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And yeah, we are 1½ week into May, so be it. Life continues with work from home - it's very unexciting and you'd think I'd get more reading done, but no, not really. Oh well...
Books I've recently finished reading
Richard Morgan: Woken Furies
Barbara Hambly: Those who hunt the night
This is an excellent vampire novel. The vampires are properly monstrous for once and somehow still, well, not sympathetic, that's not the right word. And the main character James Asher, a ex-spy in Victorian England, who gets forcibly recruited to investigate a series of vampire murders, earn all the points, because he's getting blackmailed with "If you don't comply, we'll kill your wife", and in a lesser work, he'd have been an idiot and not told her of the danger. In this book? He tells her first thing and she goes into hiding and works the case from a different angle and is awesome apart from the vanity of being myopic and refusing to wear her glasses like a sensible woman, damnit woman!
Rene Karpantschof: De stridbare danskere: efter enevælden og før demokratiet 1848-1920
Nivåbilleder: en historisk vandring i Nivå og Niverød
Just learning a bit about my new surroundings.
Peter Bagge: Credo: the Rose Wilder Lane story
Interesting biography - that said. I am left with the feeling that I would have liked neither Rose nor her mother Laura.
Sussi Bech: Nofret: Nattens hævner
Steven Brust: Issola
Aya Shouoto: The Demon Prince of Momochi House vol. 1.
Éric Corbeyran: Vingården
Dobbs: Scotland Yard: I mørkets hjerte
Cyan Wings: They All Say I've Met a Ghost
Cute little novel about a very properly atheist and Marxist young teacher who somehow gets recruited to teach a class full of ghosts and prevails because he is an awesomely good person. Not deep literature, but entertaining (though it would have been better as a comic.)
What I've recently watched
4. Mo Dao Zu Shi season 1.
5. Mo Dao Zu Shi season 2.
Chinese animated series involving the life, death and return to life of a powerful necromancer. It's full of fierce corpses and the occasional rabbit and said necromancer is a very nice young man, apart from the tendency to pull on his love interest'spigtails sacred headband. I mean, he's not technically a love interest in the donghua as it had to get past the Chinese censors, but you know how it is. If you want to try the Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed / Grandmaster... fandom and aren't feeling up to the 1000+ pages novel or the 50 episode live action show, try a few episodes of this and see if it appeals. I mean, they've changed some things - mostly collecting many smaller flashbacks and putting them in order in great lump, and the second season feels too short and I suspect it was shorter than originally intended, but the show is pretty. Also, I really like the intro song for the first season.
What I'm reading now:
Barbara Hambly's Travelling with the dead, Makoto Yukimura's Vinland Saga vol. 9. and Mo Xiang Togn Xiu's The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, which has plenty of flaws and the translation is somewhat clunky, but it's easy to see why it's got a fandom going. Once I'm done with it, I'll be watching the live action show next.
Total number of books and comics read this year: 34
Books I've recently finished reading
Richard Morgan: Woken Furies
Barbara Hambly: Those who hunt the night
This is an excellent vampire novel. The vampires are properly monstrous for once and somehow still, well, not sympathetic, that's not the right word. And the main character James Asher, a ex-spy in Victorian England, who gets forcibly recruited to investigate a series of vampire murders, earn all the points, because he's getting blackmailed with "If you don't comply, we'll kill your wife", and in a lesser work, he'd have been an idiot and not told her of the danger. In this book? He tells her first thing and she goes into hiding and works the case from a different angle and is awesome apart from the vanity of being myopic and refusing to wear her glasses like a sensible woman, damnit woman!
Rene Karpantschof: De stridbare danskere: efter enevælden og før demokratiet 1848-1920
Nivåbilleder: en historisk vandring i Nivå og Niverød
Just learning a bit about my new surroundings.
Peter Bagge: Credo: the Rose Wilder Lane story
Interesting biography - that said. I am left with the feeling that I would have liked neither Rose nor her mother Laura.
Sussi Bech: Nofret: Nattens hævner
Steven Brust: Issola
Aya Shouoto: The Demon Prince of Momochi House vol. 1.
Éric Corbeyran: Vingården
Dobbs: Scotland Yard: I mørkets hjerte
Cyan Wings: They All Say I've Met a Ghost
Cute little novel about a very properly atheist and Marxist young teacher who somehow gets recruited to teach a class full of ghosts and prevails because he is an awesomely good person. Not deep literature, but entertaining (though it would have been better as a comic.)
What I've recently watched
4. Mo Dao Zu Shi season 1.
5. Mo Dao Zu Shi season 2.
Chinese animated series involving the life, death and return to life of a powerful necromancer. It's full of fierce corpses and the occasional rabbit and said necromancer is a very nice young man, apart from the tendency to pull on his love interest's
What I'm reading now:
Barbara Hambly's Travelling with the dead, Makoto Yukimura's Vinland Saga vol. 9. and Mo Xiang Togn Xiu's The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, which has plenty of flaws and the translation is somewhat clunky, but it's easy to see why it's got a fandom going. Once I'm done with it, I'll be watching the live action show next.
Total number of books and comics read this year: 34