Time to blog ~ Manga & books read
So I have read things and watched things and not quite slept enough this week, whoops. I'll get better at the last part, I promise.
The third volume continues just as fantastic as the earlier ones. I was worried that as Rin and Daikichi grew together and more characters are introduced, the story would lose the subtle but very tender emotion that makes it so good. But it really doesn't (except perhaps in the chapter where a new girl at work starts hitting on Daikichi. I was a bit "but why?" over the whole chapter. oh well, just a few pages)
Rin's mother is slowly being fleshed out as a character of her own, the family traditions (awww, planting a tree!) and the growing up and letting go process, it's all portraied so exceptionally well. I wish I had loads of money, because then I'd buy thirty copies of Bunny Drop 1 and hand out to everyone.
My old review in Swedish, written when I had only read about one and a half book. If I got to do it over, I think I would basically just upgrade the series from category "Very good!" to "Best!" ^_^
"Dr W & Mr H" is a thin little book in Swedish, collecting essays by Lars Strand on the topic of the great detective. The essays have titles such as The successful stepchild (about ACD's opinions on Holmes), What's in a name? (name origins and references) and Fan fiction.
I bought it since it only cost 20 SEK now that we're down to the last days of the book sale at work and it is a cute little book concerning my current fandoms. I also needed some commuter reading and this purpose it served eminently
There's not that much new in the fannish side of the essays for me, but the ones about allusions in the works, how Holmes's hat has been drawn through the interpretations etc was new and entertaining tidbits. Not worth the 150 SEK this book originally cost, but absolutely a neat find for a twenty!
The only bit that jarred me a bit was in the essay Strange meetings, which lists some of the famous people that have met Holmes in non-canonical fiction. Oscar Wilde is of course included, but the choice of book is one called "Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde". A book which I gather, both from the brief excerpt in the essay collection and online reviews is pretty bad. Holmes in this book comes off both homophobic and very straight-laced in all areas, which is not really his character. Not, Lars Stand didn't write the book and it is certainly a published book with Wilde coming in as Holmes's client - but I do find it odd that the out-of-characterness of Holmes is not at all commented in the essay. Especially as several other odd portrayals are made fun of or just mentioned to be non-canon based characterizations.
Still, fun little collection, if you ever see it in a Swedish second-hand bin or so, give it a go
Last but not least: I have bought John Ajvide Lindqvists "Lilla Stjärna". Will I dare to read it...? Of course. Will it creep the hell out of me? Ohohoho, yes, most likely!
Originally posted at Dreamwidth.
The third volume continues just as fantastic as the earlier ones. I was worried that as Rin and Daikichi grew together and more characters are introduced, the story would lose the subtle but very tender emotion that makes it so good. But it really doesn't (except perhaps in the chapter where a new girl at work starts hitting on Daikichi. I was a bit "but why?" over the whole chapter. oh well, just a few pages)
Rin's mother is slowly being fleshed out as a character of her own, the family traditions (awww, planting a tree!) and the growing up and letting go process, it's all portraied so exceptionally well. I wish I had loads of money, because then I'd buy thirty copies of Bunny Drop 1 and hand out to everyone.
My old review in Swedish, written when I had only read about one and a half book. If I got to do it over, I think I would basically just upgrade the series from category "Very good!" to "Best!" ^_^
"Dr W & Mr H" is a thin little book in Swedish, collecting essays by Lars Strand on the topic of the great detective. The essays have titles such as The successful stepchild (about ACD's opinions on Holmes), What's in a name? (name origins and references) and Fan fiction.
I bought it since it only cost 20 SEK now that we're down to the last days of the book sale at work and it is a cute little book concerning my current fandoms. I also needed some commuter reading and this purpose it served eminently
There's not that much new in the fannish side of the essays for me, but the ones about allusions in the works, how Holmes's hat has been drawn through the interpretations etc was new and entertaining tidbits. Not worth the 150 SEK this book originally cost, but absolutely a neat find for a twenty!
The only bit that jarred me a bit was in the essay Strange meetings, which lists some of the famous people that have met Holmes in non-canonical fiction. Oscar Wilde is of course included, but the choice of book is one called "Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde". A book which I gather, both from the brief excerpt in the essay collection and online reviews is pretty bad. Holmes in this book comes off both homophobic and very straight-laced in all areas, which is not really his character. Not, Lars Stand didn't write the book and it is certainly a published book with Wilde coming in as Holmes's client - but I do find it odd that the out-of-characterness of Holmes is not at all commented in the essay. Especially as several other odd portrayals are made fun of or just mentioned to be non-canon based characterizations.
Still, fun little collection, if you ever see it in a Swedish second-hand bin or so, give it a go
Last but not least: I have bought John Ajvide Lindqvists "Lilla Stjärna". Will I dare to read it...? Of course. Will it creep the hell out of me? Ohohoho, yes, most likely!
Originally posted at Dreamwidth.