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19/5/07 14:37![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomyAs I was at Duke this morning (hooray for summer vacation! Free parking and only a quarter-mile to walk to the library) it hit me-- wasn't the writer of all that Japanese feminist pop-culture/science-fiction criticism named something like Kotani Mari? And wasn't one of the panelists at the Wiscon panel on feminism and Japan named something like Kotani Mari?
...So now I have four days to catch up on reading "Alien Bedfellows" and her book on the technogothic, in hopes that I might be able to say "Hi! I like your books!" if I get the chance. I had the technogothic book out for four whole weeks and I hardly made any headway into it!
When I was reading all those Fujimi Orchestra novels, I thought I was making some progress with my reading speed in Japanese. But what little progress I made seems to have atrophied, and I can attribute a lot of it to how easy the Fujimi Orchestra novels are. (Stephen Krashen says that narrow reading in a specific genre is a good thing, and in fact the Fujimi Orchestra novels probably did teach me more than attempting to slog through literature in class, so I won't be annoyed that I can't suddenly breeze through literary criticism, even easy pop-culture criticism).
Speaking of which, I can't believe how many Fujimi novels have come out that I haven't read. They've pretty much exhausted their dramatic possibilities at this point-- but I'd like to catch up on at least the latest one, next time I have money for Japanese books.
Also must make vague gestures in the direction of apartment cleanliness. I finished my first round for the day, so I will take a break now and hopefully do another round sometime this evening.
...So now I have four days to catch up on reading "Alien Bedfellows" and her book on the technogothic, in hopes that I might be able to say "Hi! I like your books!" if I get the chance. I had the technogothic book out for four whole weeks and I hardly made any headway into it!
When I was reading all those Fujimi Orchestra novels, I thought I was making some progress with my reading speed in Japanese. But what little progress I made seems to have atrophied, and I can attribute a lot of it to how easy the Fujimi Orchestra novels are. (Stephen Krashen says that narrow reading in a specific genre is a good thing, and in fact the Fujimi Orchestra novels probably did teach me more than attempting to slog through literature in class, so I won't be annoyed that I can't suddenly breeze through literary criticism, even easy pop-culture criticism).
Speaking of which, I can't believe how many Fujimi novels have come out that I haven't read. They've pretty much exhausted their dramatic possibilities at this point-- but I'd like to catch up on at least the latest one, next time I have money for Japanese books.
Also must make vague gestures in the direction of apartment cleanliness. I finished my first round for the day, so I will take a break now and hopefully do another round sometime this evening.