21: Common goal

Common goal (Game changers 4)

af Rachel Reid

282 sider

2020

engelsk

eg.

ebook

god

Veteran goaltender Eric Bennett has faced down some of the toughest shooters on the ice, but nothing prepared him for his latest challenge—life after hockey. It’s time to make some big changes, starting with finally dating men for the first time.

Graduate student Kyle Swift moved to New York nursing a broken heart. He’d sworn to find someone his own age to crush on (for once). Until he meets a gorgeous, distinguished silver fox hockey player. Despite their intense physical attraction, Kyle has no intention of getting emotionally involved. He’ll teach Eric a few tricks, have some mutually consensual fun, then walk away.

Eric is more than happy to learn anything Kyle brings to the table. And Kyle never expected their friends-with-benefits arrangement to leave him wanting more. Happily-ever-after might be staring them in the face, but it won’t happen if they’re too stubborn to come clean about their feelings.

Everything they both want is within reach… They just have to be brave enough to grab it. 

20: North Dakota

North Dakota

af Jesper Nicolaj Christiansen

269 sider

2016

bib.

Rigtig god

Jeg læste den for forberedelse til booktalks  for 9. klasser.

Jonas flytter til Taastrup med sin mor og stedfar, men fortiden flytter med og 

Jonas er god til at slås. Det har han lært af sin far, som døde da Jonas var 12 år. Efter en voldsdom flytter han vestpå for at starte på et nyt liv i Taastrup.  Han begynder i gymnasiet, finder nye venner med fast tilholdssted i en bodega på hovedgaden, men det er lettere at tjene penge på Bare Knuckle Fight - ulovlig kampsport - end i Føtex. Han bliver ret hurtigt kærester med Sonja. Hun bor i nabolaget og er sød og sexet, men kan ikke acceptere Jonas' dobbeltliv.

Det er en barsk historie om en forsømt dreng, der prøver at finde en udvej - og afstiver sig med citater fra sange af Allan Olsen og Lyle Lovett. Inddelt i korte kapitler og skrevet i et billedskabende sprog med mange referencer til børnebøger og film. Vold, kærlighed og sex bliver skildret uden filter.

Forsiden er desværre ikke den bedste, så det er en bog der skal formidles. En bog til drenge

19: Sukkerkold

 Sukkerkold

af Dorte Roholte

208 sider

2020

bib.

god

Jeg læste den som forberedelse til booktalks for 9. klasser.

Mille 17 år, er i lære som maler, har fem halvsøskende og bor i en ungdomsbolig, fordi der ikke er plads til hende hos hverken mor eller far. Hun har aldrig nogen penge, så da hendes cykel bliver stjålet og hun ikke har råd til en ny, overtaler Natasja fra værelse 8 hende til at forsøge sig med sugardating. Mille vil egentlig ikke, men hun har virkelig brug for den cykel, for at kunne møde på arbejde kl. 7 og bevare sin læreplads. Men det kan da heller ikke være så slemt, når nu Natasja siger det er fint. Forfatter Dorte Roholte kræver ikke den store introduktion. Hun har skrevet et utal af børne- og ungdomsbøger bl.a. serien "Mærkelige Mynthe"

En troværdig fortalt historie om et presset ungeliv, hvor pengene er små og baglandet ikke er i stand til at hjælpe og hvor gråzone-prostitution bliver en desperat mulighed. Man føler med Mille, og forstår de valg hun træffer. 

18: Blomsterdalen

 Blomsterdalen

af Niviaq Korneliussen

317 sider

2020

eg.

fantastisk

Nedenstående er skrevet til et bogkapitel om grønlandsk LGBTQ+ litteratur:

...a book about friendship and love, but mostly it is a book about suicide. In interviews[1] the author talks about a suicide culture in Greenland that aren’t being talked about. She hopes that her book can help start conversations about a topic that needs to be talked about, so something can be done.

