2010 is nearing an end and I am snowed it due to more than a foot of snow outside. I tried to take the dog for a walk yesterday and didn't go farther than the end of the street. This was smack in the middle of the storm. Today I didn't get farther than shoveling the driveway. I have cabin fever. Tommorow I will go from being trapped in the house to being trapped in the car as I drive from New Jersey to Toronto. Goodness!
I finished reading 'Memoirs of a Geisha'. I certainly could have read it back in 2005 when it was popular but I am allergic to popular things, I find. There isn't a single trend I can adhere to, not even this blogging thing! Once again I am going to tell myself to try harder to maintain some kind of a writing schedule.
The book was very charming, just as I imagine a real geisha's personality must be. The book starts with a Forward known as a 'Translator's Note' which mentions that everything was transcribed from the protagonist narrating her life story and it is very easy to believe that was the case. The book has a conversational quality that makes it a very easy read. The entire thing is entirely fictional but I can imagine it being true. The thing that probably made the book really popular I suppose, was that it was a love story with a happy ending. We are such suckers for that kind of stuff. I would reccomend reading it if you have been living under a rock like me and are stuck somewhere and completely sick of movies and your family.
I am trying to decide if I want to read Steig Larsson's trilogy at the moment since I have a week off from work. Ofcourse the franchise is wildely popular right now as evidenced by the fact that it can be called a 'franchise' and not just 'books'. The author is dead and that makes the work more intriguing in my mind, although i'm not sure why. I have other things I want to read as well. It depends on what I can get my hands on first I suppose.
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