Pretty much not at all which is one of my big issues, but thats kinda just how I am when it comes to what I want to read. Like I’ve always been of the mindset that if something is in a cool fantasy world or has action id rather see it than read it. Like I read the sancuary arc of the re zero web novel and it was neat, but like I just enjoyed watching it play out in the anime a lot more (even though they cut hellas out). I figured there are a lot of fantasy words that I could learn, but none have really caught my eye. Like to me, if I’m reading then its because I care about the characters and their interactions since I feel like you get a much closer look at that in a book as opposed to a show. So I guess as a whole there reallllly hasn’t been like any story driven stuff I care about and I read a lot of slice of life and romcom. ofc not to say story driven stuff cant have deep characters and interactions between those characters.
I kinda thought about it this way at first, but realistically I think you still get plenty of reinforcement from the challenging stack.
I have only tried one mystery, hyouka, which was so boring that I dropped it and honestly it hardly counts as a mystery in the first place. I will definitely give the genre another try though, so do you have any suggestions? If possible, something with a lot of the story contained within the main characters would probably be best. Like opposed to some detective trying to find some master art thief, some shit where the culprit is like one member of the family and whatnot.
Right now I’m just planning on trying a few different things because I know theres a lot out there and theres a good chance some other harder stuff would interest me just as much. I’m almost done with 推し、燃ゆ and its been…pretty disappointing so far in terms of difficulty of the language, but thats a sample size of 1 lol so its not like I’ll just stop there.
One worry I did have though that seems to be true is difficulty in understanding the writing vs difficulty in understanding the meaning. Like sometimes sentences are very hard to understand and thats what I’m going for. But on the other hand, sometimes sentences or paragraphs are easy to understand from a language standpoint, but very hard to understand kinda what the author is getting at and and seeing the deeper meaning. Like kinda going literary analysis mode and understanding symbolism and reading between the lines. See…I don’t think I want that. I want to improve my language skills, not my literary analysis skills. So it feels like needing to sit and think about that stuff is almost counterproductive to my goal. And on top of that I don’t really give a shit about that deep stuff in the first place hahaha. In that sense, light novels are pretty much pure sentence comprehension since they really don’t try to get fancy with that stuff ime.
(the slice of life is also good tho)
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