Category: Accessions

  • 17NOV22 / accessions

    Bit of feminist social history, why not? Three copies, because I volunteered to do a bulk order for what will be the next title tackled by our casual book group. Hoping that reading a non-fiction piece will somewhat reduce my tendency to ramble on about technique and narratology… but based on previous form, it’s not…

  • 02NOV2022 / accessions

    The Ford because it’s one of those sf novels that I’ve often heard spoken highly of, and it was just there on the shelf while browsing the bookstore, so why not? The shiny-shiny how-to-future guide from Danish design/strategy outfit Bespoke is… ah, something like market research?

  • 19OCT22 / accessions

    The long awaited tenth volume of Saga finally washed up on Swedish shores yesterday (and proved very much worth the wait). And I couldn’t pass up a collection of stories by the Magus of Northampton, though I am somewhat trepiditious: I acquired Jerusalem ages ago, but never managed to get more than a quarter through…

  • 15OCT22 / accessions

    An assortment.

  • 06OCT22 / accessions

    Went looking for the new Saga, which has yet to arrive on Swedish shores, but the new Monstress is a fine tide-me-over. A very dark and maximalist series, this, in both its art style and story; Liu’s short prose fiction seems much less densely packed, somehow. But something about this story keeps me coming back;…