📚📚 Read every day challenge - Fall 2023 🧣🍂🍁

[snowwater]

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11月26日 (日)
あなたも殺人犯になれる! chapter 10
JLPT N3 Grammar mock test

11月27日 (月)
あなたも殺人犯になれる! chapter 11
本好き (7 pages)

11月28日 (火)
本好き (12 pages)

11月29日 (水)
本好き (14 pages)

11月30日 (木)
本好き (13 pages)

I finished my other book clubs quite earlier, so this has been quite a 本好き heavy week. I did finish 2 chapters though, which I am happy about! I’m around 70% through the book now. Not sure if I’ll be able to finish this year still, but I’d be happy just finishing it eventually, to be honest.
…And I’m done for the challenge. I won’t be joining for December, because I will need a break after the JLPT. I probably won’t be reading daily, because it just starts feeling as a chore at a certain point, and I miss the spontaneity (and actual desire) to read. I’ll be continuing with my current book clubs this month, and have a few more that will start soon by the beginning of next year.

[Akashelia]

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11月30日

	Title	How much read today	Currently at	Notes
	ISLAND	5k	170.000 char	69 new words
	恋人	2 episodes	29/52	—
	舞妓さんちのまかないさん	7 chapters	32/261	—

Super excited to be reading more of ISLAND!

[Redglare]

Home post // Nov 30

・サイレント・ウイッチ 沈黙の魔女の隠しごと (52% → 61%)

Exam went okay! よかった～ (Now just three more exams left)
Accidentally read a bit much before falling asleep last night Things got very interesting.

Looks like today is the last day of official Autumn Challenge. I got no other plans, so I’ll continue reading and posting as usual. Doesn’t feel like autumn anymore, it’s very wintery over here under the full moon

[DIO-Berry]

November 30

	Book	Pages
	季節を愉しむ366日 | L30??	December and December 1
	trash	108 - 143 (end)
	アステリズムに花束を 百合SFアンソロジー | L30??	13 - 15

Seasons was explained the meaning of December’s traditional name, but I had trouble understanding it and I don’t remember it this morning lol. 12/1 was a very physcial description of アマダイ, which I guess are known for being tasty?

I finished volume 1 of trash , which got worse lol. I’m going to try to knock out vol 2 after the JPLT I think.

I also read some of Asterism although I made less progress than I hoped. I might see if I can catch up with the book club tonight. Before Saturday we’re supposed to read through p40 physical iirc

Oh yeah, although yesterday was the official last day of the challenge, I’ll be continuing as usual I’m excited to keep my reading streak up!

[saidahgilbert]

2023-12-01T01:12:00Z

Today’s the end of the challenge and I managed to keep up the momentum from September and read every day for the last two months. Yay!

I read two volumes of manga in this challenge- 神のみぞ知るセカイ 2 and カードキャプターさくら ２ and I just started 実は私は ４. I remember that カードキャプターさくら was hard for me last year. All the crazy fonts and handwritten dialogue made it difficult for me, so much so that I switched to a different shojo manga after only 1 volume. Now though, I practically breezed through volume 2 in less than a month. True, there was less crazy font and handwritten dialogue in this volume but it was also somewhat easier to read especially since I’d just gone through two volumes of 桜蘭高校ホスト部。

I will continue to read for the rest of the year. Since I’ve managed to hit my stride, I will try to keep the streak up but considering that Christmas is coming, I may have to take a few days off because of church. In any case, keeping up the streak for the official challenge is an accomplishment and this was my 2nd anniversary challenge too! So yay!

[Jintor]

wheres the next challenge site lol

im just going to post my day’s read because eff it why not, i finished a book so it feels right

dec 1

• finished 女ともだちと結婚してみた。 1 | L24. Still not entirely sure how I feel about it, I guess it’s in the upper ‘it’s okay’ pile.

will post a visual summary in a tick

[javerend]

１１月２８－３０日 (Home Post Link)

Officially done with this job! I worked a super long shift on my last day so I could say goodbye to all the night people after shift change, and then chatted with my bosses for a bit before leaving. They know that I know nothing was their fault, the service industry is really just tightening down the screws on everyone and making an already hard job harder than it needs to be. No hard feelings or anything. But I didn’t do much reading that night, or the next day because I was exhausted

And we’re done with the challenge now too! Congrats everyone!

