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晚安, 拉赫曼尼諾夫 (岬洋介No.2) 2021#78

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Monday, September 18, 2021

評分：4 分，滿分為 5。

中山七里

翻譯 王華懋

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“故事以極濃的密度描寫了音樂大學以及音樂世界的種種，引人入勝，其逼真度完全不像是一個圈外人寫出來的。即使是行家來讀，也同樣趣味盎然。而對古典音樂完全陌生的人讀起來，一定也能相當滿足。──仲道郁代（鋼琴家）

　　價值二億日圓的史特拉第瓦里大提琴從完全密室中突然消失？
　　被譽為稀世拉赫曼尼諾夫琴手的專用鋼琴被惡意破壞？
　　犯人的目的除了阻止重要的演奏會舉行外，還有……？

　　「在音樂，與讓人感動的事物之中，計算並非不可或缺之物。能夠事先計算好做到的事，都是可想而知的。當然，演奏的基礎很重要，但還有更多形形色色的不確定要素累積在上面，才有可能產生出超乎想像的調和音樂。而這是沒辦法計算的。所以你問我勝算，我也無從回答。可是呢，有勝算所以去做，沒有勝算所以不做，這看似正確，但其實是錯的。」

　　「為什麼？」

　　「世上沒有如同計算的未來。」

　　身為愛知音大校內樂團小提琴首席的晶，與大提琴手初音正為了秋天的演奏會而努力著，如果在演奏會上有好表現，就等同於獲得了進入職業樂團的門票，不過，某個早上，收藏在樂器室，24小時由專人看管的史特拉第瓦里大提琴卻在沒人發現的狀況下突然消失無蹤，除此之外，愛知音大的理事長、校長，同時也是被譽為稀世拉赫曼尼諾夫琴手的知名鋼琴家準備在演奏會上使用，專屬於他的史坦威鋼琴也被不明人士破壞，並警告學校一定要中止這場演奏會，不然會有更多的人與樂器受傷。

　　不明人士的破壞行動，讓演奏會陷入一團混亂，擔任音大講師的岬洋介，在校方請求下擔任演奏會指揮一職。

　　在訓練樂團的過程中，他同時也一步一步的抽絲剝繭，尋找這起偷竊與破壞事件的元兇，不過最後的結果，卻讓眾人通通跌破眼鏡……"

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一開始, 我還以為是在看 “交響情人夢" 的推理版. 甄選的橋段真的很像.

Then She Was Gone 2021#77

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Sunday, September 12, 2021

評分：3 分，滿分為 5。

Lisa Jewell

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“NO ONE EVER JUST DISAPPEARS.

Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. And then she was gone.

Ten years after Ellie’s disappearance, her mother, Laurel Mack, is trying to put her life back together when she meets an unexpectedly charming man in a cafe. Before she knows it, she’s meeting Floyd’s daughters – and his youngest, Poppy, takes Laurel’s breath away.

Because the eerily precocious Poppy is the spitting image of Ellie.

And now, the unanswered questions she’s tried so hard to put to rest begin haunting Laurel anew. Where did Ellie go? Did she run away from home, as the police have long suspected, or did something more sinister happen? A haunting page-turner of “sheer perfection" (Booklist, starred review), Then She Was Gone is a gripping and emotionally resonant tale of one mother’s quest to uncover the clues she failed to recognize and finally discover the truth of what happened to her daughter.

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I can’t say whether I like this book. So I gave it three stars.

I like this book. I quite enjoyed reading it.

And I don’t like this book. I don’t like to read the part about what happened to Ellie. I skipped most of it. It was horrible!!

Usually, I don’t like the kind of novel when the author tells the story in two parts, what happened in the past and what is happening at the present. For many times, I’ll just flip through the part about the past, because they are mostly very sad.

