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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

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.