For transferring data to my new 10TB HD. So my reading got waylaid a little.
That's why I've only been able to devote small stretches of time to Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. Well, that and how it's tough to keep reading when she can't seem to get to the fricking point. For now, there's an awful lot of whining going on, and it's getting old. Everyone in the book is a whiner. Good grief, stop whining and start DOING something!
Argh! How annoying!
It's making me look forward to The Great Passage by Miura Shion, because I can count on a Japanese author not to bore me with endless whining. Not that I expect none of it, only that I can expect any of it to get smacked down, and hard, sooner or later. Usually sooner.
As for the concept, from the jacket:
Kohei Araki believes that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after thirty-seven years of creating dictionaries, it’s time for him to retire and find his replacement.
He discovers a kindred spirit in Mitsuya Majime—a young, disheveled square peg with a penchant for collecting antiquarian books and a background in linguistics—whom he swipes from his company’s sales department.
Along with an energetic, if reluctant, new recruit and an elder linguistics scholar, Majime is tasked with a career-defining accomplishment: completing The Great Passage, a comprehensive 2,900-page tome of the Japanese language. On his journey, Majime discovers friendship, romance, and an incredible dedication to his work, inspired by the words that connect us all.
A book about words is right up my alley.
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