What Am I Reading Wednesday
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scripsiI’m a bit all over right now, having a hard time to concentrate on just one thing. I really, really need my vacation and it’s nineteen days to go. Meanwhile I read more books at the same time than usual, flitting from them like a fly and with as much staying power…
What I am reading: Unnatural Death? by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Elephantasm by Tanith Lee. I found it second hand on Amazon for next to nothing. Yay!
Deadlight Hall by Sarah Rayne
What I have finished reading: The Dreams In the Witch House This is one of the first LOvecraft stories I read and I still found it rather scary, even if it has several over the top moments. A young man take lodgings in an old house where, in the 17th century , the witch Keziah Manson lived. She had a rat.like familiar called Brown Jenkins and disappeared before she was hanged. Oh, and she apparently kidnapped and killed small children. Anyways, the young man dreams nightmares, growing more and more horrible and perhaps old Keziah isn’t quite dead…
The Whispering by Sarah Rayne. Now, Rayne’s books, which is a kind of historical horror books, usually contains the following: An old house/building with an unsavoury rumour. A person from the past whom no one really knows the fate of. Old papers/letters/books/diaries/news clippings that gradually tell that person’s story. Two people who fall in love. Insanity. And two or sometimes even three timelines, usually with parallel plots.
I enjoy stories like that and some of her books are very enjoyable, most notably Ghost Song and The Roots of Evil, but I kind of binge read most of her books when I first found them and by the end the formula felt it repeated itself a bit too much. So I can recommend her, but don’t read several in a row…
Most of her books has no supernatural elements but The Whispering is part of a series featuring an Oxford scholar and the owner on an antique store who gets involved in various ghosts with an unresolved past. In this book the scholar goes to visit an old lady in an old house to research a choir active during WWI. Pretty quickly he also realises that the house also has a ghost, a young man in uniform who pleads to be let back inside. I’d say it holds fair middling ground as a Rayne-book, not her best, but not disappointing either.
What I will be reading next The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers.
I also just noticed that Valérian and Laureline, writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières, is being released in Swedish again. In case you don’t know about it, this is a series of graphic novels, SF-stories about two time and space travellers. Some, not all of them and not in chronological order, have been published in Swedish before, but now they are release in the right order and all of them. I can safely say that these books were my first introduction to SF when I was about four or five. I couldn’t read, but was entranced by the pictures. Husband had most of them, but they disappeared with a former girlfriend. So we decided to give ourselves the ones that has been published so far (12) as a summer gift to ourself. I can’t wait to re-read some old favourites and also to read some I never read before.
What I have been watching Husband and I just saw The Angels Take Manhattan and I cried, of course. But it’s funny, I like Eleven so much more on re-watching than I did the first time. I think I was a bit traumatized by Ten leaving…
One episode left of Penny Dreadful. I think the second season is much stronger than the first, and I loved season one. I’m so pleased that there will be a next season. And we watched the last of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel yesterday. I loved the whole series and I wished they had sprung for eight episodes instead of odd seven and thus having had a bit more time for some scenes that got a bit rushed. Now I a. want the sequel Susannah Clarke is said to be writing and b. getting it made into an equally visually spectacular TV-series.
Tried the two first episodes of Wolf Hall but it didn’t grabbed me. Partly, I suspect, because this is one of my favourite historical periods so I already know what will happen to everyone… But I think I’m going to watch Poldark which I haven’t read or seen before
, so it should be nice.
I’ve also watched the first episode of True Detectives and feel a bit meh. I thought the first season was great and perhaps my hopes are set too high.
What I am reading: Unnatural Death? by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Elephantasm by Tanith Lee. I found it second hand on Amazon for next to nothing. Yay!
Deadlight Hall by Sarah Rayne
What I have finished reading: The Dreams In the Witch House This is one of the first LOvecraft stories I read and I still found it rather scary, even if it has several over the top moments. A young man take lodgings in an old house where, in the 17th century , the witch Keziah Manson lived. She had a rat.like familiar called Brown Jenkins and disappeared before she was hanged. Oh, and she apparently kidnapped and killed small children. Anyways, the young man dreams nightmares, growing more and more horrible and perhaps old Keziah isn’t quite dead…
The Whispering by Sarah Rayne. Now, Rayne’s books, which is a kind of historical horror books, usually contains the following: An old house/building with an unsavoury rumour. A person from the past whom no one really knows the fate of. Old papers/letters/books/diaries/news clippings that gradually tell that person’s story. Two people who fall in love. Insanity. And two or sometimes even three timelines, usually with parallel plots.
I enjoy stories like that and some of her books are very enjoyable, most notably Ghost Song and The Roots of Evil, but I kind of binge read most of her books when I first found them and by the end the formula felt it repeated itself a bit too much. So I can recommend her, but don’t read several in a row…
Most of her books has no supernatural elements but The Whispering is part of a series featuring an Oxford scholar and the owner on an antique store who gets involved in various ghosts with an unresolved past. In this book the scholar goes to visit an old lady in an old house to research a choir active during WWI. Pretty quickly he also realises that the house also has a ghost, a young man in uniform who pleads to be let back inside. I’d say it holds fair middling ground as a Rayne-book, not her best, but not disappointing either.
What I will be reading next The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers.
I also just noticed that Valérian and Laureline, writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières, is being released in Swedish again. In case you don’t know about it, this is a series of graphic novels, SF-stories about two time and space travellers. Some, not all of them and not in chronological order, have been published in Swedish before, but now they are release in the right order and all of them. I can safely say that these books were my first introduction to SF when I was about four or five. I couldn’t read, but was entranced by the pictures. Husband had most of them, but they disappeared with a former girlfriend. So we decided to give ourselves the ones that has been published so far (12) as a summer gift to ourself. I can’t wait to re-read some old favourites and also to read some I never read before.
What I have been watching Husband and I just saw The Angels Take Manhattan and I cried, of course. But it’s funny, I like Eleven so much more on re-watching than I did the first time. I think I was a bit traumatized by Ten leaving…
One episode left of Penny Dreadful. I think the second season is much stronger than the first, and I loved season one. I’m so pleased that there will be a next season. And we watched the last of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel yesterday. I loved the whole series and I wished they had sprung for eight episodes instead of odd seven and thus having had a bit more time for some scenes that got a bit rushed. Now I a. want the sequel Susannah Clarke is said to be writing and b. getting it made into an equally visually spectacular TV-series.
Tried the two first episodes of Wolf Hall but it didn’t grabbed me. Partly, I suspect, because this is one of my favourite historical periods so I already know what will happen to everyone… But I think I’m going to watch Poldark which I haven’t read or seen before
, so it should be nice.
I’ve also watched the first episode of True Detectives and feel a bit meh. I thought the first season was great and perhaps my hopes are set too high.
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Date: 2015-07-01 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-03 09:43 am (UTC)My husband, who didn't like the book and never finished it, was a bit reluctant to watch it, but got completely hooked.
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Date: 2015-07-02 03:07 am (UTC)And gods, I miss Eleventy. But then, I sulked for a year after listening to people on The Interwebs and wound up pissed because I missed his first whole year because of said Peoples on the Interwebs. Never again, say I!!
Ironically...he is My Doctor. But then, that's just me *chuckles*
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Date: 2015-07-03 09:45 am (UTC)I didn't dislike Eleven, it was just that Ten was (and is) MY Doctor when it comes to New Who, so I didn't want him gone. But after re-watching Eleven has really grown on me. And of course, I have always loved Amy Pond.
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Date: 2015-07-06 06:26 pm (UTC)Yay for nice watching/reading!
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