Mara's Log of Unscheduled Learning

Hi everyone! I’m Mara, and I’ve had a study log on Natively for about a year and a half or two years now. However, I’ve started following (/lurking) more and more study logs here on WK, and I’d really like to join in this fun and vibrant study log community! So here I am.

Why “Unscheduled”?
Because 1) I thrive on chaos, 2) the world around me has (amazingly) become even more stressful than it was even during the height of covid. So I’m trying to be kind to myself and embrace learning Japanese as the nourishing and ever-changing journey that it is, rather than trying to strive towards my goals under some kind of arbitrary time pressure.

Speaking of goals, what are they?
My primary goal is to read novels and manga. Just reading is good enough, but of course I also would love to read more fluently and with more ease. I also try to work on listening, speaking, and writing (in that order) and while I see them as complementary skills they are also definitely secondary priorities. :sweat_smile:

Why a “learning” log and not a Japanese log?
Because you all are great and interested in more than just Japanese stats! I love reading about all of you all’s journeys in things like music and life as well.

My 2026 Natively Bingo Home Post

Reading data

Reading data for 怪人二十面相 🦹 (Intermediate Book Club) [ongoing, week 10/15]

Goal: 5 pages per day

day time pages m/p day total notes vocab
2/22 6 1 6 - Just getting warmed up. どてら == 厚くてあたたかい着物。。
2/22 9 2 4.5 - My guess is that if you knew Kogorou-tantei from the other books then you would know that this behavior is really out of character for him. こごしをかがめる (I just thought it was a neat phrase.)
2/22 8 1 8 4 Finished the chapter. Like watching a trainwreck. ひけを取らない。。向こうに回して。。
2/26 7 1 7 - Just a little warmup. おびただしい == 非常に多い様子。。かけ軸 == 絵や文字が描かれた、壁にかけるもの。。紳士。。くっきょう (屈強) == 強くて頑丈なこと。。(pretty confident I’ve recorded that last one twice already.)
2/26 25 4 6.25 5 Wow, 4 pages in a row in 25 minutes! That is way better than my attention span has historically been with this novel. :joy: … Just checked, and yes actually, this is a record. I’ve only read as long as 24 minutes in a row twice before now. (Wait, why didn’t I also check if I’ve ever read 4 pages in a row before??) When I finish maybe I’ll make a final post of all of these tracking posts together. Then it’ll be interesting to look for patterns/developments. こずえ (梢) == 幹や枝の先。。気が気でない == 心配で落ち着かない。。落ちる気払う == あわてずに、ゆっくりとふるまっている。。かたわら == そば。。ちっとやそっと。。よび子 == 人をよぶためのちいさなふえ。。
2/27 15.5 3 5.2 3 Finished week 8 reading. むなぐら。。うちのめす == とても強い力でたおす。。かたこと == まだ上手じゃない言葉。。いつしか == いつの間にか (leech!)。。決まりが悪い。。黒装束 == 頭から足まで黒い服を着ている。。
2/28 28.5 5 5.7 5 Starting book club week 9 reading. Tried reading 5 pages in one go. I had to motivate myself to keep going after page four, but at the end of page 5 I kind of felt like maybe I could keep going. Except then I stopped. :joy: Some mystery/thriller vocab: 高手小手。麻酔剤。
3/6 4 24 6 4 Starting in on this again reminded me that this particular chapter was kind of rough with the old man not being able to believe that he had been duped, and then being upset about it. But I also feel motivated to continue because 1) I sense that Boy Detective will rejoin us imminently 2) Someone in the book club thread linked the Diet Library scan of the 1939 edition and that’s really fun to look at/read. 身もだえ == つらい気持ちで、からだをうごかすこと。。血の巡りが悪い。。狐につままれる。。
3/7 4 30 7.5 - Ohh, we get to meet Big Detective soon! For a second I thought the pleasant, plump man with the tortoiseshell glasses was Akechi and I was feeling pleasantly surprised that he was not a usual stereotype, but no … that was the public official. (Off to do a hike now!) もくろむ (目論む) == “to plan, scheme”。。大それた == 普通とちがう、すごい。。野心 == “sinister designs, treachery”。。かいつまむ == 要点だけを大ざっぱに捉える。。かたきうち (敵討ち) == “vengeance”。。ぎょうぎょうしい (仰々しい) == “exaggerated”。。民間団体 == NGO。。凱旋将軍 == “general returning in triumph”。。
3/7 1 12.5 12.5 - Hoo, I’m tired. My partner and I went on a ~2 hour ~3 mile snow hike this morning! Gorgeous. And quite tiring, so now we are sitting by a fire having flat whites and reading! ^^ 昇降口 == 階段のある出入り口。。刻一刻 == 少しずつ時間がたっていく。。
3/7 2 12.5 6.25 7 - さしつかえ == 困る理由や問題。。すじ == “source”。。上気 == 顔が赤くなる。。
3/8 2 18 9 - Not a lot of opportunity/not ideal conditions to read this morning after all, so just a couple pages over less than twenty minutes. Was pretty surprised by the reveal, actually, on account of not having actually read the chapter title. :joy: 千秋 == 千年。。茶菓 == 茶と菓子。。
3/8 2 16 8 4 Okay, verbal posturing, check! 寸分 == 少し(も)。。しゃれ == 冗談事。。死にものぐるい == 死に物狂い、死ぬほど一生懸命。。崇拝 == 心から敬うこと。。
3/9 15 2 7.5 - Shouldn’t I, at some point, start getting better at reading this book? I’ve documented 27 days of reading so far and there is no observable trend in any direction. It could have to do with the fact that the story isn’t totally my cup of tea and I’m reading it for The Culture. Whereas books that I’m super into I inherently push to read more and faster, this one I generally only stay motivated to read until I’ve reached the appropriate number of pages for a day. 絶壁 == 壁のように切り立った崖。。一興 == ちょっとしたおもしろいこと、たのしいこと。。首領 == (悪党について)仲間の長。。不利 == 損失などを招きそうな様子。。
3/9 8 1 8 3 Gah, I can’t take it anymore! Okay, I may need to switch to an easier read for today. 無駄骨折り == つらい努力をしたのに、役に立たなかった。。

