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Sherri Rudnick
Sep 15, 2011 rated it really liked it
Although it took me an extremely long time to finish this book, I really loved it. It was fascinating how the Geisha have to live. I definitely recommend this book.
Tien
Loved it, loved it, loved it! I was dragging my heels from reading this one due to all the hype about it and I finally picked it up for a challenge and I regretted that it's taken me so long to actually read it.

What a wonderful world Arthur Golden has created for his readers. I really liked in that he chose to write it in a memoir kind of perspective and that he's set it up in the beginning with the memoirist (if that's a word?) stating that he could still hear her voice telling him her story be
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Cheryl
Jun 12, 2011 rated it it was amazing
Fascinating! A beautiful, romantic telling of a life in a different culture and time...one I was not very familiar with.
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