Monthly Archives: July 2009

my three favorites — manga

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. read the full post (141 words & 1 image, esti­mated 34 secs read­ing time)
July 20, 2009 – 14:21 | By eb | Posted in manga | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

this pen for hire — laura levine

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. read the full post (218 words & 2 images, esti­mated 52 secs read­ing time)
July 17, 2009 – 16:49 | By eb | Posted in chick-lit, detectives, don't bother | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

three bedrooms, one corpse — charlaine harris

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. read the full post (183 words & 2 images, esti­mated 44 secs read­ing time)
July 17, 2009 – 15:44 | By eb | Posted in chick-lit, detectives | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

changing places — david lodge

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. read the full post (199 words & 3 images, esti­mated 48 secs read­ing time)
July 17, 2009 – 15:17 | By eb | Posted in general fiction, humor, recommendations | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)