分類：圖書館的書

鳩笛草 2022#26

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Monday, March 21, 2022

評分：3 分，滿分為 5。

宮部美幸

翻譯 王華懋

獨步文化

“麻生智子在八歲的一場車禍中失去雙親和記憶. 相依為命的祖母病逝後, 她在整理遺物時, 發現父母留下裝滿錄影帶的紙箱. 好奇地播放, 竟全是幼小的她哭哭啼啼說話的畫面. 一點一滴拼湊出記憶，她驚覺一切都與沉睡在體內的預知能力有關…

青木淳子像一抹會呼吸的幽魂, 坐著不起眼的庶務工作. 直到得知同事的妹妹慘遭殺害, 兇手卻因未成年而逃過罪責, 她突然打破沉默主動表示 ‘我可以成為你復仇的武器’, 並憑空燒毀一輛車.

本田貴子雖然資歷尚淺, 仍是破格晉升的刑警. 其實她有個無法言說的秘密: 能夠透視人心. 然而, 最近她漸漸感應不到別人的心聲, 頭暈目眩, 甚至昏厥. 領悟這是衰退的徵兆, 她不禁懷疑, 一旦失去特殊能力, 她還有成為刑警的資格嗎?"

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最近發現幾本宮部這幾年的新書. 應該是說台灣最近出的書. 想想宮部的書, 有一段時間沒看了, 就趕快預約. 來幾本就看幾本的態度, 哈哈.

宮部的書中, 這本歸類到 “看完了". 就是看完就好. 沒有很喜歡. 三篇故事, 都很無奈憂傷. 三個女生, 因為自身的特別能力, 很無奈. 然後她們的人生, 多因為這種能力, 不甚美麗.

尤其是第二個故事…

所以, 看過了.

開膛手傑克的告白 (犬養隼人1) 2022#24

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Monday, March 14, 2022

評分：3 分，滿分為 5。

中山七里

翻譯 林美琪

瑞昇文化

“我穿越時空, 又來到這世界復活!

模仿倫敦開膛手傑克的兇手, 猖狂展示被掏空的屍體, 只為挑起器官移植的爭議?

苦等換腎的女兒, 看法對立的醫療人員, 捐贈者母親的妄執, 受贈者的社會壓力…

犬養刑警該如何克服內心衝擊, 揭開令人意外的真相!

當魔術師的右手做出華麗大動作時, 唯有反看其左手, 才能拆穿騙人的把戲!"

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中山七里的系列書, 目前看完了 “岬洋介", “御子柴禮司", 一兩本 “刑警渡瀨" (沒歸類成系列, 不知為何), 然後開始這個 “犬養隼人" 系列. 我比較喜歡 “岬洋介" 跟 “刑警渡瀨" 的系列 (就說刑警渡瀨沒歸類成系列, 講不聽喔!!). 讀起來比較沒有那麼大的社會壓力. 御子柴系列, 他沉重的罪惡感, 在每一次翻開新的一本書時, 都讓人很想棄書. 雖然後面都還是會反轉讀者我的看法, 但仍嫌沉重. 幸好他有個很有正義感的助理. 這個系列後面的書都還沒有譯本, 也不知道台灣會不會出. 期待他的助理有更多的出場機會. 看她教訓御子柴, 很有趣.

接著是這個 “犬養隼人" 系列. 這是第一本. 犬養刑警應該是這四個系列的四個主角裡, 最沒有特色的吧. 然後渡瀨的人還來跟犬養搭檔, 不知道後面有沒有繼續的火花?

社會議題太強烈的推理書. 恩恩, 不太是我的菜. 但, 我還是會把這個系列看完再說.

強弱 2022#23

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Saturday, March 12, 2022

評分：1 分，滿分為 5。

柏菲思

皇冠叢書

“品學兼優, 外貌出眾的瑩舟是人人崇拜的完美偶像, 她的好友阿玲則是橫行無忌的校園惡霸. 阿玲的樂趣之一, 就是欺凌身材瘦弱, 說話口吃的霜月. 在同學眼中, 瑩舟和阿玲是絕對的強者, 而霜月則永遠是弱者, 只能任由阿玲宰割.

