oooh, thank you for pointing it out, I must have missed that! Fixing it now!
Thank you so much! 
what a perfect mnemonic, i shall never forget the meaning to this now 
thank you both windupbird and chrisosaurus for your input, and I will definitely keep all that in mind! maybe I need to find that one extra light read for myself too heheh
i think you put it so eloquently, this is precisely what I’m hoping to achieve through all of this!
sorry this whole reply turned so long, wow
aaaah, this really looks so cute indeed!!! 
September 10th 大海原と大海原 I read 6 pages (containing text) to finish up chapter 2 (the 3rd chapter) =O
A chapter in 2 days is unbelievable, although I was very very very heavily helped by a bunch of pages being very simple to translate.
Absolutely loving the story and difficulty, 5 of those 6 pages flew by, and the other was filled with a character making very complex sentences I still don’t fully understand. You win some you lose some.
Isn’t it just?? There’s also animated versions on YouTube, which is how I came across it. The characters speak all in ます/です form (because it’s a workplace) so it was one of the first bit of native content I was able to really engage with, as I’m studying via traditional textbooks (Minna No Nihongo). I wish it was better known because it’s perfect for learners.
Ha ha the novel I read this summer had a lot of elderly men and I just kind of…skipped their bits and focussed on the verbs that told me roughly what they were saying (usually complaining!). This is one of the reasons I prefer prose to manga.
I have totally done this both with elderly men and at times where the author has decided to have a character talk in katakana. Just resign myself to having a vague idea of what that character is on about lol.
@fustian_garb @sycamore - I’m glad I’m not the only one that sort of unfocusses their eyes and doesn’t bother looking up old-man-speak as long as I know what they’re saying.
In 逆転検事２ there is an elderly monk character. I got to learn that there is a personal pronoun that is solely for Buddhist monks to use. His every text-box made me feel like I knew nothing at all, and I’d just groan the moment there was the hint I’d have to talk to him.
In 逆転裁判１there is a character that’s supposed to be an American. A lot of katakana English that I had to read out loud to make the penny drop on what he was saying.
Now in 逆転裁判３there is a character with a somewhat similar shtick, only it’s katakana French. 
I mainly read from the library. So my 積ん読 pile is the entire library. :"D
I do have some unread stuff though that I bought before I realized that I don’t like storing books. (I’m weird like that. Move across the globe twice in half a year and maybe you’ll become like me as well.)
Had the exact same experience with this character!
Day X: 繁藤郵便局 
I like that Shigetou 「繁藤」is ‘Overgrown Wisteria’ if you translate it literally.
It was going okay, but then I went to look up where it was located and got distracted looking at pictures of Kochi prefecture, wow that place is beautiful!! THOSE BEACHES… THOSE RIVERS with rocks… and TREES!
At least I managed to get some reading in before that… now back to daydreaming about the sands and waters of Kochi.
Challenge Hub
I attempted the one in the summer and far too much happened that led to the challenge being derailed for me. I was already trying to read every day in September, so when I came across an autumn version of the REDC, I knew I had to give it another go.
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0~39% completed
40~69% completed
70~99% completed
100% completed!
殺人出産 (村田沙耶香)： read with Sayaka Murata Book Club
ヒトゴトですから！ (ユニ)： took a break from it despite being over three-quarters finished
クビキリサイクル１(西尾維新)：literally SO FAR behind on this book, but I still want to try and make progress with it; part of Informal NISIO ISIN BC
小川未明童話集 (小川未明)：wanted to read along with book club, but I’m behind on all my other books 
とんかつDJアゲ太郎 (小山ゆうじろう)：another manga I put on hiatus that I want to finish
授乳 (村田沙耶香)：current pick in Sayaka Murata BC
月刊少女野崎くん３ (椿いづみ)：for days when I’m low on time to read 
ふらいんぐうぃっち１ ( 石塚 千尋)：because it was free to read and it’s cute
かがみの孤城 (辻村深月)：I’ve had this book for a few years and joined the book club so I could finally read it. Longest book I’ve tackled so far.
Day 9:
日本語: I read a fair amount of 鋼の錬金術師 (finished v1) and a lot of ミステリと言う勿れ. Soon I will run out of ミステリと言う勿れ…
中国語: I read 大雪. I opened up a wiki page (in English) on 节气 to read after work.
Today I was too lazy to put any effort into reading so I just read 30 pages of Chi’s New Home vol. 1, which was free on bookwalker.
９月１０日：
What did I read:
A series of short texts about Christmas traditions in different countries. Not overly interesting to read, in all honesty.
Day 10 
I finished Barakamon volume 3 while waiting for a table at a ramen restaurant. 
The person waiting in front of me was reading Haikyuu haha
名残惜しい : reluctant (to part)
贖罪 (しょくざい) : atonement
僻む (ひがむ) : to be prejudiced
順応力 (じゅんのうりょく) : adaptability
入り浸り (いりびたり) : frequenting
仙人 (せんにん) : mountain man (esp. a hermit)
絆創膏 (ばんそうこう) : adhesive bandage
丁稚 (でっち) : apprentice
Ahhh I love 逆転裁判 so much 
* I might play it again tonight * I guess you already finished it but if you’re ever wondering what the katakana French means, feel free to ask me!
yay for 月刊少女野崎くん 
Day 10: September 10th
Satori Reader: Secret, episode 36.
I’ve had a terrible sleep today, so no word lists nor commentary today, just a quick update ;-; . 
Day 2 (9月 10日) 
What did I read:
暁のヨナ , chapter 34, for the bookclub, 29 pages again. just ~20min today, because I only went through the chapter without looking everything up- my eyes are closing on me… will look up words tomorrow…
Also, during my lesson today, read passages from
Pepper’s website page will link tomorrow!
本拠地
more words tomorrow, now sleep is calling :sleeping:
Was somewhat sick for most of this week (not terribly so, but that annoying level where you’re not quite sick enough to justify not working but sick enough that working leaves you with minus energy for the day), but somehow I managed to keep up my 30mins ハリーポッター賢者の石 before going to sleep each night at least. Probably because it’s become quite a nice routine 
Today I was feeling mostly better and had some more energy so I read the first volume of the manga ブルーロック.
It’s a football sports manga, but instead of being like the usual “teamwork is everything!” sports mangas it’s more like a “only the best shall survive” shonen style individual tournament arc. I pretty much just read it a) cos I got it free on Bookwalker, b) cos there’s an anime adaptation thats recently been announced, and c) cos a friend wanted to read it and asked my opinion of it and I was like “well I haven’t read it but it’s free so give me a sec (I mean more like a few weeks since he mentioned it haha) and I’ll let you know”. The description I ended up giving to that friend was that it’s “kind of like a cross between ハイキュー and chunin exam arc Naruto”. I wouldn’t say it blew me away so far but it was enjoyable enough, and I have another free volume of it so I’ll read that too and see if it hooks me. That is the nice thing about the first few volumes of series being free so often on bookwalker, gives you a chance to read a decent amount before deciding if you like it enough to continue.
Got to inform you that your descriptions of ハイ☆スピード! have endeared it to me enough that I’ve finally finished setting up my tenso account with the intention of doing an amazon.jp order at some point to get it (seeing as it doesn’t seem to be available on mandarake or cdjapan or digitally). I was already aware of it before and had wanted to read it cos I like free but the hassle had put me off. But it sounds so cute!!! Of course, that will give me an excuse to get other things “to make the order worth it” which is a nice but dangerous thing.
Oh my that looks beautiful! Thanks for the distraction, the colour of that water is the stuff of dreams.
