Yah! My copy of Lea Jacobson's new book Bar Flower just arrived today. Lea writes the ever interesting blog Geisha, Interrupted. This book, as the subtitle explains is about her "... decadently destructive days and nights as a Tokyo nightclub hostess." ... ...full story at Life as a Gaijin
from Life as a Gaijin on Tue, May 06 2008
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| 25 Jul 08 |
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Takara Tomy's Flower Rock : DigInfo »
YouTube video DigInfo - At the International Tokyo Toy Show 2008, Takara Tomy revived a classic toy the Flower Rock, a flower that can dance to music, but now can store and play its own music as well as dance. The new Flower Rock has a built in speaker so it can be... |
| 02 Oct 08 |
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Book Reviews › Bar Flower: My Decadently Destructive Days And Nights As A Tokyo Hostess » Japan Today You have to give her credit. Lots of party girls placate themselves by "gathering material" for a memoir that never gets written, but Lea Jacobson… |
| 28 Jan 08 |
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My Friend Kirkus » Geisha, Interrupted Recently, I got my hands on an early copy of the review of my book that will run in the Feb 1st issue of Kirkus Reviews. Here we go! BAR FLOWER: My Decadently Destructive Days and Nights as a Tokyo... |
| 04 Feb 08 |
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Booklist Is Also My Friend » Geisha, Interrupted I just got the following review back from Booklist. Yay! Issue: February 15, 2008 Bar Flower: My Decadently Destructive Days and Nights as a Tokyo Nightclub Hostess. Twenty-first-century Tokyo has two personalities that are—quite literally—day and ni... |
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Not Bad » Geisha, Interrupted A review of my book in Publishers Weekly, 12/10/2007: Destructive Days and Nights as a Tokyo Nightclub Hostess Lea Jacobson. St. Martin’s, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-36897-5 What saves this youthful memoir from being a dreary litany of boozy nigh... |
| 28 Jul 08 |
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Crime › Stand for flower offering removed 49 days after Akihabara rampage » Japan Today A stand for flower offerings placed at an intersection of Tokyo's Akihabara district was removed Monday after 49 days passed since seven people were killed… |
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