Reading Response: Moribito

I hadn't read Moribito in a while (with the interruption of Nervous Conditions) so I took time to skim the first part of the book and gather my thoughts. With preparation, I started on part two, and found it much easier to read. I jumped back into the book feeling lost - not because I didn't know part one clearly, but because there was a vague outline of the future. I knew the demon (Rarunga) was going to come after Chagum (the prince holding the sacred egg), but before that, there was plenty of time for anything. I was curious to see what would happen.In the end, nothing crazy happened. The plot progressed along smoothly; there were no dramatic changes or crazy ideas introduced. 

After I had finished the book, I was very disappointed. This book to me seemed very bland, very cliche. I'm sure I had seen very similar plots in many different places. I felt as though I spent a significant amount of my time reading irrelevant dialogue. I'm sure I read like three chapters about the "star readers" (similar to scholars) and what they did for the main characters. Yeah, they deciphered a tablet which taught them about the egg, but the Balsa and Chagum journeyed along without the information completely fine. This made the book seem very slow and bored me.

3/26 - 30min. (Moribito), 3/27 - 30min. (Moribito), 3/28 - 30min. (Moribito), 3/29 - 30min. (Moribito), 3/31 - 30min. (Moribito), 4/02 - 30min. (Moribito), 4/04 - 45min. (Cancer Research - Read 4 articles)

Total - 225 min., pp.143 - 248 (Moribito), (Cancer Research - Read 4 articles