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5 ***** and a ❤
An engrossing story - a window into another world, another culture, another time. Sayuri is so passive, she infuriates me at times. Yet I am deeply disappointed in her for the way she treats Nabu - her one aggressive act.
I first read it in March 1998. A year later one of my book discussion groups chose it and I read it again. When the movie came out my husband surprised me by saying he wanted to see it (he had been in international business and spent a lot of time in Japan). Beca ...more
An engrossing story - a window into another world, another culture, another time. Sayuri is so passive, she infuriates me at times. Yet I am deeply disappointed in her for the way she treats Nabu - her one aggressive act.
I first read it in March 1998. A year later one of my book discussion groups chose it and I read it again. When the movie came out my husband surprised me by saying he wanted to see it (he had been in international business and spent a lot of time in Japan). Beca ...more
Loved it, loved it, loved it! I was dragging my heels from reading this one due to all the hype about it and I finally picked it up for a challenge and I regretted that it's taken me so long to actually read it.
What a wonderful world Arthur Golden has created for his readers. I really liked in that he chose to write it in a memoir kind of perspective and that he's set it up in the beginning with the memoirist (if that's a word?) stating that he could still hear her voice telling him her story be ...more
What a wonderful world Arthur Golden has created for his readers. I really liked in that he chose to write it in a memoir kind of perspective and that he's set it up in the beginning with the memoirist (if that's a word?) stating that he could still hear her voice telling him her story be ...more
I'm finding that I'm into historical fiction a lot lately and this book definitely satisfied my desire for historical accuracy woven into a captivating plot. I found myself very involved in the book and experienced quite a range of emotions as I identified with the primary character. I initially read this book so that I could watch the movie. But now having read it, I would recommend it to anyone who loves historical fiction, with or without seeing the movie.
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Ugh.
I really wanted to love this book. But ugh. Ugh! One-note characters. Way too many nature metaphors. And by the end, I got so annoyed with Sayuri that I just wanted to punch her in the face.
I give it two stars, because I didn't hate it enough not to finish it. ...more
I really wanted to love this book. But ugh. Ugh! One-note characters. Way too many nature metaphors. And by the end, I got so annoyed with Sayuri that I just wanted to punch her in the face.
I give it two stars, because I didn't hate it enough not to finish it. ...more
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