魂囚西門 (魑魅魍魎檔案1) 2021#76

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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

評分：2 分，滿分為 5。

九色夫

暖暖書屋

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“如果活人是需要鬼神才會撞鬼，
　　那鬼神是否也是需要活人才會「撞人」？

　　魏松言，一位在美國名利雙收的心理醫師，回台灣後拒絕大型醫療院所的邀請，在西門町一個老舊騎樓裡自己開設心理諮詢診所，上門求診的病人寥寥無幾。

　　某天，一位都會白領女子前來求診，讓魏松言不得不接受原來自己具有靈媒的潛質，就此開啟了幫鬼魂做心理輔導的諮商之路。

　　美女口吐髒話，自稱是被人殺死的流氓，到底是第二人格還是鬼魂附身？
　　玻璃鏡中出現的女高中生，竟是死於三十年後，到底是幻覺還是撞鬼？
　　睡夢中來到四十年前的西門町，到底是鬼魂牽引還是生靈託夢？

　　人心即鬼神！除心魔即是渡化人，但要渡人就得先渡己。
　　一個人要跟鬼有緣分才能看得到鬼。
　　魏松言面對這些與真實世界共存、需要他做心理治療的鬼病人，又將如何藉由心理治療而讓自己與這群魑魅魍魎從絕望中獲得新生？"

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這個作者? / 主角? 自負又自覺懷才不遇, 有著深深的 “被囚" 情節的樣子, 令我想到大學時很討厭的 Linguistics 老師.

以為會從中讀到西門町的什麼古味, 沒想到就是不斷不段的霉味. 我還連第二本都借了…

古董局中局 2: 清明上河圖之謎 2021#74

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Monday, September 6, 2021

評分：3 分，滿分為 5。

馬伯庸

奇幻基地

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“一小段真跡補卷、千年的恩怨糾葛、完全沒有支援，許願要如何一步一步解讀《清明上河圖》之謎，解除五脈隱藏危機、打擊血海仇家、達成「堅持真相」「去偽存真」？

　　人能鑒古物，古物亦能鑒人
　　「明眼梅花」五脈掌了古董界的眼，定了鑑寶圈的心，只為去偽存真。時至今日，改組轉型成「中華鑒古研究學會」，一心改革，卻改不掉人心的貪嗔痴。只要有錢可賺，管它什麼規矩、什麼路數，一概徹底砸碎踏平。財神爺在上，牛鬼蛇神全都要靠邊站。唯有許願還堅持本心，絕不造假，也絕不販假……

　　《清明上河圖》自作者張擇端獻給宋徽宗，經歷了十三個皇帝之手，最後被末代皇帝溥儀帶到東北，一直是皇室珍寶，但四度被盜出宮，又四度被追回，輾轉千年，血流成河。

　　許願，北京城琉璃廠四悔齋小古董舖主，剛過而立之年，靠著家傳半本鑒寶書混飯吃，　一心只想守著小舖卻因尋找真相，而一腳踏進五脈與老朝奉的真偽古董漩渦，千年的恩怨糾葛從許願身上又重新點燃…… 他尋訪鄭州瓷器造假窩點時，意外發現—— 原收藏於北京故宮博物院的《清明上河圖》並不完全，當初張擇端在畫時，曾另補過小半卷，合二為一，方是汴涼風物的全貌。此一小段補卷，在藏古界只有耳聞，沒有人見過真跡，他同時也驚覺這名作列在老朝奉販賣給日本真跡國寶的《支那古董帳》上…… 真偽之戰就此展開！鑒古知識、技術工具、現代科技、黑幫勢力，紛紛出籠，古董江湖裡造假做局的各種奇技淫巧一一襲來……　　而生死之局，鬥智鬥勇亦鬥人心！

　　翻開本書，瞭解古董行當裡的文化傳承與江湖險惡……"

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還好我有決定給第二本一個機會. 倒也不是說這第二本就好到哪裡. 只是講到清明上河圖, 就勾起我的興趣. 好幾年前有看過展, 走馬看花. 這次讀這本書, 裡面講到一些, 算是傳言嗎? 我就Google 了一下, 看別人的說法. (同時也發現故宮南院有個清明上河圖的展, 剛結束. 真可惜…) 感覺很值得研究.

看書, 得到書以外的收穫, 也很好.

魔女青春推理事件簿 1 2021#73

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Sunday, September 5, 2021

評分：1 分，滿分為 5。

相澤沙呼

翻譯 柯璇

台灣角川

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“柴山祐希, 高中一年級, 在班上找不到自己的歸屬, 學校生活平淡無味.

