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မရှိမဖြစ်မိုး
294 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
About the author
ဂျူး
34 books265 followersJu is a Burmese novelist, well known for her strong, intelligent female characters.
Despite her interest in writing, upon her mother's prodding, she pursued medical studies at the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay. She started writing while in medical school, and her first short story (ရာဇဝင်ထဲမှာမောင့်ကိုထားရစ်ခဲ့) was published in 1979. Her writing career took off in the late 1980s, with her debut novel, Remembrance (အမှတ်တရ), published in 1987.The bestseller novel stirred controversy for endorsing Western existentialist philosophy and portraying cohabiting unwed couples.
She has published fifteen novels (most of them were adapted into films), seven collections of short stories and seven collections of articles on the environment. She currently works as a co-founder of an HIV positive children orphanage and also a participant in the HIV/AIDS Media Initiative and Yadana Metta Foundation. Her writings now focus on environmental conservation.
Despite her interest in writing, upon her mother's prodding, she pursued medical studies at the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay. She started writing while in medical school, and her first short story (ရာဇဝင်ထဲမှာမောင့်ကိုထားရစ်ခဲ့) was published in 1979. Her writing career took off in the late 1980s, with her debut novel, Remembrance (အမှတ်တရ), published in 1987.The bestseller novel stirred controversy for endorsing Western existentialist philosophy and portraying cohabiting unwed couples.
She has published fifteen novels (most of them were adapted into films), seven collections of short stories and seven collections of articles on the environment. She currently works as a co-founder of an HIV positive children orphanage and also a participant in the HIV/AIDS Media Initiative and Yadana Metta Foundation. Her writings now focus on environmental conservation.
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June 29, 2020
Enjoyable, light read, less intense than most of Juu's books.
This is a love story of Min Htin Kyaw, office manager, son of the company's MD, and Khin Moe Myint, a marine biologist working in the Spirulina plantation(?) in Twin mountain, Sagaing. Khin Moe Myint is an intellectual, logical, proud woman who came from money and works hard to keep this way. Even though Min Htin is not poor, his ambition and his life are somewhat mediocre compared to Khin Moe Myint. The story is mainly on the courtship of Min Htin and repeated refusal by Khin Moe Myint.
Although there isn't much to learn about the guy's job, the reader can learn a lot about the cultivation of Spirulina algae in Sagaing area, its microbiology, chemical and nutritional nature, and (pharmaceutical) preparations. Albeit it was interesting to learn all about it, sometimes I suspect it was like advertisement for Spirulina. (Maybe this is some government agenda at that time to push Spirulina products with Juu's story, haha).
In this book, there are less of the annoying things you can find in typical Juu's characters: the characters snap easily, but not too much like usual, the lady is independent and low-key man-hating but not too much. I get why the lady would be too cynical of marriage and romantic love because of her experience of her parents' marriage. I'm all for that strong female character who knows her shit and hustles, but, we cannot NOT mention there are some lines of toxic masculinity projected by her. At one instance, she said "You are a man. Why are you so sensitive?". Apart from that, she is the most likeable character in Juu's books I have read so far (unlike some other strong, independent, man-hating protagonist female characters who misrepresent "feminism"). Min Htin is also likeable character who is a romantic at heart without being too misogynistic. But, at one point, he gave a cooking book as a present to this "logical, I-don't-cook-but-I-can-make-coffee-and-money" Khin Moe Myint. Surprisingly, she doesn't get offended. Apparently, it was just me who mumbled "Excuse-me?" (or "Excusez-moi" in Juu's style).
As usual, love the writing. The story goes over smoothly. It was a nice companion on a rainy weather like right now.
As usual, my love-hate thing with Juu continues.
Excuse me while I keep searching for the perfect (or my favourite) protagonist in her books.
This is a love story of Min Htin Kyaw, office manager, son of the company's MD, and Khin Moe Myint, a marine biologist working in the Spirulina plantation(?) in Twin mountain, Sagaing. Khin Moe Myint is an intellectual, logical, proud woman who came from money and works hard to keep this way. Even though Min Htin is not poor, his ambition and his life are somewhat mediocre compared to Khin Moe Myint. The story is mainly on the courtship of Min Htin and repeated refusal by Khin Moe Myint.
Although there isn't much to learn about the guy's job, the reader can learn a lot about the cultivation of Spirulina algae in Sagaing area, its microbiology, chemical and nutritional nature, and (pharmaceutical) preparations. Albeit it was interesting to learn all about it, sometimes I suspect it was like advertisement for Spirulina. (Maybe this is some government agenda at that time to push Spirulina products with Juu's story, haha).
