14 posts tagged “books”
I started to read "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" written by JK Rowling. This is her third books of Harry Potter series.
This is one of my best books written by Roald Dahl so far (although I've only read 4 books of him yet). Every time I finish to read his book, I feel that I'd like to read more and more.
I'm very sleepy and a bit dizzy this morning because I stayed up finishing to read "Holes" till late last night. It took about a week I read whole through to finish up this book.
"Holes" by Louis Sachar p.166 to p.233
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"Holes" by Louis Sachar p.130 to p.165
I finally finished to read "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" the day before yesterday (Aug 17th). I'm really ashamed to admit but it took over a month.
Right after finishing to Harry, I started to read "Holes" by Louis Sachar. Compared to Harry Potter, this book is quite easy to read.
This is just a small note for myself.
I bought the July and the August issue of this magazine "NHKテレビ 新3ヶ月トピック英会話 英単語ネットワーク ～めざせ10,000語！～" today. One of each is only 350yen, which is about less than 3USD.
Since I saw a new word "mindmapping" at one of entries of a blog called "lifehack.org" which Kazu-chan told me a couple of weeks ago, this word has been hooked on my mind all the time. However, being procrastinate, I haven't google this keyword until today.
The magazines I bought today are using this mindmapping trick, I guess. I haven't read these through yet, but I've just seen the TV program this week and found it very interesting, so that's why I bought them.
Word count since 2006 : 664,179 + something extra
"The BFG" 36928 by by Roald Dahl (September 7, 2007)
"Holes" 46938 by Louis Sachar (August 22, 2007)
"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (US)" 85141 J. K. Rowling (August 16, 2007)
"Matilda" 39785 by Roald Dahl (July 10, 2007)
"The Witches" 36547 by Roald Dahl (July 9, 2007)
"Charlie and The Chocolate Factory" 29743 by Roald Dahl (Jun, 2007)
"Death on the Nile" 77511 by Agatha Christie (Jan 6, 2007)
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"The Way of the Linguist: A Language Learning Odyssey" ??? by Steve Kaufmann (Dec 2006)
"Nothing Lasts Forever" 110000?? by Sidney Sheldon (Oct 15, 2007)
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" 60877 by Mark Haddon (Feb 2006)
"The Story of Doctor Dolittle" 31000 by Hugh Lofting (Feb 2006)
"The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle" 73382 by Hugh Lofting (Feb 2006)
"Daddy-Long-Legs" 36327 by Jean Webster (Jan 2006)
< reference >
SSS英語学習法 (Start with Simple Stories and Enjoy Reading)
http://www.seg.co.jp/sss/
Scholastic Reading Counts! e-Catalog (Word counter)
http://src.scholastic.com/ecatalog/default.asp?UID=3FBD38990F584D3E8278C14E44417BD2&subt=0&Test=NA
As I wrote my previous post (it's only viewable by neiborhood setting though), I started reading "Watchers" last Wednesday. However, compared to those several books I have finished to read recently, this horror book is too difficult to read, so I just gave up the right next day. It's a bit pity, but I'll return to the book, hopefully sometime soon when my reading comprehension has improved.
Right after I gave up "Watchers, I started reading "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" by J.K. Rowling. Although I bought this US version paperback about five or six years ago, I had not reached to the end of the story yet. Not even one fifth of the whole book, I would say.
Luckily enough, this time so far, the second volume of the series becomes easier than when I tried before. Very slowly but gradually, I'm making progress in my English, I guess. I'm sure I will make it through this time.
I'm in the mood for reading now (I always love to read books, in Japanese though), and I'd like to do so for awhile. Therefore, I orderd more three books today at Amazon. The books I'm waiting now are...
"The Bfg" by Roald Dahl
"Holes" by Louis Sachar
"Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder" by Joanne Fluke
Three books I ordered at Amazon.co.jp two days ago arrived today. What a quick delivery.
"Matilda (Puffin Novels)" by Roald Dahl
"Watchers" by Dean R. Koontz
"Remains of the Day (Penguin Joint Venture Readers)" by Kazuo Ishiguro
I should have noticed when I ordered it, but "Remains of the Day" wasn't a book I wanted to buy. Even though Amazon reports that this book was written by Kazuo Ishiguro, it is not exactly the complete version, but a revised version for Englsih learners.
The only slight difference between them is that the revised version does not have "The" in front of "Remains". It is quite tricky, isn't it? This may cause other customers who are not familiar with the 'Penguin Ladder Series' to place an order incorrectly, or was I the only scatterbrain in Japan? I guess Amazon.co.jp should tell us more precisely that it is not the original version, it is a revised version. Then it would be easy for anybody to understand.
Anyway, I decided to return this book to Amazon. Instead, I ordered a complete version of this novel at a lower price from Betterworld.com via Amazon market place. By using this method, the book may be delivered in a month or so. Until then, I hope I finish my other two books.
First, though, I have to finish reading "The Witches" by Roald Dahl, which I have been reading since last Friday.
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