The June Tanuki Den: Date 20220609 
No Longer Tanuki Progress: 12.33%
Itโs a lot more motivating now seeing that Iโm moving by a percentage each read, rather than a tiny fraction.
Iโm having fun too. Look forward to reading each day, even though I know how everything pans out, it is like reading it from new again. The humour really comes across in this first chapter (and the overall feeling of egotistical self-loathing that, even without knowing how the novel turns out, itโs used so well that you just know things arenโt going to go well), the tone is really well set.
Taking it a sentence at a time so I donโt get too frustrated with the start-stop of having to look up a lot of words and โwhat even is this grammar? WHAT IS THISโ, but that isnโt always smooth, today the record was beaten for longest sentence at 243.
Japanese found in the tall grass
Learnthings
ๅๅฃซใใฏใใใใผ Expert; learned person; Doctor (the PhD kind)
้ฆดๆใใชใใฟใใผ Intimacy; familiarity
่ฌ่ซใใใใ ใใใผ Storytelling with a highly dramatic delivery (usually chronicles of war, revenge tales and the like)
ๅฝ่ปฝใใฒใใใใใใผ Facetious
ๅๅผใใใใใผ Ah! Oh! Alas! (the line itโs used amused me: ใใใใๅๅผใๅญฆๆ ก๏ผ)
ๆฎใฉใใปใจใใฉใใผ Almost; nearly; practically; basically; virtually
ๆใใใใใใผ A certain [thing]; some [things]
ๅ
จ็ฅๅ
จ่ฝใใใใกใใใฎใใใผ Omniscience and omnipotence; all-knowing, all-powerful
่ตคๆฅใใใใฏใใใผ Great shame; great embarrassment
็
ใฟไธใใใใฟใใใใใผ Convalescence; to gradually get better after illness; the late stage of an illness when it starts to pass
ไบบๅ่ปใใใใใใใใใผ Rickshaw
็ถดใๆนใใคใฅใใใใใผ Way of writing (in a literary composition kind of way); way of spelling something; school composition (in other words: ไฝๆ)
ๆป็จฝๅบใใใฃใใใฐใชใใใผ Funny story, focusing on humour and ridiculousness
็ฐๅฃบใใใใคใผใใผ Spittoon; spit jar
่ทๅกๅฎคใใใใใใใใคใใผ Staff room
้ไฟก็ฐฟใใคใใใใผใใผ Report card