J.Moyes - Me Before You

Ah, speaking of kiosklitteratur og bestselgerlister - jeg har navigert etter hva som ser ut til å være i vinden igjen; denne gangen ble det "Me Before You".

Forfatter: Jojo Moyes

Tittel: Me before you (2012)

I et nøtteskall: Louisa Clark mister jobben når den lokale kafeen legges ned. Gjennom arbeidsformidlingskontoret tilbys hun en 6 måneders kontrakt som pleieassistent for rullestolbundene og sterkt handicappede Will Treynor. Nå tenker du kanskje at du vet hvordan dette kommer til å arte seg, at hun blir en solstråle i hans liv og at de finner kjærligheten. Konflikten ligger i at Will er mest opptatt av retten til å dø.

Favoritt-utdrag:
"In my little room at home, I opened it out, pinned it carefully to the back of my door and marked the date when I had started at the Traynors', way back at the beginning of February. Then I counted forward, and marked the date - 12 August- now barely four months ahead. I took a step back and stared at it for a while, trying to make the little black ring bear some of the weight of what it heralded. And as I stared, I began to realize what I was taking on. I would have to fill those little white rectangles with a lifetime of things that could generate happiness, contentment, satisfaction and pleasure."

"Don't be grumpy. They say you should try everything once", I said.
"I think horse riding falls into the "except incest and morris dancing" category".

"Here's the thing about middle-class people. They pretend not to look, but they do. They were too polite to actually stare. Instead they did this weird thing of catching sight of Will in their field of vision and then determinedly not looking at him. Until he'd gone past, at which point their gaze would flicker towards him, even while they remained in conversation with someone else. They wouldn't talk about him, though. Because that would be rude".

Tanker i ettertid: Denne historien ligger litt for tett opp til chickflicksjangeren til å gjøre noe voldsomt inntrykk, men jeg tok innover meg hvordan de to hovedkarakterene virkelig lytter til hverandre, noe som kan høres fjernt ut - til du har lest boka.

Anbefales: Jenter i alderen 16-35, som er ute etter rask underholdning.

Karakter: C