Starting Silent Witch

Started tracking 怪人二十面相
怪人二十面相 その2
怪人二十面相 その3
怪人二十面相 その4

2025

Started reading あなたも殺人犯になれる
あなたも殺人犯になれる second post
Finished reading あなたも殺人犯になれる

竹取物語/虫めづる姫君

マラ積読 rules

マラ積読 is a game designed to encourage you in reading down your tsundoku pile while still allowing you to buy new books (but not fast enough to negate your tsundoku-shrinking efforts!)

Getting started: your tsundoku score starts at zero and continues until infinity! (But I’m guessing you’re going to spend your points on more books before you reach infinity.)

You may score once for each book when you finish (or DNF) it, therefore choose the condition that gives you the most points!

1 point

  • Read a book owned less than one year
  • Read a digital book
  • Reread a book

2 points

  • Read a book owned less than 2 years
  • Finish a book you previously gave up on
  • DNF a book that you’re not enjoying*
  • Finish reading the most recent book you bought

3 points

  • Read a book owned less than 3 years
  • Finish the last book in a series

4 points

  • Read a book owned 3 years or more

5 points

  • Read a book owned 5 years or more

“Spending” points

  • You may forfeit 10 tsundoku points in order to buy one new book
  • You may forfeit 1 point to buy a sequel or book in a series you already started
  • You may forfeit 2 point to buy a digital book
  • Books for book clubs may be bought for free if necessary!

Maximum free tsundoku clause:
If you are in sight of having a manageable tsundoku, then it is recommended to set a tsundoku maximum number: the number of unread books you would like to have on hand at any given time. This means that if you fall below that number then new book purchases (up to your maximum) won’t require forfeiture of points. If you’re not sure, we recommend setting your maximum tsundoku to the number of books that you finished reading last year.

Option for incentivizing reading longest-owned books:
It has been recommended that books can be awarded points for each year they have been owned, eg 5 years = 5 points, 6 years = 6 points, etc. Just keep in mind that if you adopt this rule you will be de-prioritizing reducing your number of tsundoku books. In extreme cases you could even end up increasing your tsundoku (if you spend all your earned points)! The choice is yours …

*DNF = you are not planning on finishing this book ever **

**If this changes later you don’t have to forfeit the points, but don’t use this to cheat!

❣️ Harta Summary posts
Date Issue Notes
- draft
February 28, 2026 92 Less than two weeks after finishing issue 91!
February 16, 2026 91 One of my wordier reviews! And full of images!
January 23, 2026 90
August 2, 2025 89 Now organized chronologically!
April 23, 2025 88 Most lackluster summary post to date
October 3, 2024 87
August 29, 2024 86
August 2, 2024 85
June 23, 2024 84
May 22, 2024 83 now with illustrations!
April 17, 2024 82
March 19, 2024 81
March 5, 2024 80
February 19, 2024 79
February 10, 2024 78
January 28, 2024 77
January 14, 2024 76
December 28, 2023 75
Equinox Readathons!
Season Time Pages Sources Comments
:maple_leaf: 2024 Autumn 4:45 159 5 I read a smattering of manga chapters and 25 pages of a full-furigana children’s novel.
:sun: 2025 Summer 4:32 167 1 I mainlined 7 out of 9 stories in a first grade reader and wrecked my brain.
:maple_leaf: 2025 Autumn 2:10 47 4 I couldn’t focus on the readathon how I wanted to, read from a variety of my in-progress books.
:snowflake: 2025 Winter 1:13 54 3 I blamed Christmas for ruining my readathon stats. :sweat_smile:

Resources

Old Japanese study

楽しく覚える『百人一首』! 暗記のコツや「決まり字」を解説

Grammar textbook clubs

4️⃣ Quartet 1 and 2 Study Group
Quartet Casual Study Group
A Dictionary of Japanese Grammar [aDoJG] 💮 Reading Club

Additional grammar reference

https://imabi.org/
https://wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/ - slang and linguistics blog

Miscellaneous

note.com - Japanese blogosphere
irasutoya.com - that clip art everyone uses!
Listening: ピアノ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucCMoLwyYC8

Natively bingo archive

2026

First post
Most recent post

Some ideas ...

