📚📚 Read every day challenge - Summer 2021 🏖🏖

Japanese Language Reading
#1137

Last week was rough. Mental health not so great - having lots of feelings. Not particularly motivated during the week, so I picked up volume 8 of Chi’s Sweet Home to put in at least a chapter or two before bed each night. It wasn’t much reading, but at least I kept going (and Chi is always adorable). I’m so glad that I have some ‘light’ reading available to keep things moving forward.

Yesterday I was curious enough to pick up a light novel (パパのいうことを聞きなさい) that I bought a few years ago after enjoying the anime and see where I was at as far as being able to read it. It was still a slog, but my grammar and kanji have clearly improved, since I could get the gist of most sentences. and looking up the kanji was definitely less painful than in the past (I know more of them - although I still have mixed feelings about the very limited furigana - it’s nice for practicing my recall and a bit of a confidence boost when I see and know characters, but pain in the butt for unknown kanji). Reading is very slow, 2-3 pages yesterday and another 2-3 today.

I know I’m missing things, and having moments where I recognize all the grammar but can’t seem to make it into a coherent whole, but it was very satisfying. Not sure if I’m in the right place yet to really take on reading the whole thing, but it did help get me out of my slump and into some focused studying/learning, so I’ll take it.

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#1138

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Day 56: July 26th
What did I read?: シメジ シミュレーション Vol. 2
How much did I read?: 20 pages (2 chapters)
How long did it take me?: 1 hour

Sooo this manga was definitely on my to-do list at the beginning of this challenge but I 100% forgot that I had planned to read it until just now. This is another one that I fully intended to read with the book club but then I just…didn’t xD Hoping I can mayyyybe squeeze in the rest of this volume before the official end of the challenge? I love these first 2 chapters, especially chapter 12. I want the murder cactus to be my new best friend lol

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#1139

Home post. July 27th Chapter 7 of チーズスイートホーム (1). Too exhausted to do anything else.

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#1140

7 more pages of Forbidden Scrollery(2). In the new chapter books are moving on their own. Who would you call? A ghost buster? Nah, just place a rock on books. What can possibly go wrong. Also I’m somewhat busy with my pet programming project, so I probably will reduce pace significantly.

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#1141

I have not done an update in a while as moved into a new job and been overwhelmingly busy. But I have read something everyday! Satori reader has saved me on some days, and I only managed about a page of NO. 6 yesterday before getting too sleepy but still, I’m glad to still keep doing a little bit at least :slight_smile:

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#1142

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July 27

・Read Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活１(15% → 20%)

Started another book too but it doesn’t count :caught_durtling: And an English one as well

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#1143

I only have the first chapter of 虫籠のカガステル finished it today. Then I started 魔法少女は恋しない which I also only have the first chapter of. This time it’s a magical girl manga. Only read the first half of the chapter.

It makes me sad that the challenge ends Saturday, I would love to continue.

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#1144

1Q84 Book 3: 25 Pages, up to page 97.

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#1145

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Day 57: July 27th
What did I read?: シメジ シミュレーション Vol. 2
How much did I read?: 20 pages (2 chapters)
How long did it take me?: 35 min

More casual weirdness :heart: Not gonna lie, I really want Majime’s big stuffed salamander, it’s cute as heckkk. (But honestly, オオサンショウウオ? What kind of a word is that lol, it’s so many vowels xD)

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#1146

Home post July 28th read chapter 8 of チーズスイートホーム (1) and translated 1 difficult panel from からかい上手の高木さん (2). Another day of being way too tired for anything more, and even feeling too tired for this.

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#1147

Forbidden Scrollery (2), 14 pages in one day, end of chapter 第十二話. Not bad considering I wanted to slow down.

Word of last two days is 付喪神

Tsukumogami - Wikipedia
For only reason I wrote it down yesterday and today I remembered both its reading and meaning.
I’m playing with a format for writing down unknown interesting words, current one is

付喪神 【つくもがみ】[n] artifact spirit; in folk belief, long-lived objects (household objects, living beings, nature, etc.) become inhabited by a spirit
 付 Kun: つ-> つく; adhere; attach; refer to; append
 喪 Kun: も; miss; mourning
 神 Kun: かみ; gods; mind; soul

喪 is hard to remember, but I remember that deepl believes 付喪神 is a mourning god, and since neither 付 nor 神 are about morning, 喪 is the only candidate for grieving.
Today there were no word that seemed to be worth writing down.

