At this rate, youll read 105 days in december which is pretty dang good in my opinion since it really defies the Gregorian calendar. Now that would be epic.
But even if you don’t do that, getting any amount of reading done is still good.
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The first volume of おとなになっても is free to own (I think). The only reason I’m not sure is because it’s got this added 【電子版限定特典かきおろしマンガ付き】 at the end of the title, which the others volumes don’t mention. But I don’t see an expiration date, so I do think it’s free to own.
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I believe it’s free to keep as well! I think it’s just referring to some kind of bonus one-page manga at the back. The usual time-limited tag is 【期間限定 無料お試し版】 and those get put in a separate series from the main one.
I tried to highlight it for folks here as well, and mentioned a vague memory of I think you (?) recommending it to me once in some thread.
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It’s possible I’ve recommended it before, yeah. I’ve only read the first two volumes so far, and it’s gone in a direction I wasn’t expecting. But I think it’s interesting and worth reading.
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I hereby pledge that I will do my solemn best to read 105 days in December. 
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For those of you who are looking for inspiration on what to read (or who just like to keep track of what they already read so far), I’ve set up a new challenge:
The Naoki Prize Reading Challenge 
Happy reading (and clicking) everybody!
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I listened to a podcast the other day where two native teachers were just casually talking about reading (Noriko and Teppei). I was quite surprised where they agreed that Japanese don’t really subvocalize at all while reading. In addition, they admitted that even when reading normal books, there are a lot of words they forget the readings. Of course they can still understand it and just move on. This prompted me to think if I should aim to read faster and without subvocalizing. I don’t really do it with other languages except if I’m reading intensively. I guess that comes with time and when the text is very clear and you can anticipate what’s coming well. I can sometimes do it with Hamefura now if there are no unknown words, so maybe it’s just a matter of practice…
On the other hand subvocalizing is probably good until being very advanced, since otherwise you won’t be enforcing the readings, which help in other aspects of Japanese as well.
By the way I really recommend the podcast. I’ve been mostly listening to podcasts with only one host and this is a nice change. It starts out super beginner (which is why I originally dropped it) but pretty quickly in later episodes they just start rambling and forgetting they are even doing a podcast. Becomes a very authentic conversation where they reminisce about the past and just talk about random things.
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I have a question about bookmeter summary stats:
2021年6月の読書メーター 読んだ本の数：1冊 読んだページ数：484ページ ナイス数：0ナイス ★先月に読んだ本一覧はこちら→ Aislinさんの6月読書まとめ - 読書メーター
Which ナイス it is counting, exactly? I have 0 in stats, but I did get a few in reality. 
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I think it might only be counting naisus that aren’t from when you add books(so reviews, summary posts, and random stuff, but not the naisus when you’ve read a book or start reading a book or whatever). At least that’s what seems to be the case for me judging by my numbers
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Nope, didn’t feel comfortable asking that from the teacher. If anything, my Japanese was very broken in my 1st lesson so I pretty much started as a beginner in terms of speaking.
Both languages I’d totally be up to learn too! I honestly love how Korean sounds, feels like people are always complaining in a funny way to me xD But then again, Mandarim is “more important” to learn, so it would be a tough choice for me to choose between them since right now I don’t have much connection to either.
One day let’s play a few games then! 
I seriously wish there was a way to SRS the openings, because memorizing all the moves without it feels 10x more painful lol. Actually, I should just create a chess thread here on the forums.
Same to you ^^ I think I’ll take a break from languages after Japanese and Russian get to a satisfactory level. I’d rather keep the quality of the 4 I’ll know over distracting myself with more. I haven’t had much time to learn about nutrition/exercise lately either, and those were things I was very much into before.
Waking up at 2am 
Are your energy levels still normal? Since I’m guessing you had to change your routine by quite a lot due to your job.
Going for the challenge? 
