On February 06 2013 17:35 AmericanUmlaut wrote:
How would you rate the difficulty of "Perfect Blue" for a non-native Japanese speaker? My own New Years resolution is to read a few Japanese novels this year. I'm currently reading Umibe no Kafuka (Kafka on the Shore), since Murakami's Japanese isn't too insane to get through as a foreigner, do you think Perfect Blue would be a good choice?
I think you might have to look up some more words compared to Haruki Murakami's novels, but the grammar in Perfect Blue isn't too difficult. If you can read Kafka on the Shore, I think you wouldn't have any issues with this book. Her style is somewhere between a light novel and a classical novel.
Click on the 3rd text link below the cover image here to read a few pages of Perfect Blue to see how you fare with the grammar: link
On February 06 2013 17:39 Aerisky wrote:
Awesome, keep it up! You can progress to "fall asleep before or soon after midnight" eventually. Keep the blogs coming~ I'm considering doing a journal as well, probably not a regular or frequently-updated blog though.
I think pen and paper is a great way to start a journal, and just write whatever comes to mind about the day for 5 minutes before you sleep 
(I used to do this for a while)Last edit: 2013-02-07 01:54:54 | 
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