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Here there be: icons, fic reccomendations, epic music and my opinions on books (mostly fantasy, urban fantasy, sci-fi, paranormal, historical, crime-mystery, chick-lit) tv series and such. Occasional recipe for a low GI food might come up too. Follow the tags. Old icon posts on lj .
Norse gods and Greek gods
Mar. 27th, 2011 07:43 pm
I've been into mythology for a long time and recently i've spent some time reading books that incorporate or involve in some way the old gods.There was Terra Lynn Childs' Goddess series and Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series, and Gods Behaving Badly - all left me wanting. There's also Neil Gaiman's Amercian Gods (which I'm yet to finish) and Greg van Eekhout, Nancy Farmer, Joanne Harris (Runemarks). But what has been keeping me interested is the new New Zelaland's tv series 'The Almighty Johnsons' about the reincarnated Norse gods. It's pretty good, the actors are not hollywood pretty but they are fine and the acting is really good. I like the plots and hope to see more of it. I really really hope it gets to run its course.
Here's the trailer:
(I'm still hoping to find something about the Slavic gods or folklore though...)
Here's the trailer:
(I'm still hoping to find something about the Slavic gods or folklore though...)
Books in progress
Jan. 3rd, 2011 12:52 pmI have a very bad habit of starting a lot of books at the same time. I'm hoping to finish most of the ones I've started last year in this new year. Books I've started but didn't finish this year are below. There were sadly a lot of those. Some I just forgot about, others I'm tempted to just give up on, but most I just wasn't feeling in the mood for at the moment.
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Ten books from the above will be abandoned but that still leaves me around 50 books. That's about the same amount I've read last year! Geez, I need to stop starting new books before finishing or abandoning for good the previously started ones.
Hopefully this list will help me keep track of the books on my reading pile.
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Ten books from the above will be abandoned but that still leaves me around 50 books. That's about the same amount I've read last year! Geez, I need to stop starting new books before finishing or abandoning for good the previously started ones.
Hopefully this list will help me keep track of the books on my reading pile.
Books read in 2010
Jan. 1st, 2011 01:58 pm So according to goodreads I've read 50 books this year. Not bad. There were some stinky ones and there were some nice surprises. Over all I seem to have got lost in the fantasy, urban fantasy , and young adult genre.
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Books - urban fantasy - faeries
Sep. 2nd, 2010 03:35 amOne of the recent subgenres in urban fantasy is the faery centered one.
I've checked out some of the books dealing with the fae. My two cents:
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa. Book 1 in the Iron Fey series. I gave it 4/5. Good strong heroine, interesting characters and engaging world.
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I've checked out some of the books dealing with the fae. My two cents:
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa. Book 1 in the Iron Fey series. I gave it 4/5. Good strong heroine, interesting characters and engaging world.( See more... )
Books - historicals
Sep. 1st, 2010 03:34 amHistorical fiction, Ive been looking for some good books in that genre but there seems to be a tonne about Tudors and a bit about Plantagenets, some 19th century books and that's pretty much it. Ah, and occasional ancient history book - Rome mostly and some Egypt. Where's something about Russia, Scandinavia, Poland-Lithuania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Bohemia? What about outside Europe? Or Europe pre Christianity but not Rome itself? Hopefully after the current trend about Tudors dies out we'll get some new stuff from a different period.
Icons - Mercy Thompson
Sep. 1st, 2010 03:33 amThis set is mainly from the 'Homecoming' comic book. It's a prequel to the urban fantasy book series by Patricia Briggs that starts with 'Moon Called'. The series is called Mercedes (or Mercy) Thompson from the name of it's protagonist. Who is an awesome heroine, by the way. She's tough but not unrealistically so. She is physically weaker than most characters she interacts with but she's smart and knows when to ask for help. She's part Native American and a walker (coyote shapeshifter, basicaly). The plots are interesting and there's suspense in every book (there are 5 so far), the heroine makes mistakes and has to pay the price, and the almost obligatory in this genre love triangle isn't painful to read and gets resolved well enough and fairly soon. So I definitely recommend the books. Awesome werewolves that actually are thought out (the good and the bad of actually changing into an animal), vampires of the scary type, witches and fae.
As for comics, there's the prequel and the word is out there's more planned - the first book is being adapted to comics.
[1] Mercy as depicted on the Homecoming cover
[2] Mercy from Moon Called comic cover (with Adam in wolf form)
[1] Anna and Charles (the wolf) from the Alpha and Omega book covers (Cry Wolf and Hunting Ground)
[8] Mercy from Homecoming comic
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As for comics, there's the prequel and the word is out there's more planned - the first book is being adapted to comics.
[1] Mercy as depicted on the Homecoming cover
[2] Mercy from Moon Called comic cover (with Adam in wolf form)
[1] Anna and Charles (the wolf) from the Alpha and Omega book covers (Cry Wolf and Hunting Ground)
[8] Mercy from Homecoming comic
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