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[MOVIE REVIEW] A Garbagefire Trying to Be a Movie, or: Disney Ruining Everyone's Childhood, Again! - Artemis Fowl

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Like many I waited for years to finally see Artemis Fowl as a movie. This boy, this book series that was just as much part of my growing up as Harry Potter is something near and dear to my heart and I waited patiently. I actually never thought we would get anything because for some reason it never got the hype it should have gotten in my opinion. So when I heard that it would finally become a movie I was excited. Of course that was in about 2013 when Disney acquired the rights so that should have told me enough about how horrendous this adaptation would be as it took this long to be made. The last time I was this pissed off about an adaptation was when I watched The Last Airbender (also Suicide Squad but that was a shit movie in general and I'm not too familiar with the source material unlike in the case of ATLA and Artemis Fowl) so you can imagine already what this movie was like. It ripped out my heart, spit and stepped on it, put it through the meat-grinder, and left it ...
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[TV REVIEW] Toss A Coin To Your Witcher: The Witcher Season 1 (non-spoiler)

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After the long wait we finally got it: the first season of The Witcher on Netflix! I guess we all were worried how it would turn out. Since experiencing one of the most annoying endings in fantasy television in 2019 people get especially careful. I have to say this show now delivers and doesn't disappoint, for the most part. I do love it but there are some things I have to criticize. If you have lived under a rock or just haven't got any friends who play videogames you might not have heard about this one game that is held up as a standard for many by now. The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. An epic fantasy RPG epos that lets you explore the Continent and everything it has to offer. Many people fell in love with this world because of that game (including one Henry Cavill who plays our titular character in the series) and found out that way about the books which the Netflix show is based on. The book series has two short story books of which some stories have been adapted for this ...
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[Wrap-Up] Trees, Paper, A.I.s, and a lot of Ridiculousness: November 2019

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The end of the year is slowly approaching and as many other people I am trying to reach my Goodreads reading goal. To be quite honest, I set it to 50 at the beginning of the year and have changed it every time I reached my goal because I want to keep better track of my reading and I do not care much about reaching my goal in the middle of the year already. So far I'm up to 74 and I kind of hope to make 80 by the end of December. Let's see if I'll manage that. But first we have to talk about what I read in November of this year. I didn't read as much as last month but that was to be expected. Still, seven books in a month is still very good for me. I'm a bit surprised sometimes how I manage that but I spend enough time on public transport to get some reading in every day. I read about 2804 pages which averages to ca. 94 pages a day. Which seems right as I read about 50 pages in the morning and about 50 on my way home most of the time. This was also a month ...
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[Review] Who wouldn't die for Doomslug? - "Starsight" by Brandon Sanderson

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What happens if you mix a "Kampfzwerg" ¹ , an AI with an existential crisis, and a whole lot of fighting in space? You get the Skyward series by Brandon Sanderson, and specifically Starsight. One of my most anticipated releases of this year and I had to wait until the year is almost over for it to come out. But the wait seriously was worth it. We pick up about six months after the end of Skyward. The people on Detrius now know somewhat why they are there and why the Krell are fighting them. But to fully survive they need a proper hyperdrive to escape the planet. The best way seems to be to infiltrate the Krell spaceships above their planet. Until one day something arrives on Detrius that changes that plan just a little bit. From here on out there will be slight spoilers for the overall plot. Nothing too spoilery but to properly review this book I have to talk about the thing that changes the plan for the humans on how to escape their planet. Because what arrives o...
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[Wrap-Up] That's What Being Out of a Slump Feels Like: October 2019

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What did I say last month? Apparently I'm out of a slump. And: damn, I definitely am. I need to be careful not to burn myself out. But I'm definitely back in a reading mood (except for one week but that was because I had a strong cold..). So here we are with this month's wrap-up and I finally got around to read more than I have in the last few months. I read about 3566 pages which averages to about 115.03 pages a day. Which, let's be real, is a lot. I mean, I did read a lot of smaller books but it does make this a lot more pages read than I have read in a while. I did realize though that I probably said the wrong average page count the last few times. Well, that can happen. This time I definitely didn't get the wrong count. I also started two other books but pushed them back to the next month or even December for various reasons. One being that I wanted to read more creepy books this month (didn't work out that well) and another reason being that I want ...
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[Review] Mors irrumat omnia - A Modern Female Gothic: "Ninth House" by Leigh Bardugo

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TW: Rape, rape culture, gore and horror, mention of sexism and racism "Mors irrumat omnia. Death fucks us all." Secret societies have been fascinating humans for some time now. From the Illuminati to the Freemasons, there have been plenty of books, articles, and strange forum entries written about any of these. So what would happen if that gets mixed in with magic, colleges, and human rights issues? That's when you get Ninth House. Ninth House tells us the story of Galaxy Stern - called Alex - at Yale after she had been chosen to become part of Lethe, a house on the campus tasked with the looking after and observing of the arcane doings of the "Ancient Eight", secret societies on the Yale Campus dabbling in magic and every house has their specialty. As someone who hasn't even finished high school Alex doesn't seem like she could be able to attend a prestigious college like Yale but she has one talent that got her into it: She can see ghosts...
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