Page Turners - Bokfemma

Malin's bokfemma (list of 5 books) is about page turners this week. I'm a fast and intense read most of the time, so most books tend to be page turners for me. But there are a few that I really couldn't stop once I started and here is my contribution.

1. Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Great book that it was really hard to put down. You know from the beginning that something is wrong and that it is going to end bad, but you just can't stop reading to find out what and how. Ishiguro's book is one of the only novels (and not crime lit) on this list. He manages to create this eerie creepy feeling very casually without any murders, magic or Gothic stuff.



2. 100 Bullets comics series written by Brian Azzarello, art by Euardo Risso. Great crime comics. There is a very fast tempo in this comics series. When thinking back on it - the story is neither especially complicated and it doesn't happened so much in each story, yet there is a definite feeling movement and of high pace. This is created by the combination of the writer and the artists work. Risso's art has a flow and movement that takes you from page to page. Sometimes he tells you stories in pictures only without any words. Azzarellos diaglouges (especially in TPB #5 and &) are absolutely great and move you quickly along. This is a true page turner, I read 7 TPBs (Trade PaperBacks) during a couple of holidays this month!

3. The Dogs of Riga or any other of Henning Mankell's crime novels. I like his books. Once you started you can't put them down until you finished them. Mankell doesn't (usually) use global spy intrigues and high tech gadgets to keep the readers interested. His books takes places in the small town and the next door neighbors. His focuses on the psychology of the people involved (victims, criminals and police) and on the society which enables theses things to happen.

4. Pieces of My Heart or any other of Peter Robinson's Ian Bank mysteries. What I wrote about Mankell goes for Robinson as well. Well constructed, great pace, you can't put them down. If you haven't read them yet you know what to do during a few holidays ahead...







5. Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding. This is about as much chic lit as I have consumed. They were page turners in the sense that not much was written the pages so it was a really fast read.