📚📚 Read every day challenge - Fall 2022 🍁🍂

November 1 :heavy_check_mark: :open_umbrella:

体育館の殺人, start - 6%

I expected to finish this week’s portion of the Mystery Book Club in one day, but my brain felt reaaaally slow today for some reason, so about half of it it is.

I do that all the time. And when I fight against sleep in order to finish the paragraph/page/chapter, I find the next day that I remember nothing at all, and have to reread it anyway… :upside_down_face:

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:fallen_leaf: Day 32, 1st of November :maple_leaf:

:open_book: Back to my Home Post

Because I did quite a lot of grammar today I didn’t want to read something complicated, so I read another Tadoku book: チワワの(はな)すけ~(かげ)とお散歩(さんぽ) about a dog and its shadow. Where does this shadow belong to? Where did my shadow go? Important little dog questions.

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November 1st!

Today I read chapter 11 of Yoru Cafe. It took ages, and I was a bit tired so I kept falling asleep towards the end, but I got there eventually :sweat_smile:

(Home Post)

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:maple_leaf: :jack_o_lantern: :snowflake: :christmas_tree: November 1 :christmas_tree: :snowflake: :jack_o_lantern: :maple_leaf:
Home Post

夜カフェ :cake:

Read the second half of chapter 10. I definitely think I’ll just keep reading this every day until it ends, and considering I read about half a chapter a day, that means I’ll be done in four days. Atogaki will probably be read right after I finish the last chapter of the volume.

Kiro, my kitten, just decided to lay himself across my chest, staring at the computer screen. Gotta see what Mommy is doing. Also likes to put his paw on the track pad, and it works very well for him. xD

Btw someone commented today that he already looks bigger, and I guess he does. I don’t want him to grow too quick, although I will be happy to loose some of the kitten habits. :joy:

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:jack_o_lantern: :lady_beetle: Home :lady_beetle: :jack_o_lantern:

November 1

人間(にんげ)椅子(いす)
10% - 15%

Chugging along slowly :sweat_smile:

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Summary Post

Day 32: November 1st
What did I read?: きつねくんと先生
How much did I read?: 5 pages
How long did it take me?: 9 min

Hellooooo thread, I’m back, a bit late :upside_down_face: I had a lovely time on vacation and I’m generally feeling more positive/better emotions-wise, but man, am I struggling to get back into it. I’ve been so tired the past couple days, work is just wiping me out and I’m getting distracted by so many other stupid things (tl;dr, incompetent people and terrible systems are making things way harder than they need to be, so seemingly straightforward tasks are taking way more of my time and energy and mental space than they should :unamused:)

ANYWAY, I’m finding it really hard to pick up the things I let go, reading and forum-going included lol.
I finally managed to make myself read something today :upside_down_face: I figured the only way to get back into things is to make myself do at least a little bit. Won’t force myself to read a lot for now, but doing anything is a better step forward than doing nothing. So I read a tiny bit of this manga, which I think I actually started in the summer challenge, but tbh I completely forgot about it during the inter-challenge break and failed to pick it up again :joy: If you weren’t there or don’t remember, the premise is that a teacher discovers he has a little kitsune in his class and he sort of low-key adopts it xD

Today, Kitsune-kun is hiding in random places, and tbh, this looks like what I would like to be doing right now

Replies! (I had some catching up to do lol)

Welcome to the challenge! :smile: Aria is a fabulous first choice, I really enjoyed that series! If you’re going through the book club threads, I’m sure you’ll see me in there :joy:

Aww this legitimately makes me so happy to hear, thank you :face_holding_back_tears::heart: When I’m feeling a bit more energetic, I’ll be starting on the third volume of 夜の名前を呼んで, so uh…I’m sure there will be more enthusiastic screaming in the future, please look forward to it? :joy:

Then you can read it with the Yotsuba club! We resurrected ourselves for volume 15, so I’m sure we’ll be gathering back together again whenever Vol 16 finally comes out :joy:

:joy: amazing, I love it. Peak “throw some foreign words on a shirt and hope no one actually knows what they mean”

I LOVE THIS MANGA :ooooooo
Sorry for shouting but I love it and I got excited :joy: Also I’m pretty sure I did the exact same thing re: the 6 and 4. In what world is that a 4??

