{"id":457,"date":"2011-07-27T00:46:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T05:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2011-07-27T00:48:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T05:48:35","slug":"what-im-reading-today-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/27\/what-im-reading-today-5\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m reading today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So while I have a physical book to read in convenient locations around the house (such as certain locations where I get to sit undisturbed for a few minutes *ahem*), I like to have something online to read as well in case I don&#8217;t happen to have a book on me. I figured it was finally time to start reading some of the more famous Japanese literature works. I tried to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aozora.gr.jp\/cards\/000148\/files\/773_14560.html\">\u300c\u3053\u3053\u308d\u300d<\/a> before but it was too depressing for me to get very far. Now, I am reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aozora.gr.jp\/cards\/000148\/files\/789_14547.html\">\u300c\u543e\u8f29\u306f\u732b\u3067\u3042\u308b\u300d<\/a> and I&#8217;m enjoying it a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>I also got the <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=info.dicapp.media.ebook.aozora&#038;feature=search_result\">Android app<\/a> to get these ebooks from \u300c\u9752\u7a7a\u6587\u5eab\u300d. Unfortunately, the mobile version doesn&#8217;t seem to have the handy furigana text, which is too bad because this is fairly challenging reading even with the modern kana and kanji conversions (such as \u3044\u3046 instead of \u3044\u3075). There&#8217;s tons of Kanji I&#8217;m not familiar with, too many to list here but here&#8217;s an interesting sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u543e\u8f29\u306e\u5c0a\u656c\u3059\u308b\u7b4b\u5411\uff08\u3059\u3058\u3080\u3053\u3046\uff09\u306e\u767d\u541b\u306a\u3069\u306f\u9022\uff08\u3042\uff09\u3046\u5ea6\u6bce\uff08\u305f\u3073\u3054\u3068\uff09\u306b\u4eba\u9593\u307b\u3069\u4e0d\u4eba\u60c5\u306a\u3082\u306e\u306f\u306a\u3044\u3068<b>\u8a00\u3063\u3066\u304a\u3089\u308b\u308b<\/b>\u3002<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, \u8a00\u3063\u3066\u304a\u3089\u308b\u308b is the equivalent to \u8a00\u3063\u3066\u304a\u3089\u308c\u308b. I&#8217;m not too far into the story yet but I&#8217;m enjoying it so far. I like cats and this book doesn&#8217;t seem as depressing as \u300c\u3053\u3053\u308d\u300d. I&#8217;ve got a couple novels I&#8217;m going through now so this will probably be my last blog post on what I&#8217;m reading for a while. But I think I&#8217;ve introduced a number of resources with tons of reading material so please share interesting things you&#8217;ve read or are reading in the comments!<\/p>\n<p>Difficult: 4.5\/5 (with \u65b0\u5b57\u65b0\u4eee\u540d)<br \/>\nMy Rating: Will update later<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So while I have a physical book to read in convenient locations around the house (such as certain locations where I get to sit undisturbed for a few minutes *ahem*), I like to have something online to read as well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/27\/what-im-reading-today-5\/\">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-457","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\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}