📚📚 Read every day challenge - Spring 2022 🌸 🌱

Sounds like a challenge for me.
I’ve been reading at the snail’s pace of one (1!) page a day Higashino Keigo’s 探偵ガリレオ as well as trying to translate it to make sure I actually think about what I’ve read. So far, so good - I think.

In other words, I will use this challenge to :snail: on

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Thank you! My german is good enough that I should be able to keep it up by immersing but it’s mostly vocabulary that’s slipped away over the last few years so it’s a bit tiresome looking up so many words. Maybe I should try reading on a kindle instead so I can look up words more easily. There are also definitely too few hours in the day and work takes up a disproportionate amount of them! I keep making myself promises of when my Japanese gets to this level or that level then I’ll pick up german again but my japanese aways still feels like a fragile baby bird that won’t survive if I don’t devote so much time to it.

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These threads always look so fun so I’m excited to join in! I’m really bad at building habits so my goal is to try and build a consistent reading habit that will hopefully help me still find some time to read when I get more busy around the end of May. I’ll mostly read manga and visual novels but I’m trying to start reading some books as well.

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My Bookmeter
My Natively

Reading List

I don’t plan to get through all of these but I’d like to finish as many as I can.
Decreasing Relative Difficulty Ranking
:sos: :cloud_with_lightning_and_rain: :cloud_with_rain: :cloud: :sun_behind_large_cloud: :sun_behind_small_cloud: :sunny: :cherry_blossom:

:tulip: Books :tulip:
夜カフェ (with the book club) :sun_behind_small_cloud:
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ジャックジャンヌー夏劇ー :cloud_with_lightning_and_rain:
Ch:|1|2|3|4|5|6|7| :white_check_mark:

ジャックジャンヌ1周年記念小説: 前編 and 後編 :cloud_with_rain:
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悪魔のパズル なぞのカバンと黒い相棒
Ch: Pt 1 |1|2|3|4|5|6|
Pt 2 |1|2|3|4|5|6|7| :white_check_mark:

真夜中のパン屋さん 午前0時のレシピ 上
Ch: Prologue|1|2|3| :white_check_mark:

夜は不思議などうぶつえん

Flesh&Blood
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:umbrella: Manga :umbrella:
純喫茶ねこ (1-2) :sun_behind_large_cloud:
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マグメル深海水族館 (1) :sunny:
Ch:|Prologue|1|2|3|4| :white_check_mark:
Volume 2
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Volume 3
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Volume 4
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Volume 5
Ch:|21|22|23|24|25| :white_check_mark:
Volume 6
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ゆびさきと恋々(1-5) :cherry_blossom:
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:herb: Visual Novels/乙女ゲーム :herb:
喧嘩番長乙女 :cloud:
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終遠のヴィルシュ -Error:salvation- (almost finished) :sos:
Remaining routes: |1|2|3|4| :white_check_mark:
幻想マネージュ
LOOPERS :white_check_mark:
even if tempest 宵闇にかく語りき魔女

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It’s back! I was looking forward to this, it’ll be my third challenge, and every time it has helped me with motivation to read. Part of that is the challenge itself, but the best part for me is reading other people’s updates and seeing everyone’s progress.

My goals for this round are:
-Read a whole lot of バリアブルバリケード, hopefully finish the common route and a couple of individual routes
-Keep up with the かがみの孤城 bookclub
-Keep up with the 夜カフェ bookclub
-Finish the オレンジ manga series (3 volumes left)
-Maybe: Keep up with the 佐賀のがばいばあちゃん bookclub
It might be a lot for the amount of free time I usually have but I have a break coming up so that should make it a little easier…hopefully.

In previous challenges I’ve updated my home thread almost daily but haven’t posted much, this time I might try to do at least weekly progress posts. Let’s do this!

