Recent content by Maturin

Read None of This is True (2023). A beach read, fast simple and not much substance. I like the idea of a thriller framed through a Netflix documentary based on the events... But for this sort of book to be fun it needs some crazy twists, and this book had none that weren't already obvious.

Anyone into Saraya? Here's "Tear Down The Wall", off When the Blackbird Sings (1991). More hard rock than metal, but the vocals are amazing.

Read With a Vengeance (2025) by Riley Sager. Todd Ritter is not a good writer, and with his pseudonym he's riding a wave of popular thriller/mystery novels penned by women. That this sort of guy writes very cynically thought out stories based on tropes, is of no surprise at all. Here he riffs...

Watched The Count of Monte Cristo (2024), the French movie. Rewatched The Count of Monte Cristo (2024), the English language mini-series starring Sam Claflin. Two adaptations, almost released simultaneously. Despite the popularity of the French movie, I found some jarring differences from the...

Read The Tusks of Exctinction (2024) by Ray Nayler. Science fiction thriller about mammoths brought back from the dead - led by the human consciousness of a 100-year dead elephant expert transferred into a mammoth-brain... Decent read. Also read The Year of the Locust (2023) by Terry Hayes...

Read Orbital (2023) by Samantha Harvey. A very short novel detailing the experiece of astronauts on the ISS. Not really any plot, very introspective. Decent read still, great language. Also read Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (2022) by Gabrielle Zevin. A very beautiful novel about two...

Watched Lee (2023), a British biographical war drama starring Kate Winslet. Following a war correspondent (Winslet) through bits and pieces of WWII, including taking a picture in Hitler's own bathtub. Pretty powerful film, but a Hollywood production it ain't. I understand there was a lot to...

The Ministry of Time  (2024) by Kaliane Bradley. Near future, the British government has a time machine - but instead of sending people back, they retrieve historical people who were about to die. Our narrator is a "bridge", a sort of supervisor who is assigned to introducing Graham Gore (a...

Read The Fourth Consort (2025) by Edward Ashton. First contact science fiction, exciting and very well written. Despite being a major page turner of a read, it touches quite a bit on antrophology, honor and communication in a very exciting blend. Pretty good character work as well, both humans...

Saw them this Friday the 13th of June in Stockholm at 3Arena (second show). Great show and my 7th time.

Attended the Håkan Hellström concert on the 7th of June at Ullevi, Gothenburg. New attendance record at 73,781 at the stadium. What did I watch? An insanely well-directed musical set to some kind of weird indie-pop? It wasn't just a concert - but it was glorious. This guy sells out Ullevi 3...

Currently on season 2 of  Outlander, a series I completely adore.

Always (if you mean the IIHF World Championship). Sweden has a strong team and should go far on home ground. There's a massive difference in interest here compared to a decade ago, I'd say.

Read Bridge (2023) by Lauren Beukes. An alternate-reality/multiverse science fiction story, which is my kind of story - period. I enjoyed the fairly novel take on traveling between realities, the characters and the drive of the narrative.