Mythological: https://learnnatively.com/book/7350ded68f/

One word title: キッチン、神様

Unseen lifeform: 神様

Pretty: わたしの幸せな結婚

Past club: セーラー服と機関銃

New author: https://learnnatively.com/book/55b7a8b88f/

Final boss: 王宮ロマンス革命―姫君は自由に恋する | L30??
薬屋のひとりごと
君の名は
ヨコハマ買い出し紀行

Hidden Identity: サイレント・ウィッチ

Reread (includes books I have read the translation of): ライカの星、 霧のむこうのふしぎな町、 かがみの孤城、 お探し物は図書室まで、デッドエンドの思い出 | L29
空芯手帳 | L31

Ghosts: 帰命寺横丁の夏

Award: デッドエンドの思い出 | L29
かがみの孤城

Natively unreviewed: はなやっこ

SF: ヨコハマ買い出し紀行

Meta could be この本を盗む者は 1 or any of the books I have about booksellers

Someone else’s card: λの箱舟 | L32??
玉藻の恋 | L18
https://learnnatively.com/book/60b2ddc722/
https://learnnatively.com/book/108400676f/
サイレント・ウィッチ II 沈黙の魔女の隠しごと | L31

2025


First post
Last post

Bookmeter yearly reading archive
2025 Bookmeter summary
  • 36 manga
  • 5 children’s prose books
  • 3 ADULT prose books
2025 books (in reverse order)

