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KapteinB  ·  2187 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's been too long! Book thread time. What have you been reading?

In the last 194 days, let me think.

I've read a couple of books by Jo Nesbø, in the Harry Hole series. Phantom was pretty good, a bit more like a pulp detective novel than the noir detective novels most of the previous books in the series would probably be considered as. Hole no longer works for the police department at this point, so he takes the law into his own hands to get to the bottom of a murder in Oslo's drug scene.

After finishing that one, I started reading Police, the next in the series, but I kinda lost interest partway through. It's a bit slower than most of the books in the series, and I guess I'm starting to tire of the characters.

Instead I read a book in the Discworld series: The Wee Free Men. The story is about a girl who wants to become a witch, who has to rescue her younger brother from a dream world that is colliding with the real world, assisted by a clan of tiny Scottish pixies (pictsies). Like most of Pratchett's work it's quite delightful, even though I'm not really the target audience for this particular book, which is apparently meant to be an introduction to the Discworld universe for younger readers.

Also; comics! Does that count? Does it count if they're hardcover?

There's a small Danish publishers that does reprints of older mostly Franco-Belgian comics in hardcover format, so I've been reading a lot of Spirou and The Bluecoats. Comics I enjoyed very much when I was young, and it turns out as an adult as well. The quality of Spirou has varied a lot over the years, as different writers and artists have been at the helm. The Bluecoats on the other hand has been consistently good, with the same writer/artist duo making the comic since 1972 (and making it still). If you don't have much experience with European comics; The Bluecoats might be a good place to start. British publisher Cinebook is doing English translations.