Read:

• ポケモンオメガルビー 3:10 → 3:40 (0:30) - 2 badges already
• イジらないで、長瀞さん ch 140 - these chapters are so far between now
• とらドラ！pg 177 → 183 (6 pages) - passed 2/3rds!

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Monthly/Challenge Summary:

Despite my lower page counts and lower finished volume count (I didn’t count any of my random internet 同人 as “volumes” for my natively+1 challenge, so they don’t count as volumes on this), I still managed to sneak in some reading every single day! (streak is up to 436 days!) Dealing with a mold problem right at the beginning of the challenge, and then dealing with covid for a few weeks at the end of the challenge really didn’t help, and neither did my attempts to really push my upper limit during this challenge. とらドラ！, 朝日新聞, and the aozora shorts I was reading are all definitely on the hard and very focus intensive end of what I can read, and even the relatively short readings I was doing of those could take me quite a bit of time! I wish I’d thought to time myself reading more at the start, but currently at almost 2/3rds of the way through this book I’m still only reading about 8-9 pages an hour. Meaning at minimum I’ve spent about 30 hours working on this book accounting for this being a faster pace than I probably started at

goals checklist

Finish the 新完全マスター N2 Reading book before December - I read none of this lol
Keep up reading 朝日新聞 articles - read some here and there, but I was definitely not reading them every day anymore
Keep reading the Dictionary of Intermediate Grammar - again, some entries here and there, but not the consistency I was aiming for
No missed days for extensive reading! - It will be a cold day in hell when I break this reading streak
Finish my first adult level novel - made some real good progress, but missed the finish line. If I’d picked a shorter or easier novel, I would be done! But I decided to push myself a bit more and so missed this goal.

Overall for numbers and personal goals, probably my worst challenge so far! But I did read every day so I’ll call it a success

@Jintor

wheres the next challenge site lol

The winter challenge thread will probably be put up sometime in late December (and the challenge itself will start jan 1st), but lots of people, including myself, continue to use these threads in the off months as well! I’ll still be posting my silly little updates here until then and you’re more than welcome to too

@Redglare

Exam went okay! よかった～ (Now just three more exams left)

good luck on the rest of your exams! Looks like a lovely wintery bit of snow you have there too

[Jintor]

Jintor's November visual summary

November visual summary

1 Reader / 17 manga

Phew! Don’t think I’ll hit that reading volume again for a while.

[windupbird]

Summary post

Day 57: Nov 26th
What did I read?: マグメル深海水族館 Vol 5
How much did I read?: 29 pages

Day 58: Nov 27th
What did I read?: マグメル深海水族館 Vol 5
How much did I read?: 7 pages

Day 59-60: Nov 28th-29th
Nothing

Day 61: Nov 30th
What did I read?: マグメル深海水族館 Vol 5
How much did I read?: 38 pages

SO APPARENTLY KOUTAROU’S DAD IS NOT DEAD OR STRANDED ON A DESERT ISLAND SO THAT’S GOOD I GUESS but also it’s the 21st century sir, call your family
Although this chapter seems to pretty solidly confirm the above, I still have conspiracy theories like what if the grandma is just writing the letters so that Koutarou and his mom won’t be sad, how heartbreaking would that be (my brain just likes to make everything sad, I think, I don’t think this manga would do that to me)

Anyway, I finished off the challenge by finishing off this volume This challenge truly flew by, congrats to everyone who made it this far! In an unexpected turn of events, I read マグメル深海水族館 and pretty much nothing else But I have enjoyed these volumes and will definitely continue the series at some point. That point…will not be now, though, because I actually have an announcement to make. Oh god, that sounds so serious, why does it sound serious, gomen

Those of you who have been around for a while have almost certainly heard me complaining about work and how everything is terrible because people keep on leaving. Well…the streak continues and I’m mentally preparing myself to hate my life from January through mid-February at least (hopefully not longer than that but um, I’m finding that you kind of never know there’s a high chance that that period will be extended). Anyway, my point in saying this is that I’m trying to preemptively offload everything that is not absolutely necessary to do during that time period so as to give myself decompression space and protect my own mental health as much as possible. I’m hoping I can somehow avoid losing half a year to being burnt out again, good luck to me there.

