Memoirs of a Geisha
Registered by YowlYY on 5/4/2003
3 journalers for this copy...
Very well researched novel that deals with the life of a geisha, from the moment in which the girl is sold to work as an apprentice until her departure from Japan. The story starts at the beginning of the 20th century, however sometimes I wondered if the one described wasn't the Japan of some centuries before - it surely reminded me of the old ways in the middle ages in Europe...
This book is now being promised to Berenice, who sported it on her Wish List. I will send the book this week :-)
Journal Entry 3 by YowlYY at -- Controlled Release in -- Controlled Release, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom on Friday, June 20, 2003
Released on Friday, June 20, 2003 at Postal release in London, England United Kingdom.
This wonderful novel is going to Italy to keep company to Berenice. I hope she will enjoy it!
This wonderful novel is going to Italy to keep company to Berenice. I hope she will enjoy it!
It arrived on monday, but I couldn't make the journal entry sooner.
Thanks: I started reading this book (in a simplified edition) three years ago, when I was in a school in Canada, but I never finished it!!!
Now I have a lot of books waiting on my bookshelf, but this is one of the first I will read.
Thanks: I started reading this book (in a simplified edition) three years ago, when I was in a school in Canada, but I never finished it!!!
Now I have a lot of books waiting on my bookshelf, but this is one of the first I will read.
Journal Entry 5 by ShadowPi from Watford, Hertfordshire United Kingdom on Thursday, November 13, 2003
Received in the post today. Thank you. Will journal again once read.
Update 14th January 2004.
A very well told and informative story, with a simple plot. Working class/orphaned girl works hard and makes a success of her life, (if becoming a paid plaything for rich and powerful men is making a success) then gets a man to make the story complete. In this regard it could have been written by Catharine Cookson or Barbara Taylor Bradford, only this is set in Japan as opposed to Yorkshire. There is great attention to detail and, assuming Arthur Golden checked all his facts thoroughly, it is full of history and details about the life of a Geisha that I previously was unaware of, and any book where I learn something new is good as far as I’m concerned. However, I had no emotional connection to any of the characters, which to me is the key that makes a good a book, a great one. I didn’t really care which of the men she ended up with, which Geisha got adopted by Mother or even where the bombs fell! An enjoyable read which probably deserved to get as far as it did in the top 100, but certainly no further.
31/01/04 - reserved for SBG2201
Update 14th January 2004.
A very well told and informative story, with a simple plot. Working class/orphaned girl works hard and makes a success of her life, (if becoming a paid plaything for rich and powerful men is making a success) then gets a man to make the story complete. In this regard it could have been written by Catharine Cookson or Barbara Taylor Bradford, only this is set in Japan as opposed to Yorkshire. There is great attention to detail and, assuming Arthur Golden checked all his facts thoroughly, it is full of history and details about the life of a Geisha that I previously was unaware of, and any book where I learn something new is good as far as I’m concerned. However, I had no emotional connection to any of the characters, which to me is the key that makes a good a book, a great one. I didn’t really care which of the men she ended up with, which Geisha got adopted by Mother or even where the bombs fell! An enjoyable read which probably deserved to get as far as it did in the top 100, but certainly no further.
31/01/04 - reserved for SBG2201
Journal Entry 6 by ShadowPi from Watford, Hertfordshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Mailed to SBG2201, a fellow Watford based Bookcrosser.
