{"id":48,"date":"2008-05-21T10:07:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T17:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=48"},"modified":"2011-11-27T10:47:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T17:47:23","slug":"book-review-of-autobiography-of-a-geisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/book-review-of-autobiography-of-a-geisha\/","title":{"rendered":"book review of Autobiography of a Geisha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0231129513\/rpcman\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"autobiography of a geisha\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/auto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"93\" height=\"140\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>I went into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0231129513\/rpcman\" target=\"_new\">this book<\/a> with absolutely no expectations. In fact, I didn&#8217;t even seek the book out to read. I just saw it in the library and decided to check it out since there weren&#8217;t many books dealing with Japan to choose from. What a pleasant surprise this turned out to be!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although the author is uneducated, she is able to tell a great story and couldn&#8217;t be called unintelligent. Unlike the very popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1400096898\/rpcman\" target=\"_new\"><em>Memoirs of a Geisha<\/em><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1400096898\/rpcman\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/9780613358170.jpg\" alt=\"memoirs of a geisha\" width=\"37\" height=\"60\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>, which was also a great book (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000EHRVMY\/rpcman\" target=\"_new\">pretty mediocre movie<\/a> unfortunately done with many non-Japanese actors), this is a true story. I got the feeling that Arthur Golden borrowed some material from <em>Autobiography of a Geisha<\/em> to create his fictional account.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Autobiography of a Geisha<\/em> is a rich story of the human predicament exploring what it means to be alive. The author&#8217;s life is actually very inspiring at times. She overcomes so much adversity along the way that if you are looking for a good &#8220;pick-me-up&#8221; type book that isn&#8217;t candy coated and sappy from cover to cover then you should find <em>Autobiography of a Geisha<\/em> and enjoy this page-turning, real adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went into this book with absolutely no expectations. In fact, I didn&#8217;t even seek the book out to read. I just saw it in the library and decided to check it out since there weren&#8217;t many books dealing with Japan to choose from. What a pleasant surprise this turned out to be! Although the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[44,29,152,31,28,30,33,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8573,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/8573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}