I read "Kitchen" today. I went into a little bit of a panic about 6:30 because I suddenly realized that I had to read an entire book in an evening! Egad! Luckily, I had already gone into this moment of shock numerous of times throughout the weekend, assuring myself that I could read faster now and that it would be no trouble at all. So I set myself up in my comfy red chair, the kamakazie chair which my sister let me borrow, and I set about reading the book. It is now 8:00 and I am finished with it. Frankly, I am pretty proud of myself.

The book itself was very good. While one of the main characters is a woman who used to be a man, two of the characters die, and the whole romantic plot involves no cliche moments or traditionally favored plot elements, it was, in entirety, a wonderful book. I may put it on my list of "Books that I wouldn't mind reading again sometime thank you" and that is a very small list. Currently on it are:

The confessions of Lady Nijo
Soul Music and Going Postal, Terry Prachett
Shadow in Ombria, Patricia McKillip (The beginning is so beautiful!)
Derik's Bane (lol, rofl)
and
Kitchen

I liked integral trees, but I wouldn't read it again. It's kind of like mysteries, once you know what happened you're like "oh" and it's pretty much over. Ringworld, too. You get to the end and your like "WTF! Rocket fuel? Maybe something that resembles an ending?!"

Anyway... read it. You will like it. I am pretty sure about this. It is not one of those preachy 'literary' fictions either. It's just a good story and a cute story and I liked it story. If you don't like love stories, then you might not like it. It IS kind of a love story. Well, I better be off. I have to check my mail again XP.

kitchen is good!
Banana Yoshimoto is good. Read any of her other stuff yet?
» Silver-dot- on 2007-11-12 10:32:40

It surprised me, how good the book was. Mostly because when I picked the book up sometime in high school (geez, that seems like so long ago), I had no clue who Banana Yoshimoto was. I just bought the book because her name was Banana.

I don't know if I will ever choose a book on that basis ever again. It seems like such a gamble.
» ranor on 2007-11-13 09:38:30

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