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tirsdag den 11. september 2018

1: Skrøbelige skønhed

Skrøbelige skønhed
af Amy Harmon


368 sider
2017
bib.
god




Ambrose Young was beautiful. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. She'd been reading them since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have...until he wasn't beautiful anymore.
Making Faces is the story of a small town where five young men go off to war, and only one comes back. It is the story of loss. Collective loss, individual loss, loss of beauty, loss of life, loss of identity. It is the tale of one girl's love for a broken boy, and a wounded warrior's love for an unremarkable girl. This is a story of friendship that overcomes heartache, heroism that defies the common definitions, and a modern tale of Beauty and the Beast, where we discover that there is a little beauty and a little beast in all of us.



Jeg var lidt spændt på, hvad jeg syntes om denne, da jeg lidt frygtede, at den ville være for overfladisk og sødsuppe. Jeg blev heldigvis glædeligt overrasket.
Personerne er velbeskrevne. Man kommer til at kende dem inklusiv deres fejl og mangler. Det er ikke kun en beauty and the beast historie. Der er noget mere substans i den.

tirsdag den 21. juli 2015

60: Love letters to the dead

Love letters to the dead
af Ava Dellaira


332 sider
2014
eg.
engelsk
god




It begins as an assignment for English class: write a letter to a dead person - any dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain - he died young, and so did Laurel's sister May - so maybe he'll understand a bit of what Laurel is going through. Soon Laurel is writing letters to lots of dead people - Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, River Phoenix, Amelia Earhart ...it's like she can't stop. And she'd certainly never dream of handing them in to her teacher. She writes about what it's like going to a new high school, meeting new friends, falling in love for the first time - and how her family has shattered since May died. But much as Laurel might find writing the letters cathartic, she can't keep real life out forever. The ghosts of her past won't be contained between the lines of a page, and she will have to come to terms with growing up, the agony of losing a beloved sister, and the realisation that only you can shape your destiny