Recent reading
Jun. 19th, 2016 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaBirdbrain by Johanna Sinisalo
I've now read all of her books; this one was fairly good but not my favorite of hers. It's about a Finnish het couple who are hiking in Tasmania, and also about humanity's relationship to nature. Sounds like it would be right up my alley, right? I guess it is, but the guy is the kind of macho hiker who really annoys me--you know the kind who always wants the most expensive equipment, wants to hike the farthest, and get to the most pristine wilderness. He does care about the environment, but in an annoying, sanctimonious way. Pretty sure the author made him annoying on purpose, though. As usual with Sinisalo, the ending is well thought out and retroactively makes sense of things that didn't make sense earlier in the book.
Glupahungern by Andrea Lundgren [approximately The Greedy Hunger, though that's a bad translation]
Swedish contemporary fantasy or fairy tale, set in northern Sweden. I was very impressed by an SF short story by this author, so I checked out other stuff she's written. This was fairly good but not up to the level of that short story. It's about women in three generations and how they're bound to some sort of magic deep in the woods.
I've now read all of her books; this one was fairly good but not my favorite of hers. It's about a Finnish het couple who are hiking in Tasmania, and also about humanity's relationship to nature. Sounds like it would be right up my alley, right? I guess it is, but the guy is the kind of macho hiker who really annoys me--you know the kind who always wants the most expensive equipment, wants to hike the farthest, and get to the most pristine wilderness. He does care about the environment, but in an annoying, sanctimonious way. Pretty sure the author made him annoying on purpose, though. As usual with Sinisalo, the ending is well thought out and retroactively makes sense of things that didn't make sense earlier in the book.
Glupahungern by Andrea Lundgren [approximately The Greedy Hunger, though that's a bad translation]
Swedish contemporary fantasy or fairy tale, set in northern Sweden. I was very impressed by an SF short story by this author, so I checked out other stuff she's written. This was fairly good but not up to the level of that short story. It's about women in three generations and how they're bound to some sort of magic deep in the woods.
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Date: 2016-06-19 11:43 pm (UTC)(The reason you recognize her name is that her short story formed the basis for that remarkable movie, True North.)
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Date: 2016-06-20 08:48 pm (UTC)