Category Archives: true stories

train_man (vol. 2) — hidenori hara

4 stars

Train_man and [Her­mess] met on a express train, because nerdy train_man saves the day of [her­mess]. At least that is what hap­pens in vol­ume 1 of this series. In this vol­ume 2 the romance con­tin­ues. Train_man went from nerdy otaku to a not so nerdy lovesick young man. They go on their first dates this time and of course the com­plete inter­net com­mu­nity at 2channel where train_man first went to sup­port and help have their own opin­ions about to han­dle everything.

the complete maus — art spiegelman

5 stars

Art wants to cre­ate a book about World War II and his best resource is his father. He and his wife, Art’s mother, have lived through the com­plete war, through the begin­ning where the Jews got less priv­eleges, to towns with Jews dri­ven together, to Auschwitz. So Art vis­its his sick father every week and wants to hear every story his father has to tell about his fam­ily and their friends.

dress your family in corduroy and denim — david sedaris

3 stars

Just like in Me talk pretty one day Sedaris has bun­dled some of his (fam­ily) sto­ries. Every aspect of fam­ily (life), dis­cov­er­ing your­self and the ones around you, know­ing how to han­dle your par­ents and sib­lings, is being inves­ti­gated and writ­ten down in a hilar­i­ous, orig­i­nal and read­able way.

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the city of falling angels — john berendt

4 stars

Just like in his book Mid­night in the gar­den of good and evil John Berendt gives us an impres­sion of a city and its pop­u­la­tion. This time he picked Venice.
In 1996 the Fenice, opera house of Venice, is burnt to the ground. Berendt hears of this and sets his sails to Italy. In Venice he speaks with peo­ple who heard and saw the Fenice in flames and he is very intru­iged with their sto­ries. Who set the Fenice on fire and why does it take almost ten years to get the opera house built again?