📚📚 Read every day challenge - Fall 2022 🍁🍂

October 23

:video_game: ⠀ ルーパーズ ⠀rest of chapter 5 + chapter 6


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Happy Birthday! :cake:

… I wish I could convince my brain of that :joy:

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October 21

ニャンキーズ
107 - 133

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October 22

:clown_face: I was out of the house from 6:30 until maybe 11:30 and forgot to read :frowning:

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October 23

ニャンキーズ 134 - 178 (end)

I should probably double check if I got the end number right

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23 October 2022

:house: Home Post


  • Chainsaw Man (Chapter 41)

Super long chapter! In the interest of improving my listening, I’m trying out a strategy where I first read through the transcript of the podcast, and then listen without looking at it. Ideally, this will help my brain connect the sounds to the kanji that I can recognize due to WK by seeing them before and having an idea of what’s coming.

Has anyone tried something like this before, and does it seem like it works?

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October 23 :maple_leaf: Home Post

Read some more ブルーロック today! I meant to read more but then sleepy mode hit haha. I’ve still been way more consistent than I have been for most of the semester so feels good to get back to it :muscle:

Happy birthday!!! :tada::tada::tada:

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Managed quite a bit with the travelling - had it edit it slightly as at some point realised it was morning but I forgot to change day. Only slept 3 hours on the plane then a cat nap when I got home, so I’m struggling now and just slowly reading bits and pieces.

23/10 16 pages 耳をすませば (to end of this week), 10 pages Spy Family (same), 17 pages シャドーハウス, 夜カフェ4 pages to end chapter 8, plus 8 pages of chapter 9; 12 pages orange.

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:books: :maple_leaf: softlyraining’s spooky book stack :jack_o_lantern: :open_book:

October 23rd:
:orange_square: 名探偵コナン (35% → 53%)

Made it through two chapters of Conan before bed! I have a little over a week to finish the volume before I lose access to it, so I want to focus my attention on it and then return to Kiki’s world.

Conan and company are trying to solve a kidnapping case. He’s still very used to being front and center during investigations, but Ran’s father will have absolutely none of that (meaning none of Conan’s incredibly valid questions get answered). Still, he discovered a workaround to get Ran’s dad’s attention to where it needs to be in order to solve the case. Conan does end up losing patience and peaces out on a guard dog to try and find where the kidnapper and victim are hiding. He successfully finds them, but with just his now 10-year-old self to take the perpetrator on, can he really save the young girl, or will they both be killed?! :fearful:

(I mean, there’s another hundred volumes after this, so…)

I’m still having a good time reading this. The characters are charming, and the way Aoyama-sensei draws them sometimes is very cute. :blush:

Hope you had a wonderful birthday! :partying_face:

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Day 22:

Priority: :houses: 青桐.

Free choice: :mag: 硝子の塔の殺人. Finally finished day one!

Extra: :shallow_pan_of_food: ダンジョン飯 4.

Snatches of: :magic_wand: ハリー・ポッターと不死鳥の騎士団.

O C T w e e k 4
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:x::test_tube: :houses::test_tube: :houses::test_tube: :houses::mag: :houses::mag: :x::mag: :houses::mag: :test_tube:

Stretch goal not met this time. For this week, a new one: finish :notebook: デスノート 1.

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October 23 :heavy_check_mark: :eyeglasses:

准教授・高槻彰良の推察. 64 pages

Yesterday I felt I needed a break from the mountains, so I had a look through some manga I had gotten for free when they were on offer on Bookwalker. 准教授・高槻彰良の推察 captured my attention from the very first pages - the main character, still a young boy, wakes up to the sounds of taiko drums, and sneaks out of the house to join a mysterious festival. Only, apparently he should never have been there, and there is a price to be paid. Years later, that boy is now a student who can perceive lies as a warped voice, and is suffering from it. He attends the lecture of a professor of the folklore who is very enthusiastic about urban legends and folklore stories. All things seem to point to them teaming up to investigate the occult. Quite interesting so far. Looking it up on Bookwalker, it seems it’s listed as 女性向け, but I don’t see why. But I never understood this categorizing by gender anyway, so…

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:fallen_leaf: Day 15 - 23, 15th to 23rd of October :maple_leaf:

:open_book: Back to my Home Post

First I git sick, and then I went on vacation with no internet access. Still managed to do some textbook work, which I declare as counting for this challenge.

I’m excited to get back to more interesting stories! I want to get to the Tile Chronicles soon, so I think I’ll up my speed. Maybe I’ll get there before next month? We’ll see.

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:jack_o_lantern: October 24th :jack_o_lantern: (Home Post Link)

Got to do something today that I’d been feeling like I could do for a bit, but just needed a good chance to try. Read a whole volume of manga from start to finish in one sitting! Read all of よつばと!volume 11, so chapters 70-76. Took a little under 2 hours, counting taking some short breaks to find some music, grab a drink, and to copy over my word list so I had more room for more jisho tabs. I think chapter 74, where よつば gets her own little camera and goes running around taking pictures, is one of my favorite chapters in the whole series.

That’s probably objectively more than enough reading for today, but I still feel really good and might do some more textbook work later.