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#1148

Unfortunately weird things in my life turned into bad things in my life after all, and my reading speed slowed down to a crawl, but I still did something every day.
What’s more, at this point I ambitiously would like to try to do a 100-day streak. :thinking:

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Day 30
July 25

  • カラフル (25 → 30%)

Day 31
July 26

  • 乙女ゲームの破滅フラグしかない悪役令嬢に転生してしまった…5 (37% → 39%)

Day 32
July 27

  • 乙女ゲームの破滅フラグしかない悪役令嬢に転生してしまった…5 (39% → 42%)

Day 33
July 28

  • 乙女ゲームの破滅フラグしかない悪役令嬢に転生してしまった…5 (42% → 44%)

Thank you for your response :heart:

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#1149

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July 28

・Read Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活１(20% → 21%) Just a few pages, was probably less than 1% :eyes:

Not Japanese stuff

I finished English book :caught_durtling: Great book! Has interesting format - quite the visual experience. Reminded me that I like sci-fi, totally forgot. It’s called “Illuminae”, and is written by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. I won’t write about the plot - not good at not spoiling stuff, but one thing I can mention is that it is set in the future and outer space. (Which means there are futuristic words. I enjoyed those.)

I’m super impressed at how much work must have been put into every detail of the story and the format/layout. Very design, much wow :ok_hand: I’ll probably start the sequel tomorrow, bought that one too years ago. I feel like I’ve read these before but I can’t remember xD

Anyway, did non-Japanese stuffs today:P

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#1150

26.7.
I finished the 2nd half of chapter 10 of 1Q84 book 2-1. :partying_face: I also read One Piece volumes 11-14.

27.7.
Yesterday I read another 3 volumes of One Piece, 15-17, and finished off volume 5 of the 電子版 of 異世界妹. Volume 6 gets released on the 30th! :slight_smile: Wonder if it’s going to be part of unlimited right off the bat…

28.7
Today I read yet another few volumes of One Piece, 18-21, and chapter 11 of 1Q84. which means… I’m actually caught up the next chapter is the one we’re currently reading. I’ll try to finish the last chapter by the weekend and then devote some time to 人間失格 on the weekend itself.

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#1151

1Q84 Book 3, 18 pages. 37% complete

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#1152

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Day 58: July 28th
What did I read?: シメジ シミュレーション Vol. 2
How much did I read?: 24 pages (2 chapters)
How long did it take me?: 1 hour

Enjoyable chapters, as always. What a great cactus pun :joy: Also, I love this weird image of ancient civilization they arrive at in Chapter 16, with the mosasaurus that wears glasses :joy:

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#1153

Home post. July 29th another exhausted day, and chapter 9 of チーズスイートホーム (1) ended up being a difficulty spike too much for my tired brain to read in one go, so I dabbled in a few panels before heading back to do ~6 panels of catch-up from からかい上手の高木さん (1). I’m hoping tomorrow will be more significant progress, it’s all just been a bit exhausting with work.

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#1154

:ballot_box_with_check: Days 56 and 57

Finished chapter 11, and read half of chapter 12! I did have to take one day off just to sleep. But I plan on making that (and my other missing day) up in the days following the challenge :notes:

I’m getting close to the end of this book! Just 4 more chapters.

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#1155

OK welll… Last week’s 冷たい密室 weekly assignment was really long, so it took me from 18th to 27th :exploding_head: to read it! (I was also very busy otherwise, so I did read every day but on some days I could not do more than one or two pages). Then I immediately continued with this week’s assignment (which was a bit shorter luckily) and read it all on 27th and 28th :grin:

Today I realized that I did not finish a single book this month, which needs to be changed for the sake of my Bookmeter statistics! So I decided to finish a book called さくらえび that I have sitting on my shelf for far too long, and also it belongs to @Belerith and I want to return it at some point (maybe soon-ish). So these are all very good reasons for finishing it, I think.

About さくらえび

The book contains a bunch of very short episodes taken from the life of the mangaka Sakura Momoko (or so it seems), written from a first-person POV. Some of them are really funny (mainly when she talks about her family, especially her father), but some are about famous people she interacted with, and as I don’t know these people, I can’t really relate to the stories, so it feels a bit weird at times. Therefore it was a bit of a mixed bag, and I would not particularly recommend this book to anybody :wink:

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#1156

Yesterday
魔法少女は恋しない！ Episode.01 It was just a chapter not the whole manga. I love those magical girl manga. My secret dream is to become a magical girl one day. Then I will just mount a broom and fly to a better place.

人形のアサ It’s just the first chapter. From the premise people would imagine it to be something super pervy. But actually it’s not, but a rather cute manga. The protagonist finds a love doll prototype which can move and talk, and takes her home. The doll is thankful and wants to thank him with her body lol. Instead she cleans the dudes room and finds his pervy manga collection. She is totally interested and starts to read them. It seems the protagonist’s job is writing erotic novels.

Today
I read the first chapter of 魔法少女にあこがれて ストーリアダッシュ連載版. Utena the protagonist really likes magical girls. One day a mascot appears and tells her she is chosen. But instead of being chosen becoming a magical girl, she is chosen to be a villainess. Lol she really enjoys making cute magical girls suffer.

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