I want to try something new on you readers. Once in a while I will give my favorite reads in one particular genre.
And as always: comments are welcome. Do you have your own favorites or do you want to comment on mine? Don’t hesitate and let me know!
Kicking of now with manga:
#1: Solanin –one volume strong, this is a great story about growing up and finding your way in the world.
#2: Sorcers & secretaries — two volumes of the humorous struggling between fantasy and reality.
this is a preview of my three favorites — manga
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Jaine Austen (yes, her “mother is an Anglophile, and a bad speller”) has her own writing service and one day she has to write a letter for geeky Howard, who wants to ask a blonde female fitness instructor named Stacy for a date. Jaine is a bit reluctant to write it, but in the end, does what is asked by her client — money had a big influence in that decision. She had better gone with her instinct to refuse him, because next thing she knows, Howard is in prison, arrested for the murder of Stacy.
Jaine is 100% sure, Howard isn’t the culprit. The only thing she has to do now is prove her female intuition is right. Something that easier said than done.
this is a preview of this pen for hire — laura levine
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Aurora (Roe) Teagarden gave up her work as librarian when she unexpectedly inherited a house and money. She decided to give the real estate business a chance. After all, her mother is one of the most successful agents in town. It should give Roe a head start. Well…it gives Roe a start, but not the start she wanted, for her first house showing ends with a naked corpse in the master bedroom. Not the way Roe hoped her new career would take off and to make matters worse, one of her new-found colleagues has fallen under suspicion.
Time to jump into action. Roe, the natural-born sleuth, will not have piece until she has unraveled this mystery.
this is a preview of three bedrooms, one corpse — charlaine harris
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Two universities, one in the USA (Euphoria State) and one in Britain (Rummidge) have an annual exchange scheme. Normally this exchange passes without a hitch, but this year the two ‘priviliged’ ones are Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp and everything will be different. The two academics arrive in tumult and changing times in the academic world. Philip Swallow is hoping to renew his pleasant feelings for the USA from the time he was there over twenty years ago, but he soon realises twenty years is a long time ago and everything is different. Morris Zapp has never been in Britain and would have had no problems keeping it that way, but now that he is, his ironical and sarcastic ways aren’t much of use to him. Both men are in for the biggest shock of their lives.
this is a preview of changing places — david lodge
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