Ngl, I’ve had natives already suggesting me to do that But right now I’m refusing to betray Russian like that 
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How do you guys share that? :OO
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Here’s the desktop version 
1 読書管理 → まとめ
2 Pick last month (if not automatically picked)
3 Scroll down and click the yellow button. And then click post.
4 That should be it! :3
There’s also a banner alert thingie that shows up around the first every month you can click.
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Lmao this is actually so true tho
Yeah I’ve still got the most energy in the whole factory :3. I keep getting told I have TOO much energy and need to slow down. Im still getting 8 hours of sleep a night or so.
Yeah I’ll go ahead and finish one of my books today and another by tomorrow, then on sunday ill just read an entire book. Honestly I may just go ahead and read another entire book on monday so I end up getting 4 done for my long weekend. I already know I can do it since I was pretty easily able to read 250+ pages last sunday and that was reading slightly harder material. Its just a matter of actually doing it.
I imagine a lot of people on here would also be interested in shogi, but I’ve honestly never looked into it. I just assume its like chess lol.
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You can watch ３月のライオン for a crash course.
It’s pretty similar I think. The biggest difference I noticed is that you can place pieces back on the board after they’ve been taken. This seems to make matches longer on average than chess.
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I’ve been trying to kick my subvocalization habit for a while now. It’s definitely just slowing me down at this point but it’s such a deeply ingrained habit (which I started because I wanted to reinforce readings) that it’s really hard to stop.
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@Naphthalene is it possible to un-solve this topic? I don’t know why it just started happening but I’m getting this message whenever I try to reply:
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Must be a new feature… Looks like it does it every time, not just the first time. So I’m going to report that to Discourse and see what they say.
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Alrighty, finished my book in a day thing. Was a success
obnoxious humble brag complaining
I’ve been reading since the time I was probably unable to pass even N5, and pretty much the whole time I’ve been reading what I want. Its really just been light novels and visual novels that are really just as difficult as those light novels. It was nice because I got enjoyment from learning and was able to have the sentences I learn from be of interest to me. Like there was a reward to comprehension. Fast forward, and I didn’t really feel like I was learning as much so that feeling of joy was gone, so I had to rely on enjoyment from the actual content. Not much of a problem because there was a lot of interesting content out there for me. Fast forward to now and its kinda at a point where I have to acknowledge that the amount I’m learning from books I want to read isn’t very much.
Like I got to where I am by challenging myself and using my time efficiently. But with that comes this mindset that if something is easy or even effortless, then its basically wasted time because I could be using that time to learn and read harder stuff. I don’t read any manga anymore for this exact reason, but I didn’t really care because I had books I wanted to read. Now its like, well even those feel too easy so what do I do.
I more or less have decided that I’d like to be comparable if not better than a native my age when it comes to reading, and Im far from that, so slowing down doesn’t feel like an option. At the same time though, it feels like to keep improving at the pace I was, I’ll need to read much harder material. And…I just can’t find much that interests me. Like I thought the monogatari series might be harder, but nope. I’ve looked around for hard novels and stuff that may interest me…but no luck.
I honestly have no doubt that if I read the stuff I want, I’ll come across pretty much everything eventually anyways, but it just doesn’t feel efficient. I know its not. So its like for the first time ever do I sacrifice reading what I want to get better at japanese faster? Its an annoying decision to have to make because I know that compared to before, I’ll feel like I lost something.
I dunno, I just felt like rambling into the void I guess. I figured on here some people might be able to relate.
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If you’re looking for more challenging books, maybe you can find something in here?
As for them being interesting for you, I have obviously no idea, sorry…
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I’ve looked through amazons listing of Naoki prize winners, but I don’t think I’ve checked the winners of that prize, actually. So thanks, I’ll take a look right now.
Yeah, the interest part is really what makes it tough. Usually I’m not a fan of more serious stuff, and it seems like the more difficult the writing, the more serious the subject matter when it comes to literature. Either way, I’ll have an open mind and give it a look!
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