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29/12/08
Saiunkoku Monogatari, first attempt: Why are there so many people and so many names and I can't tell who is who?
Saiunkoku Monogatari, second attempt: Why did I put this book down again?... Oh, yeah. Wait, why am I reading volume 12 before volume 1, when I could probably get volume 1 somewhere?
Saiunkoku Monogatari, third attempt, after visit to Book-Off: Yay! I finished a whole chapter. And now the heroine goes to the royal palace, and... why are there so many people and so many names and I can't tell who is who?
Saiunkoku Monogatari, fourth attempt: Yay! I finished two whole chapters! [Actually, something like 110 of 220 pages.] Gawd, though, do these people have ANY body language besides knitting their eyebrows? They could make an eyebrow scarf by now.
The Tadoku (extensive reading) people would suggest that I need to be reading easier books, which is a tremendously discouraging idea. It makes me get all bristly and "I've read Soseki! I've read Mishima! I've read Tanizaki! I can read whatever I want!" Realistically, though, if I can get through 30-40 pages in a day light fantasy novels are probably okay. I just have to be more consistent about it, which... yeah. That would be nice.
Saiunkoku Monogatari, second attempt: Why did I put this book down again?... Oh, yeah. Wait, why am I reading volume 12 before volume 1, when I could probably get volume 1 somewhere?
Saiunkoku Monogatari, third attempt, after visit to Book-Off: Yay! I finished a whole chapter. And now the heroine goes to the royal palace, and... why are there so many people and so many names and I can't tell who is who?
Saiunkoku Monogatari, fourth attempt: Yay! I finished two whole chapters! [Actually, something like 110 of 220 pages.] Gawd, though, do these people have ANY body language besides knitting their eyebrows? They could make an eyebrow scarf by now.
The Tadoku (extensive reading) people would suggest that I need to be reading easier books, which is a tremendously discouraging idea. It makes me get all bristly and "I've read Soseki! I've read Mishima! I've read Tanizaki! I can read whatever I want!" Realistically, though, if I can get through 30-40 pages in a day light fantasy novels are probably okay. I just have to be more consistent about it, which... yeah. That would be nice.