4: Egotistical puckboy

 Egotistical puckboy (Puckboys book 1)

af Eden Finley og Saxon James

303 sider

2022

eg.

eng.

ebook 

god

Også en rigtig god start på en ny serie. Ezra er en biperson i et par af CU hockey bøgerne, og her starter han så en ny serie.

EZRA

Partying, dudes, and hockey. What more could a gay NHL player want?

If it weren't for Anton Hayes, my life would be perfect.

Not that he affects my life in any way. At all. That would imply I care what the winger from Philly thinks of me.

Which I don't.

Not even a one-night stand with him can thaw his misplaced animosity toward me.

He says I'm the one with the ego, but he can talk. He rivals me for most egotistical puck boy in the league.

I hate him as much as he hates me. Even if I crave a repeat.

ANTON

When it comes to hockey, I'm all about the game.

I've worked for years to be one of the best in the league, and l've done it without splashing my orientation all over the tabloids.

My hockey image is one I've carefully cultivated, and after one night with Ezra Palaszczuk, I risk it all.

He's cocky, obnoxious, and has an ego bigger than Massachusetts. And okay, maybe he's the sexiest man I've ever known.

We'll never get along. Not when we sleep together. Not even when my possessive streak awakens.

That doesn't stop us from falling into bed together over and over again.

136: Hjertekys: Oliver

 Hjertekys: Oliver

af Ulrika Louisa Bjerregaard

89 sider

2021

bib.

ung letlæst / new adult let læst

ok

Læst til arbejde.

Om at komme ud af skabet og accept.

Den er lidt bedre end Jakob bogen, men jeg syntes ikke, hun er helt godt til det med at komme i dybden på få sider. Jeg har læst andre let læst med samme emne som denne, som på færre sider end denne får fortalt mere historie/komme mere i dybden.

32: Date mig, Bryson Keller

 Date mig, Bryson Keller

af Kevin van Whye

312 sider

2020

bib.

ungdomsbog

rigtig god

Kai Sheridan elsker bøger og cola, men hader ærter, Leonardo DiCaprio, matematik og at træffe beslutninger. Derfor kommer det mildest talt bag på ham selv, da han i et vildt øjeblik beder skolens lækreste og mest populære fyr om at være hans date. Bryson Keller, som drømmefyren hedder, har indgået et væddemål; hver uge skal han date en ny for at bevise, at datinglivet i high school er spild af tid. At date Bryson Keller vender op og ned på Kais liv, for hvordan kan et fake forhold føles så ægte - og hvordan går han fra at være skabshomo til at være åben om sin seksualitet?

Det er en rigtig charmerende bog som man griner og smiler sig igennem.

217: Kun venner?

Kun venner?
af Kirsten Hansen

78 sider
2020
bib.
ok/god

Mark er en ung dreng, som så mange andre, men så alligevel ikke. Han tiltrækkes slet ikke af pigerne på samme måde som de andre drenge. Til gengæld kan han se, når en dreng har en god røv og ser lækker ud. Men han er usikker på, om han nu også er bøsse.

Det er en realistisk og troværdig fortælling, men da den er så kort og let (lix 10) kommer man ikke rigtig i dybden med følelserne. Den bliver lidt overfladisk. Men til at det er en lix 10 får man en god historie

208: Drengen der skulle være en anden

Drengen der skulle være en anden
af Irma Lauridsen

223 sider
2020
bib.
rigtig god

177: Fra ild til Aske

Fra ild til Aske
af Cecilie Birkshøj

303 sider
2020
bib.
virkelig god

Tony bor sammen med sin lillebror, storesøster og forældre. Forældrene går kun op i deres karrierer og interesserer sig knap nok for børnene, så længe de bare holder facaden. I skolen holder Anthony sig for sig selv og taler mest med sin bedste ven, William. Da den rødhårede Aske starter i klassen kan Tony alligevel ikke holde sig væk. Aske med de smukke øjne kryber ind under huden på ham og en spæd forelskelse opstår. Men er klassen klar til at Tony springer ud som homoseksuel? Er han selv?

En stormende forelskelse og forbudte følelser folder sig levende og medrivende ud på siderne i denne realistiske og til tider barske ungdomsroman. Her er ingen nemme løsninger fra danske Cecilie Birkshøj, der ikke tidligere er udkommet i romanform. Der er en sjælden grad af romantik og følsomhed i denne smukke fortælling. Man lever sig virkelig ind i historien og personerne og det de kæmper med.

135: Locked in silence

Locked in silence (Pelican bay book 1)
af Sloane Kennedy

266 sider
2017
eg.
ebook
god

96: Proforma

Proforma
af Sanne Søndergaard

255 sider
2011
bib.
god

Siv og Lukas skal begynde i gymnasiet og gruer for de sociale regler. Derfor beslutter de at optræde som kærestepar, selv om begge er til deres eget køn. Det går ikke helt som forventet, men de modnes begge undervejs

Læst som forberedelse til eventuel booktalk.

95: Hvad så hvis jeg er?

