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Snakes and Earrings
Snakes and Earrings | Hitomi Kanehara, David James Karashima
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Running away from home into an unfettered new existence within Japan's underground youth culture, eighteen-year-old Liu befriends the seductive, body-pierced Ama and mysterious tattoo artist Shiba, friends whose increasingly reckless behavior forces Liu to make difficult choices. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
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Yuki_Onna
Snakes and Earrings | Hitomi Kanehara, David James Karashima
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Eggs Well done ❤️🖤❤️ 10mo
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ChelseaM6010
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Panpan

I don‘t know. This one wasn‘t really for me. Maybe I wasn‘t the right audience for it, or just in the right headspace, but I can‘t really find anything I liked out of it. However, there are some dark parts of this book that will stay with me.

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AshleyHoss820
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Mehso-so

I‘m torn about this one. I really dig the characters‘ fight against tradition, swimming upstream, that fight for individuality/identity while being completely empty inside. I really liked that. But this just fell a little short for me, and I can‘t figure out why…I wonder if the movie version would be better. My #BookSpin for October! ☺️

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1y
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Reggie
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Yeah, this 120pg. book packs it in. Lui meets Ama at a bar and becomes so transfixed by his forked tongue that she follows him home. The next day he takes her to meet Shiba, the guy who does all his tattoos and body modifications. A triangle ensues. Written in the early 00‘s, this book has much to say about Japanese subculture, disaffected youth. Narrated by a seemingly unlikable Lui, before you know it she has you wrapped around her finger. Pick!

hermyknee Ooo sounds interesting! 5y
Reggie @hermyknee it‘s intense and maybe I‘m not doing it a favor by leaving off how dysfunctional the story is. But I read it in one sitting and was hooked. If you read it I hope you like it. 5y
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Easytiger
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4⭐️Read this in one sitting. It‘s about tattoos and body modification and a bisexual male/male/female love triangle and murder and punks and Barbie girls and split tongues and street thugs..... and the ending 😲🥺🤬😶
#femaleleadsmakegoodreads

Reggie That sounds like a lot. Lol 5y
Easytiger @Reggie It was good though it‘s a short read most the story takes place at the tattoo parlor ‘Desire‘. It‘s an international bestseller and Akutagawa prize winner. I love books that have to be translated into English. I definitely recommend. (edited) 5y
Reggie I‘ll give it a shot. 5y
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Soubhiville It sounds fun to me! Thanks, I‘m stacking it! 5y
Easytiger Hope you like 5y
Reggie Sooooo, have you ever read The Great Gatsby? I kinda feel like Lui was Lucy. She didn‘t care about anybody as long as she was taken care of. I really liked this book. Thanks for the rec. 5y
Easytiger @Reggie omg, now that you mention it 🤔 5y
Easytiger @Reggie I‘m very happy you liked it ☺️ 5y
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brilliantglow
Snakes and Earrings | Hitomi Kanehara, David James Karashima
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#womenintranslation #aprilbookshowers Snakes and Earrings or Hebi ni Piasu. I didn't know that this was a book until after I'd seen the movie so of course I had to go back and read the book. Both are very good and slightly disturbing. About a teen girl who finds fascination in a boy with a split tongue and tattoos.

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AmyS
Snakes and Earrings | Hitomi Kanehara, David James Karashima
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#septphotochallenge #weirdbooks -- I bought this book to read on a long train ride, finished it in a couple of hours, then spent the rest of the ride curled up in a fetal position, rocking back and forth and muttering to myself: "I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay." I gave the book to a friend who likes stranger stories not because I thought she'd enjoy it but to get it the &$%* out of my house. So disturbing. ? But a cult classic in Japan.

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