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Home post

Day 31:

Priority: :houses: 青桐. I loved the part about her being satisfied or not with herself as she is now. やっぱり自分が大事だった。 :disappointed_relieved: The whole section made me think a lot.

Free choice: :mag: 硝子の塔の殺人. @pocketcat I’m really enjoying this book! :blush: Just, also, this one aspect is starting to grate, lol.

Extra: :performing_arts: ヤマトナデシコ七変化 1, and finished it. :hibiscus: @pocketcat I’ve seen the drama as well! (Unless you meant the anime, which I haven’t seen.) According to my memory, it wasn’t quality and I enjoyed it a lot. :grin:

Mandarin?!: :merperson: 伯爵与妖精 1. My new system is working well. Right now I’m limiting my Mandarin vocabulary reviews to 200 a day while I catch up on a backlog due to previously mentioned redacted. So I do the first 50 with a drama on in the background (in Mandarin, seen before, and without English subtitles, so I can be hearing Mandarin while focusing on anki; currently this drama is 棋魂 aka ヒカルの碁), then read a bit of 伯爵与妖精 using Pleco, then do the next 50, Pleco, next 50, Pleco, sync any added cards from 伯爵与妖精 in anki, and then the last 50 reviews I can do more slowly to a drama in Mandarin that I haven’t seen before (currently 琅琊榜 or 开端). If my attention span wanders during the last 50, I do some Clozemaster or read about a grammar point. The main goal is to shove a whole bunch of Mandarin in my day without it sprawling out all over everything (aka Japanese time).

And my October is finished! I’d say it was a win overall despite some individual misses here and there.

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:interrobang::interrobang:
:interrobang::interrobang: :interrobang::interrobang: :wolf::mag: :rocket::mag: :rocket::mag: :rocket::mag: :rocket::mag: :scissors:
:rocket::mag: :rocket::wolf: :rocket::mag: :rocket::test_tube: :rocket::mag: :rocket::test_tube: :rocket::test_tube: :comet::boom:
:x::test_tube: :houses::test_tube: :houses::test_tube: :houses::mag: :houses::mag: :x::mag: :houses::mag: :test_tube:
:houses::mag: :houses::mag: :houses::mag: :x::mag: :x::mag: :x::mag: :houses::mag: :notebook:
:houses::mag: :houses::mag: :performing_arts:

Since I already finished my stretch goal for the week, I’ll make my next focus manga volume :shallow_pan_of_food: ダンジョン飯 4 again.

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That’s the one! Quality trash :joy:

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Read some of volume 6 of Chainsaw Man, plan to finish that today. Haven’t been back on Persona 5 in a bit. But the first couple times I started I took things pretty slow so its not super abnormal that I would step away. I want to get back at it soon though.

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01 November 2022

:house: Home Post


  • NHK Easy Articles
  • Textbook Work

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November 1 :maple_leaf: Home Post

Back to ブルーロック!! :tada: I’m about halfway through volume 9 now and there’s so much fun stuff happening, I love interactions between absolutely ridiculous characters lmao. But also 蜂楽 :pleading_face:

(It’s also occurred to me that as much as I love チェズレイ, I should change my icon to reflect my current era :eyes: I need to find a good 馬狼 shot, he’s my favorite :joy:)

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Nov
01 :x: 02 :white_check_mark: 3 :x: 04 :x: 05 :x: 06
07 08 09 10 11 12 13
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starting Nov 2, 2022
Goal: To read between 15-30 mins a day or read a chapter a day.

