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Bride Stories, Tome 02 (2011)

by Kaoru Mori(Favorite Author)

4.32 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

2355923086 (ISBN13: 9782355923081)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Ki-oon

series

Otoyomegatari

review 1: Of all the things I did not expect from a Mori story, this volume has a fight scene. Several fight scenes, in fact, as the family of the young bride tries to reclaim her. Mori does a good job building the tension, although I found some transitions in the action a bit muddled.The star piece of the volume, however, is a chapter on the art of embroidery and the different fabrics created by the women of the family. Mori excels both in the artwork and the stories behind each piece of cloth.
review 2: Nothing quite makes you think about culture as much as marriage norms. Is it OK for a twenty-year-old and a twelve-year-old to be married, and if so, how should they act? Is their growing love creepy or sweet? I'm torn between both, which is why it's so good at get... moreting people to notice their own cultural norms and see their value and how in other circumstances other norms would make sense.Does having a person's worth based on how well they can embroider make any more or less sense than having it be based on how much they know from books, or how pretty they are, or how witty they are?While I'm sad that the next book won't be about these two, they really don't have much else to do for a few years until he grows up...It's a little funny to think about how indirect the historical references are, though. I, the American audience, is getting a translation from the Japanese, who got her historical details from reference books originally in English, translated into Japanese, about people that spoke and wrote in another completely different language... less

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