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February 15, 2022
Ever since I read the short synopsis from a review of this book in a Goodreads comment section, I have been drawn to experience this book myself. I can’t justify my fondness for this particular story. It is inscrutable. At first, I find it hard to get into the book because of the author’s tendency to end the majority of sentences with the word “ရယ္”. My subconscious was always looking for a continuation. After I got used to the prose, I was absorbed into this little tale between two lovers. A very practical and realistic depiction of the relationship power struggle between two people from very different backgrounds.
I debated on giving 5 stars for this book, but my inclination for the book’s positive features won me over. All I will say is that, while I can’t full believe that this book is perfect, one scene in particular, written with beautiful prose was enough to enchant me into giving it a 5 stars. If you’re interested in what I’m talking about, you’ll have to find out for yourself.
I debated on giving 5 stars for this book, but my inclination for the book’s positive features won me over. All I will say is that, while I can’t full believe that this book is perfect, one scene in particular, written with beautiful prose was enough to enchant me into giving it a 5 stars. If you’re interested in what I’m talking about, you’ll have to find out for yourself.
April 23, 2022
I will start by being completely honest that I was quite skeptical about popular Burmese books and this book, my God, was everywhere. It was ‘Papillon’ this. ‘Papillon’ that. This author is probably the most popular one on social media. So naturally, I avoided it like the plague.
But then this book was borrowed to me and as I gave in and read it, I finally understood the hype. It seems there was a snag in my heart that I didn’t notice before, which this book found, hooked itself around it and mercilessly pulled it off, leaving me bloody and exposed.
This book does not rely on plot, it is simply an emotional retelling of the time the protagonist spent as a postgrad student in the UK when he met a Burmese girl called Nan May May Kyi.
Nan May May Kyi was an academically accomplished scientist, well-learned and spoken, who had been brought up in the UK. The two shared next to nothing except for their love for literature, movies, music and Burmese food, from which their romance blossomed.
They made it work although they lived in different towns and were occupied with different aspirations. What put a dent in their relationship was not the distance. It was something else. Something that cannot be measured by miles and kilometers and at the same time, puts the greatest distance between two people.
It was pride.
You see, Nan May May Kyi, being brilliant and accomplished herself, tended to be put high expectations on the protagonist which could be seen as ‘dominating’ and ‘overbearing’ from his perspective. As he mentioned in the earlier chapters, there is no better feeling than the woman you love being impressed by you and he was not getting that from Nan May May Kyi.
From hers, she couldn’t see the struggles the protagonist went through to get to this point in his
life. Not in person, at least. She just wanted the best for him. For her and for both of them.
This is the story where neither sides are in the wrong or both sides are, depending on who’s reading it.
The scene from the cafe was the most heartbreaking part of the story. What can be seen by an outsider as a simple communication problem,-where neither side is lowering their guard and straight-up telling what they want- is not so simple to persons involved in the moment.
Peeling of our skins is a horrendously painful thing. But peeling off the virtual skin that we wrap around the most vulnerable parts of our souls is beyond what the pain charts can describe. That is why we say we’re fine and try to move on from people or situations we will never forget about. That is why a lot of us rather choose to protect ourselves than compromise.
The scenes connecting the introduction and the train ride back home chapter are neat and well-done. Who amongst us have not been plagued by ‘what if’s? It’s a terrible thing. To be clear of mind and know that you have chosen something other than your most beloved.
I wish the protagonist and Nan May May Kyi had both been brave enough to shed off their insecurities. That they had been devoted enough to choose each other instead of their pride and expectations.
But reality is ugly and chaotic. People drift apart everyday for reasons unfathomable to each other.
This book reflects that intimately, delicately and heartachingly.
But then this book was borrowed to me and as I gave in and read it, I finally understood the hype. It seems there was a snag in my heart that I didn’t notice before, which this book found, hooked itself around it and mercilessly pulled it off, leaving me bloody and exposed.
This book does not rely on plot, it is simply an emotional retelling of the time the protagonist spent as a postgrad student in the UK when he met a Burmese girl called Nan May May Kyi.
Nan May May Kyi was an academically accomplished scientist, well-learned and spoken, who had been brought up in the UK. The two shared next to nothing except for their love for literature, movies, music and Burmese food, from which their romance blossomed.
They made it work although they lived in different towns and were occupied with different aspirations. What put a dent in their relationship was not the distance. It was something else. Something that cannot be measured by miles and kilometers and at the same time, puts the greatest distance between two people.
