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I really need to get better at doing this regularly. Though between a work/holiday trip to Prague and general I-bought-a-house stress, I haven't been reading as much as usually.
What I've recently finished reading
Malin Lindroth: Pebermø
Gengoroh Tagame: My Brother's Husband vol. 2.
Nilanjana S. Roy: The Hundred Names of Darkness
I still greatly enjoy the setting, with the whisker telepathic cats and the entire animal world of Delhi. But it felt like this novel sometimes rushed things too much - things, that you might have expected to take several chapters, being done with in ½ a chapter...
Merete Pryds Helle: Nora
Aka the new official Ibsen fanfic novel. Because when "real" authors do it, it gets published. Anyway, not half as femslashy as the description made it sound - though Nora does have her teenage sexual awakening having threesomes with the maids - and honestly? It's very - the sort of expand every hint of the past prequel to the play that is ultimately unnecessary. Everything here is pretty much already in the play. Well, at least it's a fast read?
Jaime Hernandez: Is This How You See Me?
Robert Kirkman: The Astounding Wolf-Man vol. 1.
Dorothy L. Sayers: The Documents in the Case
Maybe I'm too fond of unreliable narrators, but I'm left suspecting that the guy either really did have an accident or committed suicide, and then his son showed up and decided to dig up "evidence" that his wicked stepmom is ultimately to blame. Murder by court system.
Mike Mignola: B.P.R.D. - Hell on Earth: Lake of Fire
Thomas Rydahl & A.J. Kazinski: Mordet på en havfrue
A Hans Christian Andersen is suspected of murdering a prostitute and teams up with her sister to find the true killer novel. Not a fan. It reminded me a bit of that new Swedish historical crime novel, 1793, with how everything had to be filthy and nasty and everybody are unpleasant. And how the villain had to be queer. If this is the latest trend, I think I'll skip it now.
Patricia Briggs: Storm Cursed
What I've recently watched
48. Beforeigners season 1.
It's not perfect, and I don't understand where all the supplies for the Beforeigners to keep up their lifestyles in the middle of a modern city is coming from, not to mention how the 19th century Beforeigners didn't leave a gaping hole in history (the others as well, but the 19th century ones should be recorded missing). That said, I like Alfhildr and Urd, I liked Navn and was upset to see a perfectly good villain wasted like that, and the entire thing fed my love of stories involving people from the past getting stuck in the present beautifully. More, give me more, give me more.
49. Versailles season 2.
50. Dogma
Even more coarse than I remembered, and yet - delightful. Oh, the nostalgia.
51. Valhalla
I made an entire post bitching about it. Do you really need me to repeat myself? No.
What I'm reading now
An anthology called Det nådesløse daggry and C.J. Cherryh's Chanur's Homecoming
Total number of books and comics read this year: 194
What I've recently finished reading
Malin Lindroth: Pebermø
Gengoroh Tagame: My Brother's Husband vol. 2.
Nilanjana S. Roy: The Hundred Names of Darkness
I still greatly enjoy the setting, with the whisker telepathic cats and the entire animal world of Delhi. But it felt like this novel sometimes rushed things too much - things, that you might have expected to take several chapters, being done with in ½ a chapter...
Merete Pryds Helle: Nora
Aka the new official Ibsen fanfic novel. Because when "real" authors do it, it gets published. Anyway, not half as femslashy as the description made it sound - though Nora does have her teenage sexual awakening having threesomes with the maids - and honestly? It's very - the sort of expand every hint of the past prequel to the play that is ultimately unnecessary. Everything here is pretty much already in the play. Well, at least it's a fast read?
Jaime Hernandez: Is This How You See Me?
Robert Kirkman: The Astounding Wolf-Man vol. 1.
Dorothy L. Sayers: The Documents in the Case
Maybe I'm too fond of unreliable narrators, but I'm left suspecting that the guy either really did have an accident or committed suicide, and then his son showed up and decided to dig up "evidence" that his wicked stepmom is ultimately to blame. Murder by court system.
Mike Mignola: B.P.R.D. - Hell on Earth: Lake of Fire
Thomas Rydahl & A.J. Kazinski: Mordet på en havfrue
A Hans Christian Andersen is suspected of murdering a prostitute and teams up with her sister to find the true killer novel. Not a fan. It reminded me a bit of that new Swedish historical crime novel, 1793, with how everything had to be filthy and nasty and everybody are unpleasant. And how the villain had to be queer. If this is the latest trend, I think I'll skip it now.
Patricia Briggs: Storm Cursed
What I've recently watched
48. Beforeigners season 1.
It's not perfect, and I don't understand where all the supplies for the Beforeigners to keep up their lifestyles in the middle of a modern city is coming from, not to mention how the 19th century Beforeigners didn't leave a gaping hole in history (the others as well, but the 19th century ones should be recorded missing). That said, I like Alfhildr and Urd, I liked Navn and was upset to see a perfectly good villain wasted like that, and the entire thing fed my love of stories involving people from the past getting stuck in the present beautifully. More, give me more, give me more.
49. Versailles season 2.
50. Dogma
Even more coarse than I remembered, and yet - delightful. Oh, the nostalgia.
51. Valhalla
I made an entire post bitching about it. Do you really need me to repeat myself? No.
What I'm reading now
An anthology called Det nådesløse daggry and C.J. Cherryh's Chanur's Homecoming
Total number of books and comics read this year: 194