2025年の読書メーター
読んだ本の数:44
読んだページ数:7454
ナイス数:0

竹取物語/虫めづる姫君 (10歳までに読みたい日本名作)竹取物語/虫めづる姫君 (10歳までに読みたい日本名作)
読了日:12月30日 著者:越水利江子
夜の名前を呼んで 3 (ハルタコミックス)夜の名前を呼んで 3 (ハルタコミックス)
読了日:12月23日 著者:三星 たま
ギャルと恐竜(1) (ヤングマガジンコミックス)ギャルと恐竜(1) (ヤングマガジンコミックス)
読了日:12月21日 著者:森もり子
あなたも殺人犯になれる! (角川文庫)あなたも殺人犯になれる! (角川文庫)
読了日:12月13日 著者:赤川 次郎
時間割男子(2) 消えないで、カンジくん! (角川つばさ文庫)時間割男子(2) 消えないで、カンジくん! (角川つばさ文庫)
読了日:11月20日 著者:一ノ瀬 三葉
花野井くんと恋の病(4) (デザートコミックス)花野井くんと恋の病(4) (デザートコミックス)
読了日:11月18日 著者:森野 萌
雨と君と(3) (KCデラックス)雨と君と(3) (KCデラックス)
読了日:11月17日 著者:二階堂 幸
あしょんでよッ ~うちの犬ログ~ 1 (MFC ジーンピクシブシリーズ)あしょんでよッ ~うちの犬ログ~ 1 (MFC ジーンピクシブシリーズ)
読了日:11月14日 著者:らくだ
花野井くんと恋の病(3) (デザートコミックス)花野井くんと恋の病(3) (デザートコミックス)
読了日:10月31日 著者:森野 萌
花野井くんと恋の病(2) (デザートコミックス)花野井くんと恋の病(2) (デザートコミックス)
読了日:10月26日 著者:森野 萌
乙嫁語り 1巻 (青騎士コミックス)乙嫁語り 1巻 (青騎士コミックス)
読了日:10月23日 著者:森 薫
ひとりぼっちの○○生活 (6) (電撃コミックスNEXT)ひとりぼっちの○○生活 (6) (電撃コミックスNEXT)
読了日:10月22日 著者:カツヲ
舞妓さんちのまかないさん (16) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)舞妓さんちのまかないさん (16) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)
読了日:10月15日 著者:小山 愛子
自転車屋さんの高橋くん 1 (torch comics)自転車屋さんの高橋くん 1 (torch comics)
読了日:10月09日 著者:松虫 あられ
ひとりぼっちの○○生活 (5) (電撃コミックスNEXT)ひとりぼっちの○○生活 (5) (電撃コミックスNEXT)
読了日:09月10日 著者:カツヲ
舞妓さんちのまかないさん (15) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)舞妓さんちのまかないさん (15) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)
読了日:08月19日 著者:小山 愛子
月刊少女野崎くん(1) (ガンガンコミックスONLINE)月刊少女野崎くん(1) (ガンガンコミックスONLINE)
読了日:08月03日 著者:椿 いづみ
ひとりぼっちの○○生活(4) (電撃コミックスNEXT)ひとりぼっちの○○生活(4) (電撃コミックスNEXT)
読了日:08月01日 著者:カツヲ
あさがおと加瀬さん。 (ひらり、コミックス)あさがおと加瀬さん。 (ひらり、コミックス)
読了日:07月24日 著者:高嶋 ひろみ
木曜日にはココアを (宝島社文庫)木曜日にはココアを (宝島社文庫)
読了日:07月17日 著者:青山 美智子
舞妓さんちのまかないさん (14) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)舞妓さんちのまかないさん (14) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)
読了日:07月10日 著者:小山 愛子
ささやくように恋を唄う(1) (百合姫コミックス)ささやくように恋を唄う(1) (百合姫コミックス)
読了日:07月09日 著者:竹嶋 えく
徒然日和: 3【イラスト特典付】 (百合姫コミックス)徒然日和: 3【イラスト特典付】 (百合姫コミックス)
読了日:07月06日 著者:土室 圭
霧島くんは普通じゃない ~転校生はヴァンパイア!?~ (集英社みらい文庫)霧島くんは普通じゃない ~転校生はヴァンパイア!?~ (集英社みらい文庫)
読了日:06月29日 著者:麻井 深雪
徒然日和: 2 (百合姫コミックス)徒然日和: 2 (百合姫コミックス)
読了日:06月26日 著者:土室 圭
ひとりぼっちの○○生活(3) (電撃コミックスNEXT)ひとりぼっちの○○生活(3) (電撃コミックスNEXT)
読了日:06月22日 著者:カツヲ
齋藤孝のイッキによめる! 名作選小学1年生 新装版齋藤孝のイッキによめる! 名作選小学1年生 新装版
読了日:06月21日 著者:
ゆびさきと恋々(5) (デザートコミックス)ゆびさきと恋々(5) (デザートコミックス)
読了日:06月15日 著者:森下 suu
時間割男子(1) わたしのテストは命がけ! (角川つばさ文庫)時間割男子(1) わたしのテストは命がけ! (角川つばさ文庫)
読了日:05月28日 著者:一ノ瀬 三葉
サイレント・ウィッチ 沈黙の魔女の隠しごと (カドカワBOOKS)サイレント・ウィッチ 沈黙の魔女の隠しごと (カドカワBOOKS)
読了日:05月26日 著者:依空 まつり
舞妓さんちのまかないさん (13) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)舞妓さんちのまかないさん (13) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)
読了日:05月17日 著者:小山 愛子
ゆびさきと恋々(4) (デザートコミックス)ゆびさきと恋々(4) (デザートコミックス)
読了日:05月14日 著者:森下 suu
徒然日和(1) (百合姫コミックス)徒然日和(1) (百合姫コミックス)
読了日:05月10日 著者:土室 圭
ひとりぼっちの○○生活 (2) (電撃コミックスNEXT)ひとりぼっちの○○生活 (2) (電撃コミックスNEXT)
読了日:05月05日 著者:カツヲ
とんがり帽子のアトリエ(7) (モーニングKC)とんがり帽子のアトリエ(7) (モーニングKC)
読了日:04月16日 著者:白浜 鴎
気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.2 (KITORA)気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.2 (KITORA)
読了日:04月09日 著者:新井 すみこ
しろくまカフェbis 2 (愛蔵版コミックス)しろくまカフェbis 2 (愛蔵版コミックス)
読了日:04月07日 著者:ヒガ アロハ
気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.1 (KITORA)気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.1 (KITORA)
読了日:03月28日 著者:新井 すみこ
舞妓さんちのまかないさん (12) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)舞妓さんちのまかないさん (12) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)
読了日:03月12日 著者:小山 愛子
とんがり帽子のアトリエ(6) (モーニングKC)とんがり帽子のアトリエ(6) (モーニングKC)
読了日:03月12日 著者:白浜 鴎
ひとりぼっちの○○生活 (1) (電撃コミックスNEXT)ひとりぼっちの○○生活 (1) (電撃コミックスNEXT)
読了日:03月02日 著者:カツヲ
舞妓さんちのまかないさん (11) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)舞妓さんちのまかないさん (11) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)
読了日:02月05日 著者:小山 愛子
舞妓さんちのまかないさん (10) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)舞妓さんちのまかないさん (10) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)
読了日:01月09日 著者:小山 愛子
とんがり帽子のアトリエ(5) (モーニングKC)とんがり帽子のアトリエ(5) (モーニングKC)
読了日:01月08日 著者:白浜 鴎

読書メーター

The manga series I read the most of were 舞妓さんちのまかないさん (volumes 10-16) and ひとりぼっちの〇〇生活 (volumes 1-6). I read one complete series: 徒然日和 (3 volumes).

