Torey Hayden: Ghost Girl

Torey Hayden: Ghost Girl, 1991
Pocket (höpt på loppis)

Den här  gången är temat satanism – nu när jag läst många av Haydens böcker så märker jag ju hur på sätt och vis identiska de är (vissa kritiserar dem mycket som lite ”socialpornografi” och säkert är det så).
Men de är nog mycket mycket skickligt skrivna, man måste bara läsa vidare.

Anne Tyler: Back When We Were Grownups

Anne Tyler: Back When We Were Grownups (2001)
Pocket ( Köpt på loppis i Stockholm sportlovet 2017)

Jag tycker ju om Tylers böcker – den här fick också mycket beröm av bloggare.Jo, den var bra.

Jag lyssnade på Ett amatöräktenskap (2004), Noah’s Compass (2010) och Breathing Lessons (1988) 2014 och Digging to America (2006) 2011.

Sebastian Faulks: Charlotte Gray

Sebastian Faulks: Charlotte Gray. 1999
Ljudbok (14 CD, lånad från Åbo stadsbibliotek)

Jag har läst Jeeves and Wedding Bells av Faulks tidigare. Den här utspelas under andra världskriget, brittiska i franska motståndsrörelsen, och har också gjorts till film med Cate Blanchett, som jag nog har sett.

Bokens tidsepok och tema är ju mina favoriter, men lite ”tam” var den. (Och kärlekshistorien var inte trovärdig)

Jennifer Weiner: who do you love

Jennifer Weiner: who do you love. 2015
Stor pocket (från loppis)

”Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are eight years old when they meet late one night in an ER waiting room. Over the course of three decades, through high school and college, marriages and divorces, from the pinnacles of victory and the heartbreak of defeat, Andy and Rachel will find each other again and again, until they are finally given a chance to decide whether love can surmount difference and distance and if they’ve been running toward each other all along.”

Jag trodde jag hade läst den tidigare, rätt nylligen, men det hade jag ju inte, utan samma idé fanns i en annan feelgood-bok jag läst nyligen (av Cecilia Ahern?)

 

Deborah Levy: Swimming Home

Deborah Levy: Swimming Home. 2011
Ljudbok (4 CD, lånad från Åbo stadsbibliotek).

Boken var på shortlist för Man Booker Prize. Bra uppläsning av Juliet Aubrey.

”… a middle-class holiday, two families sharing a villa, and a stranger coming into their lives. The risk of cosy familiarity seems great – the usual conflicts, the expected twists – but the result is something spiky and unsettling. In south-east France in July 1994, Joe and Isabel Jacobs are staying with their 14-year-old daughter Nina and another couple. Joe is a poet, his name anglicised after fleeing occupied Poland in 1942 at the age of five. Isabel is a war reporter. Their friends Mitchell and Laura run a business selling primitive weaponry as souvenirs. None is prepared for the sight of a woman (”Is it a bear?”) in their swimming pool one afternoon. She is Kitty Finch, the engine of the book. Isabel invites Kitty to stay. She and Joe are troubled in their marriage and Kitty is ”a window waiting to be climbed through” for both of them. Her tendency to wander around naked makes her body the object of examination. She is doll-like, and has the appearance of a mute, male fantasy, but she is an agent of change, potent as well as vulnerable. Her reason for coming to the villa is her love for Joe’s poetry, and, to his dismay, she has brought her own poem, ”Swimming Home”, for him to read.”