...from a BookLover

Sunday 8 June 2014

A Peculiar teaser

Sometimes you see a book that has such a colourful and fantastic cover that you simply must have it. This is one of those books.

"The Peculiar", as it is called, is indeed a peculiar book, although the creature the title references to is so much more.

As a creature of two worlds, Bartholomew is hated by both. This story begins the day he got himself noticed - which, he knew, he ought not to be. The wise saying of the area he lives in clearly states:    
"Don't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hanged."

Now what? Next thing he knows he has to flee for his life - and gets himself tangled up in a sinister plot where he must gather all the courage he can to try to set things right... before it is all quite too late.


My teaser:
"You didn't simply go places. It was unwise to leave the house, dangerous to go into the street, but it was mind-bogglingly foolish to venture out of the faery slums. Bartholomew had not needed to be mind-bogglingly foolish until very recently."
pp. 268 

"The Peculiar" by Stefan Bachmann

I enjoyed the story, and I am eager to get home so I can start on the second and possibly last book, "The Whatnot". I might even treat myself to the short-story collection Bachmann has made in collaboration with a few other authors.


More teasers:
Flukten fra virkeligheten
Should Be Reading



16 comments:

  1. Virker som en fin bok dette! :-)

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    1. Ja, den var koselig - gleder meg til nummer 2! :)

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  2. Likte forsiden jeg også! Kos deg videre med boken!:)

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  3. Kult cover! Og fin smakebit :) Ha en super søndag :)

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    1. Ja, falt veldig for det :) Takk - ha en fin dag, du også!

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  4. Fint omslag! Tack för smakbiten.

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  5. Tack för smakbiten. Helt okänd bok för mig det där.

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    1. Ja, det var ganske tilfeldig at jeg fant den. Håper den blir litt mer kjent etterhvert :)

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  6. Låter inte dum alls, och mycket tilltalande omslag :)

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    1. Bok nummer to har nesten like fint omslag ;)

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  7. Jeg begynte på denne men hadde så mange bøker at jeg måtte levere en tilbake til biblioteket før jeg ble ferdig. Men jeg skal låne den på nytt og fullføre den :-) Ønsker deg en fin sommerkveld!

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    1. Åja, det må du gjøre! Tusen takk det samme :) :)

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  8. Virker spennende, fin smakebit :) Ha en fin søndag :)

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    1. Ja, den var det ;) Ha en fin dag, du også!

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