Bøker jeg skal lese i desember

 

The Lesser Dead - Christopher Buehlman

The Demon - Hubert Selby JR

Tall Oaks - Chris Whitaker

Old Soul - Susan Barker

One Came Back - Rose McDonagh

Slagside - Heidi Søvareide

 

I følge Goodreads  leser jeg nå i 12 bøker, og i stedefor å dra med meg mange påbgynte bøker over til neste år, vil jeg heller bli ferdig med noen av av dem. Blir riktignok ikke ferdig med alle de tolv bøkene i den siste måneden i året, men greit å bli ferdig med noen av dem.

 

The Lesser Dead: En bok jeg har lest litt av og på i flere måneder nå. Liker konseptet om vampyrer som befinner seg i undergrunnen av New York, men går ikke helt overens med fortellerstemmen ... 

 

(Fra Goodreads): 

 

The secret is, vampires are real and I am one.
The secret is, I’m stealing from you what is most truly yours and I’m not sorry—

New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody—he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city’s sidewalks.

The subways are his playground and his highway, shuttling him throughout Manhattan to bleed the unsuspecting in the Sheep Meadow of Central Park or in the backseats of Checker cabs, or even those in their own apartments who are too hypnotized by sitcoms to notice him opening their windows. It’s almost too easy.

Until one night he sees them hunting on his beloved subway. The children with the merry eyes. Vampires, like him…or not like him. Whatever they are, whatever their appearance means, the undead in the tunnels of Manhattan are not as safe as they once were.

And neither are the rest of us.

' to 'The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I’m stealing from you what is most truly yours and I’m not sorry— New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody—he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city’s sidewalks. The subways are his playground and his highway, shuttling him throughout Manhattan to bleed the unsuspecting in the Sheep Meadow of Central Park or in the backseats of Checker cabs, or even those in their own apartments who are too hypnotized by sitcoms to notice him opening their windows. It’s almost too easy. Until one night he sees them hunting on his beloved subway. The children with the merry eyes. Vampires, like him…or not like him. Whatever they are, whatever their appearance means, the undead in the tunnels of Manhattan are not as safe as they once were. And neither are the rest of us.

 

The Demon: Begynte på denne i tidligere i høst. Den har blitt dessverre litt forsømt på grunn av andre bøker. Men syns den har vært interessant så langt.

 

(Fra Goodreads):

Harry White is a man haunted by a satyr's lust and an obsessive need for sin and retribution. The more Harry succeeds -- a good marriage, a good corporate job -- the more desperate he becomes, as a life of petty crime leads to fraud and murder and, eventually, to apocalyptic violence.

 

Tall Oaks: Sliter med dette. Ikke på grun av stor persongalleri fordi det liker jeg, men sliter med fortellerstemmen som er litt overalt og som føler en smule masete. Sliter også med å å få connection til karakterene.

 

(Fra Bokklubben):

På overflaten fremstår Tall Oaks som en idyllisk småby der alle kjenner hverandre og ingenting skjer.

Men da tre år gamle Harry kidnappes, slår fasaden sprekker. Nasjonale medier følger saken fra dag til dag, men til tross for politiets iherdige innsats forblir forsvinningen et mysterium. Tre måneder senere er Harry fortsatt ikke funnet, og den desperate moren Jess og den lokale sheriffen Jim er de eneste som ikke legger saken bak seg. 

Old Soul: En småinteressant bok med et sært plot. Liker at boka hopper gjennom tid og sted.

 

(Fra Goodreads):

The woman never goes by the same name.
She never stays in the same place too long.
She never ages. She never dies.
But those around her do.

When two grieving strangers meet by chance in Osaka airport they uncover a disturbing connection. Jake's best friend and Mariko's twin brother each died, 6,000 miles apart, in brutal and unfathomable circumstances.

Each encountered a mesmerising, dark-haired woman in the days before their deaths. A woman who came looking for Mariko - and then disappeared.

Jake, who has carried his loss and guilt for a decade, finds himself compelled to follow the trail set by Mariko's revelations. It's a trail that weaves across continents and centuries, leading back to the many who have died - in strange and terrifying and eerily similar ways - and those they left behind: bewildered, disbelieved, yet resolutely sure of what they saw.

And, at the centre of it all, there is the same beguiling woman. Her name may have changed, but her purpose has never wavered, and as Jake races to discover who, or what she is, she has already made her next choice.

But will knowing her secret be enough to stop her?

 

One Came Back: Tenk at noen døde, og mange år senere ser du noen som ligner denne personen veldig mye. Hva ville man ha trodd? Spennende konsept, men fortellerstemmen er kanskje noe lav og småuengajerende?

 

(Fra Goodreads):

"On impact, the boy seemed to fold down and disappear, as if maybe he hadn't been there in the first place..."

It's New Year's Eve in Edinburgh when Emily sees Nicky. Or at least she thinks she does. He looks, laughs, and moves just like Nicky. But how can that be? Nicky died when they were teenagers, in an accident on a remote road up in the Highlands... didn't he?

A week later, Emily sees the man again. He says his name Nicholas. This man not only looks like an adult version of her friend, but he also knows things that only Nicky should know.

As her encounters with Nicholas become more frequent and her fixation intensifies, the truth becomes murkier, and more unsettling.

Is Emily being haunted, is she going mad - or is something altogether darker going on...

ONE CAME BACK is a powerfully tense debut novel combining the chill of the modern gothic with the hook of a thriller, exploring the depths of grief, memory, and obsession.

 

 

Slagside: Jeg er ikke altfor glad i ungdomsbøker lenger, men jeg leser dem en gang i blant når jeg er lei av bøker som er ment for min målgruppe. Ofte leser jeg bøker for forskjellige målgrupper. Det gjør meg ikke noe. 

 

(Fra Bokelskere):

 

Nominert til Brageprisen og Sørlandets litteraturpris 2016. Jeg er en som aldri finner ordene, jeg er en som stivner, jeg er en som kjenner raseriet presse på under overflaten, men jeg gjør aldri noe, jeg bare stivner eller går, jeg bare stikker av, jeg er så sint, jeg er så feig - så feig at jeg egentlig fortjener å lide for det. Vilde drar til Bristol for å ta et friår etter videregående. Hun forlater det hun har i Norge - inkludert kjæresten Markus. I Bristol beveger hun seg inn i miljøet rundt den brutale kampsporten Krav Maga, og treffer den underlige og manipulerende Fiona. Dette blir et bekjentskap som skal vise seg å være skjebnesvangert, og som fører Vilde inn i et hjørne hun ikke kommer seg ut av 

  

Godt mmulig jeg smetter inn andre bøker underveis som før, men skal ikke love noe da desember er så ymse.👿

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