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Previous challenges

Winter 2021 :books: :books: :snowman_with_snow::snowflake:
Autumn 2021 :books: :books: :maple_leaf: :fallen_leaf:

April Summary

Day 3: Read some バリアブルバリケード ~30 min
Day 4: Read バリアブルバリケード ~1h
Day 5: Read バリアブルバリケード ~1h
Day 6: Read some かがみの孤城 + read バリアブルバリケード ~30 min
Day 7: Read バリアブルバリケード ~15 min
Day 8: Read バリアブルバリケード ~15 min
Day 9: Read an NHK easy article
Day 10: Read some かがみの孤城
Day 11: Read some かがみの孤城
Day 12: Played a little Girl’s Mode in Japanese
Day 13: Read some かがみの孤城
Day 14: Read some かがみの孤城
Day 15: Read some かがみの孤城
Day 16: (Missed)
Day 17: Read バリアブルバリケード ~30 min
Day 18: Read バリアブルバリケード ~30 min
Day 19: Read バリアブルバリケード ~45 min
Day 20: Finished かがみの孤城’s Week 19 reading + read バリアブルバリケード ~30 min
Day 21: Finished かがみの孤城’s Week 20 reading + read バリアブルバリケード ~30 min
Day 22: Read a little 夜カフェ
Day 23: Finished chapter 2 of 夜カフェ (Weeks 2 + 3)
Day 24: Read バリアブルバリケード ~15 min
Day 25: Read chapter 3 of 夜カフェ without a dictionary, went well but will re-read tomorrow.
Day 26: Re-read chapter 3 of 夜カフェ and read chapter 4 (caught up!)
Day 27: Read free sample of 差がのがばいばあちゃん + read バリアブルバリケード ~1h
Day 28: Read バリアブルバリケード ~30 min
Day 29: Read バリアブルバリケード ~1.5 h
Day 30: Read バリアブルバリケード ~45 min

May summary

Day 1: Read some かがみの孤城 + read バリアブルバリケード ~15 min
Day 2: Finished かがみの孤城 Week 21 + read バリバリ ~30 min
Day 3: Read 1 chapter of オレンジ + read バリバリ ~20 min
Day 4: Read 夜カフェ chapter 5 + finished reading 差がのがばいばあちゃん chapter 1 + read 1 chapter of オレンジ + played バリバリ ~1,5h (wow, productive day! It shows I had some free time)
Day 5: Read 差がのがばいばあちゃん chapter 2 + read 1 chapter of オレンジ + read バリバリ ~1h (another productive day! Having free time is the key I guess)
Day 6: Read some 差がのがばいばあちゃん + read some オレンジ
Day 7: Read a chapter of オレンジ and finished Vol.4 + finished chapter 3 of 差がのがばいばあちゃん + played バリバリ ~30 min
Day 8: Played バリバリ ~1h
Day 9: Read 夜カフェ chapter 6 + read 差がのがばいばあちゃん chapter 4 (finished Week 3) + played バリバリ ~15 min
Day 10: Read some かがみの孤城 + played バリバリ ~ 45 min
Day 11: Read 3 weeks worth of かがみの孤城 (!!!) + played バリバリ ~1h
Day 12: Read 1 差がのがばいばあちゃん + read one オレンジ chapter + played バリバリ ~ 30 min
Day 13: Played a little バリバリ but ran out of battery and forgot my charger D:
Day 14: I was sick so only managed 1 NHK ease article to check the box
Day 15: Still sick, so NHK easy article again
Day 16: Randomly started DQXI in Japanese and played about 1h + read a chapter of 差がのがばいばあちゃん (Done with Week 4) + played バリバリ ~ 30 min
Day 17: Read this week’s かがみの孤城 + read 1 chapter of オレンジ + read some 佐賀のがばいばあちゃん + read バリバリ ~1h
Day 18: Read 2 佐賀のがばいばあちゃん chapters + played バリバリ ~ 30 min
Day 19: Fever came back so I couldn’t do anything
Day 20: Still sick
Day 21: Tried to read some バリバリ but I wasn’t understanding much as I was still sick
Day 22: Nothing again
Day 23: Read some かがみの孤城
Day 24: Read some かがみの孤城
Day 25: Finished かがみの孤城 !!
Day 26: Played Dragon Quest XI in Japanese for ~1h
Day 27: Read 夜カフェ chapter 7
Day 28: Played Dragon Quest XI for ~1h
Day 29: Played Dragon Quest XI for ~1.5h
Day 30: Read 佐賀のがばいばあちゃん chapter 9
Day 31: Checked out the JP sites of a couple of games

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So many languages! Now we have

I love it :heart_eyes_cat: Are there other language-practicioners lurking in the shadows?

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I’ve only been in the community for a couple of weeks so I hope I’m doing this right!

