Reviews and Comments
DE/EN*; lots of fanfiction, some books and sheet music.
Experimenting with Bookwyrm, to get away from Goodreads and a manually kept text file with things I read.
I mostly keep to the Goodreads rating scale (2 = it was okay, 3 = I liked it, 4 = I really liked it, 5 = top), where I also hand out a 2/3 for a 1/2 when my reason to dislike is more personal than caused by the book. Bad spelling tends to get a downgrade.
*) and bits of Latin, NL, ES, …
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mirabilos reviewed Book of Druidry by Kristoffer Hughes
Review of 'Book of Druidry' on 'Goodreads'
mirabilos reviewed The book of Druidry by Ross Nichols
Review of 'The book of Druidry' on 'Goodreads'
rec: www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2011/08/the-book-of-druidry.html
“maybe don’t read this as first book” and “this is hard-to-digest esoteric teaching, not easy-reading literal statement of fact” (hmm, kinda like Steiner…)
mirabilos reviewed The Sad Bastard Cookbook by Zilla Novikov
ebook available for free here traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook A completely free cookbook for the zero spoons crowd.
…Review of 'The Sad Bastard Cookbook' on 'Goodreads'
via Fediverse: wandering.shop/@youseeatortoise/110821221943156990
mirabilos reviewed The Wicker Man by Robin Hardy
This book describes and expands upon the content of a film of the same name, …
Review of 'The Wicker Man' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I’m a bit too squeamish for some of the things, but I liked that the pagans won over the christians for once. (This was incidentally the point with which this movie was recommended to me.)
The sudden turn before the end surely caught me by surprise.
Some of the filming… was probably done cheaply.
The English of these Scotsmen was very comprehensible even to foreigners (though I still used subtitles, I could have done without for the most part).
mirabilos rated harry potter the deathly hallows: 1 star
harry potter the deathly hallows by J.K. Rowling (yep)
nah
Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual …
Review of "Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come (Oxford English Texts)" on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
URL: archiveofourown.org/works/24779923
This is more of an “it’s okay” than a three-star one but it paid attention to so many (not much) little details I’m rounding up. Despite the romancey bits and the… sudden implosion of plot. It evoked a carpet of detail/feelings, this is weird.
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the …
Review of 'Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings' on 'Goodreads'
mirabilos reviewed A history of the Vikings by Gwyn Jones
Review of 'A history of the Vikings' on 'Goodreads'
mirabilos reviewed The Vikings by Ferguson, Robert
Presents a history of the Nordic warriors and explorers who plundered and traded their way …
Review of 'The Vikings' on 'Goodreads'
mirabilos reviewed Eric by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, Book 9)
Eric, stylized as Faust Eric, is the ninth Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett. It was …
Review of 'Eric' on 'Goodreads'
I had already read this in German, decades ago, but this book will have the honour of being the first Pterry book I’m going to read in its native (and hopefully original) English.
mirabilos reviewed Der grosse Duden by Horst Klien
Review of '\x98Der\x9c grosse Duden' on 'Goodreads'
In meinem Besitz befindet sich stattdessen der Mannheimer Duden („Der Große DUDEN“, Band 1: Rechtschreibung), 15. Auflage (1961) in Leinen gebunden. (Aber ich darf ja bei Gutles keine Editionen oder Bücher mehr hinzufügen… grml…)
mirabilos reviewed King Lear by William Shakespeare (The BBC TV Shakespeare)
King Lear, an aging ruler, attempts to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, who …
Review of 'King Lear' on 'Goodreads'
I do recall having read this. I know I’ve tracked it on Goodreads. So why did the latter lose my review? This makes me angry-annoyed.
Review of 'Celts' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
From “Under the Ancient Oaks”:
「A book to avoid
I love recommending books that I find helpful. I generally ignore books I don’t like, but occasionally I come across something that needs a warning on it. One such book is The Celts: A Sceptical History by Simon Jenkins.
Celtic scholar and author Danu Forest said “I don’t believe in being the Celtic Studies police but this really is toxic nonsense and poor scholarship that was only published due to its emergence from the Westminster bubble.”
This review https://nation.cymru/culture/review-the-celts-a-sceptical-history-by-simon-jenkins/ from Nation Cymru in Wales calls it “irresponsible” “lazy” and says “he makes elementary errors that could have been corrected by looking at Wikipedia. Overall, this is like reading an essay by a clever, ambitious but lazy and contrarian undergraduate, with far too high a regard for his own cleverness.”
Spend your money – and your reading time – elsewhere.」
mirabilos reviewed Steve L. Mcevil by Turnbloom, Lucas
Review of 'Steve L. Mcevil' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
It was a little dorky at times but became better. Loved the cat, too, despite its drawn avatar being not very flattering to cats.