然而誰也沒想到, 阿玲有天突然無故失蹤, 而在阿玲失蹤一個月後, 瑩舟也毫無徵兆地從學校頂樓一躍而下.

該說是好奇心使然, 還是出於某種奇特的情感, 霜月決心要查出瑩舟自殺的隱情, 並找到阿玲的下落. 但奇怪的是, 阿玲明明已經不在, 霜月卻還是接二連三地遭到惡作劇. 先是霜月的 ‘寶貝’ 被丟下樓, 接著在教室抽屜裡發現貓屍, 最後甚至被人推入泳池, 差點溺斃.

即便如此, 霜月依然沒有放棄. 只是她沒料到, 當真相逐漸被拼湊完整, 自己的世界也將一步步走向毀滅…"

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我最討厭的校園霸凌題材. 真的很討厭. 那也就罷了, 那個對霜月很好的老師, 真的很噁心.

發現我看過 (不多啦, 哈哈) 跟 “島田莊司推理小說獎" 有關的作品, 多多少少都有島田莊司令我很受不了的點: 誇張的情節, 不太合理的犯罪結構, 令人乍舌的角色. 林斯彥的作品如此, 黑貓C的作品如此, 這本書也不惶多讓.

日後選書, 我應該會小心避開 “島田莊司推理小說獎".

The Midnight Library 2022#21

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Wednesday, March 9, 2022

評分：1 分，滿分為 5。

Matt Haig

“Between life and death there is a library.

Up until now, Nora Seed’s life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. When she finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right.

The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. Each one contains a different life, a possible world in which she made different choices that played out in an infinite number of ways, affecting everyone she knew as well as many people she never met. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every decision she regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren’t always what she imagined they’d be and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.

Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: What is the best way to live?"

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While reading it, I kept asking myself, “What am I reading?", “Do I really want to continue?" and “Can I give it up?" And finally, I decided to give it up. It was a very depressing reading experience. I hate being depressed. And yet worse, I was forced to feel depressed every time I picked up this book!

Life is never easy. You just have to try your best to live it as good as you can.

Nora doesn’t like her root live. She tries to kill herself, and then she ends up being caught between live and death. I didn’t expect her story to be like an Aesop’s fable in which you will learn a lesson, and the result will turn out good. But I didn’t expect all those disappointments. Yes, she can choose a life to undo a decision. Yet every life she chooses ends up a big disappointment, and then she is sent back to the library. Again and again. And so, we readers have to read about all her meseries in each life with everyone in her family. Are there no one decent, according to Nora, in her family? Everyong who Nora tries to make up with becomes someone who causes her more regrets. Wow!! How pathetic it is!!

I just can’t waste my time reading all these … NO WAY!!

The Girl Who Lived 2022#20

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Saturday, March 5, 2022

評分：3 分，滿分為 5。

Christopher Greyson

“Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered. One girl lived.

No one believes her story. The police think she’s crazy. Her therapist thinks she’s suicidal. Everyone else thinks she’s a dangerous drunk. They’re all right – but did she see the killer?

AS THE ANNIVERSARY of the murders approaches, Faith is released from the psychiatric hospital and yanked back to the last spot on earth she wants to be – her home town where the slayings took place. Whacked by the lingering echoes of survivor’s guilt, Faith spirals into a black hole of alcoholism and wanton self-destruction. Finding no solace at the bottom of a bottle, Faith decides to track down her sister’s killer – and discovers that she’s the one being hunted."

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I could have given it four stars, but the ending was too sad, when Faith realized who was really behind the murders.

I felt like crying when Faith’s best friend’s aunt showed her the photo she took. It was a photo taken on Faith’s best friend Anna’s birthday. In the photo, veryone was so happy. But then they were all gone, except Faith.