Discovering the book clubs here started my entire reading journey. Reading has never really been a hobby of mine but somehow I’m extra motivated when it’s reading in Japanese (it’s probably the learning and challenge that comes with it). This challenge will be such a fun way to track my progress along with everyone else!

I have a couple of Aoitori Bunko books and the collection of HoneyWorks light novels. I’d likely be reading Aoitori Bunko books for the most part as the HoneyWorks light novels are still too difficult for me atm.

I’m so excited to see everyone else’s updates!

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Currently Reading 📖

:orange_book: ハピナス (with ABBC)
:green_book: 夜カフェ(1)(with BBC)
:closed_book: 5分後に以外な結末 ①赤い悪夢
:blue_book: 探偵チームKZ事件ノート 消えた自転車は知っている

:books: My Bookmeter Page

Daily Updates 💮
Day Book Title Chapter No. Notes
1 人狼サバイバル 絶体絶命! 伯爵の人狼ゲーム 7 - 8
2 人狼サバイバル 絶体絶命! 伯爵の人狼ゲーム 9 - 12 Book finished! :confetti_ball:
3 ハピネス 3
4 夜カフェ(1) 2
好きって言って!(1) カレは秘密の王子さま!? 1 New book!
5 好きって言って!(1) カレは秘密の王子さま!? 2
6 好きって言って!(1) カレは秘密の王子さま!? 3
7 好きって言って!(1) カレは秘密の王子さま!? 4
8 好きって言って!(1) カレは秘密の王子さま!? 5
9 好きって言って!(1) カレは秘密の王子さま!? 6 - 7
10 好きって言って!(1) カレは秘密の王子さま!? 8 - 11 Book finished! :confetti_ball:
11 探偵チームKZ事件ノート 消えた自転車は知っている 1 New book!
12 ハピネス 3
13 探偵チームKZ事件ノート 消えた自転車は知っている 2
14 夜カフェ(1) 2
15 探偵チームKZ事件ノート 消えた自転車は知っている 3
16 ハピネス 4
17 探偵チームKZ事件ノート 消えた自転車は知っている 4
18 探偵チームKZ事件ノート 消えた自転車は知っている 5
19 5分後に以外な結末 ①赤い悪夢 3
20 夜カフェ(1) 3
21 探偵チームKZ事件ノート 消えた自転車は知っている 5
22 探偵チームKZ事件ノート 消えた自転車は知っている 6
23 5分後に以外な結末 ①赤い悪夢 4
24 ハピナス 4
Weekly Thoughts ✍️

Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10

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Hey, welcome and enjoy the ride! :hugs:

I don’t think there is a way of doing this “wrong” honestly :rofl: Just post in here whenever and however you like and tell us about your progress - looking forward to it! :+1:

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I reread few sentences prior to the part where I left off as it’s usually enough to make me remember the details.

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Sounds like a fun thing to do, why not challenge myself!

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Claiming a home post here! These calendars are super neat; being able to just click on a day to fill it is wild.

As for what I’ll be focusing on during the challenge… I’m currently reading 薬屋のひとりごと with the Advanced Book Club, so that’ll almost certainly fill up my weekends. I think I’d like to really focus on my stacks of manga I have lying around as well, finally get through a few of those series.

Books/Series I'd like to start/finish during this challenge

(Probably going to list more than I can realistically achieve, but I can at least use this as a reminder of the things I’d like to focus on.)

Novels
薬屋のひとりごと 1
Alicemare

Manga
みんあ愛のせいね (vol. 3-5)

  • みんあ愛のせいね (3)
  • みんあ愛のせいね (4)
  • みんあ愛のせいね (5)

G・Defend (vol. 2-10)
キングダムハーツIII (vol. 2)
椎名くんの鳥獣百科 (vol. 1-4)
BINGO! (vol. 1)
レバダン・希望の花 (vol. 4-8)
氷の魔物の物語 (vol. 5-??)

(Below: books I’ve ended up reading during this challenge that weren’t on my original list:)
HALF FANTASIA (1)

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I normally go back a page or two to refresh my memory, but if I do that and its confusing I’ll jump back a chapter or two.

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Last time I tried this, I was very bad about posting my own updates although I read almost if not everyday. So I’ll probably only check off the days most of the time.

Goals

The spirit of multilingual reading going on here has me inspired to make this challenge about my non Japanese reading instead!

