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A review by osmosis
De westerse geisha by Chelsea Haywood
1.0
This is a really easy and light book to read and contains some nice tidbits of information regarding hostessing and Japanese culture in general.
However, the story is way to strung out (it could easily be condensed into an article), the dates and customers that she encounters are so remarkably similar to each other I found it difficult to keep track to the latter. It was difficult to understand why she might be attracted to yoshi and her relationship with her husband also seemed difficult to fathom. The way she described her customers and especially the other hostesses seemed quite arrogant e.g. she seemed to attract so many customers without trying vs. the desperate attempts of her colleagues who all seemed to be falling apart at the seams. Finally, the title is completely misleading and though I guess I was a bit stupid to think a foreigner could actually become a geisha, still...
I think a more honest and apt title and one that would saved my time reading the book would be "confessions of a hostess".
However, the story is way to strung out (it could easily be condensed into an article), the dates and customers that she encounters are so remarkably similar to each other I found it difficult to keep track to the latter. It was difficult to understand why she might be attracted to yoshi and her relationship with her husband also seemed difficult to fathom. The way she described her customers and especially the other hostesses seemed quite arrogant e.g. she seemed to attract so many customers without trying vs. the desperate attempts of her colleagues who all seemed to be falling apart at the seams. Finally, the title is completely misleading and though I guess I was a bit stupid to think a foreigner could actually become a geisha, still...
I think a more honest and apt title and one that would saved my time reading the book would be "confessions of a hostess".