Wednesday Reading Meme - now with extra stuff
Rather embarrassingly I managed to skip the first week of this year's post. Bad me. Ahem.
What I've recently finished reading
Carrie Vaughn: Kitty saves the world
And so we come to an end. You know, even with the threat of Yellowstone volcanic eruption, this felt a bit - the end of the threat of Roman wasn't quite as epic as a villain as terrible as he was usually referred to deserved? Anyway - I liked how practically every friend and ally of Kitty's from the previous books made appearances. Including Sun Wukong :-)
Lukian: Havdialoger
I really need to read more Lucian.
Frank Madsen: Bob Dylan svarer ikke!
Warren Ellis: Injection vol. 2.
Reading volume two you have the advantage that things are actually making sense now. So, I am still enjoying this series. This time I got to follow consulting detective Vivek Headland investigate a case involving the theft of a ghost with added bits of cannibalism, and of course it all ties back to the Injection, the supernatural creature that somebody (*cough*the main characters*cough*) thought it was a brilliant idea to put in the Internet to make the future interesting...
Geoff Johns: Justice League: Darkseid War part. 2.
I found myself rather liking the story about the rebel Amazon and her daughter by Darkseid. It's messed up, but that feels appropriate.
Michelle Sagara: Cast in Flight
Almost. We were so close to a novel where things didn't get fixed by the heroine's mystical magical tattoos doing weird things and her just following her instincts, but we didn't quite avoid it this time either. Still, I found this book better than some of the previous ones, maybe because at least Kaylin didn't spend the entire book wandering off into places she had no business going? This actually mostly followed the story of people investigating a crime - the attempted murders on Kaylin's new roommate, a fellow Hawk who is apparently the Aerian version of the divine incarnate - and there's a fancy dinner with dragons halfway through. It was fun.
Greg Rucka: Wonder Woman: The Lies
I liked this considerably more than the other WW comics I've encountered - and since the last one of those made me go "WTF was Grant Morrison thinking?", that was a pleasant surprise. I especially enjoyed the Cheetah and her and Diana teaming up, and I am interested in following Diana's search for the real Themyscira now.
Maria Turtschaninoff: Naondel
This is a horrible book. By which I don't mean that it is a not a good book - it is. The characters are good, the descriptions, the world building. It's just - awful, because awful things happen, again and again and again, relentlessly until the very end. It's like that torture porn H/C fanvid some years ago (On the prowl?), in that we get most of a book telling the story of a collection of (mostly magically inclined) women unwillingly ending up in the harem of an evil vizier. There is so much rape and hurt in this book, it's not even remotely funny, and while we get a happy ending (and having read the previous book, Maresi, which this is a prequel for, you know you'll get to the point where the characters somehow escape and go build a women's only monastery on a tiny island far away) it felt like too few pages at the end to balance out the rest. But it is a good book, except that it's horrible. (Should I read Arra as well now?)
Claus Lund Rosenkilde: Den usynlige bog
Hmmm. Okay, so - this is a very straightforward locked room murder mystery of the old school. Seriously old school. We've even got a scene where the local Poirot/Sherlock/Miss Marple equivalent gets to assemble everybody in the locked room and explain how it all happened. And it's set at my place of work. And - this is where I might be unfair, but that bit - is not so good. It's not bad, either. If you're not familiar with the place, I imagine it's fine. I just - it's clearly set a couple of years in the future (since there's no bridge there yet and that building is not done yet, so it must be), and it just feels off. Internal building geography - they walk down a hallway leading away from that reading room to get into the reading room? And we've got no paternoster. And no, I don't care about the ambience, open flame in the old building would never be allowed. And I'm fairly sure that if we did find a mysterious room full of old spell books, they'd go to preservation department before any researchers got to touch them. And... yeah, you get what I'm trying to say, right? I suspect the author read our website and probably visited himself and strolled through the building, but never went further...
What I've recently watched
1. Castlevania season 1.
This was fun. I mean, it feels more like a prologue than a proper season of anything, but it's fun. Even though I still mostly cheer for the villain - well, the vampiric villain, not that bishop asshole. And I enjoyed watching poor Trevor Belmont who just wants to be left in peace except there are monsters that needs to be fought, and I am going to look forward to season 2 and watching Belmont and Alucard and Sylpha have some nice OT3 moments, please.
What I'm reading now
Peter Tudvad's Manteuffel, aka a vampire novel with a terrible title.
What I'm reading next
Well, I just put a copy of Trine Ipsen's fantasy novel Under skoven danser vi in my bag to have something to read on the train tomorrow.
Total number of books and comics read last year: 202
Total number of books and comics read this year: 4
This entry was originally posted at https://oneiriad.dreamwidth.org/482971.html, where it currently has
comments.
