Ⅱ-03：Circle Games

  He turned as spoke and his foot moved quickly up into the air...(P.10)

  There are five stories in this book. Four of the five stories have punch lines, but  the last story doesn't. So when you finish reading the all stories, you won't be clear to the ending. This book make you think as it say...

 Among five stories, first story make us smile. In this story, an old man who loved to talk the past is the main character. He is proud of  how quick he was when he was young. He talks people that he could catch a fly in his hand when he was younger at his cafe. All he does is talk, and his family work so hard.  People think that he is an old stupid person.Of course, people around him get complaint to him! On the Chinese New  Year, the cafe is busy and people tell him to work. At first he tries to work, but he begins to talk again once one person ask him the pictures of Chines lion dance on wall, he begins to talk again because the picture is involve in his past. He stoops his work and talk and talk!  But this times, he becomes popular again because of an accident. Are there some people like him around you-who is not a bad person, but he is always speaking? We can see such a person in real, so  we can smile at this story.   

 The other stories are interesting. And each of them is so short. If you have time and interests in this book, please read this book! Which story make you smile or think most?

Frank Brennan. Circle Games. (2005) Cambridge University: Cambridge

Ⅱ- 02：The New Zealand File

He didn't like mobile phones. Sometimes you really needed them. The problem was that when you turned them on, people could find out where you were. (P.10)

  Do you have a phone? Probably, many people have one. Could you live without phones?  For modern  people like us,  phones are essential, right?  Then, could you throw it away if your phone disturbs your tasks? As you know, mobile phones are convenient but so dangerous at the same time. There are a lot of information in a phone, and it's so risky if someone know them. Especially, for some executives such as spies or person working for ICPO, the device is difficult to treat. The protagonist of this book is also such a special worker. One day, he gets a mission which affects on his nation. He is a brilliant worker, however, he is involved in many trouble in this task. His enemies know where he is because of his phone! Therefore, he decides to discard it, but....
  If you know the following of but and you are good at solving some riddles, please read this book. This book have much development which betray you.  When I read this book, I wanted to ask some hard question to many thing( I wanted to do " tukkomi" in Japanese!!) Like me, you will get some surprise.

 Richard MacAndrew. The New Zealand File. (2009). Cambridge: Cambridge university

Ⅱ-01：Apollo's Gold

　As an archaeologist you want to find things because you want to learn about them.(P. 8)

  It is the beginning of this story that a main woman visits a doctor. The main character is an archaeologist who is always overworked. When she visits the doctor, she is advised to take a rest. However she is so busy and she once refuses it. After she is persuaded by her boss, she decides to go to the beautiful and peaceful island. However, she becomes involved with a dangerous incident there...

  The point of this this story is that main character is an archaeologist who wants to find everything. After she encounters a accident where one of the local men dies in island of rest, she comes across a suspicious group. She feels a little scared but she chooses to explore the truth. Then she approaches the team and she gets in danger.  Probably the profession is important for the progression of this story. If she had not been such a eager scholar, she would not have been involved in the accident.
 Then, what I like in this story is the moment where it turns out that a person who seem villain is actually justice. At the begging of  this story, a main archaeologist meets a man who looks  bad at first glance. At first she doesn't like him, but she knows that he work for international police when he help her. The betrayal of development makes the story more interesting.
                                        
  Antoinette Moses. Apollo's Gold. Cambridge:Cambridge University. (1999)