During the break I read three and a half volumes of からかい上手高木. Bringing me up to where the book club is at.
Still playing Animal Crossing a little everyday. Just purchased the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion pass for the additional Mario Kart tracks, which means Animal Crossing DLC as well.
I see it’s time to jump back on the reading challenge train! With the completion of my last assignment for the term last night and only forty pages of 銭天堂 left to go, I’m nearly ready for a fresh start with a new book.
Books I’m reading this time
銭天堂 (finished 8th of April)
君ノ声 (finished 17th of April)
かがみの孤城 (6%)
世界から猫が消えたなら？(if I ever feel like finishing a shorter book)
Count me in! The Winter challenge was so much fun.
I’m going to be carrying on with my bookclub reading, and also Yotsuba. @windupbird Thank you so much for organizing this, and for the calendars!
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What I'm Reading
I’m mostly going to be reading the books from the various bookclubs I am in -
Teasing Master Takagi-san
Mitsuboshi Colors
Happiness
Yoru Cafe
As well as reading Yotsuba and playing some Pokemon Legends: Arceus
I’m joining in again! I always love these challenges but am also always terrible at actually updating my home post so we will see how this one goes
Goals
I’m going to be moving job pretty soon & expect to be pretty busy with that so not going to go wild with the goals this time. I’m currently half way through reading すべてがｆになる which I’m enjoying so I will probably read the next volumes in that series once I’m done (not sure if I can catch up to the bookclub here by the time they get to vol 4 but will see! ). Will also be playing more games and reading more manga on the side!
Count me in
Currently I’m reading 夜カフェ. Planned on reading it with the book club, but I read a bit ahead already. After finishing volume 1 I’ll either buy the second volume or I will read the second volume of ふしぎ駄菓子屋 銭天堂 I think. Anyways, I have more than enough books and light novels lying around. May as well work on decreasing that pile a little (so that I can buy more books).
Thanks for making the new thread again @windupbird
Since I won’t be updating my main thread I won’t be using the super-nice calendar checkboxes xD But I wanted to share with you what I will be reading for this challenge (probably).
I started reading this in March and I’m now at 43% of the novel. It is really hard, but it is doable since I’m combining it with watching the anime (first watching a few episodes, then reading up to that point).
I started kino no tabi in Februari and I’m now at 38%. I love that it’s really episodic so I can pause reading this after every chapter. I don’t know if I will be able to read this, since I’ve got too much to read xD
美少年探偵団 1
This will be the read of the Minimersion bookclub next month! I’m really looking forward to reading this
I plan to keep up with both the absolute beginner and beginner book clubs. If I finish the part of the week for both of those (probably at most 1 day a week, unless magic happens), then I’ll read some Teasing Master Takagi-san.
Yay! A new victim …erm… book club member! Looking forward to seeing you catch up in the past books’ threads Please feel free to comment with your speculations, that’s so much fun!
For this challenge, I’m in again! I will keep track of my progress in my own thread and will link it from here with each of my (not-so-frequent) status posts, so stay tuned!
Current reading plans:
I’m currently reading 沖で待つ but I don’t expect to be able to finish it before the challenge starts, so there might be a little bit of it left over
I recently read the first chapter of 雲をつかむ話 for a reading circle and it was off to a very interesting start, so I will probably continue.
I still have my ongoing 大聖堂 (Japanese+English) with my Japanese friend. There was a bit of a disruption recently but I’m still hoping that he will pick it back up.
When we read 人間失格 somebody mentioned that it’s similar to Camus’ L’Étranger, so I decided to maybe give that one a try (in French). Then a (German) friend said she’d be interested in reading it as well, but in Japanese, so we will do a French-Japanese tandem at some point Which means I will read it in French and she will read it in Japanese, but I think I will also read each section in Japanese afterwards to double-check my French understanding (curious to see which version I get more out of ^^)
佐賀のがばいおばちゃん from the Intermediate Book Club
and if I get bored after that, there’s still a big pile in my BookWalker account
Here’s a question for fellow readers who may have put a book on hold for a little too long like I have: Do you start from the beginning, rereading the parts you have already read, or continue from where you left off? I always struggle with this decision. I tend to remember the parts I have read well enough that rereading is a little boring, but not so clearly that reading further doesn’t feel a little disjointed. I sometimes just choose to not resume reading for ages, until I have finally forgotten enough of the details to make rereading the beginning not as tedious, but I’d rather not do that now.
I usually don’t reread because like you, I often remember enough of the story to be able to pick it up again. I might reread like 5 pages or so but that usually worked well enough for me.
There was one case where I had struggled quite a lot with a text; in that case I decided to start over again. But that was mainly because I knew I had probably misunderstood (or not understood) a lot of the stuff, not because I had let the story sit for too long.
After helpful advice for participants in the last thread I’m going to attempt myself to step up from kids books and try a light novel. In previous challenges I’ve had a main book that I’m reading, plus an easier yonkoma one for days when I just needed read a page to be able to tick the box. In comparison to the kids book, I’m anticipating my reading speed is going to be slower for the novel and so my major problem is going to be keeping track of the story as I’ll have to stop mid-chapter. So my aim is to try to read this particular book everyd ay, arther than just something in Japanese, as it’s my best hope of finishing it!
Any tips you have on trying to keep two languages going at once would be much appreciated! I keep promising myself I’ll try to revive my German (I got to C1 level before I started Japanese) and we’re going to Berlin this summer so it really would be a good opportunity, but I really struggle with committing time to both languages.
Please post all the really bad puns.
Always from the beginning because I have the memory of a goldfish.
When I’ve done this I’ve generally just gone back to the start of the chapter I was on (if I left off in the middle of a chapter) or gone back to the previous chapter. It’s generally been okay but I’ve usually only been maybe a month or two before going back to it so a longer break might require more rereading. I agree with @NicoleIsEnough that it would also depend a bit on how difficult I found the book when I first was reading it. For example, I actually made it through the first volume of NO.6 but I remember it being so much of a struggle (it was my first novel in Japanese) that when I pick the series back up again I will probably start by rereading the entire volume as in pretty sure there was A LOT I didn’t get on first read. Not sure how helpful this will be as the TLDR is essentially ‘it depends’ haha
Here’s a post I wrote up about my Spanish journey that touches on some of this! It was in response to some advice shared about studying two languages at once.
It definitely can be hard, and you will of course have to make some sacrifices (time spent on one language is time not spent on the other, basically), but Spanish is just so important for my job, I really should be trying to work on it at least a little. The good news is that my Spanish is good enough that I can practice it by immersing without really having to do dedicated vocab/grammar study (which can get tiring). Because reading in Spanish is so much easier for me than reading in Japanese, that also really helps motivate me.
I haven’t participated in the previous ones because I am always a little late to the party, so I am very much looking forward to joining this time :33
When I reached the Hell levels, I finally felt the urge to start applying my knowledge - but I am a lazy and inconsistent boi… I’m hoping that joining others on a lil adventure here and attempting for a streak will get me reading more~
). Will also be playing more games and reading more manga on the side!
三毛猫ホームズの推理
すべてがＦになる
Reading Tiger, Blossoming Tanuki 
(curious to see which version I get more out of ^^)