It was pride.
You see, Nan May May Kyi, being brilliant and accomplished herself, tended to be put high expectations on the protagonist which could be seen as ‘dominating’ and ‘overbearing’ from his perspective. As he mentioned in the earlier chapters, there is no better feeling than the woman you love being impressed by you and he was not getting that from Nan May May Kyi.
From hers, she couldn’t see the struggles the protagonist went through to get to this point in his
life. Not in person, at least. She just wanted the best for him. For her and for both of them.
This is the story where neither sides are in the wrong or both sides are, depending on who’s reading it.
The scene from the cafe was the most heartbreaking part of the story. What can be seen by an outsider as a simple communication problem,-where neither side is lowering their guard and straight-up telling what they want- is not so simple to persons involved in the moment.
Peeling of our skins is a horrendously painful thing. But peeling off the virtual skin that we wrap around the most vulnerable parts of our souls is beyond what the pain charts can describe. That is why we say we’re fine and try to move on from people or situations we will never forget about. That is why a lot of us rather choose to protect ourselves than compromise.
The scenes connecting the introduction and the train ride back home chapter are neat and well-done. Who amongst us have not been plagued by ‘what if’s? It’s a terrible thing. To be clear of mind and know that you have chosen something other than your most beloved.
I wish the protagonist and Nan May May Kyi had both been brave enough to shed off their insecurities. That they had been devoted enough to choose each other instead of their pride and expectations.
But reality is ugly and chaotic. People drift apart everyday for reasons unfathomable to each other.
This book reflects that intimately, delicately and heartachingly.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 18, 2020
The story is narrated by a male protagonist about his relationship with a girl while he was studying abroad. It started with the protagonist receiving approval of visa to study in England. It started with the protagonist receiving approval of visa to study in England at British Embassy in Yangon. Then from Heathrow Airport to his university campus with money for first semester and a few extra only. The protagonist met a Burmese girl who was visiting his campus and from that, a beautiful story blossomed. The girl was a few year younger than him but she’s academically brilliant and financially comfortable.
As he continued telling about his life at the university, the interwoven stories of his struggles—working part time for the school fees and his living expenses—and his relationship with the girl. It had everything; the good, the bad, and the ugly of relationship between two people of different lifestyles. They followed some literary destinations that served as the backdrop of the novels they both love. As they lived in different towns, they visited each other frequently and spent the weekend together. The girl wanted him to succeed and she helped him in his academic as well as in his financial drought. From time to time, his tedious schedule and his inferiority clashed with the girl’s pushy suggestion and help.
The story itself is entrancing and the narration is quite subtle and fast, yet tidy. It might have been only 3 stars but I really love how their story evolved and the way it ended. It was enthralling and somewhat reminiscing to read. The use of Scarborough Fair was a nice touch, too. 4 stars out of 5.
*The title of this book is referenced to An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce but nothing related to its story.
As he continued telling about his life at the university, the interwoven stories of his struggles—working part time for the school fees and his living expenses—and his relationship with the girl. It had everything; the good, the bad, and the ugly of relationship between two people of different lifestyles. They followed some literary destinations that served as the backdrop of the novels they both love. As they lived in different towns, they visited each other frequently and spent the weekend together. The girl wanted him to succeed and she helped him in his academic as well as in his financial drought. From time to time, his tedious schedule and his inferiority clashed with the girl’s pushy suggestion and help.
The story itself is entrancing and the narration is quite subtle and fast, yet tidy. It might have been only 3 stars but I really love how their story evolved and the way it ended. It was enthralling and somewhat reminiscing to read. The use of Scarborough Fair was a nice touch, too. 4 stars out of 5.
*The title of this book is referenced to An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce but nothing related to its story.
