Wednesday Reading Meme
Summer proceeds apace. Really, very little is happening. It rained yesterday and this morning, but not enough to get anywhere near close to removing the countrywide fire ban. At least we don't have quite as epic fires as Sweden has going. Yet.
Holiday plans also proceeding apace. I'll need to buy a new suitcase - the handle is literally falling off the old one, which was a fairly cheap, supermarket born specimen, which has followed me loyally these last few years.
What I've recently finished reading
Olga Ravn: De ansatte
Willow G. Wilson: Ms. Marvel: Mecca
How does Marvel on one hand manage to produce something like this, while on the other hand they're turning Steve Rogers into a nazi?
Jeff Lemire: Hawkeye: Hawkeyes
Karin Tidbeck: Jagannath
I rather enjoyed this short story collection. It has one of the more viscerally ugly and blood thirsty imaginings of the fair folk in a couple of the stories, but the ones I liked best were the ones mixing average everyday Sweden with magic - like "Brita's Holiday Village", where a young woman gets to rent a holiday cabin from a distant relative and meets some very nice, almost stereotypical Swedish holiday goer cousins, who might or might not be a breed of insects. Actually, there are a lot of insects in these stories as well - the story "Jagannath", for instance, is set in some sort of a post-apocalyptic future where humanity seems to have entered into a symbiotic relationship with gigantic insects, living inside of them and tending them as they wander the world.
Xavier Dorison: Long John Silver: The Emerald Maze
What I've recently watched
40. American Horror Story: Roanoke
This got far too pretentiously meta for me along the way.
41. Murder on the Orient Express
I must confess, I've never read or watch much Agatha Christie, so I didn't already know who the murderer was. Really, I should get around to reading Agatha Christie. Or take a train holiday on a proper train. Maybe the Transsiberian? Or the Transmongolean, that also sounds good.
What I'm reading now
Plato's Laws (don't judge me, it's a slow read), Carol K. Carr's India Black and the Widow of Windsor, Henrik Pontoppidan's Lykke-Per and Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country.
Total number of books and comics read this year: 147
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Holiday plans also proceeding apace. I'll need to buy a new suitcase - the handle is literally falling off the old one, which was a fairly cheap, supermarket born specimen, which has followed me loyally these last few years.
What I've recently finished reading
Olga Ravn: De ansatte
Willow G. Wilson: Ms. Marvel: Mecca
How does Marvel on one hand manage to produce something like this, while on the other hand they're turning Steve Rogers into a nazi?
Jeff Lemire: Hawkeye: Hawkeyes
Karin Tidbeck: Jagannath
I rather enjoyed this short story collection. It has one of the more viscerally ugly and blood thirsty imaginings of the fair folk in a couple of the stories, but the ones I liked best were the ones mixing average everyday Sweden with magic - like "Brita's Holiday Village", where a young woman gets to rent a holiday cabin from a distant relative and meets some very nice, almost stereotypical Swedish holiday goer cousins, who might or might not be a breed of insects. Actually, there are a lot of insects in these stories as well - the story "Jagannath", for instance, is set in some sort of a post-apocalyptic future where humanity seems to have entered into a symbiotic relationship with gigantic insects, living inside of them and tending them as they wander the world.
Xavier Dorison: Long John Silver: The Emerald Maze
What I've recently watched
40. American Horror Story: Roanoke
This got far too pretentiously meta for me along the way.
41. Murder on the Orient Express
I must confess, I've never read or watch much Agatha Christie, so I didn't already know who the murderer was. Really, I should get around to reading Agatha Christie. Or take a train holiday on a proper train. Maybe the Transsiberian? Or the Transmongolean, that also sounds good.
What I'm reading now
Plato's Laws (don't judge me, it's a slow read), Carol K. Carr's India Black and the Widow of Windsor, Henrik Pontoppidan's Lykke-Per and Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country.
Total number of books and comics read this year: 147
This entry was originally posted at https://oneiriad.dreamwidth.org/490904.html, where it currently has
comments.