Preliminary note: this thread was started for the year 2019. The table is reset every year and thus its content will not match the earlier discussions. Goal: the purpose of this thread is to offer a place to post and keep track of your extensive reading. Give yourself a long term target (number of …

[image] Greti33: is Norwegian Wood just a novel-length Murakami™ scene? Sounds like, eh? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: [image] Greti33: Though considering the official timeline is only 72 hours Luckily in “How to participate” it says that there is no requirement to stick to this time interval …

[image] NicoleIsEnough: (I haven’t read Norwegian Wood yet, so this may be correct, but…) I think I mentioned in the thread that I got that book (well, 上 and 下, so technically two books) for christmas. I only checked the first ~20 pages, but I guess it could fit? The main character was remini…

[image] NicoleIsEnough: Like, Murakami is in “Love” :eyes: (I haven’t read Norwegian Wood yet, so this may be correct, but…) I’ve read Norwegian Wood, and of the seven categories available I think ‘Love’ is pretty clearly the most applicable.

Finally read the third volume of ホテル・メッツァペウラへようこそ and it is still super wholesome and fun. This is also the only thing that I read true 多読 style. :joy: So I actually decided to see if I could (without getting tired/bored/other) read it in one sitting/day, and I did. So that is an achievement I can …

I finished a video game that I’d highly recommend to… basically anyone reading this! ＲＰＧタイム！～ライトの伝説～ It’s a 2022 game that I saw mentioned a little bit in an end of year thread or two, and I was immediately curious enough to try it out. I played the steam version which is easy to switch to Japanes…

If anybody is interested, the Advanced Book Club is currently polling for their next pick! [image] Advanced Japanese Book Club // Now reading: 国宝（上） Book Clubs So, as promised, here is Our Next Poll! Have a look at the List of Proposed Books section in the f…

I finished コンビニ人間 in the end. The ending had a good punchline, but it was really dragging and overall I wouldn’t call it a great story. Some of the more psychological aspects of the story were rather obvious and while on one hand it had a bit of an indie movie feel to it (re: Amelia), it was also ve…

Phew, so I finished 海賊と呼ばれた男（下） after reading the first part (上) about 1.5 years ago. I talked about part 1 here , basically it’s a historical novel based on the life of 出光いでみつ佐三さぞう, the founder of 出光興産いでみつこうさん, a Japanese petroleum company. His name was changed in the book but everything’s based on …

The page count of lot of light novels seem to fall somewhere around the 200-300 range, and something I found mildly interesting related to that is that according to the afterword of the book I just read (Volume 5 of わたしが恋人になれるわけないじゃん、ムリムリ!(※ムリじゃなかった!?)) this is because they actually statistically s…

Now that I’ve finished 海賊と呼ばれた男, I’m on a race with @Belerith to have read all the books in the advanced book club. I am missing two. Which one should I start with? poll

[2025] 多読/extensive reading challenge

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[2025] 多読/extensive reading challenge

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