Good Words

ご迷惑「ごめいわく」ー trouble, bother (i feel like i’ve seen at least 10 different ways to say this)
チラシ ー leaflet
天丼「てんどん」ー tempura donburi
会計「かいけい」ー bill (restaurant)
吐く「はく」ー to throw up
寝袋「ねぶくろ」ー sleeping bag
泊「はく」ー counter for nights of a stay
ラッパ ー trumpet
順番「じゅんばん」ー turn (in line)
イガイガ ー burr (on a chestnut)
凹む「へこむ」ー to be disheartened, to feel down (neat kanji)
壊す「こわす」ー to break, to destroy
勝手に「かってに」ー without asking
贅沢「ぜいたく」ー luxury
臭い「くさい」ー stinky
水防「すいぼう」ー flood prevention (here something like waterproofing?)
乾く「かわく」ー to get dry
お見舞い「おみまい」ー visiting someone who is ill
くっつき虫 ー burr

Mood

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:maple_leaf: :jack_o_lantern: :snowflake: :christmas_tree: October 24 :christmas_tree: :snowflake: :jack_o_lantern: :maple_leaf:
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耳をすませば :black_cat:

Posting super early today. I’m about to go make me some lunch. But because a certain kitten decided to sleep on me for a couple of hours (or however long it was), I didn’t have much choice in what I was gonna do, so I read early today. Read this week’s portion of 耳をすませば that ended on a cliffhanger, so I went on and read next week’s part, because that was also the end of the story.

Woohoo! Another thing finished this challenge. Well, mostly finished, in my edition there is an extra short story for 耳をすませば, not entirely sure if it is a short story sequel or what, but I’ll read it soon. Maybe even tomorrow.

I’m so less excited about reading 夜カフェ these days. I’m not entirely sure why. In fact, I’m technically a chapter behind. But maybe I’ll remedy that after I finish off the whole volume for 耳をすませば (short story, essay, interview and atogaki left). I’ll see what I feel like reading tomorrow, but I wouldn’t be surprised if 夜カフェ got to wait a little longer.

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October 24 :heavy_check_mark: :eyeglasses:

准教授・高槻彰良の推察. page 65 - end

Now why would the volume end on a cliffhanger? Not fair at all! I’m considering getting the next volume, because I did enjoy it a lot, and it’s sort of exactly what I’m looking for right now, creepy, (supposedly?) supernatural phenomena that are handled in a lighthearted and ultimately rational way. And the two main characters are very interesting. The student has this dark mysterious moment in his past, but the professor, enthusiastic in a puppy-like way most of the time, has hidden depths too, and possibly an equally mysterious (even traumatic?) past experience.

Apparently the same exact story comes out in novel form too, and it’s not clear to me whether the manga is an adaptation of the novel or the other way round.

And now I present the weird word of the day:

丑の刻参り (うしのこくまいり)- cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2am and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person’s death :scream:

丑の刻 is the hour of the Ox (around 2am, 1-3am, or 2-4am)​, which is an entirely different kanji from ox/cow 牛, presumably because it’s the Chinese Zodiac Ox rather than the animal.

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:tiger2: :books: The Tanuki Autumn Onsen :hotsprings: :raccoon:

20221024 - 吾輩は狸である progress: 61.14% :tiger2:

After about a five layered tangent upon a tangent, Wagahai-cat has finally gotten to the point of what he was saying …I think

So now he is dreaming of being a tiger.

:fallen_leaf: Japanese found under the leaves :fallen_leaf:

Meowords

「がん」ー Wild goose
四つ目垣「よつめがき」ー Square-patterned bamboo fence


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Yeah, the paragraph after was full of 逆上 , pretty sure I won’t be forgetting that one anytime soon now :laughing:

:astonished: !!

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Happy belated birthday! :birthday: I forgot yesterday because I was writing one handed with a kitten in the way, but for earlier today I have no excuse.

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While I quite enjoyed some of the slower stuff I would agree with you that the pacing of the second half of this book is pretty weird. I will say that the plot really picks up again, I think from about chapter 41/42? So a little bit further for you to get through but there is more plot happenings on the horizon!

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Up to now I also rather enjoyed the slow stuff as well, but maybe right now it’s not only slow but also … repetitive, maybe? :woman_shrugging:

Thanks for the heads up! I already finished chapter 37 today, and I’m hoping I can do 1 chapter per day or somesuch? That will not be sufficient to catch up on time, but we’ll see how it goes.

Yee, we have quite the bunch of loose ends to tie up! :grin:

Thanks, and see you on the other side :+1:

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Another quick update, I’'m over halfway through the girl who leapt through time. It seems to be accelerating now. I had noticed on the backflap it does state this edition suitable for upper elementary students, probably part of why it has been going relatively smoothly.

I think on the current pace I would be able to finish it this week then.

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:fallen_leaf: Day 24, 24th of October :maple_leaf:

:open_book: Back to my Home Post

Read this story from DrDru’s site about things that move and driving to another country. I also definitely underestimated the number of stories still left. Maybe a more realistic goal is to finish them all till the end of this challenge :laughing:

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On October the 24th I:

  • Read today’s NHK Easy News.
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