BOOK GIRL AND THE SUICIDAL MIME by Mizuki Nomura July 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-316-07690-6 | $8.99 ($10.99) | 192 pages | 5.5”x 8.25″ For Tohko Amano, a third-year high school student and self-styled “book girl,” being the head of the literary club is more than just an extracurricular activity. It’s her bread and butter…literally! Tohko is actually a literature-gobbling demon, who can be found at all hours of the day munching on torn out pages from all kinds of books. But for Tohko, the real delicacies are hand-written stories. To satisfy her gourmet tastes, she’s employed (rather, browbeaten) one Konoha Inoue, who scribbles away each day after school to satisfy Tohko’s appetite. But when another student comes knocking on the literary club door for advice on writing love letters, will Tohko discover a new kind of delicacy?
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Saw an excellent movie at 1:00 AM the other night, morning. It wasn't so much the story or the acting, both of which were pretty main-stream boring but it was the editing and shots: split screen, warped time and space, bizarre characters (the druggie musician was very, very over-the-top as if the writer 奥寺佐渡子 or the director 原正弘 had never actually seen a drug-user musician). But mostly the technical aspects: A sound is heard and then three different sets of people react to it - or don't. Title is OLDK which needs some explaining.
A 2LDK is a two-bedroom apartment with a separate Living room (L) and Dining room (D). An OL is an Office Lady, a woman who works in an office. The star of this moving works as an OL. She has a small apartment with a living room, kitchen and dining room. But it is old and small. So she is an OL with a small apartment OLDK. Great title.
