ta12121 Wrote:sweet. Book prices aren't that expensive. Do you know of any novels that are easy in context? I know that novels tend to use difficult kanji and even rare ones. Want to start with something easy, then build my way up.Kirino Natsuo is not overly hard. I think she writes in a relatively conversational style. But although I haven't read more than a few pages of any of her books, I feel like mystery and suspense can be hard to read, as they tend to use some more specialized vocabulary.
Hm this book looks interesting, although i don't think it;'s simple
http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/guest/cg...61&AREA=02
(I could read 95% of the kanji in the description of the book)
If you want to read a light novel, I suggest staying away from historical, fantasy, and science fiction, just because they tend to have a lot of words that aren't connected to everyday life. And you get more of the culture in a book that takes place in modern Japan than one that takes place in medieval-Europe-with-magic, too. "Maria-sama ga miteru" is fairly easy. "Suzumiya Haruhi" has some surprisingly hard vocabulary in it, and the narrative voice feels a little odd to me. "Wolf and Spice" uses some kanji that are really weird and not even in the level-1 and level-2 JIS standard. This is not a problem if you should magically happen to stumble over a text file, but if you're reading the actual print book, it might be a problem.
Light novels aside, I think the easiest book I've read is "Kitchen" by Yoshimoto Banana, which is very short in addition to being easy to read.
私がこの世でいちばん好きな場所は台所だと思う。
どこのでも、どんなのでも、それが台所であれば食事を作る場所であれば私はつらくない。
できれば機能的でよく使い込んであるといいと思う。乾いた清潔なふきんが何枚もあって白いタイルがぴかぴか輝く。
ものすごく汚い台所だって、たまらなく好きだ。
Besides that, I'd recommend "Keritai Senaka" by Wataya Risa.
And I've only read a bit of Kawakami Mieko, but what I've read by her was pretty easy to read.