Vi skulle vært løver

Vi skulle vært løver av Line Baugstø handler om Malin. Malin har ingen bestevenninne, men vil gjerne ha en. Så flytter Leona til byen og starter i klassen til Malin. En ypperlig mulighet for Malin å få en bestevenninne. Det viser seg at Leona har en hemmelighet, og da må Malin velge; skal hun være en kujon eller en løve? Boka er enkelt skrevet og har et enkelt språk, men noen ganger trenger man ikke lange utgreiinger om følelser og tanker. Det er ofte det helt enkle som rører. Og Line Baugstø har skrevet en viktig og god bok om det å være født i feil kropp. Det trengs ikke mange detaljer om hva som skjer, men heller noen som modellerer handling uten å vise pekefinger. De små tingene, de hverdagslige tingene som selv om de er små, er så store og viktige, som viser aksept, respekt og forståelse for at vi alle kan være den vi er, det er de episodene som Line Baugstø virkelig får fram i denne boka. Jeg ble rørt! 

64

64 by Hideo Yokoyama is a thick crime book from a different environment than I'm used to be reading. The Japanese culture is far from the crime books I normally read, and I don't think I've ever read a crime book from Japan. The main story line is the case number 64 about a girl who went missing 14 years prior to when the book starts its story. The case was never solved. The cops are still trying to solve the case, since loosing face if it doesn't get solved is not something taken lightly. The daughter of police commissioner Mikami and his wife has just disappeared and Mikami is being called out to identify a dead girl. Everything is connected, and this crime book has a slower pace than normal. It takes its time, and sets the mood and describe Japan and really lets the reader get to know the characters. Its different than other crime books. I liked the fact I get to know a different culture at the same time as I'm reading a crime book. I think the crime itself might have come second after the description of environment and description of characters in this book. But it's not necessarily a negative thing. Normally what makes me turn the pages in a crime book is the crime itself and the pace things happen. In this book the reading experience is enough. I enjoyed it, and I've read this is Hideo Yokoyama's third book, but the only one translated. I hope the other two gets translated as well.