After having finished Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, I have read quite a few books. Loads of Russian/Soviet poetry in Danish translation. Best was Anna Akhmatova, but all in all it has really been interesting. Best novel this spring: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's The Most Secret Memory of Men.
But now I decided that I wanted to take up a series of fantasy novels that I stopped reading after number 4. Not sure why I didn't get on with it, but it happens sometimes that I take breaks from books because something happens.
Anyway, Gardens of the Moon is a fantasy novel that is slightly demanding. It is (as far as I understood) based on a yearlong AD&D role playing campaign and for that reason it is also sports some of the absurdities of the Dungeons & Dragons game. For one humans seem to becoming Gods at some point in their career.
The universe is enormous and one of the attractions of the books is to be taken through some really strange places that internally seems logical and thoroughly thought through while it also is foreign and weird.
It is sort of a cruel and war-torn place you enter, the characters are interesting but also seems as foreign as the world. It is also demanding purple prose - but I think it is interesting, and even though I have to reread 4 fat, weird, high-strung epic, overpopulated novels I want to get through it this summer so I can eventually find out what the The Crippled God is.