måndag 31 mars 2025

Vad jag läste, såg och hörde på under vecka 13 / 2025

 

Den här veckan har jag väl fått till att läsa en hel del, sedan kanske inte det blivit i de böcker som jag räknar sidor i som fysiska böcker och ljudböcker. Utan jag har läst en hel del på nätet som Webtoons och Manga/Manwha (tror det stavas så).
Har förutom sett på lite youtube sett på några TV-serier som The night agent (3 avsnitt), Outlander (2 avsnitt) och Shetland (1 avsnitt).
Har sedan förutom lyssnat på musik förutom ljudbok.
I veckan har jag även fått till lite skrivande och redigerande av mina manus, men behöver ta tag i det mer, så förhoppningsvis kan jag få till mer de veckor som kommer.
Vad jag läste dag för dag:

24/3

26 sidor ur Red seas under red skies av Scott Lynch (ljudbok)

64 sidor ur Att förhandla med de döda av Maragret Atwood

25/3

85 sidor ur Red seas under red skies

72 sidor ur Att förhanda med de döda (utläst)

26/3

45 sidor ur The space between worlds ur Micaiah Johnson

75 sidor ur Criminal intentions av Cole McCade (ljudbok)

27/3

42 sidor ur Red seas under red skies

22 sidor ur Velocity weapon av Megan O`Keefe

28/3

46 sidor ur Red seas under red skies

93 sidor ur Velocity weapon

29/3

41 sidor ur Red seas under red skies

41 sidor ur The space between worlds

30/3

54 sidor ur Red seas under red skies

53 sidor ur The space under worlds 

Sammanlagt denna vecka
antal sidor 642
antal böcker 1
antal lyssnnade ca timmar 8

Sammanlagt mars
antal sidor 6308
antal böcker 20 (21)
antal lyssnade ca timmar 60½

Sammanlagt februari
antal sidor 4762
antal böcker 13
antal lyssnade ca timmar 30

Sammanlagt januari
antal sidor 35 050
antal böcker 21
antal lyssnade ca timmar 41½

Sammanlagt 2025
antal sidor 45 867
antal böcker 60 (61)
antal lyssnade ca timmar 160½




söndag 30 mars 2025

April - TBR: Tome infinity & beyond readathon

 


Det här var en readathon som jag har deltagit i tidigare så jag blev glad att se att den skulle återkomma nu i april, speciellt sedan jag i slutet av förra året både fick en sådan smak av att läsa science fiction böcker och köpte en hel del. Så efter att ha slått med en tärning för två böcker i varje del av kartan så har jag nu valt de här böckerna att läsa.

Solar frontier (beginner)
4.  Wormhole - Read a book under 300 pages

To be taught, if fortunate - Becky Chambers

2. Planet nebula - Read a book with a colorful cover (har två förslag, får se vilken jag läser)

(Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson) /The blue beuatiful world - Karen Lord

Nebula expanse (intermediate)

4. Time dilation - Read a book that plays with time (time travel, dual timelines, etc.)

The sparrow - Mary Doria Russell

6. Starlight relay - Read a book that has been highly rated or recommended by other readers

Empire of silence - Christopher Ruocchio

Cosmic rift (advanced)

3. Solar eclipse - Read a book with morally gray characters or an antihero

Pandora´s star - Peter F Hamilton

5. Supernova - Read a book that has been on your TBR forever and is about to explode off your bookshelf

Zone one - Colson Withead



Sedan har jag planer på att läsa dessa böcker tillsammans med Evelina

  • Världen runt - Kamerun -  Tålamod - Djalil Amadou Amal

  • VÅR av Ali Smit
  • Ministeriet för tid - Kaliane Bradley
  • Furiously happy Jenny Lawson
Och de här biblioteksböckerna innan jag måste lämna tillbaka dem.
  • Red Mars
  • The sparrow
  • Pandora´s star
  • Kontakt - Carl Sagan
  • Metro 2033 - Dimitrij Ghlucovskij
  • The apothecaray diaries vol 2 och 3 - Hyuga Natsu
  • Universums olösta gåtor - Lawrence Krauss
  • Ett universum ur ingenting - Lawrence Krauss
  • Den största berättelsen hittills - Lawrence Krauss
  • Yona the dawn vol 4 och 5 - Mizuho Kusanagi
  • Tokyo Ghoul vol 1 - Ishidia Suy
  • Fruit basket vol 3 - Natsuki Takaya
  • Seven days - Benio Tachibana
  • Kamisama kiss vol 1 - Julietta Susuki
  • Infinity gate - Mike Carey
  • Arrival - Ted Chiang
  • Hyperion - Dan Simmons
  • In deep waters - F T Lukens
  • The turn of the key - Ruth Ware

lördag 29 mars 2025

Att förhandla med de döda: En författare om skrivandet av Maragret Atwood

 

