RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[quillpunk]

It is once more a Wednesday. What are you reading? 👀

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[honigfrosch]

Walter Moers put out a new fantasy novel (The Island of the 1,000 Beacons, again taking place in Zamonia) and I bought the hardcover on impulse. He's still coasting through on my love for his 2004 novel The City of Dreaming Books (how is that fucking twenty years ago?!) - because out of the 5 novels since, I read 3 and they all underwhelmed me. And yet here I am trying my luck with the next one.

I did have three disappointing books in a row (Schrader's Chord by Scott Leed, Prosper's Demon by K.J. Parker, and The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells). I hope to turn my disappointment into entertaining reviews at least. Currently reading another horror novel, Apartment 16 by Adam Nevill which is kinda like Lovecraft through the lens of Francis Bacon, and that should totally be my vibe, but it does drag in places and moves too slowly even for someone like me who likes slow burns. To be quite honest, I was glad to take a break from it by switching to Moers' humorous gothic fantasy this week.

[senmut]

Whoa that sounds fascinating, that last bit.

[honigfrosch]

The book definitely delivers on the "grotesque" component of that comparison. It's really quite dark and occasionally off-putting. Whether it's a good read, that I'm not sure about.