24: The road to amazing

The road to amazing (Russel Middlebrook: The futon years 3)
af Brent Hartinger


228 sider
2016
eg.
engelsk
god

Fra Amazon:
“I think gay guys like weddings more than anyone. And it's not because we want to destroy marriage, like some people say. It's because we really, really want to get married!"
Russel Middlebrook is gettin' hitched!
The wedding is taking place in a remote lodge on an island in Puget Sound. Russel and his husband-to-be have invited all their close friends to spend the whole weekend together beforehand.
And for the first time in his life, Russel is determined to not be neurotic, and not over-think things.
But that's before things start going wrong. Who expected a dead killer whale to wash up on the beach below the inn? And what's this about a windstorm approaching? Then there's the problem of Russel's anxious fiancé, who is increasingly convinced the whole thing is going to be a disaster.
Meanwhile, the wedding is taking place near the ruins of a small town, Amazing, where, a hundred years earlier, the people supposedly all disappeared overnight. Why does it feel like the secret at the end of the road to Amazing has something to do with Russel's own future?
Can Russel's friends Min, Gunnar, Vernie, and Otto somehow help him make it all make sense?




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11: Barefoot tn the city of broken dreams

Barefoot in the city of broken dreams (Russel Middlebrook: The Futon Years 2)
af Brent Hartinger


257 sider
2015
eg.
engelsk
god


fra Amazon:
“There was no way moving to Los Angeles was going to make me give up my soul. After all, I’d already seen all the movies about Hollywood. I knew how things worked.” Twenty-four year-old Russel Middebrook and his boyfriend have moved to Los Angeles so Russel can try to make it as a screenwriter. Almost right away, in a forgotten old house off of Sunset Boulevard, Russel meets Isaac Brander, a once-famous film producer who is convinced he can turn Russel’s screenplay into a movie. Russel knows that success can’t possibly come this easy. After all, most of Russel’s Los Angeles friends are so desperate to make it that it’s downright scary. His ex-boyfriend, Otto, is trying everything to become an actor, and Daniel, the sexy neighbor, doesn’t even need a casting couch to get naked. So what’s the catch with Mr. Brander? Could it be that movies about Hollywood don’t tell the whole truth?




Det er ret interessant at læse om bagsiden af Hollywood drømmen. Hvordan det er, når man kæmper for at bryde igennem. Når realiteterne kan overaske, selvom man tror man selv er fornuftig.
Samtidig er det også en bog om ikke at lade drømmen komme før alt andet. Finde ud af, hvad det er der i virkeligheden betyder noget.

43: The thing I didn't know I didn't know

The thing I didn't know I didn't know (Russel Middlebrook: The futon years 1)
af Brent Hardinger


248 sider
2014
eg.
engelsk
god






Russel Middlebrook is twenty-three years old, gay, and living in trendy Seattle, but life isn't keeping up with the hype. Most of his friends have a direction in life—either ruthlessly pursuing their careers or passionately embracing their own aimlessness. But Russel is stuck in place. All he knows is that crappy jobs, horrible dates, and pointless hook-ups just aren't cutting it anymore.

What's the secret? What does everyone else know that he doesn't?

Enter Kevin, Russel's perfect high school boyfriend. Could rekindling an old flame be the thing Russel needs to get his life back on track? Or maybe the answer lies in a new friend, an eccentric screenwriter named Vernie Rose, who seems plenty wise. Or what the hell? Maybe Russel will find some answers by joining his best friend Gunnar's crazy search for the legendary Bigfoot!

One way or another, Russel is determined to learn the all-important secret to life, even if it's a thing he doesn't even know he doesn't know.




Jeg kan godt lide den voksne Russel. Interessant at læse en ny voksen bog om en person der startede i ungdomsbøger.
Jeg tror alle nye voksne kender det som Russel kæmper: Hvad vil jeg med mit liv? Er jeg den eneste der ikke ved hvad jeg vil osv.