New interview alert! I had the opportunity to talk to Dr. Kelsey A. Fuller-Shafer who wrote the upcoming novel Norse Mythology, which is a character analysis of all the great players in Norse mythology! Available for purchase on October 3rd!
9/10, great style, great ideas, great ending. this fanatsy books is about a man finding himself in charge of.. well, you guessed it, defending a walled city. very funny yet surprisingly thoughtful at times. subtraction for talking about racism and xenophobia without knowing much about it. i am absolutely fine with writers not just writing about things they don't experience (obviously). but those shorts parts about the alienating experiences of foreignness felt odd and shallowly researched. apart from those short moments a recommended book.
Oni no Hanayome wa Taberaretai 1-5 by Keiko Sakano
8/10 Yes it's a manga series but let's not be snobbish about it. it looks like a book. it's getting read like a book. it's a book. this series is absolutely soft and simple entertainment. it's about a bride being married to a demon. the series delivers what it promises but nothing else. solid romance escapism. i did not regret buying those books.
Nordic Gods by Johan Egerkrans
10/10 I remember reading this books a couple of years ago and picked it up again for research reasons. Great book as an introduction to nordic, Scandinavian folk and mythology. Nordic Gods does not downplay the pragmatic brutality of skandi folk and myths so i am not sure why that was in the little kids section. Also, normally I don't buy books just for their looks but this time I got the german hardcover edition and it looks great.
My lesbian experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata
10/10 this book was recommended to me and I definitely can see why. This manga talks about mental health and experiences of isolation, anxiety and growing up. A very sweet but raw and honest piece of media not just lonely and/or lesbians can relate to.
Me and my friend just came up with a idea for D&d and/or writing.
The gods go into human form to rest in the mortal realm. There is this one town where they regularly go, when the hero’s go to the town, they see a man who picked a fight with a bunch of kids getting beaten up by said kids with wooden sticks. That man is Ares, the the wooden sticks are actually dragons who transformed into weapons, given to the kids by Quetzalcoatl (because he loves humans).
when they go to the tavern there is bunch of people drunk and fucking around, they are Dionysus and several Nordic gods. Next to them is a old man and his family, the old man is complaining to the waiter about how he should get a discount, wile his family just looks disappointed, that man is Ra and his family are the other Egyptian gods.
They go to the library and there’s Hastur (king in yellow) complaining about how his book got taken down (because whoever read it died), on the other side of the library there’s a old man with an eyepatch reading with a stack of books that he has already read beside him, that’s Odin.
A old women keeps watching a eagle, they are Hera and Zeus, and Zeus is waiting for Hera to look away so he can get with some humans. When they go to the hot springs there’s a man chilling there, he’s Cthulhu and he’s surprising really chill. finally there’s a couple other playing with there dog with a women watching them from behind a tree, the couple is Hades and Persephone playing with Cerberus, and the women watching them is Demeter.