The reason why they were all murdered ten years ago was unbelievablly selfish, and so, the person who was behind the murders was really hedious. Too bad she was shot to death!!

I’d like to read the Jack Stratton series, also written by Christopher Greyson. However, I couldn’t find any copies in the library. So … sigh …

The Lost Man 2022#19

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Thursday, March 3, 2022

評分：4 分，滿分為 5。

Jane Harper

“Brothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line seperating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. Their third brother, Cameron, lies dead at their feet.

In an isolated belt of Queensland, Australia, their homes a three-hour drive apart, the brothers were one another’s nearest neighbors. Cameron was the middle child, the one who ran the family homestead. But something made him head out alone under the unrelenting sun.

Nathan, Bub, and Nathan’s son return to Cameron’s ranch and to those left behind by his passing: his wife, his daughters, and his mother, as well as their long-time employee and two recently hired seasonal workers. While they grieve Cameron’s loss, suspicion starts to take hold, and Nathan is forced to examine secrets the family would rather leave in the past. Because if someone forced Cameron to his death, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects."

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This was the second book I read that was written by Jane Harper. The first was The Dry. The lives described in both books were so surprisingly different from our lives here in Taiwan. In The Dry, I first realized that water supply is such a big issue in Australia. The dry season can last for years!! In this book, I found it amazing that it takes hours just to drive to your nearest neighbor!!

I felt so sad to read about a mother who was forced to murdered her son, so that she could save her family.

恩仇鎮魂曲 2022#18

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Wednesday, March 2, 2022

評分：4 分，滿分為 5。

中山七里

翻譯 李彥樺

獨步文化

" ‘若法律能夠制裁我的罪, 才是我最大的幸福.’

一趟號稱史上最便宜的韓國渡輪旅行，碰上暴風雨沉沒。倖存者中，有人拍到一段驚駭的影像：一個男人毆打一個女人，搶走救生衣。儘管警方迅速逮捕男人，卻因符合「緊急避難」原則，被告無罪定讞。

多年後, 遭媒體揭穿 ‘屍體郵差’ 的黑暗過往, 正值事業低潮的辣腕律師御子柴, 注意到一篇報導: 安養院的老人與看護起爭執, 失手殺死對方. 那老人居然是他在少年院的恩師! 於是, 他千方百計成為老人的辯護律師. 可是, 所有證據都指向老人行兇, 而且老人全盤認罪, 頑固希望服刑.

第一次遇到如此棘手的委託人, 御子柴不甘放棄, 實地走訪安養院, 當場感受到詭異的氛圍, 入住者充滿恐懼, 證人說詞亦有微妙差異. 背後究竟隱藏什麼內幕? 與十年前的船難又有何關聯? 無良律師能成功打開恩師的心防, 找到贖罪的意義嗎?"

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每次翻開御子柴系列的書, 都在想 “我真的要再繼續看這個系列嗎?" 每每都要看到他為了贖罪, 拚了命找線索證物時, 才覺得 “他其實是個很獨特的律師."

然後, 他那揮之不去的深沉罪惡感, 就一直在文字間遊走. 頗多無奈呀.

倒是我發現了一個很可愛的角色: 御子柴的助理日下部洋子. 她那連御子柴都提防著 (ㄟ, 可以這樣說嗎? 哈哈) 的正義感與道德潔癖, 真的很好玩. 可惜在這個系列中, 中山七里讓她出場的機會, 少之又少.

The Alienist 2022#17

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

評分：3 分，滿分為 5。

Caleb Carr

“The year is 1896. The city is New York, and a serial killer is on the loose. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler – psychologist, of ‘alienist’ – to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From there the two embark on a revolutionary new effort in criminology: creating a psycological profile of the perpetrator based on the details of his crimes. They’re soon joined by Sara Howard, the first woman hired by the New York City Police Department. The team’s dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who will kill again before their hunt is over.

