"The distant clouds are shaking now / as if the light is tempting them ... "

" ... yearning for a shore with waves of gold / I crash upon it and wake up in the morning / and my day begins"

Sparked by this poll, an accountimentizationisming of my current readings:

For fiction: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by John Gardner.

For poetry: Kokinshuu translated by Rodd and Henkenius.

For non-fiction: Southern Arizona Nature Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to Pima County and Beyond by Hanson & Hanson, supplimented by a small pile on the natural history of the Sonoran desert.

For practicing Japanese: Tebukuro o Kai ni ("Buying Mittens") by Nankichi Niimi, taken a page a day: "Samui fuyu ga hobbou kara, kitsune no oyako no sunde iru mori e mo yatte kimashita" it begins -- "Cold winter came down out of the north to a forest where a mother and child fox lived." This is a picture book edition, with illustrations depicting the kitsune as arctic foxes -- for the win. I also have a translated edition for checking my understanding, both thanks to Janni. Have I mentioned I like Janni? (After this, I have Ooki na Mori no Chiisa na Ie ("Little House in the Big Woods") by Roora Ingarusu Wairuda. Have I mentioned I like my local used book store's foreign language section? This one will be harder, because there's not as much kanji.) (Yes, that does make sense.)

For learning Japanese: Um ... I haven't actually done any lessons since before WFC. In theory, I'm halfway through All About Particles by Naoko Chino and on my second reading of The Handbook of Japanese Verbs by Taeko Kamiya, this time doing the drills.

For memorizing kanji: Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese 2e. by Florence Sakada, supplimented by Henshall's guide to remembering and a sturdy kanji dictionary. By the time I get through Sakada's out-of-date list of elementary school kanji, I'll be ready to switch over to Henshall's lists. That will be several months yet, at the rate I'm going.

So what are you all in the middle of?

---L.

"The distant clouds are shaking now / as if the light is tempting them ... "

" ... yearning for a shore with waves of gold / I crash upon it and wake up in the morning / and my day begins"

Sparked by this poll, an accountimentizationisming of my current readings:

For fiction: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by John Gardner.

For poetry: Kokinshuu translated by Rodd and Henkenius.

For non-fiction: Southern Arizona Nature Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to Pima County and Beyond by Hanson & Hanson, supplimented by a small pile on the natural history of the Sonoran desert.

For practicing Japanese: Tebukuro o Kai ni ("Buying Mittens") by Nankichi Niimi, taken a page a day: "Samui fuyu ga hobbou kara, kitsune no oyako no sunde iru mori e mo yatte kimashita" it begins -- "Cold winter came down out of the north to a forest where a mother and child fox lived." This is a picture book edition, with illustrations depicting the kitsune as arctic foxes -- for the win. I also have a translated edition for checking my understanding, both thanks to Janni. Have I mentioned I like Janni? (After this, I have Ooki na Mori no Chiisa na Ie ("Little House in the Big Woods") by Roora Ingarusu Wairuda. Have I mentioned I like my local used book store's foreign language section? This one will be harder, because there's not as much kanji.) (Yes, that does make sense.)

For learning Japanese: Um ... I haven't actually done any lessons since before WFC. In theory, I'm halfway through All About Particles by Naoko Chino and on my second reading of The Handbook of Japanese Verbs by Taeko Kamiya, this time doing the drills.

For memorizing kanji: Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese 2e. by Florence Sakada, supplimented by Henshall's guide to remembering and a sturdy kanji dictionary. By the time I get through Sakada's out-of-date list of elementary school kanji, I'll be ready to switch over to Henshall's lists. That will be several months yet, at the rate I'm going.

So what are you all in the middle of?

---L.