# 📚📚 Read every day challenge - Fall/Autumn 2021 🍁🍂🦝

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**Created:** [August 31, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-fallautumn-2021/53285 "2021-08-31T23:50:35Z")\
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[Summary post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-fallautumn-2021/53285/44)

**Day 3: September 3**  
What did I read?: ハイ☆スピード!  
How much did I read?: 5 pages (whoa, gettin’ crazy here) - finished chapter 1!  
How long did it take me?: 1 hour 43 min

Some good words today, including 負け惜しみ (まけおしみ - being a poor loser) and 掻き消す (かきけす - to erase; to drown out (e.g. a voice); to make disappear).

But _hands down_, my favorite word/expression of today was 大の字 (だいのじ) - shape of the “dai” kanji (esp. person with arms and legs outstretched); sprawling; lying spread-eagled  
At first I was all, big letter, what…? And then I looked it up and laughed xD Clearly, describing things by comparing them to the shape of a kanji is a thing here, this is the second time that method of description has been used in this book (first was Makoto’s 八-shaped eyebrows) and I am here for it.

I love the image of Rin being a supremely dramatic 大の字 on the floor and Haru just looking over at him going “who the eff is that” hahaha that’s so them 😂

Also OMG it’s Sousuke! Sousuke is there too, already! Ahhhhh, only for a second, but he was _there_ (Sousuke does not enter the anime picture until the second season so I didn’t really expect to see him at all in this first novel for some reason - I don’t know that he will feature much in this first novel, but I will be curious to see if he comes back)

It feels like a lot is happening in a small number of pages - maybe it’s just this first part being speedy and throwing in flashbacks in order to introduce the characters and such, but I swear, even though I’m only able to read a few pages at a time, I still feel like I get whole “scenes,” which…is not a bad thing? But it also feels like there are quite a few moments where the scene or character of focus changes without much of a visual text break or written cue to tell me that that’s what’s going on. Kind of feels a little whiplashy to me at times. I can’t tell if it’s because I’m bad at reading (like maybe it would be more obvious/easier to follow if my grammar was better) or if it’s because it’s meant to be that way xD

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