I’m currently making my way through Le Petit Nicolas, so it’ll probably be mostly about that. I’m about half way through right now. I’ve been taking it very slow and not reading more days than I do, so maybe this thread can change that. :muscle:

Should I actually manage to finish this book in these 2 months I guess I’ll challenge l’étranger, which is sitting on my bookshelf as well. :crazy_face:

I also have a Spanish graded reader, but I haven’t felt motivated to work on my Spanish at all this year, so I probably won’t touch that one.

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Reading:
:heavy_check_mark: Le petite Nicolas (73→169/148p) 14.04.22/20.04.22
A1 Graded Reader: PONS 5 Minuten-Lektüren: Où est le thym? (0→37/127p)
La quête d’ewilan: d’un monde à l’autre :headphones: (0→252/334m) :open_book: (0→80%)

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I think I’ll update a list of books I’d like to read this challenge throughout today (thereby ensuring I never get to them, of course). Probably my biggest hurdle will be dragging myself away from binging on translated webnovels; if I can successfully redirect my focus to reading Japanese ones, that’ll be a victory. (Most of the ones I’ve been reading have been Chinese, so no luck switching over there…)

How do you get the inverted checkbox to show?

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I might also try and use the challenge to build consistency with my other languages! I have a graded reader I’m using to practice my Mandarin, some French webtoons I’ve reading, and a few novels in Spanish that I’m less than 20 pages into, so I’ll probably try and pick up one of those as well. After the Winter Challenge my Japanese reading is (mostly) consistent, but everything else is a bit so-so, haha.

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Home Post

What I Plan to Read
日本語

  1. ティアムーン帝国物語 vol. 3 (started on page 80 of 292, finished the book on May 13th!)
  2. かくりよの宿飯 vol. 1 (LN)
  3. Various volumes of manga (mainly for when I just need to read a page of something)

Español

  1. Hijas de Lilith por Rafael de la Rosa
  2. Brujas anónimas por Lorena A. Falcón

中文

  1. Du Chinese intermediate and upper intermediate level stories (1 chapter/day)

Français

  1. Le Beau et la bête (1 ep./jour)
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Key
Japanese
Japanese and Spanish
:heavy_check_mark: Japanese and Spanish and another language

Days Read
Japanese: 41
Spanish: 22
French: 14
Mandarin: 18

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Hi all, first time daily reading challenger! :wave: I’m hoping to get better at reading quickly so I appreciate the structure this challenge provides.

Currently reading
Keep reading through Haikyuu. We just finished Volume 7 in the book club, and going to start Volume 8 in a couple weeks.

Starting Goal
I’d like to read through all the free books on tadoku.org by the end of the challenge.

よろしくおねがいします

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I’m not going to pretend that I’ll keep up with a home post or update every day, but I’ll be challenging along with everyone in spirit and maybe even in comments sometimes! My reading list is a little nuts right now…

  1. 夜カフェ with BBC will probably be mostly a weekend thing
  2. 霧のむこうのふしぎな町 … I’m already more than halfway through, so I want to keep reading just a little bit on days that I don’t read 夜カフェ (which feels a lot easier)
  3. よつばと! (vol 8) but only on days that I feel in the mood
  4. それでも歩は寄せてくる … this one is really exciting because it’s the first thing I can read that actually feels like a leisure activity! So I really want to read more, but I have to wait for the next two volumes to arrive and they haven’t even shipped yet! :sob:

Then after that, like @Magillou I have a bunch of books already that I’d like to work on, in order to make more space on my “unread” shelf, which is currently full. :joy: (So that I can buy more books.)

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What is this minimersion of which you speak? :thinking: I want to read this book (someday), too!

Ooh, yes pls.

@fustian_garb I’ve been putting off brushing up on my Spanish conversation skills for the exact same reason! But now it seems like I’m going to need it for summer vacation this year, and it would make me so happy to be able to converse with people (at least a little) in Spanish … At least I will be practicing different skillsets for each language, I guess.

I also have made a resolution to start reading some articles from the Dutch newsletter Onze Taal whenever it reaches my inbox, in an attempt to slow the rusting process a little. It only takes a few minutes a week, and makes me feel a lot more at ease that I won’t lose the language I worked so hard for in my twenties, and which holds memories of some of my favorite people in the world …

Oh no …

hazukasiiserifukinsi

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I dabbled the first time this challenge happened last summer. For at least a month, I read every other day. And now I’m back, hoping for at least that much. :joy:

I set a very modest yearly goal for my Japanese reading, basically a volume/book a month and I’m already 3 behind… Oops? Well, I was starting from nothing, so no surprise.

