I make lists.
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On a separate note, I finally decided to follow the advice of that extensive reading talk that I once mentioned here, about doing a speed reading course.
I ordered this book.
Have seen the first edition, and it has many lessons on scanning, skimming and extracting information from different text with exercises that don’t seem that intimidating now as the first time I looked into it.
Who knows, maybe it has a couple of tips that I just haven’t been able to figure it out by myself just yet.
On the first edition the exercises go from extracting quickly the info from news boards, small paper articles to then short stories. Actually the stories they use in the last part are the ones from 星新一 , which I still plan to read someday.
Anyways, I’ll mention how it goes with that, it should be arriving tomorrow.
@konekush I saw the novel you’re reading… probably I would do the same 
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I guess I’d never really thought about the random dying part as being just for shock value since the book sort of explores the whole life/death thing. She does say pretty early on that nobody knows exactly when they could die, healthy or not. If that’s not a big red flag, I don’t know what is 
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Well, it sure worked with this reader 
@MagicHour She even mention that exact way of getting killed as an example and yet I failed to see it coming 
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Noooo sorry I only saw it coming because I had been thinking from the start that there is no way that a book that became this popular would have a ‘predictable’ ending. I just got lucky my confirmation bias throughout the book turned out correct. How they kept mentioning you never know when it will happen, Sakura having started writing her will, nearly being at the end of the book but Sakura still having half a year left, the fact that Haruki started realizing her value. It just had to be, and preferably unexpected so readers will think, but what if? There wouldn’t really have been a what if otherwise, since Sakura was supposed to die from the start. I hope I explained clearly
Also sadly when I cannot understand everything 100% I tend to become more aware of the plot… When I read in Dutch or English I completely forget the fact that I’m reading and read without thinking at all. Then I never see anything coming
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Y’all should be discussing this on the actual 君の膵臓を食べたい book club thread ! 
I joke, I joke! But not really, it’s been a bit dead over there.
@Ncastaneda Ooh let me know how that goes. I was also interested in that book as well.
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I’m starting to have a lot of troubles keeping track of all the book clubs I am part of. Sometimes I’m interrupted before I finish a week’s reading but forget to get back to it, or forget about a given book altogether. Maybe I should use the table to keep track of all of that 
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What a great problem to have!
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Ok, so I have exactly 99 pages of A Wild Sheep Chase (上) left, 291 reviews on WK and a lot of free time today.
I’ll try to do the reviews first and then finish the book today. Wish me luck!
I don’t think I will succeed. 
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The 30 minutes of a novel before manga thing is working out quite well. Friday was a reading day because of book clubs, then Sunday became a reading day just because, and so did Monday, and somehow lately I am reading a lot.
Books:
- ぽっぺん先生の日曜日 (61%)
- 氷菓 (book club)
- 獣の奏者 (book club)
Manga:
- 7SEEDS (v4)
- 美少女戦士セーラームーン (v1; book club)
- CLAYMORE (v4)
- 彼氏彼女の事情 (v2)
- ヒカルの碁 (v2)
- ヨコハマ買い出し紀行 (v1)
I’m still new to manga, but I’m finding that it feels more like my tv watching than my book reading. With books I generally read one at a time (book clubs excepted), but with tv shows I watch a ton, and I pause and skip between episodes of different things depending on my mood. It feels like that with manga–I have one for every mood, and when I finish a part of one I usually switch to another. I’m enjoying it a lot.
My current goal is to finish ぽっぺん先生! After that I am going to choose a new book, and it has to be something that holds my interest right from the beginning to compete with all these manga I’m invested in. Maybe I’ll go back to the とらドラ light novels.
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How is this so far? I’m interested because it seems similar to Aria in feel, in that it’s supposed to be iyashikei. But the few times I’m skimmed the first chapter it didn’t catch my interest.
How much have you read? I enjoyed the anime a lot, but I feel like I’d have to be in a certain kind of mood to read a book like this (particular school setting + tsundere).
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May I recommend the mangas 暁のヨナ and Hunter X Hunter? 
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Well, I finally finished reading all the volumes of ご注文はうさぎですか. I’ve read a volume and a half of きんいろモザイク to test as a replacement, but it’s not nearly as good. I get several laughs per chapter reading ご注文はうさぎですか, but with きんいろモザイク sometimes I can read a whole chapter with only a couple laughs or less.
So my hunt for a 4-koma comedy manga continues! I already bought the first volume of こみっくがーるず, so I’ll try that next. Hopefully that fares better than きんいろモザイク. I also really want to read まちカドまぞく, which combines multiple themes I’m interested in. And the reviews are really good! But for some unfathomable reason, the volumes are out of print, so I either need to jump through hoops to get physical copies or go digital for this one.
In the meantime, I have plenty to read, as I’m reading the 8th volume of がっこうぐらし from the free promotion, and I’ll buy the last four volumes to finish up the series.
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I did a stupid and decided to try translating the first page. It took me 3 hours, and a lot of liberties to make it make sense in English and also not stilted, and also to try to represent the Taoist concepts to the best of my ability
I don’t know if I’ll continue, but it’s certainly educational. I don’t think I’ve ever known this much about Taoism as I do now.
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I’ve read this in fan translation, and it actually changes quite a bit between the first chapter and later volumes. I like it a lot. 
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I’m not all that far in to ヨコハマ買い出し紀行, but I am liking it so far! But what I’ve read has a very particular sort of feel, slow and earnest and scenic, which I have to be in the right mood for.
I’ve read four of the とらドラ light novels. I also think they require a certain mood, and there are stretches in the ones I’ve read that I liked less than the whole, but I liked the whole a good deal. It can be wonderfully funny, for one, and I love many of the characters, and also I really enjoy the extremely colloquial speech and how the sounds of it are written such that I can hear it clearly in my head.
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You certainly may, thank you! I am keeping a list (that is already very long).
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Yeah, didn’t finish just as I thought. But I did all the reviews and read 35 pages, so the day was a success! 
64 pages to go. Maybe I’ll manage to finish the book today.
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Okay I finished my first manga of the year, 百面装のシノブさん! It’s a bit above my level, which I think actually helped me go faster. On stuff closer to my level I often get hung up looking up a lot of words because I’m going for full comprehension, but with this one I was okay with just getting the gist.
In any case, I’m glad to finally start putting some numbers up on the board.
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