Blomsterdalen is about a young lesbian girl. She is moving to Denmark to study. In the plane travelling to Denmark she gets to talking with the woman sitting next to her. To the woman she says about herself: My family is afraid I will get lost. I do that often [my translation] (Korneliussen 2020, 31). It sums her and the book up pretty good. It is about a girl who were lost, was found, but continue to get lost again and again in her actions, her memories and her thoughts. She gets more and more lost until she loses herself completely and commits suicide in the end. She has a girlfriend and is accepted by her family. But she feels wrong, like she doesn’t fit in. Not because she is gay, but because of how she looks, acts, are and so on. She is a girl with a very low self-esteem and a drive to self-sabotage. It is like she is lost even before the book starts.

Den er virkelig velskreven. Man bliver suget ud ind i historien og hovedpersonens skæbne, som allerede fra starten trækken mod tragedien. Man fornemmer fra starten, at dette ikke er en bog med en nem eller lykkelig slutning.

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[1] Ravn Nielsen, Marie. 2020. Ung forfatter vil bryde tabu med ny bog: Stop selvmordskulturen. DR, 24. august 2020 https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kultur/boeger/ung-forfatter-vil-bryde-tabu-med-ny-bog-stop-selvmordskulturen?cid=newsletter_nb_boger_20200829075828

17: Screwed

 Screwed (Four Bears Contruction 4)

af K.M. Neuhold

205 sider

2020

engelsk

eg. 

ebook

god

I've had my fair share of less than proud relationship moments, but waking up married to my brother-in-law's best friend is a new low.

A drunken wedding to a man who already rejected me once? Check. A hefty bet about how long it will last? Check. My feisty new husband, determined to make our friends pay up? Double check.

I've never managed to make a real relationship last nearly a year, there's no way Daniel will stick around long enough to win this bet. The only problem is the longer he stays, the more the lines blur between what's real and what's for show. Does he feel it too or am I totally screwed?

16: Can't get you out of my bed

Can't get you out of my bed (Love & Luck 6)

af Isla Olsen

204 sider

2020

engelsk

eg.

ebook

god

Ben
Aidan Kelly. To everyone else in the world he’s the star of a successful extreme travel show, but to me he’s the one that won’t go away.

It started with one of those typical high school crushes on my best friend’s older brother, which turned out to be not entirely unrequited…

There was that time just after high school where someone (not me) may or may not have hurled all over someone else’s c*ck. Then there was that incident in Austin where…well, let’s just say it gave a whole new meaning to the term ‘bull-riding’. And let’s not forget that little thing with the rental car…

But it doesn’t matter how good the sex is, or how deep the attraction is, Aidan and I are just never going to work. There’s the distance for one, and the fact that one of us (not me) is a closeted celebrity…and that’s all without going into how whenever we’re in the same place we just can’t seem to stop from hurting each other. And not just in the good way…

The only option to maintain my sanity is to avoid Aidan and force myself not to think about him. But that’s easier said than done when—thanks to my best friend’s misguided ‘help’—we end up living in the same freakin’ apartment…

15: Two men and a baby

 Two men and a baby (Love & Luck 5)

af Isla Olsen

206 sider

2020

engelsk

ebook

ok/god

Josh

Here’s some advice for surviving your ex’s wedding weekend:

1. Just smile and nod whenever someone lays on the sympathy

2. Stay away from tequila

3. Don’t make out with any of your ex’s brothers

Whoops

Connor Kelly sure has changed over the past eight years. He’s no longer the scrawny emo kid I remember from before he moved away; and, oh yeah, apparently he’s into guys now...

But it doesn’t matter how hot Connor is, or how funny, or how charming - he’s my ex’s brother and that means he’s off limits.

It doesn’t seem like anyone’s ever explained that rule to Connor, though...

When he calls one day begging for my help, I’m expecting it to be yet another ploy in his effort to get me to go out with him. Cue my surprise when I find a shell-shocked Connor with a baby he claims is his son.

As if it weren’t already hard enough resisting Connor, watching the way he connects and bonds with his son is going to make it damn near impossible...

