Japan Took The J.A.P. Out Of Me
by Lisa Fineberg Cook
From the Publisher:
Six days after an InStyle-worthy wedding in Los Angeles, Lisa Fineberg Cook left behind her little red Jetta, her manicurist of ten years, and her very best friend for the land of the rising sun. When her husband accepted a job teaching English in Nagoya, Japan, she imagined exotic weekend getaways, fine sushi dinners, and sake sojourns with glamorous expatriate friends. Instead, she’s the only Jewish girl on public transportation, and everyone is staring. Lisa longs for regular mani/pedis, valet parking, and gimlets with her girlfriends, but for the next year, she learns to cook, clean, commute, and shop like the Japanese, all the while adjusting to another foreign concept — marriage. Loneliness and frustration give way to new and unexpected friendships, the evolution of old ones, and a fresh understanding of what it means to feel different — until finally a world she never thought she’d fit into begins to feel home-like, if not exactly like home.
About the Author:
Lisa Fineberg Cook, a self-described Jewish American Princess from L.A., leaps at the chance for an exciting adventure when her brand-new husband’s brand-new job takes them to Japan a week after they’re wed.
My Review:
275 pages.
This is another book that I anxiously awaited to arrive in the mail.
Look at her – such a pretty face.
A beautiful smile and big blue eyes.
But, sadly, she writes more like a sailor, than a princess.
F this, F that.
What is it about young female authors these days?
It seems that so many can no longer write without using
4 letter words.
I’ve decided to no longer apologize for my feelings about
the use of this kind of language.
I don’t use it myself.
I don’t spend time with people who use it.
I don’t watch movies with it,
and I’m choosing to not read it.
This is a personal choice of mine.
I respect other people’s right
to read, write and watch what they choose,
but I’m asked for my honest opinion,
and that’s what I’m give’n ya.
So Japan Took The J.A.P. Out Of Me
will be going into” my out pile”,
and I’m sure that it will go to a good home,
to someone who will enjoy an appreciate it.
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DISCLAIMER
I received a copy of this book from Sarah at Simon and Schuster,
at no charge to me,
in exchange for my HONEST review.<
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No items that I receive “in kind”
are ever sold…they are kept by me,
given to family or friends,
or donated to The Polk Education Foundation,
my local library, or given away on
contests on this blog.
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I felt the same way about her – she was just ridiculously and unnecessarily vulgar. I don't use words like that either, and it icks me our to read them. And her constant smoking and then saying she wasn't a smoker or didn't want to smoke – that bothered me, too.
and the fact that it had SO little to do with Japan. Anyhow, now I'm complaining when I actually did enjoy reading this book.
I love how you do your reviews!