Duktig pojke
by Inger Edelfeldt

For the Decades ‘08 (first published 1977) and A-Z reading challenges.
Swedish
208 pages
Rabén & Sjögren
ISBN: 91-29-64869-6

First line: Han var ett väldigt snällt barn, annars var det väl ingenting som skilde honom från andra barn; jag menar, ingenting som märktes.
Back cover blurb:
“Är det här nåt slags modenyck, Jim?” grälade min far. “Nåt sånt [...]

Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A, A-Z Reading Challenge, Decades '08, GLBT interest, Swedish, Young Adult | No Comments »

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
Filed under: A, English, Fiction, GLBT interest | 1 Comment »

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
Filed under: A, English, GLBT interest, Historical | 1 Comment »