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I have actually been reading a bit more lately, just not much in English. Right now I'm on the seventh Haruhi Suzumiya novel.
Had you read the story before in English? If so, are you finding much difference between the English and the Japanese versions???
I had seen the anime, which was why I picked it in the first place. I figured it would be easier if I already knew the story. Of course, by now I'm far beyond what was covered in the anime series.
I haven't read any of the books in English, though.
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I am currently reading volume 4 of My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute (Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai)," the light novel which will get an anime adaptation later this year. My next leisure reading is probably Eiga Douraku by Toshio Suzuki (<- Tavern members should be able to recognize this guy straight away  ) .
But then I should be reading International Investment Law right now instead. Exams are coming next week. :x
im also reading this
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I should really be posting in this thread more often. Recently I read Kitchen by Yoshimoto Banana in about two weeks (because it's pretty short and I didn't have much to do at work) and now I'm close to finishing the first Bakemonogatari. I've read a couple of other books in the series already.
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The Unspoken Name
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I started the second Kiki's Delivery Service book today. I managed to get through the first chapter already, so hopefully it won't take too long to read.
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I started reading Konbini Ningen (Convenience Store Woman) today. I'm a little embarrassed to have got to this point and not actually read a Japanese novel, so here I go. It's been pretty smooth reading so far. I remember how much effort it used to be to read material like this, so... it's giving me a nice sense of how much I've improved. I'm intrigued by the story itself, too, the main character is interesting. It doesn't seem to be a very long book, so hopefully I'll finish within a couple of weeks.
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Who wrote that one? It sounds familiar.
I agree that it's a good feeling to realise you can get through a serious book with so much less trouble than before. Since moving I've hardly been reading though, or studying Japanese at all actually. I really need to get back into it.
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Sayaka Murata. It won the Akutagawa Prize in 2016. It's been on my radar for a while.
Mm, it's easy to fall out of the habit of reading and studying if there's no particular outside motivation. I'm doing a few hours' translation work nearly every day at the moment, so I couldn't get away from it if I wanted to, haha.
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Mm, it's easy to fall out of the habit of reading and studying if there's no particular outside motivation. I'm doing a few hours' translation work nearly every day at the moment, so I couldn't get away from it if I wanted to, haha.
I've been working on translation myself, but it's not quite the same as reading for enjoyment and improvement. But since it's no longer very pressing and I don't have a clear opportunity (I used to read on the train a lot and I don't use trains here) it's harder to make time for it.
Anyway, I actually have quite a few books still to read, so there's plenty of material once I get back into the rhythm!
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Finished reading "Sackett's Land" by (surprise, surprise) Louis L'Amour...
It was a tale about a young man (Barnabas) from the fens of England about 1599, who upon seeing a comely lady in a coach, staring at him, who say she is thirsty. He, got the dipper from a nearby well, filled it as was raising it to her, them she might drink. As he is raising the dipper to her, his arm is knocked aside in anger by a nobleman (Rupert). When the man starts to strike him, Barnabas, from living in the wilds as he has, pushes back in reaction, knocking Rupert to the mud and the lady laughs, which infuriates Rupert, who draws his sword.. Barnabas, recognizing his error, takes off back into the fens.
The story continues from there, taking Barnabas into London where through his meeting people who knew, or knew of, his father, a noted warrior. It takes us, among many things, to a play of an actor and writer by name of William Shakespeare in a ramshackle outdoor theater. We follow Barnabas through the streets of London (Sevenoaks is mentioned, the birthplace of one of MY ancestors) taken aboard a ship (Rupert's doing) and ends up on the shores of America.
And the story goes on from there, including the meeting of some of the 'savages' of the America's...
[Starting around 1993, this is at least the fourth time that I have read this book, as per my notations inside the cover...]
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I've been doing a lot of reading these last few days... Reading one of my favorite authors, Louis L'Amour... These have all been typical western stories set more or less in the 1864-1875.
These two are further tales of the Sackett family: "The Sackett Brand" and "Mojave Crossing"...
One is loosely the story of a noted real life Texas man by the name of 'Cullen Baker' in the "Reconstruction' years following the end og the Civil War here in the States around 1865... "The First Fast Draw". No one knows for sure who first used the 'fast draw', as it came to be known, but L'Amour give a plausible possibility...
The last three are "Tucker" who through his own youthful "I know it all, 17 yr old years" indirectly causes the death of his father and the loss of money belonging to him and his dad and their neighbors and his story of chasing the thieves in an attempt to recover this money...
"The Empty Land", He doesn't want to, but things happen, bringing him back into the task of taming a wild, unscrupulous mining town.
"To Tame A Land", !2 yr old Rye Tyler, lost his mother to ilness and his father to treachery and death by attacking Indians while coming West. He is taken in by a couple who continue raising him, providing an education both in the classroom and in life and survival in the wilderness with many surprises in store for him...
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