Hvad så hvis jeg er?
af Janni Olsen

250 sider
2019
bib.
god

læst som forberedelse til eventuel booktalk


Ungdomsroman om Jonny, der er til drenge og kan lide at gå i pigetøj, men ikke tør fortælle nogen om sine følelser

75: Ingen kan score på mig

Ingen kan score på mig
af Annelie Drewsen

47 sider
2016
bib
god



Selma har været på sommerlejr, hun har grinet og leget vandkrig, sejlet i kano og grillet pølser og så har hun mødt Esmeralda som også var i lejren, Esmeralda med de mosgrønne øjne. Selma er vild med fodbold. Hun har spillet i Bjørnenes fodboldklub i 6 år, hun er klubbens bedste målmand og helt klar til sæsonens første fodboldkamp. Ind på banen løber Esmeralda, eller Essi som de andre kalder hende, hun er angriber og 100% opsat på at vinde og det eneste, der stopper hende er Selma og hendes handsker. Kampen bølger frem og tilbage, Selma er Bjørnenes målmand, Essi er modstandernes angriber og så er der suget i maven, der fortæller Selma at hun måske er mere end det. Men tør hun at bede om Esmeraldas nummer, når kampen er slut og hun har taget hvert eneste mål?

Vurdering

Letlæst hverdagsfortælling om den første rigtige forelskelse, piger og fodbold. Bogen beskriver nænsomt Selmas uro og tanker og det er nemt at identificere sig med dilemmaet om sejr vs kærlighed. Det er dejligt, når forfattere forstår at skrive en virkelig let læst bog uden det går ud over historien.

55: Cyril Averys hjerte

Cyril Averys hjerte
af John Boyne

630 sider
2017
bib.
rigtig god


Jeg var lidt lang tid om at komme i gang med den, men da jeg først fik rigtig startet, var den svær at lægge fra sig. Jeg nød at følge Cyrils liv, da den var så velskreven. Man lærte virkelig de forskellige personer at kende, selv bipersonerne var godt beskrevne. Med få ord og/eller begivenheder fik man et tydeligt indtryk at alle de personer som bliver introduceret i bogen.

Irske Cyril Avery fortæller om sit 70-årige liv. Han bliver født i 1945 og straks adopteret af ægteparret Avery, men aldrig accepteret som en rigtig Avery. Som homoseksuel må han kæmpe for at blive accepteret og opleve gensidig kærlighed

8: Above and beyond

Above and beyond (Bronco's boys 6)
af Andrew Grey

eg
engelsk
ebook
god

271: Mama's boy

Mama's boy
af Dustin Lance Black

416 sider
2019
eg
engelsk
ebog
god

Dustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and helped overturn California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8, but he grew up in a conservative Mormon household outside San Antonio, Texas. His mother, Anne, was raised in rural Louisiana, and contracted polio when she was two years old. She endured brutal surgeries, as well as braces and crutches for life, and was told that she would never have children or a family. Willfully defying expectations, she found salvation in an unlikely faith, raised three sons, and escaped the abuse and violence of two questionably devised Mormon marriages before finding love and an improbable career in the U.S. civil service.

When Lance came out to his mother at twenty-one, he was already studying the arts instead of going on his Mormon mission. She derided his sexuality as a sinful choice and was terrified for his future. Mama's Boy explores what it took to remain a family despite such division-a journey that stretched from the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to the woodsheds of East Texas. In the end, the rifts that have split a nation couldn't end this relationship that defined and inspired their remarkable lives.

Mama's Boy is their story. It's a story of the noble quest for a plane higher than politics - one of family, foundations, turmoil, tragedy, elation, and love. It is a story needed now more than ever.

'To outsiders, my mom and I should have been enemies. Our house should have been divided -- North vs South, red vs blue, conservative vs progressive, or however you want to put it. Instead, my mom and I fuelled each other. Her oil lit my lamp, and eventually mine lit hers. The tools I'd learned to wield growing up in her conservative, Christian, southern, military home were the same I'd used to wage battles that had taken me from a broken-down welfare apartment where gunfire sang me to sleep, to the biggest stages in the world, and to the front row of the United States Supreme Court to fight for LGBTQ equality.'

188: Traded out

Traded out
af Samantha Wayland

97 sider
2018
engelsk
eg.
ebook
god

Olle Svensson came to Canada to play hockey, but now he’s wondering if twenty-five is too late to start university back home in Sweden. Things started out well, but then he and some teammates catch his friend, Jamie Gallagher, with a guy in a men’s room stall at a random bar. Olle knows he should have stood by Jamie, in the bar and the locker room, but he’d been caught off-guard. He’d thought...well, it doesn’t matter anymore what he was thinking.

Jamie is in hell. He’d been sure none of his teammates went to that bar, so he could safely blow off a little steam. Now he’s been outed against his will and doesn’t have a single ally on the team. He’s giving serious thought to giving up on hockey until Rupert Smythe-Morrison and the Moncton Ice Cats come to the rescue. Jamie never thought he’d be so happy to be traded.

The only down side is that Olle is coming with him.

