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So, I've been kinda busy - partly at work, because I am tired almost every day I come home (we're busy enough that they are doing the utterly unheard thing and offering paid overtime, which I intend to take some of), partly at home unpacking and assembling things needed for my new house. (I was in my old town for a brief stroll yesterday and could tell somebody's already moved into my old apartment. I hope the landlord warned them, but somehow I really, really doubt it. Well, that's not my problem anymore.)
Meanwhile I am being utterly baffled at the weather. There have been snowdrops and erantis in my garden since mid-january. Today is Candlemass and it hasn't come close to below-zero. This winter is - sorely lacking in winter.
Anyway, since I really suck at keeping this sort of post of on a weekly basis, I will give up trying and accept that it's going to be about monthly. Hopefully.
Books I've recently finished reading
Sergei Lukyanenko: The Sixth Watch
So, Anton gets to save the entire world from a mystical double-god of old - well, gets to bumble about trying desperately to figure out what said god is about and how to stop it from etc. And basically re-writing a lot of what we knew about the Others, including where they came from. So that's neat. Though it really feels like this author is writing the same book over and over by now.
Rukmini Pande: Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race
This was interesting. Too much meta and academia on fandom and race has a habit of not going further than "people don't ship these characters and that's terrible". This book had the very occasional hint of that, but mostly, it tried to take a look at academia about fandom and how come race is a less obvious point of interest for academics than, say, feminism or queer.
Martin Jensen: Grevens mænd
Martin Jensen: Mand af ære
And so the medieval police procedural comes to an end, with the main character finally getting enough of his lord and resigned as sheriff to buy a big farm with his savings. Out of curiosity I went and checked the years to see when he'll be a subject of Valdemar Atterdag, and apparently Funen was one of the last bits of Denmark to be reassembled, so that's years into the future.
Andrzej Sapkowski: Elverblod
At the rate the Danish translations are being published, Netflix will overtake my reading within a season or two. And I still don't get why they didn't bother to translate Dandelion and Witcher. Oh well. This felt a bit - I'm not even sure dated is the right term, just - stuff like apparently it's terrible for Ciri to train fighting while having her period? Made me miss Alanna. Anyway, we'll see how much the show keeps and how much it changes. That said, I get it's the first of a trilogy, but it felt too meandering and not sufficiently like a story in itself.
Sussi Bech: Nofret: Gravrøverne
What I've recently watched
1. The Witcher season 1.
Oh valley of plenty, oh. (You know a show has gotten famous when the musical number in a Troldspejlet episode was the earworm song.) This isn't a great show, let's not pretend it is, but it's an entertaining show and I like it for that.
What I'm reading now
Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea, which so far feels like it wants to be The Neverending Story.
Total number of books and comics read this year: 6
Meanwhile I am being utterly baffled at the weather. There have been snowdrops and erantis in my garden since mid-january. Today is Candlemass and it hasn't come close to below-zero. This winter is - sorely lacking in winter.
Anyway, since I really suck at keeping this sort of post of on a weekly basis, I will give up trying and accept that it's going to be about monthly. Hopefully.
Books I've recently finished reading
Sergei Lukyanenko: The Sixth Watch
So, Anton gets to save the entire world from a mystical double-god of old - well, gets to bumble about trying desperately to figure out what said god is about and how to stop it from etc. And basically re-writing a lot of what we knew about the Others, including where they came from. So that's neat. Though it really feels like this author is writing the same book over and over by now.
Rukmini Pande: Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race
This was interesting. Too much meta and academia on fandom and race has a habit of not going further than "people don't ship these characters and that's terrible". This book had the very occasional hint of that, but mostly, it tried to take a look at academia about fandom and how come race is a less obvious point of interest for academics than, say, feminism or queer.
Martin Jensen: Grevens mænd
Martin Jensen: Mand af ære
And so the medieval police procedural comes to an end, with the main character finally getting enough of his lord and resigned as sheriff to buy a big farm with his savings. Out of curiosity I went and checked the years to see when he'll be a subject of Valdemar Atterdag, and apparently Funen was one of the last bits of Denmark to be reassembled, so that's years into the future.
Andrzej Sapkowski: Elverblod
At the rate the Danish translations are being published, Netflix will overtake my reading within a season or two. And I still don't get why they didn't bother to translate Dandelion and Witcher. Oh well. This felt a bit - I'm not even sure dated is the right term, just - stuff like apparently it's terrible for Ciri to train fighting while having her period? Made me miss Alanna. Anyway, we'll see how much the show keeps and how much it changes. That said, I get it's the first of a trilogy, but it felt too meandering and not sufficiently like a story in itself.
Sussi Bech: Nofret: Gravrøverne
What I've recently watched
1. The Witcher season 1.
Oh valley of plenty, oh. (You know a show has gotten famous when the musical number in a Troldspejlet episode was the earworm song.) This isn't a great show, let's not pretend it is, but it's an entertaining show and I like it for that.
What I'm reading now
Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea, which so far feels like it wants to be The Neverending Story.
Total number of books and comics read this year: 6