Pretty sure my local Japanese library has a copy of the book so if you all start reading at the same time I might be able to joinā¦
6 Likes
Well, Iāve only recently started reading in Japanese so thereās only one book that I put aside but thatās because it was too kanji-dense and frustrating for me to read. (It was Maid sama vol. 1.) I donāt know what I will do when I feel confident enough to tackle it again, though. After all, I know the story. Iāve read it in English and watched the anime. So I donāt have to restart it because Iām not sure of the story but I might want to restart it to see if itās easier to go through the kanji the second time around.
5 Likes
windupbirdās summary post
Challenge Progress and Links to Daily Posts
| Apr | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ę | ē« | ę°“ | ęØ | é | å | ę„ |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| May | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ę | ē« | ę°“ | ęØ | é | å | ę„ |
| 1 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 
|
28
|
29
|
| 30
|
31
|
Goals (if you can really call them that lol)
Iāve been trying to think about this for the past couple days and Iām sort of coming up empty, tbh. (Besides reading every day, of course - thatās always the main goal ^^)
I was reading 2 daily entry books in the last challenge, but I havenāt read from either of them since the last challenge ended, and I donāt feel a huge urge to pick them up again right now. I feel like they did take up kind of a lot of time, and Iād sort of rather focus more on something more story-like this round. So in the spirit of that long post I wrote in the Winter Challenge thread about choosing what I do with my time, Iām going to let those go for right now. But nothing else is particularly calling my name at the moment, eitherā¦I feel like Iām just going to look around my shelves on April 1st and see what I want to pick in that moment xD I wish I had the third tanuki book, but Iāve been spending so much money lately (like, ungodly amounts of money) so Iām trying not to order anything more right now. Itās not like I donāt have plenty of things to read already in my home xD
Iāll just have to peruse my stacks on the 1st and see what I find~
Previous challenge summary posts:
Summer 2021 Challenge 
Fall 2021 Challenge 
Winter 2022 Challenge 
Also, hereās my Bookmeter, in case anyoneās interested! ^^
36 Likes
Could do the reading equivalent of snacking/grazing and just peruse the first couple pages of something random each day. If it snares you in and you end up reading it - great! If notā¦keep grazing, guilt free cause youāre getting in daily reading anyhow. Iāve read the first few pages of most of the books on my shelves just from āsnack readingā to see what catches my interest in the moment.
19 Likes
What, what? As in cute, mischievous little tanuki? Tell me more! 
5 Likes
I havenāt read it, so Iām sure @windupbird will tell you moreā¦ but Iām the meantime, I found their original post mentioning The Tanuki! Check it out for a short intro and cute picture!
10 Likes
Iāll probably be able to start äøęÆē«ćć¼ć ćŗ this weekend. But I donāt think Iāll be able to read it very quickly, especially at the beginning.
I visited NYC bookstores today. I got a couple of ę±éåå¾ books at Book Off.ļ¼ććć¤éč²Øåŗć®å„č¹ and 容ēč Xć®ē®čŗ«ļ¼ Theyāre going to sit on the shelf for now. Flipping through them quickly, I think ććć¤éč²Øåŗ looks like itās probably easier.
Kinokuniya was disappointing. I wanted a fashion magazine but
today they didnāt have any of the ones for middle-aged ladies. 
The whole fashion magazine section has been halved, and only a few titles were there. Just college and starter OL magazines like Zipper, ViVi, CanCam, and ē¾äŗŗē¾ē§. (edit: I liked those magazines when I was younger but itās time to move on) And a few makeup magazines. What happened to Classy, Marisol, Story, and all the others? Now that I think about it, thatās a good question, and I should have asked the store staff instead of going home and griping here.
19 Likes
Hurray! 
Iām done with my book club reading for next week, so today and tomorrow Iāll probably go over the part Iāve already read to refresh my memory. I do remember most details, but it will be worth taking note of names and such. Iām also curious if it flows a little easier now Iāve read several more things in the meantime.
Quickly? I wish I could . Did I mention Iām following three book clubs? 
(not to mention I still need to look up a dozen words per page or so, plus a grammar point or two)
13 Likes
O my goodness, that is VERY cute! And I see thatās where the āTanuki for official mascotā thing came from
Actually, when I look at @windupbirdās Bookmeter, I see a lot of Tanuki 
11 Likes
Finishing up some books this week for a āfresh startā in April. I still have a couple books Iām in the middle of, but only one japanese non-bookclub book. I want to make it a bit easier on myself to make time for french reading regularly and havenāt opened my french book in like 5 days thanks to that. xD
The other day I went by the local bookstore and picked up some easy graded readers at A1 and A2 level for low effort days. Also getting an audiobook of a youth fantasy novel to āread alongsideā. Itās definitely above my level so Iām not hoping to actually understand it. The idea is to get used to French pronunciation, since reading wonāt teach me that. And maybe going back to the book in like a year and actually understand stuff would be cool. (Still going to count it as french reading time since Iāll be looking at words, haha.)
19 Likes
Nice! Iām reading digitally so can start whenever. Iām also reading way too many things so happy to just follow the pace that others set with this one 
6 Likes
Whatās the title? 
If you have questions about anything French, well, Iām a native speaker so I know nothing, but I can be confidently wrong about it.
18 Likes
Thereās Book Off in NYC? Goddammit, I want to have one in my country as well 
The money I spent there when I was in Japanā¦
And äøęÆē«ćć¼ć ćŗ is also on my TBR for someday. Because, you know, cat and mystery novels 
8 Likes
La quĆŖte dāewilan: dāun monde Ć lāautre.
Thanks!
Iām always open to level appropriate all kinds of recommendations. 
5 Likes
!!!?!?!?! I read that series when I was a teenager! I loved it! I read volume 2 in a single seating! (Edit: there are 9 books published in the same universe past the point where I stopped reading)
If you like the story, there are a bunch of similar series I was reading at the time. Hopefully I can remember their titles.
10 Likes
Iāve seen a bunch of people throw around bookmeter links; how do you guys like the site? Is it easy to use? Easy to find your books to add to your page?
3 Likes
finding the books can actually sometimes be a pain since it likes to suggest the kindle ver, but you can just search by isbn or whatever so its not a problem. Theres just no better site that Iāve come across so theres no reason to use anything different ime.
12 Likes
Itās pretty convenient to keep track of stuff I read, yes. Itās also fun to see the numbers go up over time (I feel like it means Iām accumulating XP and my level is increasingā¦ although, considering Iām usually reading garbageā¦ it doesnāt mean much). I also like seeing what others are reading and get (indirectly) recommendations.
Itās easy enough to use. Sometimes, there will be a bunch of weird versions of a book showing up when I want to add something, but I can then just click on the authorās name to get everything they wrote, or use the ISBN if Iām really not finding it.
13 Likes
I know you probably arenāt learning a whole lot language wise from your books, but have you thought of specifically training your speed? Its something you can do while reading those garbage books that will give you an extra benefit and more speed will obviously have practical benefit, but I havenāt seen you really talk about it despite you (and valkow perhaps) be the two other people it seems pretty relevant to.
4 Likes
At some point. But Iām usually fine with my reading speed. Also, one of my favorite things about reading is subvocalizing, which is the number one thing they tell you to stop doing to read faster. That kinda killed any interest I had in learning speed reading.
11 Likes