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I've been - ridiculously busy for the last couple of months. Partly with moving - sitting in my nice new house, yes - partly with work having been insane since late november. So, not that much time and energy to makie various posts on social media.
Books I've recently finished reading
Kurtis Wiebe: Rat Queens: The Colossal Magic Nothing
Jean Dufaux: Den forsvundne hedes sang: Sill Valt
Zidrou: Shi: Revenge
Det nådesløse daggry
Most of this collection of dark fantasy short stories weren't very engaging - a bit too horror, most of it. I did rather like Humlen by A. Silvestri, about the village brewer and his apprentice and the new brewer in town and his daughter. The ending felt a bit - misplaced, though. I was enjoying the small people in fantasy world making a living story right up until then. Oh well...
Valhalla i nye hænder
I guess it was Valhalla year in 2019. This is a collection of tribute comics, and it's about an even split between various artists talking about what Valhalla meant to them, and artists attempting short Valhalla stories, many set in the modern day. I did like the one with Thor and Loki landing in some modern day family's house and inviting themselves for BBQ and Loki telling the older daughter about the wonders of marrow...
Jeff Lemire: Black Hammer: Age of Doom part one.
Jeff Lemire: Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil
Andrea Lawlor: Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
This starts a bit dull - the main character, Paul, is a gay man in the 90s and also a shapeshifter, able to change his appearance up to and including sex. After the first part mostly involving him having sex with various people, he goes with his confidante to a woman camp and ends up in a relationship with Diana, who might or might not be the Diana (at least she talks to bears). I'm not describing it very well - it's a bit of a bildungs novel and I liked it once it got to where there's actual plot happening.
Jean-Pierre Dionnet: Exterminator 17
Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen: Mordersken
C.J. Cherryh: Chanur's Endgame
Clearly, I need to read more by Cherryh. This is excellent. Also, I need a crossover between Legends and the Chanur verse, except the Chanur novels are set in a future history verse full of books I haven't read, which is inconsiderate of it.
Gerard Way: The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion
Kim Newman: One Thousand Monsters
Arkadij N. Strugatskij: En picnic i vejkanten
Robert Kirkman: The Walking Dead: Rest in Peace
Seanan McGuire: In An Absent Dream
I actually liked this best of the series so far, but it felt - rushed. The time skips are annoying and especially the ending feels like it's stumbling all over itself.
Diana Wynne Jones: Eight Days of Luke
Wow, Rowling really ripped this off for the first Harry Potter novel, didn't she?
What I've recently watched
52. The Favourite
There's not nearly enough darkly comedic historical movies like this.
53. Iron Sky: The Coming Race
You wouldn't think a movie involving evil space Hitler on a dinosaur would be quite this dull, would you?
54. Vildheks
I found it extremely distracting that everybody spoke Danish and it was never stated that it wasn't set in Denmark or that people were going abroad - yet there were mountains right outside the main character's town. Mountains.
55. Før frosten
This was surprisingly good. From the description I had expected to be annoyed with father figure getting in the way of young love, instead I got the slow downwards spiral of a proud, but poor farmer fighting not to fall even lower and making a devil's bargain for it.
56. Glass
57. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Total number of books and comics read this year: 211
Books I've recently finished reading
Kurtis Wiebe: Rat Queens: The Colossal Magic Nothing
Jean Dufaux: Den forsvundne hedes sang: Sill Valt
Zidrou: Shi: Revenge
Det nådesløse daggry
Most of this collection of dark fantasy short stories weren't very engaging - a bit too horror, most of it. I did rather like Humlen by A. Silvestri, about the village brewer and his apprentice and the new brewer in town and his daughter. The ending felt a bit - misplaced, though. I was enjoying the small people in fantasy world making a living story right up until then. Oh well...
Valhalla i nye hænder
I guess it was Valhalla year in 2019. This is a collection of tribute comics, and it's about an even split between various artists talking about what Valhalla meant to them, and artists attempting short Valhalla stories, many set in the modern day. I did like the one with Thor and Loki landing in some modern day family's house and inviting themselves for BBQ and Loki telling the older daughter about the wonders of marrow...
Jeff Lemire: Black Hammer: Age of Doom part one.
Jeff Lemire: Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil
Andrea Lawlor: Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
This starts a bit dull - the main character, Paul, is a gay man in the 90s and also a shapeshifter, able to change his appearance up to and including sex. After the first part mostly involving him having sex with various people, he goes with his confidante to a woman camp and ends up in a relationship with Diana, who might or might not be the Diana (at least she talks to bears). I'm not describing it very well - it's a bit of a bildungs novel and I liked it once it got to where there's actual plot happening.
Jean-Pierre Dionnet: Exterminator 17
Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen: Mordersken
C.J. Cherryh: Chanur's Endgame
Clearly, I need to read more by Cherryh. This is excellent. Also, I need a crossover between Legends and the Chanur verse, except the Chanur novels are set in a future history verse full of books I haven't read, which is inconsiderate of it.
Gerard Way: The Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion
Kim Newman: One Thousand Monsters
Arkadij N. Strugatskij: En picnic i vejkanten
Robert Kirkman: The Walking Dead: Rest in Peace
Seanan McGuire: In An Absent Dream
I actually liked this best of the series so far, but it felt - rushed. The time skips are annoying and especially the ending feels like it's stumbling all over itself.
Diana Wynne Jones: Eight Days of Luke
Wow, Rowling really ripped this off for the first Harry Potter novel, didn't she?
What I've recently watched
52. The Favourite
There's not nearly enough darkly comedic historical movies like this.
53. Iron Sky: The Coming Race
You wouldn't think a movie involving evil space Hitler on a dinosaur would be quite this dull, would you?
54. Vildheks
I found it extremely distracting that everybody spoke Danish and it was never stated that it wasn't set in Denmark or that people were going abroad - yet there were mountains right outside the main character's town. Mountains.
55. Før frosten
This was surprisingly good. From the description I had expected to be annoyed with father figure getting in the way of young love, instead I got the slow downwards spiral of a proud, but poor farmer fighting not to fall even lower and making a devil's bargain for it.
56. Glass
57. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Total number of books and comics read this year: 211