Mizuho's English Blog

The Ironing Man    by Colin Campbell      I read The Ironing Man this week. It's about a couple, Tom and Marina.      Tom works in London and lives in a small village outside London. Marina is his wife. She had spent bored life in a small village. One day, a man visited her. She called him the ironing man because he ironed her shirts  perfectly. She talked and spent a short time with him. After he left, she saw a butterfly and thought a wing of the butterfly may make an earthquake. On that evening, she told Tom about the ironing man and a butterfly which she had thought that noon. Tom doubted she became mad and started to think what she was doing. Then, Tom noticed a possibility that she cheated him. He became unconcious and asked a detictive to search her acts. After a few days, a woman visited Marina. She was Tracy, a beauty consultant and masseuse. Marina consulted her anout her husband and their life.      Speaking directly, I didn't understand this story. Finally To

A Puzzle for Loga n    by Richard Macandrew      I read A Puzzle for Logan this week. It's about a case of murder. Ronny Campbell, a muder, has escaped from prison. A young woman body was found in the park this afternoon. This main character, Logan was called by Grant on his holiday. They worked together in a police officer. They visited a man, Jimmy Brown, who had lived with the killed woman.   'Well, it's the pigs.'        This is the words Jimmy said to Logan and Grant. I thought when I saw it, "What? What's the pigs?" I thought there were pigs in Jimmy's house, but I found "it" means Logan and Grant. People call the police a lot of different names: bobbies, coppers, the cops, and other worse things. I was surprised to know it. This story is written at the view of polices, so I felt their hardships and burden  in some places.        It made me excite and feel uneasy. Many characters appeared in this story, but it was easy t

The House by the sea     by Patricia Aspinall      I read The House by the sea this week.      This is about a man, Carl Anderson. He was a businessman. He had a wife, Linda. They lived in a house by the sea. He hadn't had enough time with her because he had been busy and he had thought his work was most important than anything else. One day, he broke his promise to spend Linda, so she got angry and go out their home. He thought he should talk with her, and called her friend Melissa. Carl and Linda promised to meet after she went to the party with her friends. But she didn't call him when he waited for her at a pub. That evening, he saw a strange man there. He was Tom Parker. After hearing his strange rumor, Carl had a sense of foreboding and thought Linda was in a trouble. He looked for her all the night. Then, something strange started to happen around him...      It was easy for me to read, but many characters appear in it, so I recommend that you read main charact

The Way Home    by Sue Leather      I read The Way Home written by Sue Leather. It's a collection of short stories. They all are about the people are going to somewhere.      I like the first story "The Way Home" especially. This main character is Alex. She has a husband. She is going to England for trip. When she packed her luggage, she remembered a man she met before trip. He is the most beautiful man she had met, so she couldn't forget him. Her complicated feeling is interesting and makes me feel uneasy. Please read it!