Ge aldrig upp
by Michael Alonzo

Swedish
239 pages
Frank förlag
ISBN: 978-91-858565-00-0
First line: Jag sprang in på apoteket.
Back cover blurb:
I Ge aldrig upp berättar Michael Alonzo, den förre sångaren i kultpunkbandet KSMB samt Stockholms negrer, sin egen historia. Det är berättelsen om hur han lever med en kvinna som utåt sätt är kärleksfull och god, men som inom [...]

Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Love
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Le petit prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

French
101 pages
Collection Folio
ISBN: 2-07-040850-7
First line: Lorsque j’avais six ans j’ai vu, une fois, une magnifique image, dans un livre sur la forêt vierge qui s’appelait Histoires vécues.
Back cover blurb: n/a
Thoughts: I haven’t read anything in French since 2004, which means that my grasp on the language has almost completely [...]

Posted on December 13th, 2007 by Love
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Kaninernas kulle
by Robert Lawson
Original title: Rabbit Hill

Swedish
140 pages
En bok för alla
ISBN: 91-7448-685-3
First line: Hela kullen kokade av upphetsning.
Back cover blurb:
It has been a while since Folks lived in the Big House, and an even longer time has passed since there has been a garden at the House. All the animals of the Hill are [...]

Posted on December 12th, 2007 by Love
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Leave Myself Behind
by Bart Yates

English
262 pages
Kensington Fiction
ISBN: 0-75820349-7
First line: I’ve never wanted a different mother.
Back cover blurb:
Meet seventeen-year-old Noah York, the hilariously profane, searingly honest, completely engaging narrator of Bart Yates’s astonishing debut novel. With a mouth like a truck driver and eyes that see through the lies of the world, Noah is heading [...]

Posted on December 12th, 2007 by Love
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Now & Then
by William Corlett

English
346 pages
Abacus Fiction
ISBN: 0-349-10775-0
First line: The room he died in smelt of Dettol and bonfire smoke.
Back cover blurb:
Now, Christopher Metcalfe returns to his family home in Kent after the death of his father. Sorting through a box of memorabilia from his days at public school, Chris is suddenly confronted by [...]

Posted on December 10th, 2007 by Love
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The Rules of Modern Policing: 1973 Edition
by DCI Gene Hunt (Guy Adams and Lee Thompson)

English
128 pages
Bantam Press
ISBN: 9780593060209
First line: Sit down, shut up and pay attention.
Back cover blurb: n/a
Thoughts: I know you’re not supposed to take this book seriously, but it didn’t amuse me quite as much as I’d hoped it would either. However, [...]

Posted on December 6th, 2007 by Love
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Historiens största mordgåtor
by Andreas Nyberg (ed.)

Swedish
214 pages
Bokförlaget Semic
ISBN: 91-552-3186-1
First line: I det dagliga livet har vi ett stort behov av ordning.
Back cover blurb:
FN:s kontroversielle generalsekreterare Dag Hammarskjöld dog i en flygkrash i Kongo 1961. En olycka menar många. Andra hävdar att en bomb placerats i planet. 1998 fick den sydafrikanska säkerhetskommissionen dokument som tyder [...]

Posted on December 6th, 2007 by Love
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While England Sleeps
by David Leavitt

English
309 pages
Abacus Fiction
ISBN: 0-349-10953-2
First line: In the early 1950s, history and politics conspired to create a circumstance in which it was impossible for me to ply my chosen trade—namely, writing.
Back cover blurb:
At a meeting of republican sympathisers in London, Brian Botsford, a young middle-class writer and Cambridge graduate, meets Edward [...]

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Love
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Stardust
by Neil Gaiman

English
214 pages
Headline Review
ISBN: 978-0-7553-3755-2
First line: There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.
Back cover blurb:
In the sleepy English countryside at the dawn of the Victorian era, life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall. Young Tristan Thorn has lost his heart to the [...]

Posted on December 2nd, 2007 by Love
Filed under: Adventure, B, English, Fantasy | No Comments »