Vilken är författarens roll? Att vara profet? Hovnarr? Ett slags Konstens överstepräst? Eller ligger i rollens kärna kanske i första hand en uppgift att bära vittnesbörd om den samtida verkligheten? Med denna centrala fråga i fokus ser Margaret Atwood tillbaka på sin egen barndom och sin karriär som författare och granskar samtidigt de metaforer som andra skönlitterära författare och poeter har använt för att förklara - eller ursäkta - det som de sysslar med. Hon synar kritiskt i sömmarna de dräkter som författare genom tiderna ansett det lämpligt att ikläda sig och de roller som de har valt att spela.

Skildringen av de både levande och döda författare som Margaret Atwood valt att syna balanseras hela tiden av anekdoter från hennes egna erfarenheter som författare i hemlandet Canada och på den internationella arenan. Det lätta anslaget skymmer på intet sätt hennes allvarliga syn på såväl syftet som nöjet med att skriva, och inte heller hennes stora kunskaper om myter och traditioner i västerländsk litteratur.

Bokomslag och beskrivning av bokens handling hämtad från Bokus.

Om den inte var igenom helt så bra som jag hade hoppats så fanns det vissa partier jag gillade mer än andra att läsa om både att skriva och läsa böcker. 

fredag 28 mars 2025

Romance/erotik jag läst under första kvartalet 2025

 Ibland måste jag bara välja att lyssna (läsa) på inte så fina böcker som andra, utan jag tar en bra underhållnigen genom att lyssna på romance (erotik) berättelser då och då. Men det är ju inte så att jag behöver göra ett enskilt blogg-inlägg för varje, så här kommer en sammanslagning av dem.

Betyg 4 av 5

BRADY

Our quick hellos are followed by drawn out goodbyes.

What started out as one fun night turned into a regular thing none of us ever planned for.

I can't walk away from Kit and Prescott. Kit is the stern nurturer I need. He's the caretaker, the solid presence. Prescott enables my wild ways. He's someone I can have fun with. They couldn't be more perfect for me.

But come graduation, I have to move across the country, and geography isn't our only obstacle. Being in a relationship with two men isn't good for my public image, my brother's NFL career, or the media frenzy that surrounds my famously queer family.

We have a plan to meet up once a year, but with every reunion, every brief visit, we fall deeper.

There has to be a breaking point, something that will end it for us, or soon it will be impossible to say goodbye at all.

Betyg 3 av 5

Michael Sebastian thought that Curacao would be the perfect place to have a little fun in the sun—and between the sheets. So far, no one has struck his interest, until Sam Anderson walks into the bar. With one look at his tense body and expensive suit, Michael knows that this is a man in need of release. And Michael is more than willing to lend a hand.

Shattered by the most intense sex he's ever had, Sam has to face the facts—one night with a handsome, dominating stranger is all he gets before returning to the closet he's been suffocating in for years. But when Sam starts his new job as the CEO of a failing technology company, he discovers that Michael is one of his new employees.

While Michael is desperate for another night with Sam, he knows he shouldn't get involved with his boss, let alone another man who can't accept who he is. But as they're forced to work together to save the company, the desire sparking between them becomes impossible to ignore.

Contains mature themes.

Betyg 4 av 5
FOSTER

“Look out for Zach and don’t hit on him.”

My brother’s request sounds easy enough. Keep an eye out for his best friend on campus and keep my hands to myself.

Easy.

Even if Zach is a quintessential nerd, who I’ve always thought was cute, I don’t have the time to think with my … stick.

There’s only one stick I should be focused on this year, and that’s my hockey stick. My goal once I graduate is to get an NHL contract.