What I've recently finished reading
Carrie Vaughn: Kitty saves the world
And so we come to an end. You know, even with the threat of Yellowstone volcanic eruption, this felt a bit - the end of the threat of Roman wasn't quite as epic as a villain as terrible as he was usually referred to deserved? Anyway - I liked how practically every friend and ally of Kitty's from the previous books made appearances. Including Sun Wukong :-)
Lukian: Havdialoger
I really need to read more Lucian.
Frank Madsen: Bob Dylan svarer ikke!
Warren Ellis: Injection vol. 2.
Reading volume two you have the advantage that things are actually making sense now. So, I am still enjoying this series. This time I got to follow consulting detective Vivek Headland investigate a case involving the theft of a ghost with added bits of cannibalism, and of course it all ties back to the Injection, the supernatural creature that somebody (*cough*the main characters*cough*) thought it was a brilliant idea to put in the Internet to make the future interesting...
Geoff Johns: Justice League: Darkseid War part. 2.
I found myself rather liking the story about the rebel Amazon and her daughter by Darkseid. It's messed up, but that feels appropriate.
Michelle Sagara: Cast in Flight
Almost. We were so close to a novel where things didn't get fixed by the heroine's mystical magical tattoos doing weird things and her just following her instincts, but we didn't quite avoid it this time either. Still, I found this book better than some of the previous ones, maybe because at least Kaylin didn't spend the entire book wandering off into places she had no business going? This actually mostly followed the story of people investigating a crime - the attempted murders on Kaylin's new roommate, a fellow Hawk who is apparently the Aerian version of the divine incarnate - and there's a fancy dinner with dragons halfway through. It was fun.
Greg Rucka: Wonder Woman: The Lies
I liked this considerably more than the other WW comics I've encountered - and since the last one of those made me go "WTF was Grant Morrison thinking?", that was a pleasant surprise. I especially enjoyed the Cheetah and her and Diana teaming up, and I am interested in following Diana's search for the real Themyscira now.
Maria Turtschaninoff: Naondel
This is a horrible book. By which I don't mean that it is a not a good book - it is. The characters are good, the descriptions, the world building. It's just - awful, because awful things happen, again and again and again, relentlessly until the very end. It's like that torture porn H/C fanvid some years ago (On the prowl?), in that we get most of a book telling the story of a collection of (mostly magically inclined) women unwillingly ending up in the harem of an evil vizier. There is so much rape and hurt in this book, it's not even remotely funny, and while we get a happy ending (and having read the previous book, Maresi, which this is a prequel for, you know you'll get to the point where the characters somehow escape and go build a women's only monastery on a tiny island far away) it felt like too few pages at the end to balance out the rest. But it is a good book, except that it's horrible. (Should I read Arra as well now?)
Claus Lund Rosenkilde: Den usynlige bog
Hmmm. Okay, so - this is a very straightforward locked room murder mystery of the old school. Seriously old school. We've even got a scene where the local Poirot/Sherlock/Miss Marple equivalent gets to assemble everybody in the locked room and explain how it all happened. And it's set at my place of work. And - this is where I might be unfair, but that bit - is not so good. It's not bad, either. If you're not familiar with the place, I imagine it's fine. I just - it's clearly set a couple of years in the future (since there's no bridge there yet and that building is not done yet, so it must be), and it just feels off. Internal building geography - they walk down a hallway leading away from that reading room to get into the reading room? And we've got no paternoster. And no, I don't care about the ambience, open flame in the old building would never be allowed. And I'm fairly sure that if we did find a mysterious room full of old spell books, they'd go to preservation department before any researchers got to touch them. And... yeah, you get what I'm trying to say, right? I suspect the author read our website and probably visited himself and strolled through the building, but never went further...
What I've recently watched
1. Castlevania season 1.
This was fun. I mean, it feels more like a prologue than a proper season of anything, but it's fun. Even though I still mostly cheer for the villain - well, the vampiric villain, not that bishop asshole. And I enjoyed watching poor Trevor Belmont who just wants to be left in peace except there are monsters that needs to be fought, and I am going to look forward to season 2 and watching Belmont and Alucard and Sylpha have some nice OT3 moments, please.
What I'm reading now
Peter Tudvad's Manteuffel, aka a vampire novel with a terrible title.
What I'm reading next
Well, I just put a copy of Trine Ipsen's fantasy novel Under skoven danser vi in my bag to have something to read on the train tomorrow.
Total number of books and comics read last year: 202
Total number of books and comics read this year: 4
This entry was originally posted at https://oneiriad.dreamwidth.org/482971.html, where it currently has
comments.