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Reading on a Thursday
Sep. 15th, 2022 03:27 amRead: I finished The Luzhin Defense by Nabokov. Past the first third of the book, I found it dull, on top of the issue of it lacking paragraph breaks. The very ending was more exciting than the middle, but I never did find it satisfying that Luzhin is simply driven mad by chess.
Reading: In English, I snagged What If? 2 electronically from the library, although it's crashed Firefox at least five times now :( But if you enjoy Randall's kind of writing like I do, it's a fun read, and it's nice to have something I can read in short bursts between other things at the moment. The [citation needed] joke is a bit overdone, though.
In 日本語, still at those skating boys. The protagonist (struggling on his way to Japanese Nationals) and the World Champion (who he trained with as a child but is distantly friendly with now) have chosen the SAME MUSIC to skate to, gasp. The protagonist knows that he can't really be angry, but it suits him better for his last season, dammit! Rival Skater will surely continue skating after this one! I'm enjoying myself with this.
In other reading-related news, I trimmed my to-be-read list! I think I tossed off around 10% of it that I was either no longer interested in or had no idea why I had ever put that book on there.
Reading: In English, I snagged What If? 2 electronically from the library, although it's crashed Firefox at least five times now :( But if you enjoy Randall's kind of writing like I do, it's a fun read, and it's nice to have something I can read in short bursts between other things at the moment. The [citation needed] joke is a bit overdone, though.
In 日本語, still at those skating boys. The protagonist (struggling on his way to Japanese Nationals) and the World Champion (who he trained with as a child but is distantly friendly with now) have chosen the SAME MUSIC to skate to, gasp. The protagonist knows that he can't really be angry, but it suits him better for his last season, dammit! Rival Skater will surely continue skating after this one! I'm enjoying myself with this.
In other reading-related news, I trimmed my to-be-read list! I think I tossed off around 10% of it that I was either no longer interested in or had no idea why I had ever put that book on there.
