After gruelling days of entertaining the festive moods, only getting home past midnight and making several trips to the airport in one day, that was enough! I was up to the brimm! I have been craving for slow days...just me and a book sounded like heaven!
So to speak, I was literally in heaven when i spent the whole of yesterday immersed in a book which i'd nipped from my cousin's ever growing fiction storage (which i have constantly relied on for a dose of fiction)...and this may sound really backdated, but i have not read "Memoirs of a Geisha" before and i clearly remember the very reason why...at the time this book was published, i was overwhelmed by the large ammount of Chinese-Revolution-Autobiography sort of literature and by the time Memoirs of a Geisha came to my knowledge, i was SICK of autobiography and conveniently skipped it.
However, yesterday was a different sort of story. I was desperate and craving for an autobiography and Memoirs of a Geisha was perfect! Even when I have already watched the movie, I always prefer reading them and so I did...and I felt so transported to the days of Sayuri and her life...and, it's much more touching and real reading her thoughts through a book...I've never before given much thoughts about Geishas and Kimonos before, but the book presented that very chance to experience the vibrant at the same time arduous task of being a Geisha and putting on a Kimono which was absolutely brilliant!
what a good read...definitely made my day*
Thursday, February 02, 2006
~*geisha
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So you're done with it?
Can I err.. Borrow.. Err.. Just kidding.. I read it before the movie came out.. I personally think that the book is much much better than the movie..
Btw.. no offence though, I think the movie was rather an insult the asians and it projects that our 'england' is not very english..
However it is rather enlightening for many of those who fail to try to understand the Japanese culture and might conviniently misunderstand them as prostitutes..
I do agree on the points that it is a very good book and it shows how 'Geishas' are brought up and the amount of training they have to go through, just to be entertainers..
true true, and well the book did explain further on the word "GEI" of Geisha which means "Artist" so that should dispell any thoughts of them as prostitutes.
And well i should kick myself for not reading this book earlier, but you know, there was tht one period with "Chinese Cinderalla" and that whole bulk of lit which pretty much capitalized the autobiography section! :D and i was dull enough to read quite a number of them.
but the book was a good read...it's like being taken away to an entirely different context :)
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