To Forget Summer Heat

It has been a little bit cool since we had a heavy thunderstorm three days ago, but it feels like it is getting hotter today. It’s better to read a thrilling story like a mystery or a ghost story to forget this summer heat.

I enjoyed reading “Master of The Game” by Sidney Sheldon. This thrilling and provocative story had a power that even made me stay away from a PC. It is really a page- turner. It’s a long story about four generations of a successful woman, but each sentence is short and words are easy.

The heroin, Kate was a beautiful and wealthy woman who inherited her father’s company and made the company an international conglomerate. She was well- known worldwide as a symbol of success. She loved her family, but controlled her family members in order to make her company more prosperous. Accidents occurred one after another. Celebrating her ninetieth birthday, she surveyed her family’s history. Her son got insane and her granddaughter was a murderer. Was she the master of the game?
I couldn’t stop reading, asking breathlessly “What’s next?”



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Sidney Sheldon "The Sky Is Falling"

I finished reading “The Sky Is Falling” written by Sidney Sheldon today. The sentences are rather short and the words are not very difficult. It didn't take much time for me to read through it. It may be good to read as many easy books as possible.

The first half was a little bit boring, but I was struck by the thrilling story in the latter half, notably in the last several chapters. I couldn’t stop reading it, wondering what was going to happen in the final. This book is a really page-turner.

Five members of an America’s royal family, the Winthrops, are killed in a series of accidents in a single year. A beautiful Washington anchorwoman Dana Evans happens to begin investigating the accidents, placing her in grave danger with her adopted son, who lost his left arm in Sarajevo…….


a page-turner---ページをくるのももどかしいくらい面白い本




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"Get Up English"

A popular blog"Get Up English" is made into a book titled "日めくり現代英語帳". I started reading this book from the beginning of this year. I can learn one word or one phrase every day from this book. Plus, there are lots of today's expressions of English that I've never known before. Although I can't use those expressions fully so far, I hope I will be able to acquire even one of them.

Please don't say, "BEEN THERE, DONE THAT"




"Been there, done that."--あれもこれも経験し尽くした、すっかりおなじみ、新味ない

"Hey, Nikki, wanna go hiking tomorrow on Mt. Hiei?"
"Naw, been there, done that. Call me when you get a better idea of how to spend a Sunday"

"ねえ、ニッキ、明日、比叡山にハイキングに行かない？”
”私はパス。もうそこには登ったから。日曜日に何するかいい案が浮かんだら、電話して”

(日めくり現代英語帳　上　より）




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PC and Book

Although I liked reading books before, I haven’t read many books since I was into a PC a few years ago. To my regret, I don’t have enough skills to handle a PC yet, though. I can know many things, talk with many people, read many diaries or messages, and even be advised to correct my English sentences through the Internet.
However, I know well that I have to read as many books written in English as possible so that I can have a wide range of vocabulary.
One of the books I read in the recent years is “Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is a very difficult book for me to read through without much effort. Actually, I gave up reading it halfway. Thanks to a nice translation by 村上春樹, I could read through till the end.

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter---tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…… And one fine morning--
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
( Fitzgerald)

ギャツビーは緑の灯火を信じていた。年を追うごとに我々の前からどんどん遠のいていく、陶酔に満ちた未来を。それはあのとき我々の手からすり抜けていった。でもまだ大丈夫。明日はもっと速く走ろう。両腕をもっと先まで差し出そう。-----そうすればある晴れた朝にー
だからこそ我々は、前へ前へと進み続けるのだ。流れに立ち向かうボートのように、絶え間なく過去へと押し戻されながらも。　　　　　　(村上春樹)



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