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?
