Bøker jeg skal lese i januar

 

Sleeping with the Enemy - Nancy Price

The Farmhouse - Chelsea Conradt

Snøengler - Geir Tangen

The Creeper - A.M. Shine

Going Home in the Dark - Dean Koontz

Sacrificial Animals -  Kailee Pedersen

 

Godt nytt år. 🎉 👿

Jeg går skammens vei inn i 2026, siden jeg ikke klarte hundre bøker i fjor av helsemessige årsaker. Det ble bare 60 bøker. Det er første gang jeg har feilet å lese hundre bøker eller mer siden 2016, så det er en god stund siden. Så prøver det samme igjen i år.

Noen av disse bøkene så dere kanskje på denne siden i løpet av fjoråret. Fleste av dem er bøker jeg ville lese i fjor, men som det ikke ble noe av, typisk. Så prøver igjen nå i januar.

 

Sleeping with the Enemy: Denne thrilleren gikk mange ganger på Tv før i tiden med Julia Roberts. Har sett filmen en del ganger selv. Er på ingen måte fan av Julia Roberts. Syns hun er litt slitsom i lengden, men de lager ikke thrillerfilmer som før i tiden. Da de var mer intense. Nå er ofte thrillere ganske tungtrødde. Så er spent på hvordan boka er.

 

(Fra Goodreads):

She is a stranger in a small town. She changed her name. Her looks. Her life. All to escape the most dangerous man she ever met: her husband.

 

 

 

The Farmhouse: Ofte liker jeg å bestille bøker jeg ikke vet noe om, for ofte blir jeg lei av å se de samme bøkene dukke opp overalt, hele tiden. Har ikke fått den i hus ennå, men håper at den komer i løpet av januar. 

 

 

(Fra Goodreads):

 

 

Every woman who has lived on this farm has died. Emily just moved in.

When Emily Hauk's mother dies, it's time for her and her husband, Josh, to finally leave San Francisco. A farm in rural Nebraska is everything they want for a fresh start: clear skies, low costs, and distance from the grief back home. 

They should have asked why the farm was for sale. 

Three years ago a teenage girl went missing from the farm. Soon afterward, the girl's mother mysteriously died. The deeper Emily digs the more stories she uncovers of women connected to her new home who've met their own dark ends.

With each passing day Emily's sanctuary slips further away. The barn seems to move throughout her property as though chasing her. Her mother's favorite music drifts across the cornfield. She swears she saw blood in one of the farmhand's trucks. And the screams that wake her are not fox howls, no matter how many times her husband says they are. If she wants to claim this place as her own she'll have to find out the truth before whatever watches from the cornfield takes her, too. 

Snøengler: Tangens nyeste bok som jeg egentlig skulle lese i fjor, men som det ikke ble noe av. Har lest og likt de fleste bøkene hans, og håper denne er like dyster.

 

(Fra Bokelskere):

Det er januar og kuldebølge i Haugesund. En iskald morgen blir en kvinne funnet frosset i hjel ved Haraldsstøtta, Norges Riksmonument. Hun er kledd naken, dekket av rim og plassert i snøen som om hun har lagd en engel. Kvinnen viser seg å være datteren til en av Norges rikeste og mektigste menn; skipsrederen Fritz Evensen. På funnstedet finner etterforskerne flere spor som peker mot menn som hater kvinner. Et av dem er en plastengel med påskriften St. Elliot – et viktig symbol for incel-miljøet. Så dukker en ny død kvinne opp på akkurat samme måte. Denne gangen i den lille bygda Vikedal, og det er ei 16 år gammel jente.

De grusomme drapene ryster Gabriel Fjell og resten av politikammeret i Haugesund. Fra Oslo får de hjelp fra Kripos-etterforsker Aida Ibrahim, men snart begynner trusselen å peke i retning av at drapsmannen bare så vidt har begynt på sin vendetta. Ingen vet hvem som blir neste offer, og denne gangen kan det ramme Gabriel hardere enn noen gang før.

 

The Creeper: Leste en bok av ham tidligere som het The Watchers. Elsket boka, men hatet filmatiseringen. Likte hans fortellerstemme ganske godt som var veldig kryptisk. Håper denne er like kryptisk. 

 

(Fra Goodreads): 

Superstitions only survive if people believe in them...

Renowned academic Dr Sparling seeks help with his project on a remote Irish village. Historical researchers Ben and Chloe are thrilled to be chosen—until they arrive...

The village is isolated and forgotten. There is no record of its history, its stories. There is no friendliness from the locals, only wary looks and whispers. The villagers lock down their homes at sundown. A nameless fear stalks the streets...

Nobody will talk—nobody except one little girl. Her story strikes dread into the hearts of the newcomers. Three times you see him. Each night he comes closer...

That night, Ben and Chloe see a sinister figure watching them. He is the Creeper. He is the nameless fear in the night. Stories keep him alive. And nothing will keep him away...

The Creeper is a masterful tale of horror and suspense, by one of Ireland's most talented emerging authors.

 

Going Home in the Dark: Kul tittel og kult cover, også er det jo Koontz. Boka ble utgitt i fjor og var tidlig ute med å skaffe meg den, også, men som vanlig er jeg en somlekopp, så håper jeg får lest den nå i januar.

 

(Fra Goodreads):

 

When hometown horrors come back to haunt, friendship is salvation in a novel about childhood fears and buried secrets by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz.

As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams―and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. Don’t they remember people lapsing into comas back then? And those people always awoke…didn’t they?

After two decades, not a lot has changed in Maple Grove, especially Ernie’s obnoxious, scary mother. But Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer begin to remember a hulking, murderous figure and weirdness piled on mystery that they were made to forget. As Ernie sinks deeper into darkness, something strange awaits any friend who tries to save him.

For Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer, time is running out to remember the terrors of the past in a perfect town where nothing is what it seems. For Maple Grove, it’s a chance to have the “four amigos,” as they once called themselves, back in its grasp.

  

Sacrificial Animals: Nok en bok jeg ikke har hørt noe om fra før, så er spent på hvordan det blir. Noen ganger må man våge å ta sjanser, og jeg får jo ikke nok av horror ...

 

(Fra Goodreads): 

 

Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up on a farm in Nebraska, this rich and atmospheric supernatural horror debut explores an ancient Chinese mythology.

The last thing Nick Morrow expected to receive was an invitation from his father to return home. When he left rural Nebraska behind, he believed he was leaving everything there, including his abusive father, Carlyle, and the farm that loomed so large in memory, forever.

But neither Nick nor his brother Joshua, disowned for marrying Emilia, a woman of Asian descent, can ignore such summons from their father, who hopes for a deathbed reconciliation. Predictably, Joshua and Carlyle quickly warm to each other while Nick and Emilia are left to their own devices. Nick puts the time to good use and his flirtation with Emilia quickly blooms into romance. Though not long after the affair turns intimate, Nick begins to suspect that Emilia’s interest in him may have sinister, and possibly even ancient, motivations.

Punctuated by scenes from Nick’s adolescent years, when memories of a queer awakening and a shadowy presence stalking the farm altered the trajectory of his life forever, Sacrificial Animals explores the violent legacy of inherited trauma and the total collapse of a family in its wake. 

 

Som vanlig kommer jeg å smette inn andre bøker underveis. Så får man se hvilke av bøkene jeg rekker å lese i løpet av januar. Jeg er og blir en treg leser.👿

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