Nov 5: Missed a few days already :sweat_smile: but I’ll be making those up this weekend by reading 3 chapters
Nov 6: 4 chapters to make up

Currently reading:

ふしぎ古書店 シリーズ

  1. 福の神はじめました 16%
  2. おかしな友だち募集中 0%
  3. さらわれた天使 0%
  4. 学校の六不思議 0%
  5. 青い鳥が逃げだした 0%
  6. 小さな恋のひびき 0%
  7. 福の神の弟子卒業します0%
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I read 20ish page of 死仮面 - I have mental energy to read more but

  1. I need to go to bed
  2. Reading about someone maybe about to get strangled in their bedroom right before bed seems unwise

I also read some articles online a friend sent me. Doesn’t count towards my reading goals, but I collected more words from those than I do from most books (in comparable word counts). Very different styles of writing, non-fiction and fiction. Maybe 2023 will be the year of nonfiction for me, I kind of fell off that wagon this year.

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

October 31st・November 1st:
:red_square: 魔女の宅急便 (13% → 14%)

Ultimately, I didn’t join in on all the 人間椅子 fun. Yesterday turned out to be kind of a difficult day for me, but today went a little better. While I did Satori Reader yesterday, today I added in a couple of pages of Kiki to go with it. She’s about to take off on her journey.

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Day 1

I decided to read a bit before going to bed. I wanted to challenge myself to read a chapter but I didn't realize how long it would take me lol. I spent about an hour reading 12 pages. I don't know if it's because it's a children's book series but there's so much onomatopeia that my head is spinning. Some I get the gist of but others not so much and Kindle's dictionary isn't the best so I'll probably look for a dedicated onomatopeia dictionary soon.

In terms of the chapter’s contents, I won’t write spoilers but I think the interactions between characters is very wholesome. Hibiki’s and Akane’s relationship especially.

Time Spent Reading Total – 00:54:47

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November 2nd
:maple_leaf:Home post:maple_leaf:

Aria: the masterpiece volume 1 – progress report
Yesterday: read pages 5 through 9
Today: read up to page 21

Today, I felt better and thus the reading went a bit more smoothly. Also, the more complicated worldbuilding part slowely but surely transitioned into more daily life like situations – well, sci-fi daily life that is – and the sentences became more mangeable despite me having to look up plenty of words.

Some words of note

到着 arrival
景色 scenery
ペロペロ licking
突然 sudden, unexpected
滑稽 funny, laughable, ridiculous,
(–ても)…始まらない it’s no use … somewhere in the distance, Silver the hedgehog just started sneezing

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Thank you, @windupbird ! :slightly_smiling_face:
I’m glad to be a participant in this challenge because I don’t think I could otherwise bring myself to consistently read (almost) every day. The main reason being that me not being quite accustomed to reading in Japanese makes it rather difficult in the beginning stage and more likely for me to take a long break from it. That’s why I’m counting on the challenge to give me a push in staying consistent up until the end of this year.

YES, please! Feel free to keep the enthusiasm and gushing going, I’ll be listening. :smile:
I’m always glad to see other people be unabashedly enthusiastic about something – be it work, hobbies or media (well, as long as it’s not a malicious kind of enthusiasm about other innocent people’s hardships and such).

Frankly, I also kind of bask in the enthusiasm of others because I can’t really feel it properly myself anymore. Ah well, maybe one day I’ll rediscover my childlike enthusiasm. :smiling_face_with_tear:

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Utterly exhausted after work today. Didn’t think I’d manage to read but then got more into orange so finished the week’s reading.

Finding Spy Family a bit tricky this week - lots of dialogue.

2/11 26 pages Orange (to end letter), 1 page Spy Family

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:house:
Nov 1 & 2

人間椅子 0% → 20%

Snail-pace progress on this!

Slow buddies :muscle:

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Main Post

On November the 2nd I:

  • Read today’s NHK Easy News.
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