  german vocabulary lesson of the day: böse - evil, wicked, naughty memoirs of a geisha by arthur golden is very interesting in the fact that it gives us a glimpse into the closed world that geishas move in. but i dont see it as something very special. why? its just another story of human struggle wrapped in a beautiful kimono. no matter how beautiful the kimono, it is still always just a person inside. the fact of the matter is, the story was sort of like 'the little match girl'.
but more exotic. but i enjoyed the historical info. but then i watched a discovery channel special on geisha life, so a lot of the information wasn't very new. also 1 mills and boon medical romance (they sub-classify romances now. medical romance?? oh well) was a fun light read. i cracked up over the tingles part! its true though, but it also perpetrates a false notion that love is at its most exciting when it begins through some unusual event.
in all honesty fights and disagreements (not out and out shouting matches)really help bring out the best in a couple. it helps the pair grow, and when you have that 1 or 2 day silent period it really makes you miss one another. and 2 more sci-fi books. now those were good reads. its funny because the whole time i was reading the books i felt i should have been reading them in a different language. maybe its the effect of learning german. in europe you in the proximity of many different languages, in countries which are not even that far from each other.
and reading about a whole other planet or other galaxy makes me feel i shouldn't be able to understand a word of what the characters are saying. next one is a 1000 pager by tad williams. he is supposedly a good scifi writer. i will be reading the last of the otherworld series. i won it! hopefully i'll be getting mg copy of the princess bride in a week or so. i can't wait to watch the movie again. 
