My recent hobby is reading novels.
Before I enter university, I wasn’t very
interested in it. At that time the only books I read were textbooks or
reference books for studying. Of course I read some novels when I was a high
school and junior high school student, but that was because I had to do it in
order to write book reports. However, since I entered university, I have got
more interested in books. So on New Year’s holiday, I went to BOOK OFF and
bought “1Q84” written by Haruki Murakami.
The story of “1Q84” consists of six books,
and the fixed price is 590 yen each without tax. So if I had bought them at the
fixed price, they would have cost me about 3800 yen. However, they were
secondhand books and therefore cheaper than new ones. So they cost me only
about 1000 yen. I was very lucky. Now I'm reading the first book. Although many things about the story are mysterious so far, the story is interesting and I'm looking for what will happen later.
Also, last Wednesday I bought “Nineteen
Eighty-Four” and “Fahrenheit 451”.
These are the translated version of books
which I read for the book reports of this IE3 Core Class. When I was reading
the English version of them, I was always thinking that I had to finish the
book reports. So I couldn’t enjoy the story very much. This time I want to read
them as a leisure, and someday I want to read the English version of them again
and compare them with Japanese ones to study translation.
In order to find interesting books, I’m
looking for bookstores now.
There used to be Bunkyodo near Shibuya
station, but it closed on October. There is Kinokuniya Bookstore in Tokyu
Plaza. It’s a big bookstore, but Tokyu Plaza will close on March. So I can’t go
there anymore after that. That’s why I’m looking for bookstore. Last Wednesday
I found a good bookstore by Shibuya station. It’s “Book First”. It is a
medium-sized bookstore. What I was surprised about this bookstore was that
there’s no service for cellphones. Besides, there isn't Wi-Fi service either. That means we can’t browse a website, talk with someone on LINE, and check Twitter in this bookstore. It may sound
inconvenient, but I think it can be an advantage of this bookstore. That’s
because we can keep away from cellphones and concentrate on thinking about
books in this bookstore. Although I didn’t buy anything there at that time, I
want to go there again. And I want to read more books in my life in university.
