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the case of the missing books - ian sansom 2008-03-16 06:39:25
Israel Armstrong has just completely changed his life. He has given up his big town life of London for a job as a librarian in the Northern Ireland’s town Tumdrum. The only problem is…the library has closed. Well that is that then, he can go home again. Not really that bad, considering Israel regretted the [...]
the complete maus - art spiegelman 2008-03-18 05:06:10 Art wants to create a book about World War II and his best resource is his father. He and his wife, Art’s mother’, have lived through the complete
war, through the beginning where the Jews got less priveleges, to towns with Jews driven together, to Auschwitz. So Art visits his sick father every week and [...]
i am… 2008-04-08 16:32:52 There are a lot of Jane Austen fans out there, me included. I laughed together with Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and prejudice), cried with Elinor Dashwood (Sense and sensibility), was naive as Fanny Price (Mansfield Park) and caught up in the many plans of Emma (Emma).
And I wondered. I wondered what I, as me, would do [...]
mushishi (vol. 3) - yuki urushibara 2008-04-28 06:58:50
Ginko is a Master of Mushi: he knows everything about molds, fungus, bugs etc. And in that respect he is kind of a detective roaming around the world to solve mushi problems and puzzles.
The concept is good and the different stories are too, but this volume has five cases, and after the third one, every [...]
my dead girlfriend - eric wight 2008-04-28 06:30:30
Finny Bleak is a normal teenage boy, but in this book normal is the new weird. His ancestors ghosts are still around and make his life more difficult than it has to be. He gets pestered at school and lives his life surrounded by undead people.
But when he meets a girl at the yearly carnaval, his life [...]
black jack two-fisted surgeon (vol. 2) - osamu tezuka 2008-04-30 06:23:53 Black Jack is a surgeon without a license, but he performs the most difficult and amazing surgeries for big bucks. People in real trouble will contact him as a last resort and he always pulls through.
This book has nine chapters – nine surgeries – but none of them confinced me I was reading something I [...]
train_man (vol. 2) - hidenori hara 2008-05-02 15:26:50
Train_man and [Hermess] met on a express train, because nerdy train_man saves the day of [hermess]. At least that is what happens in volume 1 of this series. In this volume 2 the romance continues. Train_man went from nerdy otaku to a not so nerdy lovesick young man. They go on their first dates this [...]
dirk gently’s holistic detective agency - douglas adams 2008-05-06 11:48:12 Dirk Gently is a detective, but not some ordinary detective. He seeks answers in the fact that things are connected with each other in an almost unexplainable way, a metaphysical way, or as Dirk says it: in an holistic way. So try to explain how these following components fit together in one story: a missing [...] Read more:agency
proof - david auburn 2008-05-21 05:16:56 It’s Catherine’s birthday. She is turning twenty-five, but already spent most of her adult life caring for her manic-depressive father Robert, having to disgard her own study and student life. Now that Robert is dead she has difficulty to get her own life back on track. She doesn’t leave the house with all her father’s [...]
blankets - craig thompson 2008-05-25 11:35:04 Craig and his brother Phil grow up in a highly religious family and environment. What they learn and what they see is based on God. Also the summer camp Craig attends. But on that camp he meets a girl, a girl he gets feelings for and when he stays at her house and with her [...]
the haunting of hill house - shirley jackson 2008-06-12 05:58:13 Dr. Montague is an occult scholar and he wants some solid evidence about the phenomenon called haunting. He sets his eyes on Hill House, a big mansion up in the hills, to conduct his study. The house is said to be haunted and anybody who tried living there, moved out after only three or four [...]
wyrd sisters: the play - terry pratchett & stephen briggs 2008-06-20 15:06:42 On Discworld live three witches, Granny, Nanny and Margrat. One day a baby is thrown into their laps and it happens that it is the son of the dead king. The king, murdered by the Duke, who wants to be ruler. Well, the Duchess want to be ruler actually: behind every good man, stands a [...]
carry on, jeeves - p.g. wodehouse 2008-06-20 14:53:41 Jeeves is the gentleman’s gentleman of Bertie Wooster and a genius in creating good ideas in troublesome situations. Not a bad quality for a butler with an employer called Wooster, because when Wooster isn’t in trouble a friend of his is and Wooster always wants to help his friends, no matter how bad the situation.
This [...]
sterrenmeisje has grown up… 2008-07-17 02:57:49 Hi,
Maybe you already noticed, but I have a new domain for all my book reviews: the other book review. I thought it was time to leave sterrenmeisje behind for my reviews, they deserve a place of their own, with a name that already explained what is happening on my site, without a big questionmark as [...]
wyrd sisters: the play - terry pratchett & stephen briggs 2008-06-20 15:06:42 On Discworld live three witches, Granny, Nanny and Margrat. One day a baby is thrown into their laps and it happens that it is the son of the dead king. The king, murdered by the Duke, who wants to be ruler. Well, the Duchess want to be ruler actually: behind every good man, stands a [...]
carry on, jeeves - p.g. wodehouse 2008-06-20 14:53:41 Jeeves is the gentleman’s gentleman of Bertie Wooster and a genius in creating good ideas in troublesome situations. Not a bad quality for a butler with an employer called Wooster, because when Wooster isn’t in trouble a friend of his is and Wooster always wants to help his friends, no matter how bad the situation.
This [...]
the haunting of hill house - shirley jackson 2008-06-12 05:58:13 Dr. Montague is an occult scholar and he wants some solid evidence about the phenomenon called haunting. He sets his eyes on Hill House, a big mansion up in the hills, to conduct his study. The house is said to be haunted and anybody who tried living there, moved out after only three or four [...]
blankets - craig thompson 2008-05-25 11:35:04 Craig and his brother Phil grow up in a highly religious family and environment. What they learn and what they see is based on God. Also the summer camp Craig attends. But on that camp he meets a girl, a girl he gets feelings for and when he stays at her house and with her [...]
proof - david auburn 2008-05-21 05:16:56 It’s Catherine’s birthday. She is turning twenty-five, but already spent most of her adult life caring for her manic-depressive father Robert, having to disgard her own study and student life. Now that Robert is dead she has difficulty to get her own life back on track. She doesn’t leave the house with all her father’s [...]
dirk gently’s holistic detective agency - douglas adams 2008-05-06 11:48:12 Dirk Gently is a detective, but not some ordinary detective. He seeks answers in the fact that things are connected with each other in an almost unexplainable way, a metaphysical way, or as Dirk says it: in an holistic way. So try to explain how these following components fit together in one story: a missing [...] Read more:agency
train_man (vol. 2) - hidenori hara 2008-05-02 15:26:50 Train_man and [Hermess] met on a express train, because nerdy train_man saves the day of [hermess]. At least that is what happens in volume 1 of this series. In this volume 2 the romance continues. Train_man went from nerdy otaku to a not so nerdy lovesick young man. They go on their first dates this [...]
black jack two-fisted surgeon (vol. 2) - osamu tezuka 2008-04-30 06:23:53 Black Jack is a surgeon without a license, but he performs the most difficult and amazing surgeries for big bucks. People in real trouble will contact him as a last resort and he always pulls through.
This book has nine chapters – nine surgeries – but none of them confinced me I was reading something I [...]
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