Still Out There :-)

[bimo]

Quite hard to believe that another year has gone by without any proper entry from me, when I’m actually doing fine (considering there’s a global pandemic going on) and reading and waching stuff just as usual. Albeit with a slightly nostalgic, comforting twist to it.

First a complete Babylon 5 rewatch, now ST:DS9. Oh, and lots of Doctor Who, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctor, complete runs, before finally turning back to Ten and Donna. (No way on Earth I am going to watch any more Thirteenth Doctor episodes than I already have at this point, well except for the unlikely case Chris Chibnall should quit as a showrunner while Jodie Whittaker is still being around.)

As for books: Lots of them, yes. Mostly fiction from a variety of genres, the three most memorable novels probably  being Olga Tokarczuk’s  Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead  , Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half and Micaiah Johnson’s The Space Between Worlds.

I guess that’s all for the moment.Greetings to everybody out there. :-)

Take care!

Comments

[kathyh]

Lovely to "see" you. We're fine at the moment too. I've taken the detective story route for nostalgic comfort and seem to be reading about murders all the time. I am sometimes a little worried about my brain if that's the form that comfort takes :)

[bimo]

Any crime novels or writers you would recommend? Because I've been reading quite a few of those as well and am rather fond of the genre.

Oh, and as for rather obscure comfort reading choices: I still remember reading my way through (almost) the entire oeuvre of Stephen King while working on my MA thesis... ;-)

[kathyh]

I must admit I hadn't thought of Stephen King as comfort reading before :)

I've been going old school with crime fiction and have actually been reading some Agatha Christie, who I haven't read very much of before. Just before the pandemic struck we went to a book sale and I bought some Christies, which turned out to be a very prescient choice as they were the only books I could concentrate on at one point. I've also read some of the British Library's Golden Age detective reprints with E.C.R. Lorac and Michael Gilbert being favourites so far. For more recent crime fiction I've read quite a lot of Elly Griffiths' books, which I suppose would be described as "cosy" mysteries with an archaeological twist. She writes the Ruth Galloway series set in Norfolk beginning with The Crossing Places, which are enjoyable enough for me to ignore the fact they are written in the present tense, and another series set in 1950s Brighton, which is fun too. I haven't only been reading crime fiction, but it does seem to hit the spot at the moment.