Thanks Andrea! 🫂

I'm thinking about re-reading Hervé Le Tellier's "The Anomaly" all of a sudden but I still have "The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild" to finish. So many books left to read!

(The metaphor of wine cellars for unread books just doesn't work for me, since I don't really drink alcohol)

I guess I'm slowly easing myself out of my fiction slump. There was a period not so long ago when I struggled to read novels. Science fiction seems to be doing the trick, although I've yet to finish "This is How You Lose the Time War" — maybe the writing is just too convoluted for me?

Also must've been tragic to be a woman before feminism was a thing, imagine being horny but living in a society which judged you for sleeping around, so you had to summon a literal demon to fool around with

You're here!

It offers no explanations of its history nor a deeper exploration of its characters. It's just a bomb exploding after another to keep you awake enough to make it to the end. I'd say it didn't age well but I don't think it deserved the awards and nominations it received in the first place.

It's a rowdy film that felt it was made for an audience of boys who refuse to grow up. Guns, idiotic humor, the sheer confidence that comes simply from being a cishet man. Even the cheesy “Love saves the day!” ending felt contrived and undeserved.