Books Read in 2007

[rolanni]

Carnival, Elizabeth Bear
Thunderbird Falls, C.E. Murphy
Miss Melville Regrets, Evelyn E. Smith
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah, Sir Richard Burton
Changeling, Delia Sherman
Girl Genius, Omnibus Volume I, Phil and Kaja Foglio
An Assembly Such As This, Pamela Aidan
Definitely Dead, Charlaine Harris
To Ride a Rathorn, P.C. Hodgell
Deliverer, C J Cherryh
Agatha Heterodyne and the Circus of Dreams, Phil and Kaja Foglio
Agatha Heterodyne and the Clockwork Princess, Phil and Kaja Foglio
Tam Lin, Pamela Dean
Duty and Desire, Pamela Aiden
Unshapely Things, Mark Del Franco
Narbonic, Volume 4, Shaenon K. Garrity
Grey, Jon Armstrong
Time's Child, Rebecca Ore
The Margarets, Sheri S. Tepper
All Together Dead, Charlaine Harris
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman (re-read)
Ilario: The Lion's Eye, Mary Gentle
Ilario: The Stone Golem, Mary Gentle
Hellspark, Janet Kagan  (re-re-re-re-re&c-read)
Undertow, Elizabeth Bear
Thin Air, Rachel Caine
Into the Wild, Sarah Beth Durst
Last Chance to See, Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
Lady Susan, Jane Austen
Bad Monkeys, Matt Ruff
Whiskey and Water, Elizabeth Bear
Money for Nothing, Donald E. Westlake
Duainfey, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Geisha, A Life, Mineko Iwasaki

Comments

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Geisha had quite a lawsuit connected with it. The woman whose story it purports to tell was very upset over the virginity auction part of the book, and says that it is not true. Don't know who won the lawsuit.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

The geisha won the lawsuit against Mr. Golden, author of Autobiography of a Geisha, who had felt the need to, um, add some drama to the story that was told to him.

The geisha -- Mineko Iwasake -- then wrote her own books: Geisha, A Life and Geisha of Gion. She was very clear in the book I read that geishas were not courtesans, though she does relate the story of a sister geisha who was sold into prostitution as a child, but escaped (upward) into geisha life.

It was a fascinating read, and I may very well pick up Geisha of Gion, too.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Mr. Golden, author of Autobiography of a Geisha

Sigh. That would of course be Memoirs of a Geisha.