Other series from which I read multiple volumes

3 volumes とんがり帽子のアトリエ (5-7)
3 volumes 花野井くんと恋の病 (2-4)
2 volumes 気になってる人が男じゃなかった (1-2)
2 volumes 時間割男子 (1-2)
2 volumes ゆびさきと恋々 (4-5)

Continuing series
Start year Title Volumes 2024 Volumes 2025
2024 舞妓さんちのまかないさん 1-9 10-16
2024 とんがり帽子のアトリエ 1-4 5-7
2024 ゆびさきと恋々 1-3 4-5
2024 夜の名前を呼んで 1-2 3
2024 ゆるキャン△ 1-2 -
2024 気になってる人が男じゃなかった 1-2 -

2024 Bookmeter summary

Bookmeter kindly created this overview of my reading in 2024 for me! I read 43 volumes, of which 1 was an audio book, 1 was a children’s prose book, 1 was a children’s picture book, and the rest were manga. :sweat_smile:

The List

2024年の読書メーター
読んだ本の数:43
読んだページ数:7413
ナイス数:0


ふらいんぐうぃっち(8) ドラマCD付き特装版 (少年マガジンコミックス)ふらいんぐうぃっち(8) ドラマCD付き特装版 (少年マガジンコミックス)
読了日:12月29日 著者:石塚 千尋

舞妓さんちのまかないさん (9) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)舞妓さんちのまかないさん (9) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)
読了日:12月28日 著者:小山 愛子

新装版 魔女の宅急便 (角川文庫)新装版 魔女の宅急便 (角川文庫)
読了日:12月19日 著者:角野 栄子

舞妓さんちのまかないさん (8) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)舞妓さんちのまかないさん (8) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)
読了日:12月18日 著者:小山 愛子

ゆるキャン△ (2) (まんがタイムKRコミックス フォワードシリーズ)ゆるキャン△ (2) (まんがタイムKRコミックス フォワードシリーズ)
読了日:12月07日 著者:あfろ

舞妓さんちのまかないさん (7) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)舞妓さんちのまかないさん (7) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)
読了日:11月14日 著者:小山 愛子

ダンジョン飯 1巻 (ハルタコミックス)ダンジョン飯 1巻 (ハルタコミックス)
読了日:11月04日 著者:九井 諒子

舞妓さんちのまかないさん (6) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)舞妓さんちのまかないさん (6) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)
読了日:10月28日 著者:小山 愛子

ゆるキャン△ (1) (まんがタイムKRコミックス フォワードシリーズ)ゆるキャン△ (1) (まんがタイムKRコミックス フォワードシリーズ)
読了日:10月26日 著者:あfろ

舞妓さんちのまかないさん (5) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)舞妓さんちのまかないさん (5) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)
読了日:10月12日 著者:小山 愛子

とんがり帽子のアトリエ(4) (モーニングKC)とんがり帽子のアトリエ(4) (モーニングKC)
読了日:10月11日 著者:白浜 鴎

はなにあらし (13) (サンデーうぇぶり)はなにあらし (13) (サンデーうぇぶり)
読了日:09月29日 著者:古鉢 るか

ルリドラゴン 1 (ジャンプコミックス)ルリドラゴン 1 (ジャンプコミックス)
読了日:09月25日 著者:眞藤 雅興

しろくまカフェbis 1 (愛蔵版コミックス)しろくまカフェbis 1 (愛蔵版コミックス)
読了日:09月24日 著者:ヒガ アロハ

はなにあらし (12) (サンデーうぇぶり)はなにあらし (12) (サンデーうぇぶり)
読了日:09月15日 著者:古鉢 るか

クプルムの花嫁 2 (ハルタコミックス)クプルムの花嫁 2 (ハルタコミックス)
読了日:09月04日 著者:namo

はなにあらし (11) (サンデーうぇぶり)はなにあらし (11) (サンデーうぇぶり)
読了日:09月03日 著者:古鉢 るか

とんがり帽子のアトリエ(3) (モーニングKC)とんがり帽子のアトリエ(3) (モーニングKC)
読了日:08月25日 著者:白浜 鴎

はなにあらし (10) (サンデーうぇぶりSSC)はなにあらし (10) (サンデーうぇぶりSSC)
読了日:08月23日 著者:古鉢 るか

夜の名前を呼んで 2 (ハルタコミックス)夜の名前を呼んで 2 (ハルタコミックス)
読了日:08月13日 著者:三星 たま

舞妓さんちのまかないさん (4) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)舞妓さんちのまかないさん (4) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)
読了日:07月31日 著者:小山 愛子

とんがり帽子のアトリエ(2) (モーニングKC)とんがり帽子のアトリエ(2) (モーニングKC)
読了日:07月20日 著者:白浜 鴎

ゆびさきと恋々(3) (デザートコミックス)ゆびさきと恋々(3) (デザートコミックス)
読了日:07月04日 著者:森下 suu

ことり文書 1 (ハルタコミックス)ことり文書 1 (ハルタコミックス)
読了日:06月19日 著者:天野 実樹

はなにあらし (9) (サンデーうぇぶりSSC)はなにあらし (9) (サンデーうぇぶりSSC)
読了日:06月11日 著者:古鉢 るか

ゆびさきと恋々(2) (デザートコミックス)ゆびさきと恋々(2) (デザートコミックス)
読了日:06月08日 著者:森下 suu

気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.2 (KITORA)
読了日:05月31日 著者:新井 すみこ