The last thing I need is a distraction. On or off the ice.

Only, keeping to the rules is harder than I thought it would be.



ZACH

People confuse me.

And no one more than Foster Grant.

I’ve barely spoken two words to him in the whole time I’ve known him, but the second I step foot on campus, he’s impossible to shake.

I can never anticipate his next move. And whenever we’re together, my next move is a total mystery as well.

I want to give in to him, but that might mean coming clean about something I’ve never been bothered about before.

I’m still carrying my V-card.

And I think it’s time to turn it in.
Betyg 4 av 5
EZRA

Partying, dudes, and hockey. What more could a gay NHL player want?

If it weren't for Anton Hayes, my life would be perfect.

Not that he affects my life in any way. At all. That would imply I care what the winger from Philly thinks of me.

Which I don't.

Not even a one-night stand with him can thaw his misplaced animosity toward me.

He says I'm the one with the ego, but he can talk. He rivals me for most egotistical puck boy in the league.

I hate him as much as he hates me. Even if I crave a repeat.


ANTON

When it comes to hockey, I'm all about the game.

I've worked for years to be one of the best in the league, and l've done it without splashing my orientation all over the tabloids.

My hockey image is one I've carefully cultivated, and after one night with Ezra Palaszczuk, I risk it all.

He's cocky, obnoxious, and has an ego bigger than Massachusetts. And okay, maybe he's the sexiest man I've ever known.

We'll never get along. Not when we sleep together. Not even when my possessive streak awakens.

That doesn't stop us from falling into bed together over and over again.
Betyg 3 av 5

Professor Derek Rutledge is hated and feared by all of his students. Strict, reserved and ruthless, he doesn't tolerate mistakes and has little patience for his students.

Shawn Wyatt is a twenty-year-old struggling to provide for his younger sisters after the death of their parents. On the verge of losing his scholarship, Shawn becomes desperate enough to go to Professor Rutledge.

Everyone says Rutledge doesn't have a heart. Everyone says he's a ruthless bastard. Shawn finds out that everyone is right.

He strikes a deal with Rutledge, but unexpectedly, the deal turns into something so much more.

Something all-consuming and addictive.

Something neither of them wants.
Betyg 3 av 5
Alexander Sheldon likes order and control in his life. He isn’t happy when his girlfriend invites another guy for a threesome. Alexander believes in monogamy, and he’s never been good at sharing his things. It doesn’t help that Christian rubs him the wrong way from the beginning.

But what starts as animosity turns into something else. Something unexpected and very wrong.

He was never supposed to touch Christian. He was never supposed to feel possessive of the guy. And he most definitely wasn’t supposed to want Christian more than he wants his girlfriend.

It’s a recipe for disaster.

Note: This book contains some M/F/M sex and graphic language.

Betyg 3 av 5

They took too much.
Left too little.
I had nothing to lose...until him.

*****************

~Lana~

I didn't expect him.
I didn't want to fall in love.
But I can't let him go.

Logan Bennett makes the world a safer place.
He's brilliant.
He's a hero.
He locks away the sick and depraved.
But while he's saving lives, I'm taking them. Collecting the debts that are owed to me.

Ten years ago, they took from me. They left me for dead.
They should have made sure I stayed dead.

Now I'm taking from them.
One name at a time.

I've trained for too long.
I've been patient.
I can't stop now.

Revenge is best served cold...

They never see me coming, until I paint their walls red.

Logan doesn't know how they hurt me. He doesn't know about the screams they ignored. He doesn't know how twisted that town really is.

He just knows people are dying.
He doesn't know he's in love with their killer.

No one suspects a dead girl.
And Logan doesn't suspect the girl in his bed.

They're looking for a monster.
Not a girl who loves red.
Not a girl in love.

I'm a faceless nightmare.

At least until I tell them the story they've pretended never happened.

But in the end, will Logan choose them? Or will we watch them burn together?

**Graphic
**Adult language
**Some triggers could be too much for the easily disturbed reader
**Sexual content
**Fucked up moral compass; read at your own risk.
Betyg 3 av 5
They always want to break me, but I'm too strong now. Untouchable.
Or at least I was...until her.

****
LOGAN

I've had tunnel vision for one main goal for so long, that I forgot there was a whole other world just outside. Until Lana.

