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[supermanu]

Traditional end-of-the-year-interview taken from

1. What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before?
I got my 2nd level degree

2. Where did you study?
At the university of Modena, until July

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No, luckily!

5. What countries did you visit?
Sweden and Austria

6. Did you move anywhere?

Comments

[sakirmo]

"Norwegian wood" is on my reading list - I'm curious, what kind of mixed feelings did you have about it? I don't really know much about the book but it must have interested me at some point, for some reason, because it ended up on the list ;)

[supermanu]

Well, from one point of view, it's a VERY depressing book, so I can't say I enjoyed it 100% because at the end I was more sad than glad.
Also, the story is set during the big changes of the 70s in Japan, and the contraddictions between traditional and modern are quite important in the book, but somehow I feel they are not that topical anymore. For example, the author writes a lot about the sexual life of the characters and about the eccentricity of one of his girfriends, but I believe that nowadays the reader is more bored than shocked reading them ;)
Yet, when I was at the end of the book I didn't want it to finish, and when I turned the last page I was completely captured by the story, and I knew I would miss the characters. This is the main sign that I liked a book :)
Finally, even if the story is definitely sad, one of the aims of the author is to show how the main character is able to become adult and deal with the pain, learning how to remember the beloved people who died but at the same time going on with his life

[lilithslut]

Happy new year:)
May I add you?

[supermanu]

Thank you Lilith, I wish you a happy new year as well :)
Of course you can ;) I'll do the same

[fairytale_80]

i did almost alike meme too. some questions were differenr though. funny that there has been different versions around. :)

[supermanu]

You're right. Reading last year's meme I noticed some differences :)