September 20, 2022
ယနေ့ခေတ် မြန်မာလူငယ်အချို့များကြားတွင် လွန်စွာမှရေပန်းစားနေသည့်စာအုပ်ဖြစ်သောကြောင့် မရည်ရွယ်ဘဲ ဝယ်ဖတ်မိ၏။ ဘယ်လိုမှကြိုက်စရာ တကွက်မှရှာမရသော၊ ထူးထူးထွေထွေ မခံစားရသောစာအုပ်ဖြစ်သည်။ ထို့ပြင်စာအုပ်သည် အလွန်ပါးလျလှသည် - စာအုပ်မဖြစ်ဖြစ်အောင်လုပ်ထားသည့်ပုံဟု ထင်မိစေသည်။
စားရေးသူပါပီယွန်သည် သူဖတ်ရှု့လေ့လာဖူးသည့် စာတိုပေစများနှင့် သူ၏အတိတ်ကာလတခုကိုခုံမင်လွမ်းဆွတ်မှု၊ ဘာအကြောင်းပြချက်မှမယ်မယ်ရရမရှိဘဲ တော်လှန်လိုသည့်လူငယ်စိတ် စသည်များကိုရောသမ,မွှေကာ (စာပေရေးသားခြင်းနှင့်ဆိုင်သည့်)စည်းမျည်းအချို့ကိုလည်း ဂရုမထားဘဲ ရေးချင်ရာလူပြိန်းကြိုက်ရေးထားသည်ဟု ထင်မိသည်။ သူနိဒါန်းတွင်ရေးထားသလို သူ့စာအုပ်သည် အနုပညာမဟုတ်နိုင်ဆိုသည်မှာ မှန်သကဲ့သို့ရှိသည်။ သို့သော်သူ့စာများကို ပြန်လည်ဆန်းစစ်ပေးမည့် အယ်ဒီတာကောင်းကောင်းနှင့်တွေ့လျှင်တော့ သူသည်တကယ်ကောင်းသည့်စာပေများကို ဖန်တီးနိုင်မည့်အနေအထားတော့ရှိမည်ဟု ထင်ရ၏။
ယခုဇီးကွက်ချောင်းစာအုပ်တွင် စာဖတ်သူအတွက်တကယ်အသုံးတဲ့သည့်အချက်တခုတော့ပါရှိနိုင်သည် - ထိုအရာမှာ ဇတ်လမ်းထဲတွင် ထည့်သွင်းညွန်းဆိုသွားသော စာအုပ်များဖြစ်သည်၊ ထိုစာအုပ်များကို လိုက်လံရှာဖွေဖတ်ရှုမည်ဆိုလျင်တော့ စာဖတ်သူတွေအတွက်ရလိုက်သည့်တစုံတရာအမြတ် ဖြစ်နိုင်ပေသည်။
(မှတ်ချက်။ ။ စာအုပ်ကိုဖတ်ရှု့အပြီး မိမိခံစားရသည့်အတိုင်းရေးထားသော အမြင်(review)ဖြစ်သောကြောင့် အနည်းငယ်ကြမ်းရှသွားခဲ့လျှင် မရည်ရွယ်ပါကြောင်း)
စားရေးသူပါပီယွန်သည် သူဖတ်ရှု့လေ့လာဖူးသည့် စာတိုပေစများနှင့် သူ၏အတိတ်ကာလတခုကိုခုံမင်လွမ်းဆွတ်မှု၊ ဘာအကြောင်းပြချက်မှမယ်မယ်ရရမရှိဘဲ တော်လှန်လိုသည့်လူငယ်စိတ် စသည်များကိုရောသမ,မွှေကာ (စာပေရေးသားခြင်းနှင့်ဆိုင်သည့်)စည်းမျည်းအချို့ကိုလည်း ဂရုမထားဘဲ ရေးချင်ရာလူပြိန်းကြိုက်ရေးထားသည်ဟု ထင်မိသည်။ သူနိဒါန်းတွင်ရေးထားသလို သူ့စာအုပ်သည် အနုပညာမဟုတ်နိုင်ဆိုသည်မှာ မှန်သကဲ့သို့ရှိသည်။ သို့သော်သူ့စာများကို ပြန်လည်ဆန်းစစ်ပေးမည့် အယ်ဒီတာကောင်းကောင်းနှင့်တွေ့လျှင်တော့ သူသည်တကယ်ကောင်းသည့်စာပေများကို ဖန်တီးနိုင်မည့်အနေအထားတော့ရှိမည်ဟု ထင်ရ၏။
ယခုဇီးကွက်ချောင်းစာအုပ်တွင် စာဖတ်သူအတွက်တကယ်အသုံးတဲ့သည့်အချက်တခုတော့ပါရှိနိုင်သည် - ထိုအရာမှာ ဇတ်လမ်းထဲတွင် ထည့်သွင်းညွန်းဆိုသွားသော စာအုပ်များဖြစ်သည်၊ ထိုစာအုပ်များကို လိုက်လံရှာဖွေဖတ်ရှုမည်ဆိုလျင်တော့ စာဖတ်သူတွေအတွက်ရလိုက်သည့်တစုံတရာအမြတ် ဖြစ်နိုင်ပေသည်။
(မှတ်ချက်။ ။ စာအုပ်ကိုဖတ်ရှု့အပြီး မိမိခံစားရသည့်အတိုင်းရေးထားသော အမြင်(review)ဖြစ်သောကြောင့် အနည်းငယ်ကြမ်းရှသွားခဲ့လျှင် မရည်ရွယ်ပါကြောင်း)
August 26, 2022
Papillon's books are not series but the writer can make the readers read them like series, wanting us to know what will happen next. As I've read "Goodbye Bloody Mary" and the writer gave us a hint that he met her again at Heathrow Airport, London, I decided to read this book. (Of course, this is not about Mary)
In the book, as the writer doesn't describe the appearance and background history of the characters, I find it difficult to imagine the scenes. But overall, as usual, you will find yourself attached to the characters. It might be worth your time.
