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Well. This book ripped my heart out. And hugged it. And put it back again. Ten stars.
What an amazing book. The protagonist, Nao, a Japanese teenager who was raised in Sunnyvale, but lives in Tokyo as the story begins. She is writing to an unknown reader, telling the story of her life. Her journal washes up on an island off the coast of British Columbia in a Hello Kitty lunch box. The person who finds it is also a writer and the relationship the two writers (one also the reader) form is amazing..in a Zen way, in a literary way, in a quantum physics way. The book is so ambitious a
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Wow. I can definitely see this might well not be everyone's cup of tea but it hit the spot - spots? - for me. It touched on past memories of other books which evoked a "wow" Capra's The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture and of course, as Ozecki herself referred to in this volume Proust multi-volume Remembrance of Things Past, and touched on other philosophical and scientific and spiritual aspects which all pull at my thinking at times and somehow wrapped them up in this wo
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I hate to be a sourpuss, but this was not much to my liking. In fact, I found myself starting to skim 25 pages in. I just couldn’t stand the teenager. However, with encouragement I perservered. I guess you could sum up my reaction thusly.
First 1/3 – Don’t like this much, but people tell me it’s going to get better.
Second 1/3 – It’s much better, now it’s starting to get interesting.
Last 1/3 – Tempted to skim again.
Last part of last 1/3 – Hated it. I can’t stand it when people take scientific prin ...more
First 1/3 – Don’t like this much, but people tell me it’s going to get better.
Second 1/3 – It’s much better, now it’s starting to get interesting.
Last 1/3 – Tempted to skim again.
Last part of last 1/3 – Hated it. I can’t stand it when people take scientific prin ...more
Funny, odd, tragic and contemplative. Loved it.
Nao's voice is spot on.
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