とんがり帽子のアトリエ(1) (モーニングKC)とんがり帽子のアトリエ(1) (モーニングKC)
読了日:05月27日 著者:白浜 鴎

ゆびさきと恋々(1) (デザートコミックス)ゆびさきと恋々(1) (デザートコミックス)
読了日:05月20日 著者:森下 suu

はなにあらし (8) (サンデーうぇぶりSSC)はなにあらし (8) (サンデーうぇぶりSSC)
読了日:05月15日 著者:古鉢 るか

舞妓さんちのまかないさん (3) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)舞妓さんちのまかないさん (3) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)
読了日:05月15日 著者:小山 愛子

はなにあらし (7) (サンデーうぇぶりSSC)はなにあらし (7) (サンデーうぇぶりSSC)
読了日:04月30日 著者:古鉢 るか

気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.1 (KITORA)
読了日:04月10日 著者:新井 すみこ

はなにあらし (6) (サンデーうぇぶりSSC)はなにあらし (6) (サンデーうぇぶりSSC)
読了日:04月02日 著者:古鉢 るか

夜の名前を呼んで 1 (ハルタコミックス)夜の名前を呼んで 1 (ハルタコミックス)
読了日:03月24日 著者:三星 たま

ブナの森のアリア 第3巻 (あすかコミックスDX)ブナの森のアリア 第3巻 (あすかコミックスDX)
読了日:03月16日 著者:秋鹿 ユギリ

はなにあらし (5) (サンデーうぇぶりSSC)はなにあらし (5) (サンデーうぇぶりSSC)
読了日:03月14日 著者:古鉢 るか

よつばと!(11) (電撃コミックス)よつばと!(11) (電撃コミックス)
読了日:03月04日 著者:あずま きよひこ

舞妓さんちのまかないさん (2) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)舞妓さんちのまかないさん (2) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)
読了日:02月23日 著者:小山 愛子

はなにあらし (4) (サンデーうぇぶりSSC)はなにあらし (4) (サンデーうぇぶりSSC)
読了日:02月03日 著者:古鉢 るか

舞妓さんちのまかないさん (1) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)舞妓さんちのまかないさん (1) (少年サンデーコミックススペシャル)
読了日:01月19日 著者:小山 愛子

の (福音館の単行本)の (福音館の単行本)
読了日:01月09日 著者:junaida

10分で読めるお話 2年生 (よみとく10分)10分で読めるお話 2年生 (よみとく10分)
読了日:01月07日 著者:

読書メーター

A brief overview of series from which I read more than 1 volume

舞妓さんちのまかないさん 1-9
はなにあらし 4-13 (finished)
とんがり帽子のアトリエ 1-4
ゆびさきと恋々 1-3
気になってる人が男じゃなかった 1-2 (up to date)
夜の名前を呼んで 1-2
ゆるキャン△ 1-2

:sparkles: 皆さんよろしくお願いします!:sparkles:

:sparkles:

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Oh, hey! Welcome to the WK loggers!

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Welcome to the logging commeownity! trunky_rolling

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Love that summary! Definitely, life’s journeys are far better when treasured rather than measured. :slight_smile: May you have pleasurable and treasurable entropy at comfortably irregular intervals. :slight_smile:

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October 17

I’m back! After a month or so of bureaucracy from hell, then a week of travel, then a week of intense work stress, this is my first week where I’m starting to get back to normal again. My room is in an absolute state still, but I’m caught up on kanji reviews and that’s what really matters, right? :joy:

Kanji

  • turned writing reviews back on
  • started adding new kanji again
  • restarted kanji writing practice with 都道府県のおはなし

Reading

  • narrowed down my currently reading stack
    • paused 神様
  • starting to catch up on ひとりぼっちの〇〇生活
  • restarted daily 日本の歴史マンガ reading
  • continuing nightly 舞妓さんちのまかないさん reading because that’s just what I read at night to feel cozy and ready for bed

Exercise

  • restarted stationary cycling exercise
  • biked to work and back one day this week
    • nearly expired on that one last steep hill before my house, so plenty of room for improvement lol

Music

  • went to the learning session after work this week!
  • locked in new slip jig “Elizabeth Kelly’s Delight” by practicing with recording (fast!)

Buddhism

  • working my way through Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
  • not as good at daily practice this week as last week, but then, I haven’t needed it as badly this week either

Wow, now that I’m writing it down … that seems like kind of a lot! And I was considering adding Spanish reading too. Maybe I’ll hold on that and just see how this weekend and next week go.

