From the back cover: Mizuki and her friends go to the country, where they meet and try to help a ghost pining for his lost love. Then, for the big Christmas dance party, Mizuki and Nakao are recruited to help make up for a shortage of females—by dressing up as girls! This turnabout for Mizuki, however, proves to be the least of the complications that flare up when the whole … [Read more...] about Hana-Kimi 11 by Hisaya Nakajo: C
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides: A
From the back cover: Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of 1967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban … [Read more...] about Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides: A
Alcott Reread
So, having read a bunch of novels of late featuring unlikable protagonists of the friendly neighborhood psychopath variety, I decided that I needed a good dose of wholesome, and undertook to reread Little Women and its sequels. I last did so somewhere between 1984 and 1986. I remembered the vast majority of Little Women's plot, if it can be said to really have one, but not … [Read more...] about Alcott Reread
The Valley of Dreary
Gah, The Valley of Fear is boring. I've come to the conclusion that three of the four Sherlock Holmes novels suffer the same problem: prolonged dwelling upon the gritty circumstances that created the past wrong that has somehow come back to haunt a personage concerned with the crime that Holmes is investigating. Perhaps it's only the passage of time, but I don't recall A … [Read more...] about The Valley of Dreary
Reactions, of the Lukewarm and Surprisingly Pleased Varieties
First, the Lukewarm: I recently finished the PC game Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None. I'm not sure I can describe it well without being spoilery, but it was rather odd. Although the voice acting was very good, the graphics (particularly of characters) were pretty weird-looking, and even in my limited experience, I've seen better in games that are older (Syberia). … [Read more...] about Reactions, of the Lukewarm and Surprisingly Pleased Varieties