Wednesday Reading Meme - actually on a wednesday
I guess I haven't been doing much of interest these last couple of weeks. I went to see Justice League - it was underwhelming. Not even terrible, just - meh. Watched the DC CW shows crossover, as you might have noticed. That sort of thing. Caught some Farfetch'ds. Have yet to participate in a Ho-Oh raid. The raids have started stopping earlier in the evening since we switched to winter time. It's annoying for a working person like myself.
What I've recently finished reading
Christina Vorre: Forladt: fortællinger fra 20 ubeboede danske øer
Reading this book - which is a short collection of stories from a number of formerly inhabited, but now abandoned islands in Denmark - we've got so many, many islands, most uninhabited - made me think of the the current "war" between Copenhagen and Outer Denmark, which mostly seems to exist in the minds of the latter. These islands were the exact same story, just earlier. The entire modern period has been the movement away from small, lonely country areas, and probably a lot of that has to do with the fact that small and remote areas are actually hard to get all the modern conveniences we require out in. I mean, who wants to live somewhere where you can't even expect a cellphone to get a signal? What if you need to call an ambulance?
Grant Morrison: Wonder Woman: Earth One vol. 1.
Well. That was a trainwreck. What the fuck did I just read? Amazons being - very, very, very into "loving submission", and canon lesbian Diana wanting an African-American Steve Trevor to put on a collar and lovingly submit and in general? This is a trainwreck of a comic? WTF? I just - I adore the character of Diana, but the Azzarello comics I read were just weird and this is? Why can't I find a nice comic about Wonder Woman? Am I just getting the wrong ones?
Mike Mignola: B.P.R.D.: War on Frogs
Siri Pettersen: Evna
And so the tale of Hirka ends, with the Ability restored and Ymsland needing to do some serious rebuilding. I liked this trilogy. And it vaguely amuses me that, if this ever makes it into a movie, that the filmmakers will have all the excuses in the world to include all the leather bikines and bondage gear.
Katrine Sommer Boysen & Sophie Engberg Sonne: Filmens københavn: hovedstaden i levende billeder
Gorgeous book. Not deep, but lovely.
Kojo Svedstrup Jantuah: Odyssey to Elsinore: reconciliation with the past in order to move forward
On one hand it's an interesting book. Written by a Ghanese academic, telling about his youth, where he travelled across Sahara, following the same dangerous routes the current migrants use, his work for reconciliation after the history of slavery, and his visits in Denmark to search for his relatives, as he's a descendant of one of the last Danish officers in the Danish African colonies before we sold them to England. It's a lot of interesting subject matter. Sadly, it's not really a very engaging book, but I'm not sure if that's because Jantuah is not a skilled writer, or because he's writing in a narrative tradition that I'm not used to reading and therefore not quite capable of appreciating properly.
Fred Van Lente: Ivar, Timewalker: Making History
I'm giving it one more volume.
Warren Ellis: Injection vol. 1.
I am not entirely sure what's happening, but I'm intrigued.
What I'm reading now
Jan Guillou's 1968 and Neal Stephenson's The Rise and Fall of DODO.
What I'm reading next
All the fanfic, probably.
Total number of books and comics read this year: 181
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What I've recently finished reading
Christina Vorre: Forladt: fortællinger fra 20 ubeboede danske øer
Reading this book - which is a short collection of stories from a number of formerly inhabited, but now abandoned islands in Denmark - we've got so many, many islands, most uninhabited - made me think of the the current "war" between Copenhagen and Outer Denmark, which mostly seems to exist in the minds of the latter. These islands were the exact same story, just earlier. The entire modern period has been the movement away from small, lonely country areas, and probably a lot of that has to do with the fact that small and remote areas are actually hard to get all the modern conveniences we require out in. I mean, who wants to live somewhere where you can't even expect a cellphone to get a signal? What if you need to call an ambulance?
Grant Morrison: Wonder Woman: Earth One vol. 1.
Well. That was a trainwreck. What the fuck did I just read? Amazons being - very, very, very into "loving submission", and canon lesbian Diana wanting an African-American Steve Trevor to put on a collar and lovingly submit and in general? This is a trainwreck of a comic? WTF? I just - I adore the character of Diana, but the Azzarello comics I read were just weird and this is? Why can't I find a nice comic about Wonder Woman? Am I just getting the wrong ones?
Mike Mignola: B.P.R.D.: War on Frogs
Siri Pettersen: Evna
And so the tale of Hirka ends, with the Ability restored and Ymsland needing to do some serious rebuilding. I liked this trilogy. And it vaguely amuses me that, if this ever makes it into a movie, that the filmmakers will have all the excuses in the world to include all the leather bikines and bondage gear.
Katrine Sommer Boysen & Sophie Engberg Sonne: Filmens københavn: hovedstaden i levende billeder
Gorgeous book. Not deep, but lovely.
Kojo Svedstrup Jantuah: Odyssey to Elsinore: reconciliation with the past in order to move forward
On one hand it's an interesting book. Written by a Ghanese academic, telling about his youth, where he travelled across Sahara, following the same dangerous routes the current migrants use, his work for reconciliation after the history of slavery, and his visits in Denmark to search for his relatives, as he's a descendant of one of the last Danish officers in the Danish African colonies before we sold them to England. It's a lot of interesting subject matter. Sadly, it's not really a very engaging book, but I'm not sure if that's because Jantuah is not a skilled writer, or because he's writing in a narrative tradition that I'm not used to reading and therefore not quite capable of appreciating properly.
Fred Van Lente: Ivar, Timewalker: Making History
I'm giving it one more volume.
Warren Ellis: Injection vol. 1.
I am not entirely sure what's happening, but I'm intrigued.
What I'm reading now
Jan Guillou's 1968 and Neal Stephenson's The Rise and Fall of DODO.
What I'm reading next
All the fanfic, probably.
Total number of books and comics read this year: 181
This entry was originally posted at https://oneiriad.dreamwidth.org/479874.html, where it currently has
comments.