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Black Jack is a surgeon without a license, but he performs the most difficult and amazing surgeries for big bucks. People in real trouble will contact him as a last resort and he always pulls through.
This book has nine chapters – nine surgeries – but none of them confinced me I was reading something I could like. The stories, as the characters, were shallow. For me this book shouldn’t be allowed to call itself graphic novel.
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When her best friend Cynthia commits suicide, and leaves a message in which she stated a big part of her reason was her husband Gil, Annie knows she wants to get even with him. Together with her two friends, Brenda and Elise she sets up the First Wives Club. They want to take all their first husbands, the bastards, down, each in a way that will hurt them the most.
Well, what to say about this book: for once the movie is better.
The main character is Benny Hogan, a big “well boned” girl. She grows up in a little village in Ireland (Knockglen), but wants to go to university in Dublin and break free from her religious and adoring parents together with her best friend Eve Malone. She goes to university, but has to come home every day after college. She obeys until she meets Jack Foley and Nan Mahon. Together with some other friends, they really grow up, what is especially hard for Benny, because of her parents. They want to see her married to the clerk of her father. But Benny has fallen for Jack.
Now, life isn’t as easy as it used to be and some hard decisions have to be made by every single member of the “circle of friends”.
I can’t quite explain what is wrong with this book, but something just isn’t right. I see the humor in the book, it is even my kind of humor, but still I don’t know.
58 year old Harry Bliss is trying to understand the suicide of his wife Alison six years ago. Doing so he returns to “the scene of the crime” together with the 19 year old daughter of his best friend. She, Helen, looks a lot like Arabella, the second wife of his great-grandfather, who also killed herself in the same way and at the same place as Alison. They both walked into the sea until they got swept away and drowned.
Because Alison was a famous model, had written a bestseller and was in the middle of writing another book, the press never stopped bothering Harry, especially Gordon Hake. He thinks that Harry burned the manuscript of the second book.
Harry gets in contact with Judith Frazer, a professor English, who wants to use Alison’s story for a biography. Harry also meets up with Ern Higham and at the end of the book gets the “whole” story of what happened with Alison and Arabella.
