Oh yeah… I completely forgot that ごはん isn’t exclusively rice, now that you mention it would make more sense that it means a “doesn’t need feeding” sort of thing rather than just rice. Thanks for pointing that out!
I just imagined this guy was really weirdly possessive about rice 
10月1日：
Day 24
Mainly just a short update. I didn’t have the chance to write daily reports due to work, and couldn’t read as much either because of this, but in these days I finished reading chapter 3 for 大海原と大海原, and 生き残った者 for 鹿の王. So far I enjoy reading both. It’s hard, but I do feel more and more comfortable with reading by each passing day, which is the most important part for me. 
Hope I can resume doing daily reports as well too. September was hectic.
Day 30:
日本語: I read a lot of はめふら 11, a bit of それでも歩は寄せてくる, and a bit of 魔王城でおやすみ.
中国語: I read 我的爸爸.
I read some more まがつき probably 40 pages. Today I was sick and had a fever that’s why there won’t be any vocabulary this time.
Day 22（9月 30日) 
What did I read:
雨と君と, just a couple of chapters, 10min.
it was an exhausting day, I literally took tanuki to bed with me and was barely hanging; the tanuki cuteness kept my eyes opened though, hehe
Day 23（10月 1日)
~Happy October!
What did I read:
10分で読めるこわい話 link , just the first story, around 20min. This is for kids, and as such, it had too many kana and too few kanji for my liking, but it’s nice to sometimes go to such books and lower level graded readers and read without worrying about every single word being unknown! first story is 「めし食わぬにょうぼう」
暁のヨナ, ch. 38, around an hour bc word lookups~
i might have joined only some 20 days ago, but y’all, thank you so much for everything so far?? It’s so motivating to be doing this with everyone here, you are all so amazing!Thank you! I’m still amazed at and by myself for managing to keep up daily! Here’s to another great month of reading with y’all! 
I cannot thank you enough for taking the time and sharing all those bits and pictures, I absolutely loved every single one!!! The bridge looks amazing, it really looked so cinematic indeed!
I audibly squealed aaaaahhh i love anything Date Masamune-themed sakjddkjas
And the owl ずんだ餅 looked soooo cute, aaahh 
also, thank you for all the Nozaki-kun moments, they are always so hilarious 
look at me do exactly that very thing right now, bc I just simply, cannot contain myself !!
cryinggg, I have actually been there, I wasn’t in winter though, I was in June, and it was just as beautiful… I miss Hokkaido so much…
wah… this is exactly the same story I read today! 
I checked out from the link you shared and yay! It had a recording too!! how nice!
October 1st
Final Fantasy XIV
I’ve been reading, although barely. More than reading books I already have, I’ve been book-shopping again (I could shop for books for forever), and I noticed that I’m suddenly a lot better at reading titles and summaries! So that’s exciting. 
I’m no expert, however, in my experience, あるsomething is a fairytale type of writing. It’s kind of like saying “there was once a”, and can be put in front of practically anything.
Day 31: October 1
What did I read?: ハイ☆スピード!
How much did I read?: 5 pages
How long did it take me?: 1 hour 23 min
Aki and Rin giving us their take on Haru’s personality today 
I’m honestly not sure I understood it all properly, which is kind of annoying me 
But basically what I took from it was that people rely on him, because he’s good at stuff, but he doesn’t really reach out to people or rely on anyone else. …Sounds a bit too relatable in some ways He tries not to get too involved with people, because he doesn’t want to hurt someone or push them away. …I think.
But in other news, I love how this little group is beginning to take shape <3 I think this is the first time they’re actually all running together, and it’s super cute. First Haru and Makoto leave together - for the first time in the novel, Haru doesn’t start off his journey to the swim club alone. Then Nagisa’s there waiting for them when they get close to the bridge, and Rin catches up with them just as they meet up with Nagisa. Nagisa still trying with all his might to keep up with Haru, and Haru taking pity on him for once and slowing down a bit so he doesn’t completely fall behind. The other two cracking up behind them because of Nagisa’s very earnest plan to run in place really fast while he waits for Haru by the bridge next time You can feel Haru begrudgingly opening up his heart a crack, and ever so slightly letting them in. <3
Realizing people might not know who’s who :o Time to put faces to the names. The expressionless one trying to run away in the front is Haru. The one dying just behind him is Nagisa. The one turning back a little and laughing is Rin Rin’s laughing face is everything, he’s so cute, and the one laughing with him is Makoto
Home post October 2nd graded reader about 着物.
