Myntin kirjasto

Permanent collection.
After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the man-made horror of the explosion at the vampire summit, Sookie Stackhouse is safe but dazed, yearning for things to get back to normal. But her boyfriend, Quinn, is among the missing. And things are changing, whether the Weres and vamps in her corner of Louisiana like it or not. In the ensuing battles, Sookie faces danger, death...and, once more, betrayal by someone she loves. And when the fur has finished flying and the cold blood has ceased flowing, her world will be forever altered...

Once again Sookie finds herself in the middle of vampire (and Were) politics and power struggles. I thought it was a good thing the plot didn't focus just on finding Quinn - Sookie was worried about him, yes, but the book took place in Bon Temps and Sookie didn't have to travel anywhere. (Well, for the most part.) It was interesting to find out more about Sookie's new relatives, but on the other hand... Is everybody in Bon Temps some sort of supernatural creature soon? I hope not.
In this book a certain someone recovers from his amnesia. It will be interesting to see what happens next.

No proper journal entries for these (yet)...
60. David Stuart Davies: Bending the Willow: Jeremy Brett As Sherlock Holmes
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5529136 (bookring)

61. Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7159070

62. Iain Banks: The Bridge
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5582693

Is that all? 62?

Oh well, this year a lot of my free time has gone into watching music videos on Youtube and reading band interviews and fan forum discussions. ;-) And I think I've seen more gigs this year than in the previous two years combined! (Although that doesn't take much...) The last gig of the year I saw was Amorphis here in Tampere on the 18th of this month.
Here we go... Skyforger

I've been meaning to post this for a month now... Better late than never, eh?
In the beginning of June I was at the Sauna Open Air metal festival. Why? Because my favourite cello rockers were playing there on Friday [BTW, if anyone is interested, Apocalyptica's recent gig at Ilosaarirock is available at Yle Areena for 30 days: http://areena.yle.fi/video/316757] and on Sunday I wanted to see Nightwish and Stratovarius. This year's Sauna wasn't very sauna-like. It was quite cold on Friday (+7°C, cloudy, occasional showers), but it wasn't too bad - it was just a matter of dressing according to weather. Still, I was glad it was warmer on Sunday (+16°C and sunny). On Friday I was there with a colleague of mine, and on Sunday I went just by myself. Saturday was the festival's biggest day (10 000 visitors) because Mötley Crüe was headlining then, but I wasn't there - I was at the Finnish bookcrossers' summer meet-up in Nauvo.

Some pictures and a bunch of MySpace and YouTube links (clips of varying quality) under the cut.

( Friday, 5.6.2009 )

( Sunday, 7.6.2009 )

Next stop: Ankkarock in August.