After some careful consideration, I have decided that I will not be participating in the next Read Every Day Challenge (which would take place in January-February). I just don’t see any scenario where I’ll have the mental bandwidth to do that, and it’ll only make me feel worse to say I’ll try only to inevitably fail. If people would like me to, I can put up a new thread at the beginning of January and let y’all take it from there, but I feel like it would be better if someone else who can be more involved with the challenge could take up hosting it. It’s really been a pleasure and a privilege to be your reading challenge host these past 2 years, but it feels like it may be time to pass the torch. If anyone’s interested in taking over, let me know - it’s really not too difficult (you can copy pretty much everything from previous threads, if formatting worries you ), and it’s really a lovely group to be around

God, the way getting ready for January-February feels like preparing to go into my actual grave I mean yes, technically, I will be alive after that, but in what state

[DIO-Berry]

I’m sorry that things have been difficult for you. I hope this time passes quickly and you don’t feel burnt out afterwards.

I could take over posting the next thread if you’d like? I’ve been around a while at this point and should continue to be around.

[enbyboiwonder]

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・１１月２９日〜３０日・

Progress:
・アオのハコ④ ch 29 ⇒ ch 30

Finished:
・ダイヤのＡ㉛
・青春サプリ。——自分がここにいる理由
・ダイヤのＡ㉜

There’s also Spotify Wrapped, since I have my app language set to Japanese.

Spotifyまとめ

Top 5 Songs:

1. Gunpowder Ballad - Douglas Billingham (CV. 三上 哲) [Double Decker character song]
2. The Warrior - Novelbright [リーマンズクラブ theme song]
3. 道 - 向井太一 [風が強く吹いている theme song]
4. 明日、春が来たら - anderlust [バッテリー theme song]
5. ワンカットエピローグ - Douglas Billingham (CV. 三上 哲) and Kirill Vrubel (CV. 天﨑洸平) [Double Decker character song]

…All from anime this time lmao

Kajiwara Gakuto almost certainly would have made it into the top 5 had I not only started listening to his stuff this month, and/or spent most of my time on Spotify recently going through my “to listen” playlist that serves as my queue. I’ve listened to ジャスミン a bunch, but clearly not enough. As it is, the majority of the songs in my 2023 Top 100 are ones on my “songs i’m obsessed w rn” playlist plus some outliers (like Gunpowder Ballad and the rest of that album, or Fallout Boy’s Love From the Other Side) that I immediately fell in love with and listened to 5 million times on repeat right after discovering them earlier in the year. (Okay, more like 1,500 times, but you get the idea.)

Actually, I hadn’t even realized I’d listened to The Warrior that much, but it certainly is an easy one to leave on repeat. I’m listening to it right now, in fact lol

Also, I totally missed it since I haven’t been on my laptop (bookmeter app doesn’t have the calendar afaik and Natively only tracks total days), but the 26th was my 365th consecutive day reading in Japanese!! I don’t remember what my longest streak was before that since I’ve long since passed it, but yeah, I’m over a full year now. It’s nice. Let’s hope I don’t break it before reaching 2!

I kinda feel proud of myself for guessing correctly that 大麦 is “barley.”

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１１月のまとめ

I managed to read at least one volume of manga every day this month in my quest to cut down on my 積読 pile, finishing 34 of them (although 2 were rereads). I also finished 3 novels, which was a bit surprising, although one of them I’d been nearly finished with and another I’d already read 20% of going into November, so maybe not so much actually.

I think next month I’m not going to aim for a manga volume a day again after all, or I’m gonna burn myself out before January, when I wanna try to read the entirety of 黒バス (maybe or maybe not including the two volumes of EXTRA GAME). If I finish one, I finish one, if not, no big deal, just like up ‘til this month.

[Jojo_Sunshine]

Didn’t do my best on this challenge but it was still fun to join (even if late)! I managed to read a couple of days from November thanks for hosting @windupbird
From the last posts I’ve understood that the next challenge would start in January - nothing in December? Is that correct?
Thank you <3

[Cathm2]

26/11 9 pages 本好きの下剋上, 7 pages Spy Family

27/11 2 pages ホリミヤ

28/11 3 pages ホリミヤ

29/11 6 pages ホリミヤ (finished week 14), 22 pages Spy Family

30/11 7 pages Spy Family (finished mission 62)

Hasn’t been the best reading week (2 pages of ホリミヤ is kind of a token effort!) but I did read every day, which means I’ve read daily for the last 2 months. I think that’s the first time I’ve done that with no gaps.

Best days were Sunday when I had a flight, then ironically Wednesday when I was very late at work, but I had time to read on my way home (flying doctors flight, read on flight back).

