Japanese Manga

Manga plays an important role of Japanese culture. Manga attracts people from all over the world. Many people learn Japanese and visit Japan because they like Japanese manga. I have to admit that reading manga is fun and sometimes useful. I used to read manga, but I don't read manga for a long time. 

I rarely read manga because I like reading novels. While reading novels, I can imagine my own world, but I can't do that by reading manga. I easily lost concentration while reading manga. Manga has the authors image already. That makes me bored. 

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Easy Reading

I downloaded two audiobooks via Audible the other day. The reading time were about 7 hours and 5 hours. All I should do is listening to them by iPhone.  Easy. I used to listen some audiobooks and these were CDs. I had to use CD player or copy to PC. That was a really bother for me. 

I can download two titles with a fixed price in a month. If I want to listen more audiobooks, I have to pay the costs, but cheaper than usual. 

I will have finished two books tomorrow, but I don't want to spend more many on audiobooks so far. I think I will listen these books again with reading the texts.  A friend of mine recommended the way of listening audiobooks for English learners. 

One thing would be important. You should buy proper level books for you. 

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A Pale View of Hills

I've finished Kazuo Ishiguro's "A Pale View of Hills ". The author is a Japanese born British and the story was about a Japanese woman who lived in the Britain. She lost her Japanese born daughter and she remembered her old days in Japan. 

Ishiguro described typical old Japanese society well in the novel even he had left Japan when he was 5. 

Many short episodes are included and these are vague and beautiful. I highly recommend this novel. 

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Cathedral

I've finished Raymond Carver's short storie collection "Cathedral ". The last story was exactly "Cathedral ". I like all of the stories and the last one was especially awesome. 

The narrator met his wife's blind old friend in his house. The narrator did not want to see the blind man at first. But at the end, they were drawing a cathedral together, hand in hand, to explain the shape to the blind man. I felt something had changed in his mind. 

Raymond Carver described ordinary people's daily lives in simple sentences. It seems nothing, but you can find some signs in the stories. I can feel something warm in these daily lives. 

I'd like to read his novels more. It's so much fun for me. 

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