I can't put this book down

Memoirs of a Geisha has got to be the most riveting book I've read since Girl With a Pearl Earring. I can hardly stand to put it down. If I didn't have so much to get done tonight, my nose would still be buried in this novel.

I absolutely loved the movie adaptation of Girl With a Pearl Earring (it captured the mood and the feel of the book EXACTLY), but as usual I'm a bit nervous about the Geisha movie. I have had ample reason NOT to trust Hollywood in the past. Peter Jackson's LOTR movies were a welcome relief from the insipidity of most adaptations. I was disappointed in the Little House TV programs and in the Anne of Green Gables movies; even though they were nice, none of them were true to the original books and really captured the essence of the characters the way they were written.

At any rate, I intend to finish this book and hand it off to my bestest pal Cindy so she can read it. Then probably the two of us will go see the movie and see if it lives up to the book.