She's everything I never expected, and I love the fact I can never guess her every move or reaction. It's part of the reason I keep falling. But I also know she shuts me out, hides things from me she feels she can't share.

One day, I hope she trusts me enough to share.

It isn't until my job puts her at risk that I realize just how fierce she is, but it doesn't stop me from doing all I can to protect her. I should walk away to protect her better, but I can't. Instead, I'm forced to find other ways to keep her safe.

I just hope it's enough.

Though she is fierce, she's still fragile...

Right?
Betyg 3 av 5

To kill a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. To love a monster, you have to share your soul...

Logan Bennett makes me want to have a future not tainted by the constant hunger for revenge. Doesn't mean I can stop. Doesn't mean I want to stop. It just means I want more...one day.

But how do you make a good man love the monster inside you without stripping his soul away as well? He is all the best parts of me right now, resurrecting bits of my heart I forgot could even exist.

He makes me feel something other than cold.

He also thinks I'm weak and fragile. Something I laugh about to myself, while secretly soaking in all his protectiveness and concern.

If anyone touches him, harms him, or even threatens him, then they should probably run. Because his girlfriend is a little bit crazy. They just don't know it yet.
Betyg 3 av 5
To understand the monsters in the world, you have to get inside their heads. It's a dangerous place to be, especially when you start to empathize and lose your own sense of morality.

But that's never happened to me...

I've never felt conflicted on any case. Right is right and wrong is wrong. It's simple. Black and white. There's no such thing as a gray area.

But fuck this case. I don't even know what side I'm on anymore. I don't understand how this town can continue to function without breaking under the weight of all the lies they've spun and lived.

Every time I find a shard of truth, my gut twists, my heart beats faster, and I hate this place a little more. Every time I think I've heard the worst, another truth is dug up from the ashes of more burning lies.

Worst of all, I don't even know who to trust anymore. My head is all messed up.

I pride myself on being impossible to fool.
I'm an expert at knowing when someone is lying to me.
I never believed in being blinded by love...until Lana.

**BE WARNED: Some flashbacks can get intense to readers with a sensitive trigger. Skip the blocks in italics if that's the case.
För hela serien sammanslagen. Den var underhållande. Betyg 4 av 5
Hush, little baby, don't say a word...

Will Logan choose them? Or will we watch them burn together?

It's time to fuck with their minds.
It's time to finish it all.
It's time to paint it all red...

Monsters don't usually wish for happily-ever-afters.

torsdag 27 mars 2025

Hett i hyllan vecka 13 / 2025

 

Så här skriver Monika om Hett i hyllan:

Jag bara gissar nu, men jag tror inte jag är ensam om att ha en del böcker i hyllan som stått där i evinnerliga tider. Är det inte dags att de där, halvt, bortglömda böckerna får ta lite plats och synas? Jo, det tycker jag. Verkligen. Därför kommer de, en efter en, att dyka upp här varje torsdag under rubriken Hett i hyllan. Lite lagom tvetydigt, eller hur? Vad har du för dolda skatter i hyllan?

Ännu en del i en triologi som jag köpte efter att ha läst första delen och gillat. Men kan då funderar över varför jag ännu inte har läst den, varför blir det så varje gång, jag gillar en serie men det tar tid innan jag läser vidare i serien ...


As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant new novel from the Hugo-nominated author of Foundryside and the Divine Cities trilogy
 
Having narrowly saved the metropolis of Tevanne from destruction, Sancia Grado and her allies have turned to their next task: sowing the seeds of a full-on magical-industrial revolution. If they succeed, the secrets behind scriving—the art of imbuing everyday objects with sentience—will be accessible to all of Tevanne’s citizens, much to the displeasure of the robber-barons who’ve hoarded this knowledge for themselves.  
 
But one of Sancia’s enemies has embarked on a desperate gambit, an attempt to resurrect a figure straight out of legend—an immortal being known as a heirophant. Long ago, the heirophant was an ordinary man, but he’s used scriving to transform himself into something closer to a god. Once awakened, he’ll stop at nothing to remake the world in his horrifying image.
 
And if Sancia can’t stop this ancient power from returning? Well, the only way to fight a god…is with another god.