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By: Read-a-thon: Hour 22 | Books of Mee

Read-a-thon: Hour 22 | Books of Mee — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:54:35 +0000

[...] Last week I joked how you have bigger chance of winning the mini-challenges that occur in the last hours, because everybody has started to sleep. Then Tanabata said, I hadn’t thought about having a better chance to win the later mini-challenges. LOL! [...]

By: Marcia

Marcia — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:08:20 +0000

Thank you for stopping by the mailbox this week. I loved ‘Snow Flower’. Enjoy your book!

By: mee

mee — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:52:47 +0000

Blodeuedd, Serena, Scattie, Mary: Thanks and happy reading!

Renee G: That’s a vote of confidence yay!

tanabata: Actually I read it at someone’s blog during last year’s read-a-thon, and I thought, hey she’s right! :)

Kristen: No I haven’t read the Snow Flower. I like to keep new books stay for a while before I read them :)

Nymeth: Aren’t they GREAT? I knew Pom Poko for a long time, but I just found Only Yesterday by accident when I went to Japan Foundation library. I’ve seen Grave of the Fireflies. That’s so good too. I watched the making of Only Yesterday and in there it was shown how Miyazaki and Takahata are the best mates and rivals. Miyazaki said that Takahata is a person he could fight endlessly with, but would probably be the person he trusts the most. Miyazaki’s style is all funny and fantasy, while Takahata’s realistic and more serious. That’s why Miyazaki purposely push the realistic style projects like Only Yesterday and Grave of the Fireflies to Takahata cos he knew that he would be the person who could pull it off. Surprisingly Pom Poko is Takahata’s (thought it’s more fantastical), but at the end it got more serious, so in other words, more Takahata :)

About read-a-thon: Oh I don’t mind. It bounds to happen with everybody lives in different parts of the world. It’s part of the fun!

By: Nymeth

Nymeth — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:40:55 +0000

I LOVED both Pom Poko and Only Yesterday! Pom Poko for the Japanese folklorish mood and the environmentalist theme, Only Yesterday because it’s such a sweet and meaningful story. I know Miyazaki usually gets all the love, and he deserves it, but Takahata is brilliant too. Have you seen Grave of the Fireflies? So sad, but SO good.

PS: Sorry that the read-a-thon’s starting time is so inconvenient for you :(

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:47:12 +0000

Nice list of books. I loved both “A Thousand Splendid Suns” and “Snowflower and the Secret Fan”.

By: Scattie

Scattie — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:05:21 +0000

I have had a Thousand Splendid Suns on my bookshelf for about a year, I might actually put it in my TBR pile!
Good luck with the Read-a-Thon!

By: Kristen

Kristen — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:37:23 +0000

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is wonderful. Have you already read it or will this be your introduction to it? My mailbox is here.

By: Serena (Savvy Verse & Wit)

Serena (Savvy Verse & Wit) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:32:26 +0000

looks like a great list of books…happy reading

By: tanabata

tanabata — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:24:46 +0000

The read-a-thon starts at 9PM in Japan and my plan is similar to yours, to sleep for a few hours during the first part. I hadn’t thought about having a better chance to win the later mini-challenges. LOL!

By: Renee G

Renee G — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:07:48 +0000

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is an excellent book. My book club in Germany read it a few years ago. I don’t think there was a single person that didn’t like it