I periodically go to the hospital to get my allergy medicine. Recently my skin condition was not good and the doctor recommended me a shampoo for sensitive skin.
I went to a department store to buy it.
As soon as I told the staff that I was interested in their shampoo, she let me take a seat and wanted me to fill in a form with my personal information. They also asked me about my skin condition.
Why did I have to give my personal data to buy a shampoo?
I rejected it in unpleasant tone. And I could buy the shampoo without those data.
I knew I did overreaction. But I have a inferiority feeling of my skin for years and I really didn't want to talk about that.

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Good-bye, Mr. Chips / James Hilton / 19,700words (28/3*20*132*0.8) Total 1,964,052 / ★★☆☆☆

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最近ちょっと肌の調子が悪いので、皮膚科に勧められたシャンプーを買いにデパートの化粧品売り場へ行った。
買いたいものは決まっているんだから、お金を払って早く帰りたかったのに書類を渡され、名前や住所の他に肌の状態について記入を求められた。
何でシャンプー1本買うのに名前や住所が必要なんですか、と拒否したら普通に買えたんだけど。

アレルギーで肌がきれいじゃないのはずっとコンプレックスだし、きれいに化粧をした販売員にあれこれ尋ねられたくないのよ。
買ったシャンプーがよかったとしても、もうその店には行かないだろうな。

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The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2006/05/30) Kim Edwards 商品詳細を見る

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A pair of twins were born to a happy couple, but the husband who was a doctor recognized that one of their babies, the girl, had Down syndrome.
He secretly handed the girl over to a nurse who loved him and asked her to take the girl away to a children's institution.

Sounds like a soap opera, doesn't it?
I usually don't choose this kind of books when I read in Japanese. However, the aim of reading English books is reading itself.
And entertaining books are easy reading.

When the doctor abandoned the girl he thought that would be the best for his family. He tried to be good to his son and his wife who believed that the girl had died. Their life was built on his one and only lie.
The story has someting more than entertainment.

×catch copy ●slogan or catch phrase

for god's sake = 勘弁してよ

sake = 〜のため


ORIGINAL
The twins were born to a happy couple. The husband was a doctor and he recognized that one of their babies, the baby girl, has Down syndrome.
He secretly handed over the girl to a nurse who loved him and asked to take the girl away to a children's institution.

Sounds like a soap opera, doesn't it?
I usually don't choose this kind of books when I read in Japanese. However, the aim of reading English books is reading itself.
And entertainment books are good to easy reading.

When the doctor abandoned the girl he thought that it would be the best for his family. He tried to be good for his son and his wife who believed the girl died. Their life was built on his only one lie.
The story has someting more than entertainment.


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The Memory Keeper's Daughter / Kim Edwards /139,900words (31/3*33*513*0.8) TOTAL 1,816,036 / ★★★★★

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My husband requested me to cut cabbage into strips as thin as those in restaurants.
As I wrote before, he eats salad almost every day. It is a lot of work to cut a lot of cabbage every day,
I have a slicer and a peeler, but both of them are too small for cabbage.
So I bought a big peeler which claims, "This is the best peeler for sliceing for cabbage!".
At first it worked very well, but then I found that the core and the outer leaf are not properly sliced. In any case I still have to use the knife so I gave up on it.
This is how I got many useless kitchen tools

as thin as those in restaurants. those = cabbege


ORIGINAL
My husband requested me to cut cabbage into strips as thin as restaurants.
As I wrote before, he eats salad almost every day. It is big task to cut a lot of cabbage every day,
I have a slicer and a peeler, but both of them are too small to cabbage.
So I bought a big peeler which was put a pop-ad, "This is the best to slice cabbage!".
At first it worked very well, but then I found that a core and outer leaf are still rested. Whatever I have to use the knife so I gave up on it.
This is the way I got many useless kitchen tools

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The Alchemist / Paulo Coelho / 39,239 words Total 1,676,136 / ★★★☆☆

アルケミスト - The Alchemist 【講談社英語文庫】 (2005/09/08) パウロ・コエーリョ、Paulo Coelho 他 商品詳細を見る

I sometimes complain about irresponsible people. I'm troubling at work caused by such a person and she is the worst.

Her company and mine did a project together and we have to make the annual report. I asked her to fill some parts of the report and send me back. It was March 13th and the deadline was the 24th.
The amount of the work is not big, it would take only half a day. However, she hadn't made it by the deadline.
I had asked when I can receive the report during in the last week. She avoid every e-mail from me so I called her. At first I could reach her, she told me that she was just making the report so me to wait for a while. Then she started avoiding me again even telephone.

I called again, April 1st. A man answered the phone and said, "She moved."

What?!

Nobody had took over the task. I got really mad!
But on the other hands, it would bring a good result. I made her coworker to take over the task. I hope I can get the report soon.

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Rising Sun / Michael Crichton / 121,000words (31/3*38*388*0.8) Total 1,549,415 / ★★★★☆

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