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bones_theseries, damnskippytoo has a link to the Bones segment on court tv, with clips from the show as well as short interviews with all the main actors.
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Story count at the new BBF archive: 176. Yesterday I put up a counter and saw that the archive is already being visited, even though it's not announced or linked anywhere yet. This pleases me muchly. I'm properly motivated to add the remaining... ugh, 232 stories.
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As for the other Project From Hell That's Eating My Time And Brain: what possessed me to pick, for my first Japanese novel, a book that has 550 pages?? At least I'm almost halfway through, Harry just got hold of the Marauder's Map. Things I learned so far:
Quidditch matches in Japanese? Much less gripping to read than in English.
That goes twice for Potions lessons. The stuff they put in their cauldrons, not exactly on the list of required vocabulary.
Still, all bitching aside this method of learning actually works, even better than I'd hoped. Time-consuming it is, but still a shortcut. I find that I'm picking up kanji along the way and am starting to recognize them even if I can't write or pronounce them. The kanji I recognize from the book are definitely much easier to memorize later.
It's just that, in the time it takes me to read half a dozen pages of the Prisoner of Azkaban, I could track down, print, and read a novel-length Buffy fanfic.
Speaking of: First sightings of Bones fanfic :o). Hopefully more to come.
bones_theseries, damnskippytoo has a link to the Bones segment on court tv, with clips from the show as well as short interviews with all the main actors. Story count at the new BBF archive: 176. Yesterday I put up a counter and saw that the archive is already being visited, even though it's not announced or linked anywhere yet. This pleases me muchly. I'm properly motivated to add the remaining... ugh, 232 stories.
As for the other Project From Hell That's Eating My Time And Brain: what possessed me to pick, for my first Japanese novel, a book that has 550 pages?? At least I'm almost halfway through, Harry just got hold of the Marauder's Map. Things I learned so far:
Quidditch matches in Japanese? Much less gripping to read than in English.
That goes twice for Potions lessons. The stuff they put in their cauldrons, not exactly on the list of required vocabulary.
Still, all bitching aside this method of learning actually works, even better than I'd hoped. Time-consuming it is, but still a shortcut. I find that I'm picking up kanji along the way and am starting to recognize them even if I can't write or pronounce them. The kanji I recognize from the book are definitely much easier to memorize later.
It's just that, in the time it takes me to read half a dozen pages of the Prisoner of Azkaban, I could track down, print, and read a novel-length Buffy fanfic.
Speaking of: First sightings of Bones fanfic :o). Hopefully more to come.
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YupHai!Well, it's Harry Potter, not great literature. It's easy to read by comparison, plus I keep the English version close by to look up stuff. It's just so very very long.