Oh, but there’s one more exciting update! After long and careful consideration I have finally invested in a large color e-ink tablet. It’s still shipping, but I’m very excited for 1) reading Harta more frequently and more comfortably without having to find storage space for physical volumes, 2) enjoying a wider variety of book clubs without feeling pressure to make large book orders and thereby grow my physical tsundoku shelves, 3) enthusiastically taking part in speed run clubs when bookwalker offers limited time free editions! 4) Just generally having more flexibility with regards to reading material. Of course physical/paper will always have my heart, but digital has many advantages, particularly for those who are prone to collecting a very large volume of books and then running out of space. えへへ

That’s it for now, folks :heart:

:sparkles:

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Just finished week one of 図書室の怪談 on the new tablet! While I primarily want to read manga on it (which is why I got gigantor size) I also want to be able to read novels. Took a minute to get the fonts displaying correctly (ended up having to change the device language to Japanese before it would work) but now that I’ve got it up and running it’s pretty smooth!

It definitely feels different to read a novel digitally. I feel disoriented within the text, in the sense that I can’t tell how far through I am. I don’t know if other people get this but that kind of makes me feel fidgety/overwhelmed? But on the other hand, it can kind of put you in more of a flow state if you’re not aware of “where you are” at all times … Something to get used to, but for the sake of going on reading flights of fancy I think it’s gonna be totally worth it.

Also,

Forgot to say thank you for this in my last update! I appreciate it. :blush:

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Hello hello! Welcome to the world of WK study logs! It’s a pretty swell bunch over here, if I may say so myself! :blush:

Oooh what kind did you get? I read digitally on my iPad but none of the apps I’ve found so far are great for vocab lookups, etc.

I am so excited to read more about this journey!

It iiiis so cozy – I love the art style and the story is so feel-good. I had such a tough time with the dialect, though D:

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October 24

The study log entry you’ve all been waiting for :drum: … Tsundoku score update!

Last time I updated on Natively I was at 18 points, but with an undetermined and unpaid debt on account of buying new books during tariff panic. Since then I …

I think each of these books are worth one point, bringing me up to 13 points!

I just had to quote this from over on Natively. 1) That sounds like a great game and I want to learn. :blush: 2) Yes, this is what I strive for with my tsundoku game. Life is just too complex to fit into a simple set of rules!

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I got a Boox Tab C, and read with bookwalker. I don’t really do lookups on the device as I have a dictionary on my phone that I prefer to use. The screen is almost embarrasingly large :sweat_smile: which can be a little awkward for prose (I ended up enlarging the font size and then placing the screen further away so it didn’t feel as gigantic :joy:) but it’s perfect for manga! I don’t like the feeling of the art being cramped onto a tiny screen that I get with other devices, but this one is basically the size of a large-ish manga when held open, so it’s great.

Thank you! I will try to remember to share more about it. :slight_smile:

It looks from your Natively profile like you’ve only read the first volume, right? I found the dialect definitely challenging for the first 2 or 3 volumes, but after that it reduced to basically zero challenge. Eeeevery once in a while a character will say something that I’m not super confident about, but other than that it’s as easy as standard dialect! Just saying this to encourage you. :slight_smile: Once you get used to it this manga hardly ever throws any language curveballs.

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Well… let’s ping @mitrac, the author of that post :wink:

I’m reading on an e-ink tablet too :hand_with_fingers_splayed:
Hmmm… while I don’t quite feel that way while reading, it is annoying when you want to look back on something a while after you’ve moved on from that text (like… dozens of pages later).
With a printed book it’s easier to roughly approximate where something was (okay, you’ll still have some page fidgeting to do until you locate it), with digital, to me at least, it’s nearly impossible to recall the corresponding percentage or character count :thinking:
And, while yes you have the percentage count to help with a sense of progress, it’s never quite the same as it is with feeling in hand the pages shift from the unread pile to the read one :frowning:

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How did I miss your WK study log for this long?! Yay, super excited to read all of your updates over here! I’ve set your log to watching now so I won’t miss it again.

Not gonna lie, despite having so many e-readers, I’m really jealous of a color one.. I’m finally getting to the point where I don’t have to Mokuro everything to read it, but even my largest e-reader is a bit small for manga… I have a December birthday so I’m thinking about a color one for my Christmas/birthday present to myself :joy: keep us posted on how you’re liking it in the next few months.

Yeah I miss having the physical sensation of moving through the book when I read digitally. I do use the device dictionaries though, so for me the near instant lookups are worth losing that.

Kindle also calculates your time to the end of the chapter based on your reading speed, and while it’s not perfect, it’s actually a really good motivator for me compared to physical books (except when I’m reading a LN and there’s 2.5 hours left in a chapter and then it isn’t :joy:). I wonder if there’s a similar feature on yours. :thinking:

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I’m always the same, switching between whichever of time to end of chapter, total percent, time to end of book, page that makes me feel like I’m making the most progress. Shorter LNs with like 45 minute chapters are great for this, it always makes me push on a bit further to the end of a chapter when I probably wouldn’t if reading physically
Problem is now the only thing I’m reading on kindle is the 硝子塔の殺人 ebook which is both incredibly long and has incredibly long chapters… seeing 6 hours left estimated on a chapter when that’s the same length as some whole books is incredibly demotivating so I turned it to just pages

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Yeah I usually leave mine on pages until we get close enough to the end of the chapter that time to end becomes motivating. :joy:

Right now I’m reading a book that doesn’t have any chapters, and 13 hours left in the book is depressing, so I’m firmly in page counting for that book :sweat_smile:

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Imagine how it is for me with ttsu, after just starting a novel and it saying “53h left” after the first 2h :rofl:
Thankfully I see the counter only when I open the pause menu, not all the time at the bottom of the screen like with the Kindle.

