I remembered to make a home thread this time around, haha. I might not make very many updates this time around, but I’ll try to do better at keeping track of daily reads.
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I’ve got some books to finish for some book clubs. And if I’m really feeling up to it, then there’s a few books I want to start reading as well. (I mean, I do feel up to it. The problem is having the time to do it.)
I had a busy September, so hopefully this will help me get back on the reading wagon. I’m trying to use Natively properly so that I can read at my level, so I’ll probably be trying to do 30 pages a day or so in Japanese during the challenge. I’ll also (as usual) try and track my reading in Mandarin (probably not French or Spanish though, which I’ll keep more casual).
@fallynleaf I’m currently reading a Julia Alvarez book too! En el tiempo de las mariposas.
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Challenge Reads
Japanese
西の魔女が死んだ (started on 27 of 161, finished on October 7th)
麗子の風儀 (started on page 133, DNFed on page 177 of 280 on October 12th)
かがみの孤城 (DNFed on page 89 of 567)
かくりよの宿飯 二 あやかしお宿で食事処はじめます (282 pages; finished on November 15th)
ごくせん vols. 1-3 (read November 13th-14th, 2022)
ティアムーン帝国物語 5 (read November 15th-30th, 2022; 353 pages)
指輪の選んだ婚約者２(on page 71 of 156)
Mandarin
Wizard and Cat graded reader (started on episode 10, read through episode 44 of 72 and moved on)
You know what, I’m feeling like trying this out. Not sure I can manage every single day, but I been trying to read whenever I can anyway, so this will be nice.
Will hopefully make some progress and finish most of these, but I’m not gonna pressure myself about how much I’m gonna read, as long as I just read even a few pages a day that will be great. Especially since most of my manga is not the easiest. haha
Had to readjust the calendar to start on a Sunday, glad I figured that out now i just need to remember to update this, too.
meagstudies’ autumn summary post
previous: summer 2022
I stopped reading as much halfway through the summer challenge but as September’s come to an end I’ve begun reading more again!
My goal is to finish four books during this challenge: two in October and two in November. My average is two books/month anyway so I’m confident I can do this!
Just like last time, I don’t have any specific goals aside from reading in Japanese for at least a little bit for every day of the next three months. I might do a bit of listening practice, which I’ll also keep track of here.
I would like to finish at least one novel this challenge though since I didn’t over the summer one. I have three started right now (2.43 清陰高校男子バレー部 代表決定戦編①・空への助走 福蜂工業高校運動部・明日をくれた君に、光のラブレターを), plus I should be getting vol 2-4 of 夜カフェ early October.
nice! A new challenge! This way I can forget that I totally failed at updating for the last one
I have got pretty into using the Bookly app for tracking my reading recently, cos it gives me lots of automatic fun stats. So I won’t do a calendar but I might stop by at least once a week and share how I’ve got on. My main focus right now (other than reading things that are fun) has been upping my reading speed. But it’s hard to see progress cos I love to read things at wildly different difficulty levels Still, I will be making some efforts at fitting in more comfortable difficulty extensive reading style things.
Normally these challenges were just somewhere to hang out while I read every day regardless, but at the moment I’ve fallen off a bit and probably need some actual goal to stick to so I’m going to join as proper accountability, like a real challenge now. Just have to drag myself away from Splatoon 3 and horror movies long enough to do it
Given the way progress has halted, I haven’t moved beyond what I was reading very much. I’m further but still in the midst of the first Flowers VN, and still going through Loopers with my club. I’m also 30% through 殺人出産, so I’ll be pulling from all of that. Think I’m just going to go for daily posts and not bother with the home post stuff. Too lazy right now
Real progress and thoughts, as a sum of listening, reading, and other skills, would be in my personal Q4 home post .
Nonetheless, daily calendar will be made here to link to my reading progress (max 1 per day).
I will try to progress at least every week, but the real goal posting here is to continue reading others’ progress, variety knowledge, and tips. I fear that I may skip reading too many (of others’ post) if I don’t visit and there are already too many replies (and I am not so good enough myself). May I try to read lots and better or not, is to be decided later (not a current priority).
= read today = listened today = read and listened today = missed day
Approach for this challenge
I’m going to try to do the Listen Every Day Challenge again as well, so my aim will be to do something every day, with a roughly even mix of reading days and listening days. I will be honest, I might be on the struggle bus this entire challenge because work is so busy. I’ll also be going away for a couple weeks throughout the challenge period and I don’t plan to keep up with Japanese during that time. As for materials - no plans, I will be going with the flow for this one
Edit: Although I stopped this challenge after October, I would say that this was a valuable experience for me. Thank you for allowing me to join this reading challenge!
Yay, the reading challenge is here yet again! Always love participating and seeing what everyone’s got their eyeballs in.
Per the title, I want to try having a reading theme for October (probably not for November, but you never know). The theme, naturally, is “Halloween.” Basically, I want to focus on reading things that are ハロウィンっぽい. They don’t have to be dark, per se––just things that have a spooky vibe or elements that evoke Halloween, like witches. The two things I’m currently thinking of are とつくにの少女１ and 魔女の宅急便. However, I’m certainly open to suggestions! I don’t know how far I’ll get when it comes to finishing these for October, so it’s entirely possible the theme will end up continuing into November.
I’m trying to use Natively properly so that I can read at my level, so I’ll probably be trying to do 30 pages a day or so in Japanese during the challenge. I’ll also (as usual) try and track my reading in Mandarin (probably not French or Spanish though, which I’ll keep more casual).
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but as September’s come to an end I’ve begun reading more again!
It’s always fun to check email and find that the new challenge is up (since I’m being @'ed in the first post).
Bookmeter
Challenge Progress and Links to Daily Posts 
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34% ~ 66%
67% ~ 99%