186: Home and away

Home and away
af Samantha Wayland

402 sider
2015
engelsk
eg.
ebook
god


You can build a team, but you have to find your home.
Rupert Smythe is fond of many things. Callum Morrison isn’t one of them.

Rupert is a quiet, thoughtful business man and, sadly, a total wimp. Maybe not the ideal candidate to run a professional hockey team, but he signed on to do it anyway. As his life has reminded him on an almost daily basis since, this isn’t the most brilliant idea he’s ever had. And that was before Callum showed up.

Being in the spotlight is just part of being a professional athlete, but Callum needs a break. He arrives in Moncton unannounced, determined to help grow the team he just bought, and under the assumption he’d be welcome. Possibly he should have tried to make a better first impression.

Callum figures he can push through the rest of the summer, never expecting two kids, a host of friends, and his growing feelings for Rupert to derail everything he has ever believed about what he wanted, and what he could have.

181: One one one

One on one (Cayuga Cougars 5)
af V.L. Locey

182 sider
2019
engelsk
eg.
ebook
god


The past few years have been a bit chaotic for Cougars new associate coach, Lancaster Hart. After an amiable divorce he began living his life as the gay man he’d kept closeted for far too long. With the recent move to Cayuga, he’s away from his support system and properly made sweet tea. Despite a roster filled with new friends and associates, he’s spending his nights alone.

As his team gears up to make a run at the Calder Cup, Lancaster discovers that not everything in upstate New York is wine, woodlands, and chilly conservative ideals. At a summer music festival, he first lays eyes on Townsend Harris, folksy/blues singer by night and mayoral office assistant by day. Lancaster is enraptured with the man’s powerful sultry voice. Also, Town just might be the most beautiful man he has seen in all his forty-one years.

The two hit it off at an informal meet and greet after the show, where they spend the night talking and sipping wine. One evening of conversation and an incendiary goodbye kiss leads them into a scorching love affair that might be exactly what Lancaster has been searching for his whole life. Can his team pull off professionally what he’s hoping to do privately as well? Or will capturing their dream evade both the Cougars and Lancaster?

174: The christmas throwaway

The Christmas throwaway
af RJ Scott

172 sider
2012
engelsk
eg.
ebook
ok/god

Christmas is a time for giving - what do you do when no one gives a damn?

For Zachary Weston Christmas means sleeping on a churchyard bench in the freezing snow with nothing better in his future. Thrown out of his home for being gay, he is left without money or, it seems, anywhere to go.

Until a stranger shows him that some people do give a lot more than a damn.

Ben Hamilton is a rookie cop in his small home town. He finds a young throwaway, fresh from the city, sleeping on a bench in the churchyard on a snowy Christmas Eve. Can he be the one to give Zachary his own Christmas miracle?

173: Shared revelations

Shared revelations
af Andrew Grey

49 sider
2012
engelsk
eg.
ebook
god


It’s the sixties, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to be different. Eddie Baronski spent his high school years looking out for his partially deaf friend, Jack Emmons. Now that they’ve graduated, they spend their free time at Green Bay’s newly renamed Lambeau Field, taking in the practices.

When Eddie’s crush, Johnny Grant, a new Packers team member, offers him a ride home, Eddie thinks it’s the start of a grand romance. But Johnny and Eddie may not be on the same page, and love—true love—sometimes comes from an unexpected quarter.

163: Love Means family

Love Means Family (Love Means...7)
af Andrew Grey

200 sider
2011
engelsk
eg.
ebook
god


Four months ago Robert Edward “Arie” Hawkins lost his sister and the rest of her family in a plane crash. Now his parents have decided it’s time for him to marry and carry on the family name. Arie knows it’s most likely the grief talking—especially from his mother, who’s taken to putting more than ice in her iced tea—so to escape Mississippi, Arie calls his best friend, Robbie, and arranges for a visit.

Life is always changing at the Michigan farm where Robbie lives. Owner Geoff Laughton and his partner, Eli, have started a therapeutic riding program and adopted a little boy, creating a family. It’s while feeding Jakey that Arie meets Officer Hunky.

Officer Hunky’s real name is Deputy Duane Keenan, and he has troubles of his own, but not enough to stop him from pursuing Arie. But Duane’s and Arie’s families are pulling them in opposite directions. Trying to build a connection to support their mutual attraction may prove to be more than difficult… it may be impossible

161: Love means no fear

Love Means no fear (Love Means...5)
af Andrew Grey

210 sider
2010
engelsk
eg.
ebook
god


Raine Baumer is living the party life in Chicago, indulging in short relationships with little emotional commitment. But after he’s severely injured in a gay bashing, close friend Geoff arrives to take him to the country to recuperate. There Geoff and his partner Eli treat him like part of the family, and Raine meets Jonah, Eli’s brother, who is exploring life in the world outside his Amish community.

Jonah and Raine’s mutual attraction draws them together, but they may not have a chance to explore it. Jonah’s father is making ultimatums, and the police believe that the attack on Raine may not have been as random as it initially appeared. Raine and Jonah will have to face what they fear most in order to have any chance at a life together.