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Wednesday, 22 March 2006

Reading Nooks
In response to Madame Flamingo's words...

I need a place to read a good story on a rainy day. Bastion’s reading room in The Neverending Story comes to mind. There's a shortage of reading nooks in Japan, so I go to the Starbucks in the mall when I'm feeling reclusive and read there, but I get the urge to hide when I read, so it's not that satisfying.

When I was a kid I would make a fort out of sheets in my room and bring in all kinds of snacks. I was a very slow reader, so I mostly just ate.

As an adult, when I was in Minnesota, I would set a lawn chair out on summer/fall days in the shade with a beer. No one does lawn chairs in Japan. I’ll have to start that trend.

For my down time at school, I'll have to break through one of the walls at my school, put in an old couch and a table for a hot water dispenser and tea materials—that or sneak into the tea ceremony room. Here's to reading nooks...

Posted by blog2/whiteguyinjapan at 12:01 AM JST
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Friday, 24 March 2006 - 3:14 PM JST

Name: Lay Nougat Pitt bly
Home Page: http://well didja save it? ......... You bastard.

Peter: I'll handle it, Lois. I read a book about this sort of thing once.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't nothing?
Peter: Oh yeah.

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Sunday, 26 March 2006 - 12:30 PM JST

Name: Madame Flamingo

Other related Family Guy quote? I've got one!
"Not only can you read the book, it's also...a hat!"
I'm not sure if that's the exact wording or not, but I have a degree in English, so I shall feel free to misquote and bandy about to my heart's content.
I am very excited for the lawn-chair trend. Sounds promising, and cozy!
Nooks are the best for reading. I think you hit is right on with the fort and the Neverending Story -- you need a place where your mind can completely inhabit the book, and not be bothered by much else. Of course, not many of us actually take a bite of an apple one second and then are transported away like Jonathan Brandis, but that's okay. That wolf creature was pretty creepy anyway.
Hope all is well, and your nook search continues to a victorious end (or new beginning!)

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