Book Girl and the Famished Spirit

Author	Keigo Higashino
ISBN	1408704110

When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973, unflappable detective Sasagaki is assigned to the case. He begins to piece together the connection of two young people who are inextricably linked to the crime; the dark, taciturn son of the victim and the unexpectedly captivating...

Author	Tetsuya Honda
ISBN	1250061598

When a body wrapped in a blue plastic tarp and tied up with twine is discovered near the bushes near a quiet suburban Tokyo neighborhood, Lt. Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. The victim was slaughtered brutally---his wounds are bizarre, and no one can figure out the "what" or the "why" of this...

Author	Makoto Shinkai
ISBN	8868839792

Mitsuha, una ragazza di provincia, e Taki, giovane di Tokyo, sconosciuti entrambi delusi dalle loro quotidianità, si ritrovano un giorno a vivere in sogno una la vita dell'altro. Lasciandosi dei messaggi per il "risveglio" inizieranno a comunicare e a conoscersi, cercando di capire la loro strana...

Author	Keigo Higashino
ISBN	4062157713

Newcomer is a translated Japanese murder mystery. It is the 8th in the series, but doesn’t matter if you start here as the main character, Sergeant Kyochiro Kaga, is new to the Tokyo police force. Kaga is assigned a murder case about a 45 year old divorced woman. His style is like that of Colombo - kind...

Author	Osamu Dazai
ISBN	1935548085

Mornings are torture.

Glasses are like ghost

Words don’t come easy out of your mind and those exact ones which may express what we actually feel are even harder to come by; to have congruity between our thoughts and our words is a rare skill. However, one may not able to put forth the...

Author	Tatsuhiko Takimoto
ISBN	1427802564

I really liked how this book led me on a journey through the main character Satou's despair, and his absolute wreck of a life inspired me to change my own. It's like... more subversive than Chuck Palahniuk, but less offensive than Mein Kampf, if you get what I mean. This book is pretty heavy stuff to deal...

Author	Eiji Mikage
ISBN	4048674617

Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria, translation: 'The Empty Box and The Zeroth Maria' is a light novel series revolves around a mysterious new student (view spoiler)['Maria' (hide spoiler)].

Author

Eiji Mikage

Final rating: 3.5/5 stars

Same thing as first book - something was seriously missing.

But the premise and the idea of the death game these 6 characters, including Daiya Oomine, Kazuki Hoshino and Maria Otonashi are thrown into is interesting, it's also intriguing to see the behaviours...

Author	Eiji Mikage
ISBN	4048680129

Final rating: 3.5/5 stars

Completely subjective opinion here again: I loved this one more than the first one, even when people call it the weakest in the series, i found it the most interesting so far (having read up to volume 3).

Anyway, instead of infite day loop, this time our main...