reading meme
Jun. 13th, 2013 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
esmenetDue to the fact that I'm (still) living in Shanghai, I usually don't get to see everyone's Wednesday reading posts until Thursday or sometimes Friday, so that + me watching as much or more than I'm reading, I've been thinking of doing Media Consumption Friday instead. But today I read a thing, so I'm gonna follow everyone else for now.
What I'm currently reading:
Murakami Haruki's 羊をめくる冒険 (Wild Sheep Chase is the English title, I believe). It's slow going, because my Japanese was never that amazing to begin with and I've forgotten a lot while I've been focusing on Chinese this year, but it's still easier to read than any of the (supposedly young-adult) chinese novels I've been attempting. I think it's just as I suspected; my familiarity with grammar in Japanese makes up for my lack of vocabulary, at least in this particular writing style, while Chinese's grammatical similarities with English are actually a giant pain in the ass because, being a native english speaker, I have no idea how the fuck english actually works. Not far enough into the novel to have a real opinion on it yet.
Recently finished reading:
All the translated chapters of the Legend of the Sun Knight series, which culminated in me actually buying all the novels in Chinese, though my low level of Chinese fluency has made them really slow going. Also I did the thing where I tripped and fell into White Dudes Fandoms, though I must say the Supernatural/X-Men crossover was pretty great for its genre.
(The only good thing about falling into White Dude Fandoms -- not kidding, I really do fall into them, I have never watched an episode of Supernatural or the Sentinal or almost any of those shows in my life and I do not intend to -- is that I eventually get so fed up with them that I storm off in a fury to either write anti-establishment femslash or study, thus making myself a slightly less worse person.)
Reading next: more Shingeki no Kyojin, more japanese novels, re-reading more of 07-Ghost, and more boring-ass white dude slash to make myself angry enough to write some proper femslash and maybe study for finals.
What I'm currently reading:
Murakami Haruki's 羊をめくる冒険 (Wild Sheep Chase is the English title, I believe). It's slow going, because my Japanese was never that amazing to begin with and I've forgotten a lot while I've been focusing on Chinese this year, but it's still easier to read than any of the (supposedly young-adult) chinese novels I've been attempting. I think it's just as I suspected; my familiarity with grammar in Japanese makes up for my lack of vocabulary, at least in this particular writing style, while Chinese's grammatical similarities with English are actually a giant pain in the ass because, being a native english speaker, I have no idea how the fuck english actually works. Not far enough into the novel to have a real opinion on it yet.
Recently finished reading:
All the translated chapters of the Legend of the Sun Knight series, which culminated in me actually buying all the novels in Chinese, though my low level of Chinese fluency has made them really slow going. Also I did the thing where I tripped and fell into White Dudes Fandoms, though I must say the Supernatural/X-Men crossover was pretty great for its genre.
(The only good thing about falling into White Dude Fandoms -- not kidding, I really do fall into them, I have never watched an episode of Supernatural or the Sentinal or almost any of those shows in my life and I do not intend to -- is that I eventually get so fed up with them that I storm off in a fury to either write anti-establishment femslash or study, thus making myself a slightly less worse person.)
Reading next: more Shingeki no Kyojin, more japanese novels, re-reading more of 07-Ghost, and more boring-ass white dude slash to make myself angry enough to write some proper femslash and maybe study for finals.