And seeing everyone else work on extra languages is awesome. I’m not doing that, but my normal reading habit has been dead for a while now. Escaping into fiction have been a hard sell for the past couple of years. But I’m mostly past that now.

So I might make this challenge also be about my regular reading, or getting back to regular reading, which will be in English, which is my second language but I’ve been fluent for over a decade so not a study language for me anymore. (I honestly haven’t read regularly in my native language (Swedish) since I stopped going to school.) But I’m not sure I want something that formal for it. Hopefully I can just start picking it up. :crossed_fingers:

= read Japanese
= also read in English/regular reading

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What I'm reading/have been read:

My bookmeter for anyone interested.

Currently reading:
ふしぎ駄菓子屋 銭天堂1

Finished reading:
May
レベル別日本語多読ライブラリー にほんごよむよむ文庫 レベル4 vol.2
レベル別日本語多読ライブラリー にほんごよむよむ文庫 レベル4 vol.3
よつばと!1

June
美少女戦士セーラームーン 完全版4
よつばと!2 (3/7 chapters finished in May)
渡瀬悠宇The Best Selection 2 by 渡瀬 悠宇


June reading

For June, I’ve decided to track three different reading things, so I’m not gonna be super strict with myself about reading each one every day, but I want a lot of those boxes ticked for all three.

JP = Japanese reading so what this challenge have been about

EN = English fiction, aka something I managed to do for the first fourth of the challenge

NF = Non-fiction, I have some work related blog posts, newsletters, etc. that I need to read as well as many non-fiction books, so this is gonna be about reading a bit of this every day

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This will be my first challenge joined! I have been trying to read every day before this, though there were often times where I wouldn’t read anything for a day or two in a row, so I’m hoping for a full 61-day streak with this! Edit: Make that 91, as I’m extending this through June, until the next challenge starts.

I’m aiming to read at least one chapter of manga per day and to keep up with the 夜カフェ book club, as well as the SPYxFAMILY book club once it’s started. My original main, concrete goal was to finish 2.43 清陰高校男子バレー部 代表決定戦編① (which may currently be above my reading level but I’m obsessed with this series and it’s currently my main motivator for learning Japanese. I can also understand at least the gist of most of it, which is exciting!) by the end of May; however, it became clear relatively early on that that was not going to happen. Now, as long as I at least read something every day, I’m happy.

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漫画:
・舞台に咲け!② - 春園ショウ
・GREEN~農家のヨメになりたい~① - 二ノ宮知子
・GREEN~農家のヨメになりたい~② - 二ノ宮知子
・GREEN~農家のヨメになりたい~③ - 二ノ宮知子
・GREEN~農家のヨメになりたい~④ - 二ノ宮知子
・星だけが知ってる - 古矢渚
*クールドジ男子① - 那多ここね
*クールドジ男子② - 那多ここね
*クールドジ男子③ - 那多ここね
*ハイキュー!!① - 古舘春一
*ハイキュー!!② - 古舘春一
◎ボーイミーツマリア - PEYO
◎晴れのち四季部 - ひのた
◎その恋、自販機で買えますか? - 吉井ハルアキ
◎その恋、自販機で買えますか?② - 吉井ハルアキ
◎恋の仕方がわからない - まちお郁
◎SとN - 古矢渚
◎青年ドリーミー - もふもふ枝子

小説/LNs:
*夜カフェ① - 倉橋燿子

Satori Reader:
・コナの大冒険
・壁の穴

英語で:
・Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
*Café con Lychee - Emery Lee
*The Book of Three - Lloyd Alexander
◎Meet Cute Diary - Emery Lee
◎The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood

その他:
・Colloquial Kansai Japanese - DC Palter and Kaoru Horiuchi Slotsve

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I had this same experience. I still can’t really motivate myself to read a book in English. It’s awkward because I’m a bookseller. I’ve had to tell a few customers “I haven’t been reading a lot of new fiction lately …” But we did just get the English translation of Yotubato! in, so at least I can recommend that with a clear conscience! :sweat_smile:

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