Memoirs of a Geisha

Yesterday i finished the book Memoirs of a Geisha. This took me like 3 weeks to finish but it was a long book. It was a much interesting book than i thought it was going to be. She talked about things that she had to go through. The creepy men and even WWII. She finally got rid of her rival but she lost a good friend on the way. In the end, everything worked out like she hoped and it was only because she kept on hoping even when no one else would have. She knew she wouldnt be able to live without holding on to the little hope she had in finding her destiny in life. This book was a good thinker and made me be thankful that i have the life that i do. She had to go through doing things that she didnt want to do. Also she talked about how she would have liked being a mother and a wife, but she didnt have a choice on whether to do that or not. Everything was taken away and she had to work hard to get something in her life that she wanted. This was a good book but i already know what book im going to read next. My sister read it and she said that its like 50 first dates but not really. The girl forgets everything when she goes to sleep but its more creepy. She is married but she doesnt even know her own name. Im excited to see how it goes.

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Pages this week: 128
Book read this week: Memoirs of a Geisha

Favorite Sentences of the week:
"'We can't waste our time thinking about such things,' she said. 'Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past.'"

This is what we Japanese called the 'onion life'-peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

"You must take him out onto the street and walk him around a bit to wake him up. The cold will do him good." "He's lying in the snow. Isn't that cold enough?"

Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

All from Memoirs of a Geisha by: Arthur Golden.

Favs

My favorite sentences:

“You can’t break up with me right after I take a nap” “Why not?” “Because if you do, I will forever associate naps with being broken up with.” ~The Spellman Files

This one is one of my favorites because i just think its funny.

But still I owed it to myself not to be kind to him, not to pour his sake into his cup if I could spill it on his leg instead. ~Memoirs of a Geisha

I think this one is funny too. She doesnt really like this man all that much and she is supposed to be super proper with everyone, but she doesnt want to be with this guy.

"Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories." ~Love is a Mix Tape (Frances's sentence)
I stole this one from Frances's blog. I just think this one is cute.

 

Pages this week: 100

Books this week: Memoirs of a Geisha

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Bleeding Love

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Mark and Chelsie's dance to Bleeding Love uses facial expressions of hurt and purposeful use of their arms and legs shows painful brokeness and intense hostility.


Second favorite dance I almost did...
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But still I owed it to myself not to be kind to him, not to pour his sake into his cup if I could spillit on his leg instead. ~Memoirs of a Geisha

She is saying this about the guy who sold her to become a Geisha. She thought that she was about to see him and was planning her revenge.

Then I realized what was really the matter. The teapot was empty. What was more, it had been empty even when I'd picked it up. ~Memoirs of a Geisha

There is a man that makes her really nervous whenever hes around. She was pouring him a drink and she thought that he was staring at her beautiful arm, but he was just staring because the pot was empty.

"Go take a bath," she said to me. "You've been perspiring a good deal, and your makeup hasn't held up." It was a warm day, you see, and I'd been working very hard. ~Momoirs of a Geisha

Give Thanks!

So I have not blogged in a while. We don't have internet at our house so I find it difficult to do homework. Only one more month until our house is finished and we can move in! But I can use this time to be grateful. I started a new book this week. It is called Memoirs of a Geisha. I had no idea what a geisha was. I even asked my mom. So we googled it. Good old google. I pretty much learned that it is an asain that preforms for men. Kind of weird to me. But this girl in the book didn't get into it on her own. Her mother was very sick and dying and her father was much older. Some man found out about this and decided to buy her and sell her to a place to train her. Lots of times in this book people metion her eyes. There is something about them that people find amazing. They are like a mix of grey and blue. But anyway she has to live in this home and is pretty much a servant and has to do everything they tell her to. They are very strick and if she does something wrong she gets beaten. Also her sister was sold at the same time. They went to separate places and have not seen each other. When she finally did find her she had found out that she became something like a prostitute. When she tried running away with her she got caught and was beaten. Although I am living in a house that isn't my home and it isn't the most comfortable place to be at right now, I am grateful that I don't have to live like her. She doesn't have a family or any real kind of life. It kind of reminds me of my favorite place. I have gone to Haiti three times and I love it there. I can see similarities of the book and that place. Both places are not the best places to live. Everytime I come home from Haiti, I feel grateful for what I have. This book is making be happy that I live here and have a family that loves me. Everyone should be thankful!

This week!!

Pages this week: 200
Pages last week: 217
Total: 417

izzy spellman

During the whole book Izzy wasn’t very happy with her life. She wanted to quit being a private investigator so that she could be herself. But, she tries quitting and finds out that she was being herself. She just had a weird life. She will always have a different family than everyone else.  But, I think everybody has to deal with that. There is always that person in the family that is crazy! If you don’t know who it is, it’s probably you.

favorite sentences

All I’m saying is that it’s Saturday night and I got a fourteen-year-old in my bar and I want her out of here. (she goes there to drink ginger ale)

“You can’t break up with me right after I take a nap” “Why not?” “Because if you do, I will forever associate naps with being broken up with.”

David adjusted the bandage on his tattoo. “If she asks, tell her I was brave.” “Sure,” I said. “What’s another lie?”

the spellman files

I finished the book this week! The ending was definitely not what I expected. During the whole book every once in while it would go back to an interview with Izzy and a detective.  They were trying to figure out what happened to her sister. But Izzy was pretty much telling her whole life story. She really wanted to quit her family’s business but her parents would only let her if she solved one more case. So they gave her a case. The case turns out to be really weird. She keeps coming up with more questions than answers. But, when she finally comes up with the final answer to all of her questions, I was surprised. But I’m not giving anything away! I’m not sure I would be very good at her job. She has to be sneaky and questions people about their personal life which is just weird. Her family even does that to her. They put a listening device in her room to listen to her. I would not like that at all if my family did that to me. I’m fine with telling them anything, but they have to ask me about it. That family has a privacy issue that really needs to be taken care of.