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I went to my happy place.
14/7/06 16:00My new happy place? The East Asian collection, in particular, at Duke.
...Much of the rest of the library is being (a) renovated and (b) converted from Dewey Decimal to Library of Congress, so one can't find a thing in there, and I got lost going up an elevator, but the East Asian collection, at least, is lovely.
All of Duke is gothic stone and modern glass-and-steel, gorgeous buildings, lots of flowers. You can see what $30,000 a year will buy you.
But the important thing is, I got books.
「マンガ論」へようこそ -- Welcome to manga theory
日本昔話ハンドブック -- Handbook to Japanese folktales
竹取物語 -- Taketori Monogatari, 'story of a bamboo cutter' or more commonly 'Kaguya-Hime,' usually the first bit of Classical Japanese that students start on in middle school. So I thought maybe I should try it.
アフターダーク -- AfterDark, by Murakami Haruki. Umibe no Kafka was out.
ファンシイ・ダンス １ -- Fancy Dance, a manga I've been interested in reading for a while now. Duke has a quite good manga collection, by which I mean they have just about everything that Tezuka has ever written, and Berserk, and Ranma, and Nana, and Paradise Kiss, and more.
この人の閾 -- I wanted to try a new author, and this is one of the recent-ish winners of the Akutagawa prize.
吾妻鏡-- Among the manga is a manga series of famous manga authors rewriting works of classical literature as manga; this one is by Takemiya Keiko.
Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 2: Heian Japan
...This doesn't mean that I won't drag the family to Kinokuniya when we got to NY next month. It just means I'll be able to buy frivolous things, guilt-free.
Oh, by the way: I wrote up my recent adventures in trying to make my kanji skills less pathetic here.
...Much of the rest of the library is being (a) renovated and (b) converted from Dewey Decimal to Library of Congress, so one can't find a thing in there, and I got lost going up an elevator, but the East Asian collection, at least, is lovely.
All of Duke is gothic stone and modern glass-and-steel, gorgeous buildings, lots of flowers. You can see what $30,000 a year will buy you.
But the important thing is, I got books.
「マンガ論」へようこそ -- Welcome to manga theory
日本昔話ハンドブック -- Handbook to Japanese folktales
竹取物語 -- Taketori Monogatari, 'story of a bamboo cutter' or more commonly 'Kaguya-Hime,' usually the first bit of Classical Japanese that students start on in middle school. So I thought maybe I should try it.
アフターダーク -- AfterDark, by Murakami Haruki. Umibe no Kafka was out.
ファンシイ・ダンス １ -- Fancy Dance, a manga I've been interested in reading for a while now. Duke has a quite good manga collection, by which I mean they have just about everything that Tezuka has ever written, and Berserk, and Ranma, and Nana, and Paradise Kiss, and more.
この人の閾 -- I wanted to try a new author, and this is one of the recent-ish winners of the Akutagawa prize.
吾妻鏡-- Among the manga is a manga series of famous manga authors rewriting works of classical literature as manga; this one is by Takemiya Keiko.
Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 2: Heian Japan
...This doesn't mean that I won't drag the family to Kinokuniya when we got to NY next month. It just means I'll be able to buy frivolous things, guilt-free.
Oh, by the way: I wrote up my recent adventures in trying to make my kanji skills less pathetic here.
