torsdag 30 oktober 2014
Mitt positiva liv
Alcazar-Andreas, eller HIV-Andreas, som han blev sen, berättar om hur det var att få HIV och leva med det som en hemlighet i ett helt decennium innan han vågade gå ut och berätta. En hemlighet som han kunde bevara tacke var några otroligt tursamma situationer, till exempel i Australiens tull, och som ledde till ett kokainmissbruk.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,
was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced
house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs
Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and
repainted. It was a story of survival.
This book is that story's the silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mother and a journey into madness and out again. It is generous, honest and true.
Enligt Amazon är boken i genren Lesbiska biografier. Jag tycker nog att Jeanettes förfärliga uppväxt är mer utmärkande än hennes lesbiskhet. Fast det är klart, titeln är vad hennes adoptivmamma sa när hon höll fast vid att hon älskade kvinnor.
This book is that story's the silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mother and a journey into madness and out again. It is generous, honest and true.
Enligt Amazon är boken i genren Lesbiska biografier. Jag tycker nog att Jeanettes förfärliga uppväxt är mer utmärkande än hennes lesbiskhet. Fast det är klart, titeln är vad hennes adoptivmamma sa när hon höll fast vid att hon älskade kvinnor.
onsdag 1 oktober 2014
Just One Evil Act
Sergeant Barbara Havers
is at a loss: The daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar has been taken
by her mother, and Barbara can’t really help—Azhar had never married
Angelina, and his name isn’t on Hadiyyah’s, their daughter’s, birth
certificate. He has no legal claim. Azhar and Barbara hire a private
detective, but the trail goes cold. Azhar is just beginning to
accept his soul-crushing loss when Angelina reappears with shocking
news: Hadiyyah is missing, kidnapped from an Italian marketplace. The
Italian police are investigating, and the Yard won’t get involved, until
Barbara takes matters into her own hands — at the risk of her own
career.As both Barbara and her partner, Inspector Thomas
Lynley, soon discover, the case is far more complex than a typical
kidnapping, revealing secrets that could have far-reaching effects
outside of the investigation. With both her job and the life of a
little girl on the line, Barbara must decide what matters most, and how
far she’s willing to go to protect it. En gastkramande bra bok. Får toppbetyg av mig. 870 sidor kändes väldigt långt när det var som mest spännande, men sen tog boken slut för fort.
tisdag 26 augusti 2014
En man som heter Ove
Ove är 59. Han kör Saab. Folk kallar honom "bitter" och "grannarnas
skräck". Men Ove är fan inte bitter, grymtar han. Han går väl bara inte
runt och flinar jämt!
Varje morgon tar Ove sin inspektionsrunda i kvarteret. Flyttar cyklar och kontrollerar källsorteringstunnorna. Trots att det är flera år sedan han avsattes som ordförande på bostadsrättsföreningens årsstämma. Eller "den där statskuppen", som Ove själv bara minns den.
Men bortom den vresige ordningsmannen finns en historia och en sorg. Så när de nyinflyttade grannarna i radhuset mittemot en novemberdag råkar förstöra Oves brevlåda blir det upptakten på en komisk och hjärtevärmande berättelse om tilltufsade katter, oväntad vänskap och den uråldriga konsten att backa med släp. Som kommer förändra en man och en bostadsrättsförening i grunden.
Varje morgon tar Ove sin inspektionsrunda i kvarteret. Flyttar cyklar och kontrollerar källsorteringstunnorna. Trots att det är flera år sedan han avsattes som ordförande på bostadsrättsföreningens årsstämma. Eller "den där statskuppen", som Ove själv bara minns den.
Men bortom den vresige ordningsmannen finns en historia och en sorg. Så när de nyinflyttade grannarna i radhuset mittemot en novemberdag råkar förstöra Oves brevlåda blir det upptakten på en komisk och hjärtevärmande berättelse om tilltufsade katter, oväntad vänskap och den uråldriga konsten att backa med släp. Som kommer förändra en man och en bostadsrättsförening i grunden.
tisdag 19 augusti 2014
Gone Girl
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy
Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and
reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife
disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River.
Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with
cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head,
but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could
have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the
police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town
golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate
behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he
really a killer? As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon
wondering how well they know the one that they love. With his twin
sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if
Nick didn’t do it, where is that beautiful wife?
