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February 25, 2009 by MJ 14 Comments

North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter

Just a quick note to let you know that a review of mine went up this evening at Manga Recon’s Otaku Bookshelf. The review is of Vertical’s release of Sakie Yokota’s heartbreaking memoir, North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter, and I hope you’ll take a moment to stop by and read it. This is not a perfect book by far, but I would recommend it to anyone. It’s a story that very much deserves to be read.

In other news, I finally finished reading Tokyo Babylon, and now I’m kind of traumatized.

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  1. Lissa says

    February 25, 2009 at 10:25 pm

    The end of Tokyo Babylon definitely has that effect. I do look forward to hearing your thoughts on the series as a whole!

    Reply
    • Melinda Beasi says

      February 25, 2009 at 10:27 pm

      I will probably be writing up a full series review, to be posted in the near future! I don’t know how many people will care at this late date, but I admit I’m dying to talk about it. Though probably I should not talk about the ending, just in case there is actually anyone else out there who hasn’t yet read the series. :)

      Reply
  2. meganbmoore says

    February 25, 2009 at 10:27 pm

    Yeah, the ending of TB is like that.

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    • Melinda Beasi says

      February 25, 2009 at 10:28 pm

      Hee, seems to be the general consensus. :D

      Reply
  3. Ria says

    February 26, 2009 at 4:15 am

    Yeah, TB is like a beautiful knife to the heart… that then twists. Hard.

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    • Melinda Beasi says

      February 26, 2009 at 6:58 pm

      Which is kind of awesome, but wow.

      Reply
  4. jansong@livejournal.com says

    February 26, 2009 at 5:48 am

    Beautiful review of “North Korea….”
    Heart wrenching just to read that much.

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    • Melinda Beasi says

      February 26, 2009 at 6:58 pm

      I was thinking you might like to borrow that book.

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      • jansong@livejournal.com says

        February 26, 2009 at 7:17 pm

        I think I would.

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        • Melinda Beasi says

          February 26, 2009 at 9:00 pm

          I must remember to bring it the next time we meet!

          Reply
  5. Ed Sizemore says

    February 26, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    Great review of North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter.

    I’ve been avoiding Tokyo Babylon and X because they seem a little too soap opera and bishonen for me. I’m interested in reading your review.

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    • Melinda Beasi says

      February 26, 2009 at 7:00 pm

      Thank you!!

      I haven’t yet read X (I only have two volumes of it so far, and I kind of want to let Tokyo Babylon really sink in first), but I wouldn’t describe TB in that way at least. I’ll try to explain clearly in my review. :) Hopefully I’ll have one up in the next week or so.

      Reply
  6. Ysabet says

    February 26, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts on TB, but also on X whenever you get to it. ^_^ They’re very different works, IMO, and I personally prefer X, although I think it has some fairly deep flaws. I recommend it frequently but never without qualifying the recommendation, which is a marked difference from most of the other things I rec.

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    • Melinda Beasi says

      February 26, 2009 at 9:00 pm

      I’m definitely looking forward to reading X. I only have volumes 1 & 4 at the moment (not very useful, eh?) but I’m hoping some mangatude action can help me out with that. :D

      Reply


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