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owlectomyMeaghan and I met up at her job at the south end of Manhattan and showed me around, and we had lunch at a cute little French place and afterwards, because she is a kind and indulgent person, to Kinokuniya.
子供に聞かせる日本の民話 - A very pretty edition of folk tales, not written for young children but also not written for a scholarly audience, which was exactly the thing I have been looking for for some time.
Three books in the Iwanami Shounen Bunko series, one of the series that I refer to as 'literature for illiterates,' but really they just have the kana and kanji modernized and hiragana on any possibly hard vocabulary words: Hashire Melos and some other stories by Dazai Osamu; stories from Kojiki (retelling rather than direct transcription); and Botchan by Soseki. Yeah, I had to give Soseki another chance eventually.
みなさん、これが敬語ですよ, a prescriptive language-use book in the hilariously-strict model of "Eats Shoots and Leaves"-- which ticks me off by assuming the worst of descriptivists, but it's what you have to expect from a book that tells you the correct way to speak.
Four books for the JLPT 1kyuu: "Attack Grammar," and the reading comprehension, kanji, and vocab books in the 完全マスター series.
This is low on things that are purely for fun. I'm gonna have to put in an order from Amazon Japan in a few months, I think.
We got matinee tickets to Avenue Q, so decided to see Ratatouille in the evening, which was a really, really good movie. I liked the level of visual detail that went into it--and the plot is more complex than you usually see in American animated movies. And then we played some Guitar Hero. I like Guitar Hero! It's almost like I can actually play music! (We played Guitar Hero a good bit this weekend, though not to the point of ignoring that I was in an actual real city with actual real things to do.)
Then, let's see: brunch, the Natural History Museum (I had never been in it before! They have some very nifty stuff there, though we didn't manage to see the mermaids and unicorns exhibit), Avenue Q (From the beginning, 'What can you do with a BA in English?,' it was laughing with me. Or at me. I enjoyed it very much, but at the same time I was sort of left going "... But I can go back to college if I want to!") We tried to go to dessert at Serendipity 3, but it was an hour and a half wait, so we had frozen hot chocolates at Dylan's Candy Bar instead.
And then it was time to go home! It was so short. Too short. And we had to drive home for nine whole hours. But it's okay because I will go back in December.
子供に聞かせる日本の民話 - A very pretty edition of folk tales, not written for young children but also not written for a scholarly audience, which was exactly the thing I have been looking for for some time.
Three books in the Iwanami Shounen Bunko series, one of the series that I refer to as 'literature for illiterates,' but really they just have the kana and kanji modernized and hiragana on any possibly hard vocabulary words: Hashire Melos and some other stories by Dazai Osamu; stories from Kojiki (retelling rather than direct transcription); and Botchan by Soseki. Yeah, I had to give Soseki another chance eventually.
みなさん、これが敬語ですよ, a prescriptive language-use book in the hilariously-strict model of "Eats Shoots and Leaves"-- which ticks me off by assuming the worst of descriptivists, but it's what you have to expect from a book that tells you the correct way to speak.
Four books for the JLPT 1kyuu: "Attack Grammar," and the reading comprehension, kanji, and vocab books in the 完全マスター series.
This is low on things that are purely for fun. I'm gonna have to put in an order from Amazon Japan in a few months, I think.
We got matinee tickets to Avenue Q, so decided to see Ratatouille in the evening, which was a really, really good movie. I liked the level of visual detail that went into it--and the plot is more complex than you usually see in American animated movies. And then we played some Guitar Hero. I like Guitar Hero! It's almost like I can actually play music! (We played Guitar Hero a good bit this weekend, though not to the point of ignoring that I was in an actual real city with actual real things to do.)
Then, let's see: brunch, the Natural History Museum (I had never been in it before! They have some very nifty stuff there, though we didn't manage to see the mermaids and unicorns exhibit), Avenue Q (From the beginning, 'What can you do with a BA in English?,' it was laughing with me. Or at me. I enjoyed it very much, but at the same time I was sort of left going "... But I can go back to college if I want to!") We tried to go to dessert at Serendipity 3, but it was an hour and a half wait, so we had frozen hot chocolates at Dylan's Candy Bar instead.
And then it was time to go home! It was so short. Too short. And we had to drive home for nine whole hours. But it's okay because I will go back in December.