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This blog has not been active for some years, but you can still check out all the posts here and the blog will remain online. I hope to find time to blog about books in English again one day.
Missing you by Harlan Coben
Jeff left Kat, now a NYPD detective, abruptly 18 years ago, same time her NYPD detective father was shot dead by gangsters. Heartbroken, Kat goes on with her life, which now 18 years after her father died and her fiancee left her is so-so. She drinks too much, doesn’t have a boyfriend and her partner at […]
The Last Thing I Remember by Andrew Klavan
This is a young adult book for boys aged 12-15 years. Supposed to be action packed, I must say I was pretty boredwith it. Well, I am not a boy and I am not aged 12-15, but still, I enjoy a YA-novel as much as the next person. The Last Thing I Remember has an […]
White Trash Cooking by Ernest Matthew Mickler
Food is all around. Not just as something that we need to survive, but also in the form of books, supplements in papers, food blogs, super star chefs, Michelin starred restaurants, tv-programs, different “schools” and movements being the it-trend (like raw food is the big thing in Denmark right now), other movements going back. And […]
Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Winter’s Bone is taking place in the Ozark Mountains amongst poor and violent white trash families, cooking crank in their kitchens and outhoses and living in an almost clan-like society leaving absolutely no room for what they consider mistakes. You pay dearly if you make a wrong move or wrong decision Ree Dolly is 16 […]
Black Hole by Charles Burns
Black Hole is a weird grapic novel about teenage angst and alienation. We are in Seattle in the 1970’s and high school kids do whatever it is highschool kids has always done and probably always will do: fall in and out of love, argue with their parents, drink, party, experiment with drugs and sex, skip […]
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Somewhere in the hilly country of East Tennessee, you can meet Lester Ballard, the main character in Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God. And he is not a likeable type at all. He has been released from jail only to find that his place has been sold, and now he is homeless. This does not sit […]
Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson
I do have a thing for Joshilyn Jackson’s books. Or rather, it seems like I have a thing for every second book she writes. I loved her first one, Gods in Alabama, I did not really care for the second one Between Georgia, but when I read The Girl Who Stopped Swimming, her third book, […]
Swallow me Whole by Nate Powell
Swallow me Whole is scary. But in a completely different manner from Coraline (see below). And it deals with a whole other set of problems than gothic Coraline does. Swallow me Whole has characters, Ruth and Perrym who are some years older than Coraline. They are in highschool and they are stepsiblings. And something is […]
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (graphic novel)
Do you still remember the land between being a child and a young adult? The year or so just before puberty? Yes, this one is for kids, Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. And yes, you all read it, I know. But darn this was a scary read for this adult reader, and I felt like I was […]