But that’s not the depressing part, noooo. It’s when Amazon says the average reading time for said book is 5h :man_facepalming:

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OMG I’ve been wondering why you weren’t updating your log on Natively and somehow I totally missed this log :sob: so thanks for noticing I was missing the party and tagging me @cezarL !!!

Feel less bad now!

loads of replies to Mara

I have that book, thanks for the reminder! Renewed motivation :light_blue_heart:
I love Thich Nhat Hanh and his legacy Plum Village. If you don’t have it, the Plum Village app is very good (if a little overwhelming).

I had that at first, too, and then that feeling just kind of drifted into the background

I have been waiting :sweat_smile::innocent: love this

stamps feet, whaaat??? that would be so fun to play with you. if you’re serious let’s do this. There’s an app where you can play with friends and I have the premium version so I can invite you to my table :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: The app is also quite good, it has reasonable AI players (well, you can’t call them AI anymore, they are more like auto-bots that existed pre-AI revolution, and they are programmed to play as reasonable humans, which is really handy, actually, because a) you have to read a bit into the actions of other players and b) if you want to learn on your own you can magic up 3 robot friends to play with, or if I want to play with SO, we add 2 robots)

oh noooo, can you turn that off :sweat_smile:

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More replies later, but I can’t leave this hanging.

YES!!! OMG. YES. LET’S DO IT.

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:star_struck:

EPIC! squeak
I’ll send details this weekend!!!

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It’s not something they shove in your face, it’s hidden in a separate “about book” section that you have to want to open. But I’m a glutton for punishment I guess :rofl:

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Reminds me of this comic:

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Doppelkopf aside

Ok, I talked to SO about how in the heck do you teach this to someone online and we hatched a plan to keep it fun. We’ll teach you the rank and order of cards first, and then jump into games and do our best from there to introduce you to all the crazy rules as they come up.

So hurdle #1 is can you get this app where you are?

It might appear in German but there is English for settings once downloaded

Doppelkopf: Die beliebte Doppelkopf App für iOS und Android!

There is English for controls and settings, but not rules

I’d say, let’s pm on Natively to find time to meet, and then read the beginner section of the rules just before. It won’t be memorable until you’ve played, so no need to prep much

bare bones English rules reference

So I found the most compact and correct rules in English, plagiarised them here so I could mod them:

Doppelkopf instructions - Google Docs

They aren’t complete but it’s workable as a reference. And… it’s actually hard to pin down more than this because, house rules :innocent:

Of course there are tournament rules but it’s incredibly common with friends to first agree on rules for the evening, it seems everyone has a favourite way to play :joy:

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Thanks for all the comments everyone! I tend to check the forums on my phone during the day and leave little hearts on things, but I don’t have the patience to write longer comments on my phone, so that has to wait til I sit down with my laptop. Thanks for your patience. :slight_smile: And now, it’s reply time!

First off, I must say that I am a ridiculous human and for some reason it did not occur to me that I needed to notify my friends of where in the internet I had gone. I’m sorry @mitrac and @shitsurei! Many thanks to @cezarL for having the presence of mind to ping mitrac. :blush:

Oh, I didn’t know about the app! I have downloaded it for later perusal-- it looks like an amazing resource!

Going back to this thought, I think with harder books it might remain an impediment, but I’m definitely finding that with easier books the flow state is starting to win! Also interestingly, I thought I wouldn’t like reading manga with the tablet vertical (thus one page at a time), but actually, I found it kind of reduces the overwhelm I feel when looking at a double page spread! So I can easily get into and stay in the flow state, and so far anytime a two-page illustration happens it is easy to spot and I just quickly rotate to get the full image, and then go back to vertical.

I started reading 花野井くんと恋の病2 this way the other day and I’m already 67% through! Wow!

Wow, that sounds great! I don’t think bookwalker has that type of feature, but I suppose if I start getting really into reading prose on the e-reader that I could look into different reader apps …

I must say, the color is definitely not perfect. It can’t do vivid colors very well and the color resolution is low. Also, if you turn on the night light that messes with the colors a lot. But, all that said, I still really like having the color. (Also, I just went to check and it seems like color vs black and white doesn’t particularly change the price that you pay for the boox tablet!?)

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  1. we live in a sci fi future where the distinction between bots and AI is something meaningful and applicable to our daily lives :eyes:
  2. I want to play card games with robots. :joy: Also with mitrac and mitrac-SO!
  3. messaged you on Natively re: technicalities of playing Doppelkopf online!
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