某天, 學校對面的廢墟大樓中, 出現一為妖豔性感的美少女茉莉. 她的頭髮烏黑, 膚色雪白, 身上總是散發草莓的香氣.

‘你這傢伙, 有沒有興趣調查原始人?’

期待桃色戀情的柴山, 就此開始被神秘美少女當成 ‘柴犬’ 般呼來喚去的日子. 為了完成茉莉的指令, 柴山也跟同學們產生連結; 並且發現逐一解開的校園謎團, 原來都曾是某人的喜怒哀樂…."

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因為相澤沙呼的新書還在圖書館間流浪, 好奇心使然, 想借他 (一直以為是 ‘她’ 說)的舊書, 想看看這是一位怎樣的作者. 找了找, 找到這套, 還一口氣借了兩本.

第一本看三分之二, 我就放棄. 根本就是一本校園霸凌史. 校園裡不是常有各式的傳說嗎? 這本書就是在解柴山的高中學校裡的校園傳說, 然後, 都是一則則被罷凌的孩子的血淚史.

我不喜歡.

然後, 再一次證明了, 男作者筆下的女主角, 還滿令人討厭的.

Shutter Island 2021#74

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Saturday, September 4, 2021

評分：1 分，滿分為 5。

Dennis Lehane

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“Summer, 1954.

U. S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them.

But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems.

And neither is Teddy Daniels.

Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe’s radical approach to psychiatry? An approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing …

Or is there another, more personal reason why he has come there?

As the investigation deepens, the questions only mount:

How has a barefoot woman escaped the island from a locked room?

Who is leaving clues in the form of cryptic codes?

Why is there no record of a patient committed there just one year before?

What really goes on in Ward C?

Why is an empty lighthouse surrounded by an electrified fence and armed guards?

The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island.

Because someone is trying to drive them insane …

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Like Alex Michaelides’s The Silent Patient, the authors both prepared a surprising ending. The kind I hate!!

I don’t like to read a book which was told from the point of view of a criminal. However, you won’t know it until the last chapter!

As usual, I will give Dennis Lehane another chance, before I decide whether to quit reading his books.

乩童警探 3: 死亡的深度 2021#71

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Thursday, September 2, 2021

評分：3 分，滿分為 5。

張國立

鏡文學

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張國立全新三部曲

　　家庭變故讓羅蟄從神壇走向警壇，刑案卻帶他回到宮廟
　　通靈也難斷的犯罪事件，最原汁原味的台灣探案小說

　　愛與救贖的第一彈：
　　全家暴斃的豪宅密室凶案，在犯人槍決後意外重起波瀾？
　　恨與認同的第二彈：
　　新發現的屍體有上一具屍體的指紋，難道是還魂抓交替？
　　死與糾纏的第三彈：
　　不相干的屍體都被放了平安符，羅蟄竟跑去找碟仙問案？

　　當個警察，也得靠天吃飯？"

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這一本好悶, 好灰色. 人老了只能求死? 好悲哀. 不是很喜歡這本書的觀點 ~ 雖然那是兇手病態的心理. 阿我就很討厭對兇手心理著墨多的推理小說. 看了很不舒服.

古董局中局 1 2021#69

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Tuesday, August 31, 2021

評分：2 分，滿分為 5。

馬伯庸

奇幻基地

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“「鑒古易，鑒人難」——
　　在每一件仿冒品背後，都是機關算盡的機巧和匪夷所思的圈套。

　　半本家傳鑑寶書、一堆散碎不全的照片、兩個心懷叵測的伙伴，許願要如何一步一步解讀古董之謎，揪除藏於贗品中的真正仇家、消弭中日古董界的大亂？

　　鑒寶，不光鑒真偽，也鑒人心「明眼梅花」五脈掌了古董界的眼，定了鑑寶圈的心，只為去偽存真。他們的尊嚴與祖訓，乃絕不容許自家人沾手仿品交易。無奈當中有人利益薰心，致使如今的五脈品德不存，逐漸凋零。唯有少數人還堅持本心，卻不再見容於世……

