This is a replacement copy for the European Bookring that's stalled.
Read about the original bookring here.

Ring Rules:

1. Please journal the book to say you have received it.
2. PM the next person on the list for their address.
3. Read the book within one month (or PM me if you need longer)
4. Send to next person on list. Economy/Surface mail more than fine!

Any problems, please PM me.

Bookring participants:
1. bestfriends France
2. Stoxasths Greece
3. heles7 UK
5. Pulcherrima Denmark
6. Bookwormess Finland
7. Back to me, Sobergirl

Memoirs of a geisha movie

Travelling to bestfriends!

The book arrived today (along with two other BC books, but luckily they're not rings or rays!). I'm half-way in the book I'm currently reading and this one will be next. Thanks sobergirl for sharing and sending it. Thanks also for the postcard of the cafe in Turku, where you are having your monthly bookcrossing meetings.

Finished reading yesterday. A very interesting and moving story! Thanks for sharing.

Waiting for an address to move it on. Started asking when I was half-way through, but no luck sofar. Stoxasths does not reply.
I PM-ed heles7 today.

RELEASE NOTES:

off to heles7 (surfacemail)

With greetings from the Côte Opale!

This actually arrived last week but foolishly, I started to read and couldn't put it down. I'd seen the film and was so moved, I couldn't wait to get my hands on the book. As soon as I got to the end of the book, rushed out and bought the DVD and watched it that night.

A really amazing story. Thanks Sobergirl for starting the ring.

Cyzaki has responded to say they have obtained a copy and to skip straight to the next person...

I have no knowledge of where this book is now.
I hope it hasn't been lost forever.
I will notify the remaining participants of this bookring that the book is MIA.

I have received this book a few days ago, and I'm looking forward to reading it. I'm very glad it had not got lost as Sobergirl first feared.

I loved this book from the very first to the very last page. I have been extremely busy during the past month, but whenever I had a moment to spare I found this wonderful book and continued to follow Sayuri's life.
I really like her naive tone, and just loved it when she tried to compare sights, persons or events to some sort of nature related image. Her language is extremely rich.
I even found the book very funny from time to time, especially when Sayuri is first introduced to “the eel and the cave”.
After having read the book, I felt really sad because the Geisha world was truly magnificent and in a way it is sad it no longer exists as it did before the world wars. (… yes, you care be so amazed that you tend to forget they many negative sides of the Geisha life.)

I watched the movie about the time it had premiere in the Danish theatres, and I really liked it, and I think the director has been very true to the novel and really dealt with the most important passages.

I’ve PM’ed Bookwormess for her address and will ship the book as soon as I get it.

.... and coincidentally I found the Geisha sweets I loved so much when I was a child in a new sweet shop here in town while reading the book :)

RELEASE NOTES:

To Bookwormess

Thank you pulcherrima for posting it over and especially for the lovely postcard and Geisha sweets. I just love them, my kind of chocolate. They're Finnish, you know, so I'm very glad you have them in Denmark. :D

Book looks very interesting, but thick and something I'll be going through forever. Hopefully not so that I can return it to Sobergirl soon. It'll be on my list next, I'll notify in this entry when I start it.

EDIT ON 5.2.2007

I've read couple of thick books recently, so I had to read something light and quick in between. I'm starting this one today. :)

This book is so facinating!!! I've read only 37 pages, but I made a decision that I'm going to read this in Finnish. It has so many adjectives describing things and I really want to understand every single detail. As English isn't my first language, there are words I don't understand and that is usually fine. But this book is a story of different world and culture I've never seen, even decades when I wasn't born, and I just want to understand every bit of it. And every bit of how Sayuri feels about exploring the world.

I'm sending it back home to Sobergirl and going to bookstore to buy my Finnish copy of it. Thank you for sharing, I think it's worth reading. :D

Thank you everyone for participating in this bookring!

RELEASE NOTES:

BC Meetup 25th Feb 07 at Aula Cafe' at 2 pm
Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova-museum

Have read some Chinese books and find it ok at this point to step a bit towards East, ie. Japan.

I just finished reading this story. Wonderful and reliable though completely imaginary as the author says - the load of work the author has done can be sensed in almost each word. "Victorianity" amazed me a bit what comes to "eel, cave" etc. issues. In the end of book, there could have been some more pages telling about "happy days", too. Haven't seen the movie, yet.

EDIT 10.8.2007
As mentioned within pages: Geisha is an artist, education covering traditional Japanese music and dance.

RELEASE NOTES:

Lukuiloa löytäjälle.

Vapautettu osana Tarnan teatterikesähaastetta

Wishing happy days with this nice book for next reader.
The book has been released as part of Tarna's Theatre -challenge, where released book should somehow relate to theatre/acting + should be released during Tampere Theatre Festival 6-12.8.2007.

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In Turku: Looking foreward to reading this!