{"id":708,"date":"2014-05-08T21:12:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T13:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=708"},"modified":"2014-05-08T21:12:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T13:12:25","slug":"finished-kikis-delivery-service-book-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"Finished Kiki&#8217;s Delivery Service Book 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I <a title=\"Finally Finished Kiki\u2019s Delivery Service (Book)\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=701\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a> in March, I had the second book of the Kiki&#8217;s Delivery Service series on order having finished the first book. I didn&#8217;t makea precise note of the day it arrived, but it wasn&#8217;t long after the 9th of March when that post was made. Tonight I finished book 2. I made much more of an effort to read at least six pages a day of this one, and to catch up if I missed a day. The book is 380 pages, although that seems longer in some ways than it is since it&#8217;s got a number of illustrations, some of which are full page or half the page. Japanese literary typesetting is also quite different to English in that it&#8217;s set vertically. Just as with English texts, this means much of the dialogue only takes up part of a line. However, since japanese books, like English ones, are taller than they are wide, the resulting white space in Japanese is a larger proportion of the page. For dialogue-heavy sequences with\u00a0 lot of short statements, this can mean a page using less than half the space.<\/p>\n<p>I have book three on the shelf, so it&#8217;s on to that, tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I noted in March, I had the second book of the Kiki&#8217;s Delivery Service series on order having finished the first book. I didn&#8217;t makea precise note of the day it arrived, but it wasn&#8217;t long after the 9th of March when that post was made. Tonight I finished book 2. I made much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,19,2,17,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-books","category-japan","category-sf","category-books-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}