thirty days of interpretation 
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I’m a bookaholic. I love to read, but on the flip side, I can go months without reading. I can’t narrow it down to one favourite book. I have favourite authors. Lots of them. And I read a range of books, from Marian Keyes to Patricia Cornwell, Philippa Gregory, Alice Sebold, Charlaine Harris and others. Lately I have to add that to my favourite authors is Stieg Larsson.
It took me all of one week to read his entire Millennium Trilogy from start to finish. And while so much as been written about these books, I do have to say, that I couldn’t put the books down from the get go. It has been so long since I read a book that I could not put down.
But the one book I keep coming back to and have read about 5 times over, would have to be Memiors of a Geisha. I love books that are set in a time, place. Which could explain my fascination of Philippa Gregory novels and that lead me to become a huge fan of the TV series The Tudors.
I often pick up this book from its home on my bookcase and I will pick a page at random and start reading again. The movie did it no justice, but added to the visual feast in my head of Japan during WWII. Of course, I also have a fascination with WWII, which is a topic for another day.
The book plays to my favourite theme in life of the transformation from unfortunate female main character and her transition to strong woman. And like every good story, there are obstacles, assholes, danger and sex.
Just writing this post has made me want to pick up this book again and start reading it at random…