I totally didn’t understand all of it, although I was able to infer a whole lot thanks to the helpful diagrams.
TIL that while wearing a kimono you have to cover your sleeve so as to not expose your arm / elbow or something, and have to wear your hair up rather than down, oh and make sure to take small steps.
I dislike all these rules, it seems like a bunch of fuss…
That’s actually a necessity 
so it comes pretty natural ime.
Day XXXII: 花菖蒲 
Decided to read the Iris link from yesterday’s story and turns out there’s a flower for every day of the year too… this site is a maze of infinite links.
Pretty interesting to find out the symbolism of the iris and what it’s been used for in history. Plus it’s real pretty.
~ New Words (mostly plant related) ~
菖蒲 (しょうぶ) - Japanese Iris - I put this down yesterday too but I’ve already forgotten how it’s read.
多年草 (たねんそう) - Perennial plant
茎頂 (けいちょう) - Tip of a stem / stem apex
腐植 (ふしょく) - Humus soil
開花期 (かいかき) - Flowering season (anthesis)
儚い (はかない) - Fleeting, short-lived
内気 (うちき) - Shy, reserved
神経痛 (しんけいつう) - Nerve pain (neuralgia)
蒲 (がま) - Common Cattail
so jealous Hokkaido looks really beautiful, and there’s lots of interesting history too!
Seriously?? No way !! What are the chances of that?
Thanks for explaining! I’ve been slowly discovering new words to use with ある as a prefix.
I am currently reading 13階段 right now and I want this to reflect my progress here !! 1 page a day is the minimum to pass. I want to make it a habit!
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Welcome! 
I saw you edit the second post in the previous thread, so I’d like to encourage you to check out the second post in this thread as well 
I’ve un-wiki-fied the post in the summer thread.
Good luck with reading! 
Ganbatte!
Day 31:
日本語: I read a lot of はめふら 11.
Read-aloud: We read a chapter of ふしぎの国のバード.
中国語: I read 我要报复. I added 报复, 失去, and 客户.
October 2 Thought I had more time to read, but it went elsewhere. Another tiny read
・Honzuki 6. (30% → 32%)
home post
Day 24（10月 2日)
What did I read:
暁のヨナ , ch. 38, bookclub read-aloud. took us around 35min but we got so loud and crazy we actually stayed with that chapter for almost 2 hours. Honestly, ch.38 was one of the most dense and rare-vocabulary-packed chapter so far… One of the characters is an old lady, so you got old ppl fancy speech, but she’s also a pirate… and lots of minor characters, and several 方言 instances to rack our brains over…
暁のヨナ , ch. 39, prepared it for next Wednesday, it was rather short and easy, 38min.
歴史366、2 stories, 8min.
暁雲 ぎょううん =dawn clouds
見向きもしない みむきもしない =taking no notice; ignoring; not even looking at
拝む おがむ =to see (something or someone of high status)
かけらもない =there is not a trace [an ounce、a bit], knew this one already actually. can be translated into colloquial phrases such as: a glimmer of truth; a grain of sense etc etc
いっぺん （一偏）=方言variarion of 一回
毒舌 どくぜつ ＝wicked tongue; abusive language
分際 ぶんざい =social standing
唆る そそる =to excite; to incite; to stimulate;
口説き文句 くどきもんく =pick-up line; (loving) words
前方不注意 ぜんぽうふちゅうい =not keeping one’s eyes on the road
目の届く所に めのとどくところに =within view, within sight
極まりない きわまりない =extremely; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); unparalleled
October 2nd
Satori Reader: Secret, episode 51.
::: TANUKIDATE 20211002 ::: 
