Thursday Reading Meme

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January is a dreary month, and this year it can't even be bothered to be wintry. Oh well.

And I'm having my usual post-yuletide I-wish-more-people-had-read-my-story-though-at-least-the-ones-who-did-seems-to-have-liked-it blues. Oh well.

What I've recently finished reading


Kurt Busiek: Astro City: Broken Melody
I quite enjoyed following the ever-changing music superhero of Astro City through the decades. And I am sad that apparently Astro City is nearing its end.

Maurice Leblanc: Arséne Lupin: The Hollow Needle
I can't quite make up my mind about this book. Either I read it straight-forwardly and it turns Lupin into something gross and not at all the slightest gentleman thief, what with abducting a woman to make her fall in love with him. Or I read it through slash goggles, which reminds me that the woman barely even appears and that the central character is Isidore Beautrelet, a brilliant youth who spends the book becoming more and more fascinated with Lupin and falling under his spell. Now, if only the latter outweighed the former, but it doesn't quite.

David Michelinie: Venom: Lethal Protector

Jeff Vandermeer: Annihilation

Thessa Jensen: Fanfiktion: et levende online fællesskab


What I've recently watched

1. Mary Shelley
This is a very pretty movie, but it felt a tiny bit - CW show-ish?

2. Morocco


What I'm reading now

James Tiptree Jr.'s Her Smoke Rose Up Forever.

Total number of books and comics read this year: 6