Boktips för 2021: 8 bra böcker att läsa
Jag är ständigt på jakt efter bra boktips och böcker att läsa. Under senaste året, och kanske framför allt under pandemin, har jag blivit en total boknörd. Efter att jag för ett par år sedan köpt en läsplatta är det som att en helt ny värld öppnats upp. Jag är inte den som köper böcker, mest för att jag inte vet vart jag ska göra av alla jag läst ut. Det känns liksom lite väl meckigt att sälja vidare alla utlästa böcker. När jag bodde i Sverige gick jag då och då till biblioteket. Så plötsligt stod en utomlandsflytt på schemat och så vitt jag vet skickar inte Katrineholms bibliotek böcker till utlandet. Så jag köpte mig en läsplatta: Adlibris egna Letto. Just den jag har säljs inte längre, men Adlibris har kommit ut med en ny version där de smackat på med nya funktioner och förbättringar. Varför jag valde just Letto som min läsplatta är för att den tillåter mig att lägga in e-böcker jag lånat från bibblan.
Revolutionerade, eller hur?
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Boktips på bra böcker 2021: 9 böcker jag vill läsa
Under det senaste året har jag plockat upp fler och fler böcker via bibliotekets e-böcker. En trend jag kommer att fortsätta med. Jag föll till och med för bokvärldens grupptryck och skaffade ett Goodreads-konto där jag kan samla böcker jag vill läsa. Och det är även av den anledningen som vi är här idag. Jag har läst boklistor, sökt upp bok-youtubers, kollat topplistor på mina bibliotek för att hitta de bästa böckerna att läsa under 2021.
Här är mina bästa boktips för 2021!
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.
Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, for fifteen-year-old Christopher everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning. He lives on patterns, rules, and a diagram kept in his pocket. Then one day, a neighbor's dog, Wellington, is killed and his carefully constructive universe is threatened. Christopher sets out to solve the murder in the style of his favourite (logical) detective, Sherlock Holmes. What follows makes for a novel that is funny, poignant and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing are a mind that perceives the world entirely literally.
Expectation
Anna Hope
En bok som utspelar sig i Östra London. Behöver jag säga mer? Mys! Har läst massvis av böcker som utspelar sig i England det här året och det är inget jag tänker sluta med. Har en del brittiska böcker med på den här listan. Såklart!
Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry – and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends.
Ten years on, they are not where they hoped to be. Amidst flailing careers and faltering marriages, each hungers for what the others have. And each wrestles with the same question: what does it take to lead a meaningful life?
The Unpredictable Consequences of Love
Jill Mansell
Den här boken kunde jag inte riktigt hålla mig från att läsa. Här har vi världens mysigaste sommarbok som utspelar sig i natursköna Cornwall, England. Det är en sommarbok som helst läses i en solstol med vattenmelon som snacks. Men den funkar också galet bra på en regnig dag när man vill drömma sig bort till en mysig kuststad i England.
When Josh Strachan, newly returned to his home in north Cornwall from sunny California, first meets Sophie Wells, he's immediately smitten. Sophie's pretty, she's funny, she has lots of friends and she clearly loves her job as a photographer, despite the sometimes tricky clients. There's just one problem: Sophie has very firmly turned her back on love. It's nothing personal, she tells Josh, but she just doesn't do dates. And no one - even Sophie's scatty best friend Tula - will tell him why. Josh is sure Sophie likes him, though, and he's just got to find out what's put her off romance. And then put things right...
Just Last Night
Mhairi McFarlane
Eve, Justin, Susie, and Ed have been friends since they were teenagers. Now in their thirties, the four are as close as ever, Thursday pub trivia night is sacred, and Eve is still secretly in love with Ed. Maybe she should have moved on by now, but she can’t stop thinking about what could have been. And she knows Ed still thinks about it, too.
But then, in an instant, their lives are changed forever.
Skelton's Guide to Domestic Poisons
David Stafford
Unassuming Yorkshireman, Arthur Skelton, is one of the most celebrated and recognisable barristers in the land. His success in the high-profile Dryden case - 'the scandal of 1929' - catapulted him to the front pages of the national newspapers. His services are now much in demand and, after careful consideration, he agrees to defend Mary Dutton. Dubbed 'The Collingford Poisoner' by the press, Mary is accused of poisoning her husband after years of abuse. Together with his trusted assistant, Skelton digs deeper and discovers that secrets and lies run deep in the Dutton family and all is not as it appears.
Less
Andrew Sean Greer
Det här ska tydligen vara en riktigt bra bok med humor. Har hört att den handlar om en man med gott humör i en tuff period i livet. Måste! Läsa! Den! Snart!
PROBLEM:
You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years now engaged to someone else. You can’t say yes--it would all be too awkward--and you can’t say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of half-baked literary invitations you’ve received from around the world.QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?
ANSWER: You accept them all.
If you are Arthur Less.
The Spanish Love Desception
Elena Armas
Jag har börjat kolla på spanska serier (Las chicas del cable på Netflix - så bra!) och bor mentalt i Spanien för tillfället. Fick upp den här boken som en rekommendation och behöver verkligen hitta ett ex av den. Gärna igår.
A wedding. A trip to Spain. The most infuriating man. And three days of pretending. Or in other words, a plan that will never work.
Catalina Martín, finally, not single. Her family is happy to announce that she will bring her American boyfriend to her sister’s wedding. Everyone is invited to come and witness the most magical event of the year.
That would certainly be tomorrow’s headline in the local newspaper of the small Spanish town I came from. Or the epitaph on my tombstone, seeing the turn my life had taken in the span of a phone call.
Four weeks wasn’t a lot of time to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic–from NYC and all the way to Spain–for a wedding. Let alone, someone eager to play along my charade. But that didn’t mean I was desperate enough to bring the 6’4 blue eyed pain in my ass standing before me.
Aaron Blackford. The man whose main occupation was making my blood boil had just offered himself to be my date. Right after inserting his nose in my business, calling me delusional, and calling himself my best option. See? Outrageous. Aggravating. Blood boiling. And much to my total despair, also right. Which left me with a surly and extra large dilemma in my hands. Was it worth the suffering to bring my colleague and bane of my existence as my fake boyfriend to my sister’s wedding? Or was I better off coming clean and facing the consequences of my panic induced lie?
Shipped
Angie Hockman
Den här boken kom ut i år och är en sån man helst ska läsa på semestern, har jag hört. Jag. funderar dock på att spara den här godingen tills hösten och allt regn kommer. Vad tror ni om det? Den verkar galet bra iallafall!
Between taking night classes for her MBA and her demanding day job at a cruise line, marketing manager Henley Evans barely has time for herself, let alone family, friends, or dating. But when she’s shortlisted for the promotion of her dreams, all her sacrifices finally seem worth it.
The only problem? Graeme Crawford-Collins, the remote social media manager and the bane of her existence, is also up for the position. Although they’ve never met in person, their epic email battles are the stuff of office legend.
Their boss tasks each of them with drafting a proposal on how to boost bookings in the Galápagos—best proposal wins the promotion. There’s just one catch: they have to go on a company cruise to the Galápagos Islands...together. But when the two meet on the ship, Henley is shocked to discover that the real Graeme is nothing like she imagined. As they explore the Islands together, she soon finds the line between loathing and liking thinner than a postcard.
With her career dreams in her sights and a growing attraction to the competition, Henley begins questioning her life choices. Because what’s the point of working all the time if you never actually live?