Jättespännande rakt igenom. Bra skriven. Toppbetyg!
Jättespännande rakt igenom. Bra skriven. Toppbetyg!
tisdag 5 augusti 2014
The Midwife of Hope River
As a midwife working in
the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression,
Patience Murphy's only solace is her gift: the chance to escort mothers
through the challanges of childbirth. Just beginning, she takes on the
jobs no one else wants: those most in need-and least likely to pay.
Patience is willing to do what it takes to fulfill her mentor's wishes,
but starting a midwife practice means gaining trust, and Patience's
secrets are too fragile to let anyone in.
Väldigt bra bok med många fina förlossningsberättelser.
Väldigt bra bok med många fina förlossningsberättelser.
lördag 31 maj 2014
Daughters-in-law
As Anthony and Rachel
Brinkley welcome their third daughter-in-law to the family, they don’t
quite realize the profound shift that is about to take place. For
different reasons, the Brinkleys’ two previous daughters-in-law hadn’t
been able to resist Rachel’s maternal control and Anthony’s gentle charm
and had settled into their husbands’ family without rocking the boat.
But Charlotte—very young, very beautiful, and spoiled—has no intention
of falling into step with the Brinkleys and wants to establish her own
household. Soon Rachel’s sons begin to think of their own houses as home
and of their mother’s house as simply the place where their parents
live—a necessary and inevitable shift of loyalties that threatens
Rachel’s sense of herself, breaks Anthony’s heart, and causes unexpected
consequences in all the marriages. Then a crisis brings these changes
to the surface, and everyone has to learn what family love means all
over again.
fredag 23 maj 2014
In a dry season
In the blistering, dry summer, the waters of Thornfield Reservior have
been depleted, revealing the ruins of the small Yorkshire village that
lay at its bottom, bringing with it the unidentified bones of a brutally
murdered young woman. Detective Chief Inspector Banks faces a daunting
challenge: he must unmask a killer who has escaped detection for half a
century. Because the dark secret of Hobb's End continue to haunt the
dedicated policeman even though the town that bred then has died—and
long after its former residents have been scattered to far places . . .
or themselves to the grave.
Inspector Banks-böckerna blir bara bättre och bättre, tycker jag.
Inspector Banks-böckerna blir bara bättre och bättre, tycker jag.
onsdag 2 april 2014
Dead Right
On a rainy night in Eastvale, a teenager is found in an alley,
smashed over the head with a bottle and then kicked to death. At first
it looks like a typical after-hours pub fight gone terribly wrong, but
Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Constable Susan Gay
quickly learn that the victim, Jason Fox, was a member of a white power
organization known as the Albion League. Football-mad Jason, it seems,
was very good at his office job–bright, energetic, quick to learn–but
was let go because of his racist views. As Banks follows the leads, he
comes up with a number of possible suspects: the Pakistani youths Jason
had insulted earlier in an Eastvale pub; Jason’s business partner, Mark
Wood, and his shady friends; someone in the Albion League itself,
someone who resented Jason’s growing power and influence. Or are things
even more sinister than they appear? The investigation takes a
surprising twist when Banks is mysteriously summoned to Amsterdam, where
he is introduced to the bizarre world of cyber-Nazis on the Internet.
As the detectives struggle to solve the mystery of Jason’s death, they also battle their own problems. Susan finds herself in a puzzling relationship with a fellow DC, and tensions that have been brewing for some time between Banks and his wife Sandra finally come to a head. Banks also has to face the challenge of working with Chief Constable Jeremiah “Jimmy” Riddle, a high-flyer who favours a hands-on approach to the job, and who is more concerned with appearances than he is with truth. Just when everything seems cut-and-dried, Banks discovers something that turns the case on its head. Something that might cost him his job.
As the detectives struggle to solve the mystery of Jason’s death, they also battle their own problems. Susan finds herself in a puzzling relationship with a fellow DC, and tensions that have been brewing for some time between Banks and his wife Sandra finally come to a head. Banks also has to face the challenge of working with Chief Constable Jeremiah “Jimmy” Riddle, a high-flyer who favours a hands-on approach to the job, and who is more concerned with appearances than he is with truth. Just when everything seems cut-and-dried, Banks discovers something that turns the case on its head. Something that might cost him his job.
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