Lovecraft County, Vision & The Scarlet Witch: A Year In The Life, The Fellowship Of The Ring

My Week In Books February 22nd-28th

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

I read H.P Lovecrafts complete works last winter and while there where elements I enjoyed I couldn't get past his blatant prejudices, classism and racism and nor would I want to. I read a lot of classics and so I'm usually able to see it through the lense of the time in which it was written but I wasn't able to do that with H.P. Lovecraft.

Lovecraft Country tackles the conjunction between the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft and racism in the United States during the era of Jim Crow and it tackles it amazingly well. Lovecraft Country is a book worthy of anyone's bookshelf. Every carachter came to life with ease, none of them felt forced or two dimensional. I especially loved Atticus, Letitia and Ruby.

I have yet to watch the TV Show adaption but now that I have read the book I feel like I know these carachters and can't wait to dive in and compare my imagination with that of the screen version.

4/5

Avengers Vision & The Scarlet Witch : A Year In The Life

Continuing my reading of all Wanda / Vision materials from Marvel I can get my hands on in order to deduce what the hell is going to happen on Friday with WandaVision.

I won't say anymore as I don't think I can without spoiling the show

All I will say is that it had some nice moments and some connections but nothing overly illuminating.

4/5

The Fellowship Of The Ring

This was a re-read. I found myself a bit bored. I suppose since first reading Tolkien I have explored many other amazing fantasy books and so on this reading I found it a bit lacking.

Don't get me wrong it's still a masterpiece but I was wishing myself done with it in order to move on to other things.

4/5

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My Week In Books (March 15-21)

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