{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"21362853","dateCreated":"1268238636","smartDate":"Mar 10, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"amye3","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/amye3","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/looselybound.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/21362853"},"dateDigested":1531982752,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"American Fuji","description":"I hope there will be a sequel.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"21245867","dateCreated":"1268073436","smartDate":"Mar 8, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"clsdouglas","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/clsdouglas","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/looselybound.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/21245867"},"dateDigested":1531982752,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"An Echo in the Bone","description":"I have just finished the 7th novel in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. For newcomers to this series, the novels follow the lives and children of Jamie Fraser and his time travelling wife Claire Beauchamp. The novels flit between the 20th and 18th centuries.Jamie is a Jacobite rebel and Claire is a WW II nurse.  Gabaldon writes richly detailed dense novels that strongly evoke both place and character. This seventh novel has a number of narrators and takes place in Colonial America during the revolution. After completing, one of these novels, it always takes me a bit to travel back to my own time and life.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"21103315","dateCreated":"1267746605","smartDate":"Mar 4, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"sjadczak","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/sjadczak","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/looselybound.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/21103315"},"dateDigested":1531982752,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"American Fuji","description":"I am reading American Fuji by Sarah Backer.  Japan is the setting for this book and the motto is "Expect the unexpected. This is Japan."  The American characters in this story must learn to adjust to the unwritten rules of Japanese society.  Alex Thorne is desperate to learn the details of his son's Cody's death.  Cody was an exchange student the previous year in Japan.  He receives a lot of assistance from the protagonist, Gaby Stanton, who is looking for answers of her own. She was fired from her position as an English professor at a Japanese university and is now selling fantasy funerals.  Both Gaby and Alex struggle with accepting that in Japan, your questions often go unanswered.  I would like someone from Japan to address the accuracy of how the Japanese culture is depicted in the book.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"21126871","body":"Sylvia, I love reading stories set in other cultures and I too often wonder how accurate the depictions are.","dateCreated":"1267796798","smartDate":"Mar 5, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"clsdouglas","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/clsdouglas","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"21127121","body":"I also love books about other cultures, because they show us a viewpoint outside our own, and remind us how much we view the world through the lens of our own perceptions. I just finished the book Eat-Pray-Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, which, if you haven't read it, is set in Italy, India and Bali, which speaks to that. I especially love seeing an American's point of view as she travels, sees in new ways, and changes subtly in her understanding and perspectives. To see through new eyes!","dateCreated":"1267797092","smartDate":"Mar 5, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"kguyaz","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/kguyaz","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"21129683","body":"Must confess, my only experience with literature set in Japan is the first and last books in James Clavell's Asian saga - Shogun and Gai-jin.  Loved Shogun, not so much the later one.  And actually, I liked the  Hong Kong stories and Iran better than Shogun.  So. . . .I really contribute much to this discussion - mostly just wanted to try the wiki.  Thanks for the invite!","dateCreated":"1267800249","smartDate":"Mar 5, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"jlemire","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jlemire","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}