine's usual core readers are going to leave the thick historical novels behind to venture into graphic novel territory, if my colleagues are anything to go by.
Mike Mignola: BPRD: The Devil's Engine & The Long Death
Birgitte Possing: Argumenter imod kvinder
Thomas Hvid Kromann: Saksehånd
Disappointingly not particularly gothic and honestly? Not as amusing at it thinks it is. It's the story of a volunteer at a second-hand bookstore/minor publisher being part of the avantgarde literary scene of Copenhagen, and I'm just left feeling that everybody are more there for being part of scene and not for being literary, if that makes any sense.
What I've recently watched
74. A Quiet Place
This doesn't make sense to me. Either the creatures should be starving for want of food or they should be rarer. They seem to have nearly eradicated humanity, leaving just a few struggling survivors, and yet they gather immediately in great numbers at the smallest sound a human makes. How the hell do they cover all that ground?
75. Wilding
Having seen the Swedish movie Gräns recently, I find myself comparing them, as they have a somewhat similar premise - supernatural wild people being raised by humans after a genocide of their species. Except, this being an American movie, of course the wild person in question remains a pretty girl for most of the movie, growing claws aside, and has a cute human boyfriend, while the Swedish movie has the main character look more along the lines of a proper Neanderthal from the get go, the romance ain't a romance and is - well, I'll be curious how fandom will react to this movie, if fandom ever discovers it - and, well. Maybe I just find it telling how the two parts of the world tell similar stories so very differently.
76. Bon Cop Bad Cop
77. The Mummy
Question: why didn't everybody just hide themselves under a small mountain of fluffy felines and figure out a plan to fight Imhotep?
What I'm reading now
Frygt, fælde, fabrik vol. 1. by Steen Langstrup, Blood Communion by Anne Rice and The Edge of the World by Michael Pye.
Total number of books and comics read this year: 256
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I do want fandom at large to discover Gräns, but I somehow doubt it, unless it gets a prettified US remake...