February Reading

I guess I'm not really getting the 'blog once a week' thing done yet, but hey, here's some books I read. For a change.

Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
This was a little odd, because I didn't recognise some of the bad guys as bad guys until quite late in the book. I didn't get the reasoning employed. Oh well. Other than that, it was a lot of fun. :)

Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
Also a little odd. Hm, maybe because the books have turned away from the formula they had going in the beginning. I really enjoy that they're getting more and more interconnected. :)

Quellen heiterer Tierweisheit
One of those small books you buy to give a little gift to someone. However, this one is really really nice - nice paper, nice illustrations, different styles of script used for each saying...very nice. I think in the 90s we had a lot of these going around. Wonder if they're still being produced...

Jim Butcher, White Night
Yay, vampires! Pretty crazy. Maybe even really crazy.

Neil Gaiman, Odd and the Frost Giants
Quick little read. Very funny, and touching. First 'short' story I read by him. I know, I know. :P Guess I really should go and finally read the Calendar of Tales stories...so much magic in so few words.

Nitya Lacroix, 101 Essential Tips Relaxation
I bought this one ages ago. Probably in 1999, when on holiday in the USA. Back then, I was stuffed to the brim with teenage angst and relationship problems, and quite rightly thought I needed to relax. Didn't work that well, but hey.
Now, many many years later, I'm stuffed to the brim with work that needs to be done and rightly think I need to relax. The tips given now also make more sense to me than they did way back when. Slowly getting to implementing at least some of them.

Andreas Platthaus, Die 101 wichtigsten Fragen. Comics und Manga.
Research! YES! Research for a paper I should have sent in yesterday (...), actually. Well, they'll get it on Tuesday or something. Anyway...RESEARCH. Ahahahaha.
(In relating news, I found out yesterday that something called 'Game Studies' actually exists...not that I doubted that it did, somewhere, or would soon, but...there's an Austrian university that is actually doing some work in that area. Honestly, I'm slowly starting to think that my university here is one of the most backwards places in literary studies you could find. :P)

And right now I'm in the middle of:
Jim Butcher - Small Favour
Jim Butcher - Side Jobs (reading the stories when appropriate)
Frederik L. Schodt - Dreamland Japan. Writings on Modern Manga.

More wizards, more research. And then only four more Dresden books to go and I'm finally caught up. Phew!