14: Hopeless bromantics

Hopeless bromantics (Love & Luck 4)

af Isla Olsen

163 sider

2020

engelsk

eg.

ebook

god

Wade

Here are some things I wish someone would have told me a few months ago:

1. Putting together an Ikea desk does not make someone qualified to help with home renovations

2. It’s impossible to un-teach a five-year-old the word ‘dildo’

3. Two straight guys messing around with each other is not as uncommon as people might think, so don’t freak out

Of course, I freaked out…

Moving back to Staten Island after my divorce was the simple choice, and hiring a contractor to help make my new place somewhat liveable was an even simpler one.

But I wasn’t expecting the contractor to be Brendan Kelly, an old high school buddy I’d lost contact with over the years. And I definitely wasn’t expecting what happened next…

Pay attention, folks--we're here to revolutionize the bromance! 

13: Crazy little fling

 Crazy little fling (Love & Luck 3)

af Isla Olsen

190 sider

2020

engelsk

eg.

ebook

ok

Jamie

It’s not exactly what I’d call the ideal situation—being introduced to your bio-dad’s best mate only to realize he’s the sexy older guy you hooked up with a couple of weeks ago—but it’s also not the worst thing to ever happen in history. The way I see it, this is fate. The universe is throwing Shay Kelly in my path again because it knows how much I’ve been dying for another shag with him.

I have four weeks before I need to go back to London, and I know exactly how I’d like to spend that time. And fortunately for me, Shay’s just as keen for a repeat or ten as I am.

All we need is a few ground rules to keep this little fling in check…

Rule One: It’s temporary

Makes sense—neither of us do the long-term bit. And it’s not like we can continue with this once I move back to London.

Rule Two: No dates, just sex

Easy peasy—sex is the best part of dating anyway.

Rule Three: We keep it between us

Perfect—sneaking around and concocting elaborate lies is a right turn on.

Rule Four: No falling in love

Love? Me? In four weeks? There’s a better chance of me inventing the solution to climate change.

12: Virtually screwed

 Virtually Screwed (Love & Luck 2)

af Isla Olsen

240 sider

2020

engelsk

ebook

ok

Blake

At 43 I’m supposed to have everything figured out, and if you’d asked me six months ago I’d have said I did: head of my own tech company, beautiful fiancée, amazing future all planned out...life was perfect. Or, at least, I thought it was…

So now I’m in New York after selling my company and fleeing San Jose, and for the first time in as long as I can remember I have nothing to fill my day—no meetings, no reports, no tests, no launch parties—and that’s how I manage to get hooked on Warpath 4 and somehow find myself sexting with a guy almost twenty years younger than me.

Say what?

Okay, here’s the thing: it didn’t start out dirty. It was all completely tame. Mild. Conversational. But then conversation turned to flirting, and flirting turned to dirty talk. And, well…let’s just say things escalated from there…

But it’s just a bit of fun. Right? It’s not like anything would ever work in real life. I’m too old, he’s still closeted. And let’s not get started on how I’m supposedly straight. It’s just way too messy. Definitely best if we never actually meet each other...

But what if we already have?

Turns out my virtual f*ck buddy is actually Owen Kelly, my best friend’s kid brother. Which leaves me pretty much screwed…

11: Fake it til you make out

 Fake it til you make out (Love & Luck 1)

af Isla Olsen

172 sider

2020

engelsk

eg.

ebook

god

It’s a classic story: Boy meets girl, girl breaks boy’s heart, boy pretends to be gay to get back at girl, girl outs boy to everyone on Facebook…

Okay, maybe it’s not that classic. But it’s what happened to me.

When I bump into my cheating ex and catch sight of the moon-sized rock on her finger, there’s only one option to save face: pretend to be dating my gay best friend, Declan.

And when she outs me on Facebook and everyone I know sees it, there’s still only one option: keep pretending to be dating Declan.

And when Declan and I have to kiss to keep up the ruse and it turns out there’s actually a spark between us (more like a blazing inferno, if truth be told) there’s once again only one option…