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First Among Sequels
Takes a while to get going, with a lot of exposition and a number of seemingly unrelated threads, but really sparkles in the last third as they are expertly woven together. Fforde’s appetite for metaphor and the subversion of narrative mechanics is seemingly boundless. This thinly veiled critique on modern society’s lack of attention span […]
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Now Reading… More
On my recent joyful rediscovery of reading, a simple and inestimable pleasure that I let alone for too long, and a new bare-bones WordPress plugin I cobbled together tonight to list recently read books.
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Bootstrapping A Dictionary
Learning to read Japanese is really really ridiculously hard. So hard that you have to use a dictionary in order to use a dictionary.
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Sushi And Studying
A day trip with Kaori including the library and sushi.
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100 Kanji
A minor but satisfying milestone on the way to Japanese illiteracy.
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Technology and travel stories from a global roaming, kangaroo loving, sake drinking gaijin pom.
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