{"id":455,"date":"2011-07-25T02:15:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T07:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=455"},"modified":"2011-07-26T23:20:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T04:20:15","slug":"what-im-reading-today-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/25\/what-im-reading-today-4\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m reading today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently, while I was busy with life (new job, new family member, etc.), the next Haruhi book came out over a month ago. For those of you non-anime fans, \u300c\u6dbc\u5bae\u30cf\u30eb\u30d2\u306e\u6182\u9b31\u300d has been the hottest thing probably since Evangelion. Actually, you don&#8217;t have to be an anime fan because the stories originally come from novels.<\/p>\n<p>I bought the latest volume: \u300c\u6dbc\u5bae\u30cf\u30eb\u30d2\u306e\u9a5a\u6115\u300d, which has finally come out after 4 years of delay. So actually, I&#8217;m going to be reading the previous book again just so I can remember the story. To give you a taste of what the books are like, here&#8217;s the first sentence from the first volume. The sentence is so wordy it&#8217;s also the first paragraph. So that should give you an idea of the writing style.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u30b5\u30f3\u30bf\u30af\u30ed\u30fc\u30b9\u3092\u3044\u3064\u307e\u3067\u4fe1\u3058\u3066\u3044\u305f\u304b\u306a\u3093\u3066\u3053\u3068\u306f\u3001\u305f\u308f\u3044\u3082\u306a\u3044\u4e16\u9593\u8a71\u306b\u3082\u306a\u3089\u306a\u3044\u304f\u3089\u3044\u306e\u3069\u3046\u3067\u3082\u3044\u3044\u8a71\u3060\u304c\u3001\u305d\u308c\u3067\u3082\u4ffa\u304c\u3044\u3064\u307e\u3067\u30b5\u30f3\u30bf\u306a\u3069\u3068\u3044\u3046\u60f3\u50cf\u4e0a\u306e\u8d64\u670d\u3058\u30fc\u3055\u3093\u3092\u4fe1\u3058\u3066\u3044\u305f\u304b\u3068\u8a00\u3046\u3068\u3001\u3053\u308c\u306f\u78ba\u4fe1\u3092\u6301\u3063\u3066\u8a00\u3048\u308b\u304c\u3001\u6700\u521d\u304b\u3089\u4fe1\u3058\u3066\u306a\u3069\u3044\u306a\u304b\u3063\u305f\u3002<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/hZxN-P2oR9o\">The anime<\/a> starts off the same way as well so you can hear the first couple lines of the book.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t happen to have a Japanese bookstore handy nearby, it looks like you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesasia.com\/us\/search\/suzumiya-haruhi-novel\/0-0-0-bpt.48_q.suzumiya+haruhi+novel-en\/list.html\">order it online<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t tried ordering from the site myself so that&#8217;s for you to try.<\/p>\n<p>I personally really enjoy the books. It has a nonlinear narrative, which I always like (my favorite novel is Catch-22) and it&#8217;s further complicated by the time traveling bits. Plus, with 11 books in the series so far (last one is split in 2), there&#8217;s plenty of reading material!<\/p>\n<p>Difficulty: 4\/5<br \/>\nMy rating: 5\/5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently, while I was busy with life (new job, new family member, etc.), the next Haruhi book came out over a month ago. For those of you non-anime fans, \u300c\u6dbc\u5bae\u30cf\u30eb\u30d2\u306e\u6182\u9b31\u300d has been the hottest thing probably since Evangelion. Actually, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/25\/what-im-reading-today-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advanced","category-learning-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}