Last week, I finished reading “Sleep” by Murakami in Japanese. It definitely gave me a nice sense of accomplishment to read an actual work of literature in Japanese, as opposed to a comic book or the artificial Japanese found in textbooks. There were a lot of words I had to look up, but by and [...]
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象の消滅 – The Elephant Vanishes
When I went to the library on Sunday, Ranmafan had just posted about the Murakami novel that he was reading, and for years Naftali has highly recommended Murakami’s work. So at the library, I got a copy of The Elephant Vanishes in Japanese.
I’ve read maybe 6 or 7 pages of the story “眠り/ Sleep” so far. [...]
Norwegian Wood – AKA yes I do read novels
The other day I was at work reading the book “Dune” during my lunch break. One of the Japanese staff walked in with the biggest look of shock I’ve seen from her. She then said, “You are reading!?!?!? Not a comic book?!?!?!!” I always get that remark when people find out that I enjoy reading [...]
