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2009 in books

I just fin­ished my first book for 2010 and realised I didn’t post my read book of 2009. Although I didn’t read that much, I picked good ones. Not all, of course, that would be inhu­man but still.…I did good overall.


year/month author stars title
2009-02 Pink & Ten Pas The adven­tures of Johnny Bunko
2009-02 Ura­sawa Mon­ster — vol­ume 5
2009-02 Ura­sawa Mon­ster — vol­ume 6
2009-02 Ura­sawa Mon­ster — vol­ume 7
2009-02 Ura­sawa Mon­ster — vol­ume 8

the virgin suicides — jeffrey eugenides

5 stars

When you see the title you would think you’re in for a thriller/horror type of story, but you couldn’t be more wrong. It’s a very grip­ping and dis­turb­ing story about five teenage sis­ters who com­mit sui­cide. Heavy stuff? Not really. The way the story is told is very open and fac­tual, even funny at times, by one of the boys (now men) who lived in the street and who were intrigued by the Lis­bon girls and their lives.

the hours — michael cunningham

5 stars

In this book every­thing is hang up on one term: inter­tex­tu­al­ity.
Mrs. Dal­loway is the subject/object that is the inter­me­di­ate between three women, three, as it seems at first, totally dif­fer­ent and inco­her­ent lives. There is Vir­ginia Woolf, who is writ­ing Mrs Dal­loway, strug­gling with her story. There is Laura Brown, who is read­ing Mrs Dal­loway and Clarissa who is the late ’90 ver­sion of Mrs Dal­loway. Every woman has her own strug­gles and doubts. We, the read­ers, are given a look in their worlds, their emo­tions, thoughts and even­tu­ally their decisions.

mansfield park — jane austen

4 stars

Fanny Price, a young woman who is taken away from her fam­ily at the age of ten and brought up by her rich aunt and uncle. She learns man­ners, how to behave in cer­tain cir­cles. The only real friend in her ordeal is her cousin Edmund, who gives her paper and feather to write, and later on her uncle gives her a fair chance too, by giv­ing her a lovely fire (and so warmth) in “her” library. I really haven’t got a clue what more to tell . It’s just a roman­tic story about a very dull young woman. All is well that ends well. But I’m not fin­ished yet…