Part Arthur Conan Doyle, part The Silence of the Lambs, The Alienist conjures up Gilded Age Manhattan, with its tenements and mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. It’s the book that proved Caleb Carr a master at depicting the unsettling forces that trmble beneath everyday life."

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I quite like the story, the team without the Alienist (haha, wierd, right? I really don’t like him.), the great house they use as their headquarter, and the good food. All those worth four or more stars. However, I can’t stand the gabbling on and on about so many little things, at leas to me, they are little things I don’t care about. And I don’t like Dr. Kreizler.

I gave it three stars.

偵探冰室 2022#16

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Thursday, February 17, 2022

評分：3 分，滿分為 5。

陳浩基. 譚劍. 文善. 黑貓 C. 望日. 冒業

蓋亞文化

<重慶大廈的非洲雄獅>

來自非洲的十二人暗殺小組悄悄入駐重慶大廈, 追殺一名藏匿在內的非洲廚師, 並封鎖所有出入口, 救援者該如何在七十二小時內讓他逃離生天?

<李氏力場之麻雀移動事件> <李氏力場之欠交功課事件>

八號風球高高掛起, 一切謎團卻漸漸浮現…

一名背景神秘的中國學生, 為何每逢懸掛八號風球的周末, 隔日必定欠交作業?

<二樓書店>

老牌獨立書店店主懷疑書店打烊後有小偷潛入, 但並沒有任何財物損失, 是她的錯覺? 還是小偷另有目的? 或者… 跟她賣的某些書有關?

<太陽黑子少年少女>

動漫節 Cosplay 會場驚現怪盜!

扮演戰士的少年, 扮演偵探的少女, 扮演女巫的仙女座人, 扮演公主的偽娘, 五名 Cosplay 網友首次會面, 便要一同解開謎團, 找出兇手…

<來自地下>

港島線理應空無一人的回廠車廂, 卻出現一具男屍, 身上的車票只從朗屏搭至天水圍, 而不久前與死者碰面的三人都聲稱見過他. 究竟誰在說謊? 誰是兇手?

<豪宅>

港島南區某豪宅發生命案. 嫌犯與死者同居但沒有任何親屬關係, 也沒有過往恩怨. 他為何自首承認自己是兇手? 又為何突然在審訊後推翻自己的供述?

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因為搜尋陳浩基的書, 找到這個系列。 先借第一本來看. 嗯… 不是我的菜.

我的幸福在瑞芳學 2022#15

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Saturday, February 12, 2022

評分：3 分，滿分為 5。

施岑宜

時報出版

" ‘在一個地方好好久久的 (地吧?) 活著, 才有機會好好的 (地吧?) 認識及體驗與你相遇的人.’

人, 終其一生都在追尋, 追尋的旅程, 是一趟無止境的學習歷程, 學習如何自在, 如何自處. 而在瑞芳的生活裡, 這塊土地讓人一點一滴的 (地吧?) 學會了.

Terry 碎碎念: 的地不分!! 看了很糾結…

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一拿到書, 馬上翻閱吳念真的推薦序. 文中提及自己的父親辛苦的 “移民" 年代, 我忍不住淚滿眶. 因為我也想到自己的父親. 如果不是剛好在車上, 我應該會衝到誠品, 買下這本書. 為了可以再讀這篇文章, 想買這本書, 哈哈, 我也是醉了.

我喜歡這本書的前半段, 作者描述當年毅然決然在瑞芳買下第一個房子的 “輕率" 經過, 之後整理房子的艱辛過程. 很想帶著這本書, 去瑞芳旅行一下.

後半段, 我整個棄書. 感覺, 是在幫她的新村方書院打廣告嗎?

Anyway, 我還是會帶著這本書, 去瑞芳走走. 在我的還書之前, 呵呵.

作者的先生也寫了一篇序文, 他說 “… 一直以來都在一旁默默的 (地吧? 唉…) 看著! 隨時準備出動收拾爛攤子." 我大笑. 想到我家的獅子先生, 應該也常常有這種感嘆吧. 哈哈哈.