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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

monster — naoki urasawa

Two chil­dren, twins, are brought in the hos­pi­tal after their adop­tive par­ents are bru­tally mur­dered. The girl is in shock, the boy has severe head trauma. Doctor Kenzo Tenma, a Japan­ese man work­ing and liv­ing in Ger­many, saves the life of this young boy called Johan against the wishes of the direc­tor of the hos­pi­tal, and father of his fiancee Eva. Not a smart move in many ways. He dis­cred­its him­self with the direc­tor and with Eva, who lost her inter­est in Kenzo overnight, and sec­ondly, and most impor­tantly, he seems to have saved not just a boy, but a boy that proves to be a Monster.

seven lies — james lasdun

3 stars

Ste­fan Vogel lives in East Berlin, behind the Iron Cur­tain. His father has con­nec­tions with the West, the big Amer­ica and his mother always wanted to give the impres­sion that they were priv­i­leged. The father would bring back gifts and Ste­fan would trea­sure them. Ste­fan saw the pos­si­bil­i­ties the West offered and wanted to go. Even when that entailed sell­ing his soul to some peo­ple with power.

James Las­dun has writ­ten a intru­ig­ing story about the youth in for­mer East Berlin. What their dreams and what their pos­si­bil­i­ties were. How they sur­vived the com­mu­nis­tic soci­ety they lived in.

goodnight nobody — jennifer weiner

4 stars

Kate Stein is a house­wife. Together with her hus­band Ben and her three chil­dren she lives in Upchurch, a lit­tle city in Con­necti­cut with, so it seems, only per­fect house­wives. The prob­lem is, she is not one of them. She can’t look sophis­ti­cated, doing the house­hold, look­ing after the kids, have time for extracur­ric­u­lar activ­i­ties all at the same time.
She is used to the lifestyle of New York where she has lived most of her life. First together with her par­ents, then together with her best friend Janie and even with Ben for a lit­tle while. But New York is no more and she is bored. What can hap­pen to make her feel like an inde­pen­dent woman with her own life again? Well…a mur­der! One of the per­fect wives is mur­dered under sus­pi­cious cir­cum­stances. Why should a nor­mal house­wife be killed and who did it? Kate is intrigued and deter­ment to unravvel this mys­tery. Will she suc­ceed together with Janie and her old flame Evan?