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Aug. 1st, 2010 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennariaBLOOD HINA, by Naomi Hirahara.
Cover copy: Mas Arai's best friend and fellow Hiroshima survivor, Haruo, is getting married and Mas has grudgingly agreed to serve as best man. But then an ancient Japanese doll display of Haruo's fiancee goes missing, and the weddng is called off with fingers pointed at Haruo. To clear his friend's name, Mas must untangle a web of secrecy dating all the way back to the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II and U.S. drug-running in the 1980s - a world of heartbreaking memories, deception, and murder.
Gender of detective: male
This felt more alien than the book actually set in Japan! Then again, it also felt more real -- the snapshot effect again. It's an odd feeling for even a lightweight otaku like me, whose exposure to Japanese is mostly anime or fellow otaku rather than actual Japanese (or Japanese-American, as here) usage.
This has strong women, but the older is strong in what I understand to be the more usual Japanese way (passive, enduring), while her daughter tries to be strong in a more active sense (seeking the thief of the dolls) and has a harder time with the Japanese sense (...would 'recovering from drug addiction' slot under here?). Mostly it's Mas's show, and he's not young. Not bad, but not so good that I would seek out more in the same series.
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I read once that being up for 24 hours straight has roughly the same effect as being legally drunk. Lord knows I feel that loopy, although we did manage to see Kris off without falling down the back stairs like dominoes. Yay.
In honor of Team Venture, from down the street:
It's over. Thank fuck.
Cover copy: Mas Arai's best friend and fellow Hiroshima survivor, Haruo, is getting married and Mas has grudgingly agreed to serve as best man. But then an ancient Japanese doll display of Haruo's fiancee goes missing, and the weddng is called off with fingers pointed at Haruo. To clear his friend's name, Mas must untangle a web of secrecy dating all the way back to the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II and U.S. drug-running in the 1980s - a world of heartbreaking memories, deception, and murder.
Gender of detective: male
This felt more alien than the book actually set in Japan! Then again, it also felt more real -- the snapshot effect again. It's an odd feeling for even a lightweight otaku like me, whose exposure to Japanese is mostly anime or fellow otaku rather than actual Japanese (or Japanese-American, as here) usage.
This has strong women, but the older is strong in what I understand to be the more usual Japanese way (passive, enduring), while her daughter tries to be strong in a more active sense (seeking the thief of the dolls) and has a harder time with the Japanese sense (...would 'recovering from drug addiction' slot under here?). Mostly it's Mas's show, and he's not young. Not bad, but not so good that I would seek out more in the same series.
*
I read once that being up for 24 hours straight has roughly the same effect as being legally drunk. Lord knows I feel that loopy, although we did manage to see Kris off without falling down the back stairs like dominoes. Yay.
In honor of Team Venture, from down the street:
It's over. Thank fuck.