　　金石玉器、書畫、青銅明器、瓷器、木器…… 每一件古董背後，都是深厚的歷史積澱和文化傳承。然而幾千年來，許許多多的人造假、作偽，偷天換日、欺騙世人，牟取不法暴利，　　甚至，拋棄國家尊嚴於不顧。

　　許願，北京城琉璃廠四悔齋小古董舖主，三十歲，靠著家傳半本鑒寶書混飯吃。已過世的爺爺是五脈掌門族長，精通五門且雄才大略，在古董界裡地位甚高。一天，突來的訪客一句「你爺爺，是個漢奸！」把他帶進一個做夢都想不到的陰謀中—— 一件坊間傳說的稀世珍寶「武則天明堂玉佛頭」竟和自己有千絲萬縷的聯繫。一個六十幾年前做的局，將許願置入其中，他必須使出渾身解數，置身於生死之間，辨真偽、知善惡、探真相…… 靠著一堆散碎不全的照片線索破解玉佛頭之謎，和蟄伏了幾十年的各方神聖鬥智鬥勇，和古董江湖裡造假做局的各種奇技淫巧一一遭遇……

　　翻開本書，瞭解古董行當裡的文化傳承與江湖險惡……"

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一開始, 我以為我在看的是南派三叔的盜墓筆記. 大概因為都是中國那一邊的作者, 口氣很像.

如果不是我有 “給作者第二個機會" 的習慣, 我應該會看完這本就放棄整個系列. 那個排場, 那個鬥心機, 那個門派, 好受不了. 最後還來個好朋友的叛變. 不知道我如果開始看金庸的小說, 會不會也被門派呀, 勾心鬥角啊的, 又棄?

鬥來鬥去的, 我真的不行!!

Scrublands (Martin Scarsden 1) 2021#68

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Monday, August 30, 2021

評分：2 分，滿分為 5。

Chris Hammer

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“In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners before being shot dead himself.

A year later, troubled journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend to write a feature on the anniversary of the tragedy. But the stories he hears from the locals about the priest and incidents leaping up to the shooting don’t fit with the accepted version of events his own newspaper reported in an award-winning investigation. Martin can’t ignore his doubts, not the urgings of some locals to unearth the real reason behind the priest’s deadly rampage.

Just as Martin believes he is making headway, a shocking new development rocks the town, which becomes the biggest story in Australia. The media descends on Riversend, and Martin is now the one in the spotlight. His reasons for investigating the shooting have suddenly become very personal.

Wrestling with his own demons, Martin finds himself risking everything to discover a truth that becomes darker and more complex with every twist. But there are powerful forces determined to stop him, and he has no idea how far they will go to make sure the town’s secrets stay buried."

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At first, I felt like I was reading The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend again. A little town at the end of a road where people were leaving for a better place to live. Or The Dry. The Australia where people were suffering from the drought and struggling to live.

But I found it far less interesting while reading. Everything was so dry, just like the drought.

Keeper of the Bride 2021#65

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Saturday, August 21, 2021

評分：3 分，滿分為 5。

Tess Gerritsen

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“If Nina Cormier’s wedding had taken place, she would be dead. But after the bride was left at the altar, the church stood empty when the bomb exploded. It wasn’t until a stranger tried to run her off the road that Nina realized someone actually wanted to kill her.

But who?

That’s what Detective Sam Navarro has to find out … fast. With a nightmare all around them, Sam and Nina must try to decipher the terrifying truth: they are at the mercy of a brilliant madman, one who is playing for keeps …"

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I was planning to go somewhere by train. I’ve been stayed home for almost three months after the Covid crisis in May. But I decided, again not to go out due to the weather. So, I stayed home to finish this book.

I have finished all the Rizzoli & Isles series, up to the latest I Knew A Secret. So I think it’s time I can focus on Gerritsen’s standalone books. And this was not the first standalone book of her I’ve read, either.

If you ask me what category I think this book falls into, I’ll say it’s more a romance than a detective novel. Not very impressive. It’s a romance novel, so you could guess that the bride and the detective eventually would have a happy life ever after. The person, whose crimes brought Nina and Sam together, was a bomber. So you could know there would be a bomb in the end to threaten their lives. And it would definitely be at the last second, not minute, when the bomb was disarmed. Such a cliche.