[Akashelia]

@Jojo_Sunshine

From the last posts I’ve understood that the next challenge would start in January - nothing in December? Is that correct?
Thank you <3

Yes the challenge is officially over and the next one will start only in January, but we are many who still read everyday and post everyday, so you are welcome to keep going too

[soggyboy]

back to my home post

	11月30日	Read:	Progress:
	ハリーポッターと賢者の石	1 page	3%

I’ll post a summary of my reading tomorrow probably, but here’s my update from yesterday, the last day of the challenge! ダンブルドア and マクゴナガル先生 are finally here.

[polv]

Dec 1, Fri of Week 10 of Fall Q4 2023

• NARUTO Vol.8 Ch.70-71

• STEINS;GATE (VN) Ch.1 (1 hour)

Words of the day

• つかつか. = (on-mim) walking briskly
• ついつい. = (on-mim) without thinking
• ためつすがめつ. = looking carefully. The Kanji form is 矯ためつ眇すがめつ.
• 一矢いっしを報むくいる = to return a blow. Shoot only to be shot back.
• 肩かたを怒いからせる = to square (puff up) one’s shoulders. Uses the reading of 怒いかり (not 怒おこる).
• 真まに受うける = to take seriously
• 頭かぶりを振ふる = to shake one’s head in denial. no-no.
• 釣つり合あう = to be in balance; to go well together
• 取とり合あう = a meaning is to scramble for, that is 拮抗きっこう.
• 取とっ掛かかり = clue. Also 取とり掛かかり.
• むっつりすけべ. = lecher with quiet exterior. First part is むっつり (= taciturn). Second part is , but never known that someone writes 助平すけべ.
• メンテ. = maintenance
• 顎関節症がくかんせつしょう = TMJ (joint) disorder (arthrosis)
• 史上初しじょうはつ = the first in history. The last Kanji’s reading is confirmed in 人類史上初じんるいしじょうはつ. (Though maybe some grammar?)
• 寸胴ずんどう = cylinder; having no waist

Flowers

• コスモス. = Cosmos (plant) - Wikipedia
• 鳥兜とりかぶと = トリカブト - Wikipedia
• 藤袴ふじばかま = フジバカマ - Wikipedia

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[Zakarius]

@windupbird

It’s really been a pleasure and a privilege to be your reading challenge host these past 2 year

Thanks for being a super reading host for all these threads over that time (and for introducing us to so many cute things along the way)

Hope that work isn’t too hard on you and that you manage to get enough time to relax and wind down afterwards!

Congrats to everyone who’s participated and reached the end of the challenge
Big 頑張ってs for all those continuing

[AimForKoshien]

Now I feel somewhat obligated to create a December-only post here and use it anyway

[mitrac]

Nov 30
I couldn’t sleep, so I was up at 3am reading.

• Reading Road article (about mottainai)
• 5 more pages from レントゲン’s biography and then finished it in the evening. That felt like two days because the evening was sooo far apart from my 3am reading stint.

This is the 4th biography I’ve read in that book and the first one I read in a reasonable length of time (1 week or so). The first three biographies were about people I already knew a fair amount about: Edison, Marie Curie, Beethoven. It was cool to learn new things about Röntgen and x-ray discovery. And the next biography is about Seton, a naturalist whom I know just about nothing about. So I am looking forward to having reached the less familiar biographies (although Leonardo da Vinci will be a notable exception). I had thought about continuing the series, but I have my eye on this instead:

https://www.9640.jp/nihongo/en/detail/?798

Based on Reading Road, from the same publisher - I like how this publisher removes furigana according to JLPT level and puts any furigana for more difficult kanji under the text instead of over (so you can read with a bookmark under each line). Also, they gloss words you probably don’t know, so the experience (at least for Reading Road) is a bit like Satori on paper, which I really like. I don’t need to reach for a dictionary, it’s interesting, and I get some level-appropriate kanji reading practice in.

[hiukan]

Well I guess I „failed“ the challenge in the sense that I didn‘t get to read every day of those 2 months and had some blunders even from where I started and for example missed the last two days due to being on holidays - nonetheless I feel like participating actually helped me a lot
To read more
To get used to reading
Probably also get better at it
Be less „scared“ of reading
Etc
And all in all gave me a good feeling
So… in that sense… I don‘t feel like I failed and I‘m thankful to the creator and participants of this challenge because without them I probably would have never done anything like it