Monday, October 13, 2025

Started: Read Real Japanese: Fiction edited by Michael Emmerich [I started this book years ago but never finished it.  There are actually two books in this series--the fiction one and the essays one.  The essays one I kept with me for several years--I mentioned it on this blog before here, here--before finally getting rid of it in this post here.  I've decided to give studying Japanese another try, but I'm going to start out with the fiction one.)

Quizlet:

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1 comment:

Futami-chan said...

Kawakami's writing style resembles the manga Oyasumi Punpun, for lack of good words to describe.
Both her and Otsuichi's stories are mundane. Otsuichi is the very example of cheap horror I last criticized on a related post (although in this case it may not even be horror). His short story is not bad, but not good either - good idea but would have been better with more quality writing or introspection, maybe.
I got fed up by the third author.

I will say this again and again without being ironic at all: Japanese 2D culture has much better writing prowess than their entire tradition of literature throughout their entire history. Minato Kanae (surname -> given name) is the only contemporary non-light novel author I think I can recommend to people.

Great book only when your internet is cut off and your predicament is something like being in a jail.