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And now, since I'm feeling sorry for myself because I have a cold but I'm going to drag myself in to school/work anyway tomorrow (to pimp Tanith Lee! It's not like I can stay home), I have ordered myself the books I had been so desperately wishing for from Japan.
But one of them is good for me.
And also, I made myself write a lot before I did.
And I'm having them shipped SAL, which is a bit cheaper.
The haul:
Kaguya-Hime, volumes 26 and 27--science fiction shoujo manga, brilliant, odd gender roles, and all the reviews are saying that the ending actually justifies a series that went on for 27 volumes, and with the subplots, and the melodrama, and the gigantic cast.
How To Write Boys Love Novels--c'mon, you didn't really expect me NOT to buy it, did you? One of the more amusing things that I found while I was browsing around Amazon Japan was a book that purported to teach you English words with BL. Hey, it worked for me... (well, not English words. Japanese ones. Same principle).
An Onmyouji novel by Yumemakura Somebody, who has a series of them--I've loved Onmyouji since I saw the movie; come to think of it, I still need to see the sequel. Heian, Heian, Heian Japan! I am assured that the prose is not horribly difficult.
The Ideal Japanese Textbook--so it calls itself. It's one of those books that's targeted at native speakers who want to improve their Japanese. We'll see if it lives up to the hype.
"Sono Otoko, Shikisha ni Tsuki..."-- one of the more recent Fujimi Orchestra novels, which are about the, uh, tender love between a brilliant violinist with less self-esteem than Shinji from Evangelion and a more brilliant orchestra conductor. This is the LAST chance I am giving this series; its strength lay in the depiction of all these tiny details of ordinary life, and then they went to Italy and I think it kind of started to fall apart. Plus, Akizuki Koo writes really well, for a "light" novel author, but her ideas of sex can at times be rather squicky.
Okay, it's not the last chance I give the series. I'm still going to buy the last volume to find out how it all ends. Even if they should've ended it a couple years ago when they resolved all the real conflicts...
"Tsuki no Kage, Kage no Umi"--the first(?) book in the Twelve Kingdoms series of light novels, which is some sort of long epic fantasy and looks pretty appealing. I need to find something new to dig into, so I thought I'd give it a try.
But one of them is good for me.
And also, I made myself write a lot before I did.
And I'm having them shipped SAL, which is a bit cheaper.
The haul:
Kaguya-Hime, volumes 26 and 27--science fiction shoujo manga, brilliant, odd gender roles, and all the reviews are saying that the ending actually justifies a series that went on for 27 volumes, and with the subplots, and the melodrama, and the gigantic cast.
How To Write Boys Love Novels--c'mon, you didn't really expect me NOT to buy it, did you? One of the more amusing things that I found while I was browsing around Amazon Japan was a book that purported to teach you English words with BL. Hey, it worked for me... (well, not English words. Japanese ones. Same principle).
An Onmyouji novel by Yumemakura Somebody, who has a series of them--I've loved Onmyouji since I saw the movie; come to think of it, I still need to see the sequel. Heian, Heian, Heian Japan! I am assured that the prose is not horribly difficult.
The Ideal Japanese Textbook--so it calls itself. It's one of those books that's targeted at native speakers who want to improve their Japanese. We'll see if it lives up to the hype.
"Sono Otoko, Shikisha ni Tsuki..."-- one of the more recent Fujimi Orchestra novels, which are about the, uh, tender love between a brilliant violinist with less self-esteem than Shinji from Evangelion and a more brilliant orchestra conductor. This is the LAST chance I am giving this series; its strength lay in the depiction of all these tiny details of ordinary life, and then they went to Italy and I think it kind of started to fall apart. Plus, Akizuki Koo writes really well, for a "light" novel author, but her ideas of sex can at times be rather squicky.
Okay, it's not the last chance I give the series. I'm still going to buy the last volume to find out how it all ends. Even if they should've ended it a couple years ago when they resolved all the real conflicts...
"Tsuki no Kage, Kage no Umi"--the first(?) book in the Twelve Kingdoms series of light novels, which is some sort of long epic fantasy and looks pretty appealing. I need to find something new to dig into, so I thought I'd give it a try.