In the book, as the writer doesn't describe the appearance and background history of the characters, I find it difficult to imagine the scenes. But overall, as usual, you will find yourself attached to the characters. It might be worth your time.
October 27, 2024
I'd give this book 3.5 stars. It's about a guy sharing his experiences while studying in the UK. He talks about the challenges he faced and how he met the female protagonist, the most intelligent and remarkable girl he had ever known. They fell in love, and I enjoyed reading how much she genuinely cared for him. However, whenever she tried to help, he felt as though it hurt his pride. Although this is a novel, it felt like he was recounting his real-life journey, and the ending is heartbreaking. Sometimes, when the timing isn't right, two people end up going their separate ways.
May 11, 2022
ဆရာပါပီယွန်က ကျွန်တော့်ရဲ့ ဖေးဖရိတ်အာသာ ဖြစ်လာတယ် ဆိုပါတော့။
ဘိလပ်ပြန် တက္ကသိုလ်ကျောင်းသားတစ်ယောက်ရဲ့ ရုန်းကန်မှုတွေကို စေ့စေ့ငှငှသိရတယ်၊ ကျောင်းလခပြည့်ဖို့ အနိုင်နိုင်ကြိုးစားရတာတွေ၊ ဘာသာစကားအခက်အခဲတွေ၊ ထမင်းနပ်မမှန်တာတွေ ၊ ထိုဒဏ်တွေကို မခံနိုင်တော့တဲ့ မာလကာသီးရယ်၊ ဇာတ်လိုက်ရဲ့ ချစ်သူ ဒေါ်နန်းမေမေကြည် အကြောင်းရယ်ပေါ့။ အကြိုက်ဆုံးကတော့ ကြုံကြိုက်တိုင်း ကိုယ်ဖတ်ခဲ့တဲ့ ၀တ္ထုစာအုပ်တွေထဲ အခန်းတွေ၊ ဇာတ်ကောင်တွေကို ပြန်မြင်ယောင်ပြီး ပြောတာပါပဲ။
ဘိလပ်ပြန် တက္ကသိုလ်ကျောင်းသားတစ်ယောက်ရဲ့ ရုန်းကန်မှုတွေကို စေ့စေ့ငှငှသိရတယ်၊ ကျောင်းလခပြည့်ဖို့ အနိုင်နိုင်ကြိုးစားရတာတွေ၊ ဘာသာစကားအခက်အခဲတွေ၊ ထမင်းနပ်မမှန်တာတွေ ၊ ထိုဒဏ်တွေကို မခံနိုင်တော့တဲ့ မာလကာသီးရယ်၊ ဇာတ်လိုက်ရဲ့ ချစ်သူ ဒေါ်နန်းမေမေကြည် အကြောင်းရယ်ပေါ့။ အကြိုက်ဆုံးကတော့ ကြုံကြိုက်တိုင်း ကိုယ်ဖတ်ခဲ့တဲ့ ၀တ္ထုစာအုပ်တွေထဲ အခန်းတွေ၊ ဇာတ်ကောင်တွေကို ပြန်မြင်ယောင်ပြီး ပြောတာပါပဲ။
February 19, 2020
I only rated four stars because the author used a word I can’t stand on second chapter. I was about to put this down for that but I totally made the right decision by not doing so. The story is really adorable. Genuinely enjoyed this although I disliked the main character.
January 24, 2020
Just as a romantic book with a lot of passion, anxiety , drama. Good for u if u have plenty time n feel bored without to do anything.
September 18, 2020
Sweet book to read. Enjoy it.
February 12, 2022
Nice book
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August 24, 2022
My Heart sank💔💔💔
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