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My favourite series ever... and I agree about the ending. It's one of the best ever, if you ask me. I don't necessarily agree about too long though. I wanted more. And I think one of the reasons King is such a beloved author, is because his books are long and we actually get to spend time with...

I kind of liked the video. It reminded me of their 80's videos. "Breaking the Chains" was supremely weird. Have long since come to terms with what vocal ability there is left. But I think it's a nice song, and basically coming out of (album) retirement and releasing an album 11 years since the...

Watched The Girl on the Train (2016). A thriller I found much more pleasant than I expected it to be. From the intriguing beginning I expected it to go off the rails entirely, judging from the mixed reviews and previous experiences with thrillers of this kind, but it never did. Emily Blunt is...

Finished Billy Summers (2021) by Stephen King. King doing crime once again. A hitman is hired to do one last job before retiring, and it goes like you'd expect it to. Decent, a relatively well-crafted story, but did not hit me like The Institute did earlier this year. Also finished Space Opera...

Indeed. I am all for riffing away with a capo, but I don't much like downtuned music. Just my personal taste. I do like some drop-D riffs, but lower than that and I'm usually out. As for the tuning itself, yeah... But it's the best compromise we'll ever get for playing chords comfortably. Open...

Cool! I wouldn't have minded an 80's sounding record, doing the retro thing - but Shirley worked on this? Definitely going to add it to my collection, no matter what it sounds like.

Finished Antimatter Blues (2023) by Edward Ashton. Excellent sequel. Continues where Mickey7 left off basically, and is a fun and engaging sci-fi story - to me even better than the first novel. I really have no complaints, other than having to wait awhile for the next sequel... Yes, the aliens...

Read Dark Matter (2016) by Blake Crouch. If you by any chance haven't heard of it, it's a technothriller dealing with parallell realities - and an insanely good one. My third book this year dealing with this plot device, and it's arguably the best one. Crouch manages to make it fresh and at the...

Read The Last Passenger (2023) by Will Dean. A thriller, but maybe also horror. Felt like a few crazy Black Mirror episodes in one... and while Dean certainly pulls it off without any dips in momentum or suspense, I called the twists a few chapters in and wasn't surprised in the slightest...

We call them smultron in Swedish. Used to find those in my parents backyard. Absolutely delicious and much better than strawberries. About the OP question - hard to say. Italian ice cream? All'amarena all the way. Cake? Hard to beat strawberry. Eating them just as they are? Depends on what type...

Finished Artemis (2017) by Andy Weir. A paranthesis; an in between filler between two future SF classics. Not all through terrible, but there are other books to read... Also read Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. Reminiscent of Andy Weir in the narrative style, without as much focus on technical...

Read 5 books since I last posted. Among these: Project Hail Mary (2021) by Andy Weir. This is the given SF-classic of the 2020's. Just a fantastic novel. Accessible, optimistic and with huge emotional impact. Perhaps more a classic science fiction story than The Martian, including all the...

Read A Half-Built Garden (2022) by Ruthanna Emrys. A first contact science fiction novel, dubbed 'diaperpunk' by the author in the afterword. Zero action to be found here. Instead, humanity's first contact with extraterrestial intelligent life will focus a lot about motherhood and changing...

I feel like Has anyone seen the series or read the book Behind Her Eyes? My girlfriend showed it to me and...

Finished The Institute (2019) by Stephen King. It's been a few years since I read a King - not because I don't love him, but because it would be the only thing I read otherwise. And does it feel good to be 'home'? Yes, indeed. This novel is back to what King is known for - you've got a former...

Finished Six Wakes. Some nice twists towards the end which made me warm up to it a bit more. Also read The Other Emily (2021) by Dean Koontz. A book I enjoyed more for its quite amazingly crazy plot and twists, than overall execution of. Pacing is weird, with the ending just rushing by in...

Currently reading Six Wakes (2017) by Mur Lafferty. A space opera murder mystery involving six clones crewing a generation ship heading to establish a human colony centuries of travel away from Earth. 24 years or so into the trip, fresh clones awake to find their previous bodies have all been...

Read Autonomous (2018) by Annalee Newitz. Future dystopian Earth where we get to follow a Robin Hood-esque pirate in the business of pirating drugs for the black market, and an android and his partner employed by big pharma on the hunt for her. Quite good. Can robots with human brains fall in...