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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 |
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.
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.
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?
Gabriel is a data thief. Together with his friend he hacks computers, security systems etc. to get the information he needs for his multiple employers. He is happy with who he is and what he does. And then a certain man named mr. Whittington contacts him with a question: would Gabriel be interested in finding his son, who disappeared some time ago. Gabriel is puzzled why Whittington should come to him, but after he learns his former girlfriend Frankie is the wife of Whittington, and therefor he knows something about Gabriel, a secret ability, that would be helpful in this case, Gabriel reluctantly agrees to look into it. His path leads to two beautiful sisters with unknown powers and that is the start of a very intriguing and thrilling journey.
Guy Montag is a fireman; not a fireman that extinguishes fires, but one that ignites them. He lives in a time (somewhere in the future) when having books is illegal. When the people who own them are found out, the fire brigade is being called to burn down the house together with the books. Guy is happy with his job until on one call a woman refuses to leave her books and burns together with them. On that occasion Guy grabs a book with him; there must be something in books if people don’t want to leave them even when that means their death. From that moment on his entire life turns upside down and he has to make some difficult choices and decisions.
Seven highly intelligent teenagers are being treated in a mental institution each for their own psychological problems. They are a group, some are friends, others are not. But they all have one thing in common: their secret of what happened in the night of November 8th 1977.
Innes is the one that only after 27 years gets to know the horrible truth of what exactly happened on that day when the group was on a camping trip.
Rebecca is the first wife of Maxim de Winter. She lived at Manderley. She is dead, but she is still around as the second wife can and will confirm.
The story is told from the point of view of the second wife after all that has happened; from the first day she met Max until the last day at Manderley. That fact gives an extra dimension to the story. Not only do we see what happens, we see what happens through the eyes of someone who has already lived it and has knowledge of things and feelings she couldn’t have during the period of which she tells.