In this book, there are less of the annoying things you can find in typical Juu's characters: the characters snap easily, but not too much like usual, the lady is independent and low-key man-hating but not too much. I get why the lady would be too cynical of marriage and romantic love because of her experience of her parents' marriage. I'm all for that strong female character who knows her shit and hustles, but, we cannot NOT mention there are some lines of toxic masculinity projected by her. At one instance, she said "You are a man. Why are you so sensitive?". Apart from that, she is the most likeable character in Juu's books I have read so far (unlike some other strong, independent, man-hating protagonist female characters who misrepresent "feminism"). Min Htin is also likeable character who is a romantic at heart without being too misogynistic. But, at one point, he gave a cooking book as a present to this "logical, I-don't-cook-but-I-can-make-coffee-and-money" Khin Moe Myint. Surprisingly, she doesn't get offended. Apparently, it was just me who mumbled "Excuse-me?" (or "Excusez-moi" in Juu's style).
As usual, love the writing. The story goes over smoothly. It was a nice companion on a rainy weather like right now.
As usual, my love-hate thing with Juu continues.
Excuse me while I keep searching for the perfect (or my favourite) protagonist in her books.
November 1, 2025
ဖော်ပြမတတ်လောက်အောင်ကို စာဖတ်သူကိုဆွဲဆောင်နိုင်တဲ့ ဝတ္ထုလေးတစ်အုပ်လို့ပြောရမယ်ဆိုရင်လဲ မမှားလောက်ဘူး..
ဆရာမဂျူးရဲ့ ထုံးစံအတိုင်း စာကိုတိုတိုတုတ်တုတ်နဲ့ ပြတ်ပြတ်သားသားရေးထားပေမဲ့လဲ တကယ်ကို ဖတ်ရတာ အနှစ်သာရရှိတယ်....
မခင်မိုးမြင့် character ကို ဖတ်ရတာတော့ နည်းနည်းလေး မွန်းကြပ်ဖို့ကောင်းတယ်......
ဘဝတစ်ခုလုံး ယောင်္ကျားတွေအပေါ် ခံစားချက်မရှိအောင် ထိန်းချုပ်လာပြီးမှ ဦးမင်းထင်ကို ကျရှုံးသွားတာကတော့ ဇာတ်ရှိန်အမြင့်ဆုံးနဲ့ ဖတ်လို့အကောင်းဆုံးအပိုင်းလေးပေါ့....
ဆရာမဂျူးရဲ့ ထုံးစံအတိုင်း စာကိုတိုတိုတုတ်တုတ်နဲ့ ပြတ်ပြတ်သားသားရေးထားပေမဲ့လဲ တကယ်ကို ဖတ်ရတာ အနှစ်သာရရှိတယ်....
မခင်မိုးမြင့် character ကို ဖတ်ရတာတော့ နည်းနည်းလေး မွန်းကြပ်ဖို့ကောင်းတယ်......
ဘဝတစ်ခုလုံး ယောင်္ကျားတွေအပေါ် ခံစားချက်မရှိအောင် ထိန်းချုပ်လာပြီးမှ ဦးမင်းထင်ကို ကျရှုံးသွားတာကတော့ ဇာတ်ရှိန်အမြင့်ဆုံးနဲ့ ဖတ်လို့အကောင်းဆုံးအပိုင်းလေးပေါ့....
May 20, 2026
I might be in minority. I didn't find a slight romantic attraction between the main characters. To me, it is only seen as ML wanted FL because she wasn't a stereotypical woman in his definition. ML is a egoistic, misogynistic guy. He wants her to cook, clean, have babies and take care of them. I was surprised it wasn't taken as an offense by FL when she was gifted "cookbook". I was hoping to the end that FL leaves ML and never get back with him. Unfortunately, my wishes never came ture.
December 6, 2022
'မိန်းမတွေဟာ ယောက်ျားတွေဆီက လိုချင်တာ ၃မျိုးပဲရှိတယ်.. သစ္စာရယ်၊ အကြင်နာရယ်၊ လုံခြုံမှုရယ်။'
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ပိုင်ဆိုင်ရဖို့ထက် လိုအပ်ချက်တွေကို ဘေးကနေ အကဲခတ်ပြီး တတ်နိုင်သမျှဖြည့်ဆည်းပေးတဲ့ မင်းထင်ကျော်ရဲ့ ကြိုးစားအားထုတ်မှုကိုတော့ မချီးကျူးပဲမနေနိုင်ဘူး..
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ပိုင်ဆိုင်ရဖို့ထက် လိုအပ်ချက်တွေကို ဘေးကနေ အကဲခတ်ပြီး တတ်နိုင်သမျှဖြည့်ဆည်းပေးတဲ့ မင်းထင်ကျော်ရဲ့ ကြိုးစားအားထုတ်မှုကိုတော့ မချီးကျူးပဲမနေနိုင်ဘူး..
May 19, 2024
Well, I admitted it was my least favorite novel Among Juu’s novels. Too much focusing on Algae instead of character. Although it was enjoyable,funny and happy to read, it’s still lacking something. The whole novel feels lifeless to me.
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