📚📚 Read every day challenge - Summer 2021 🏖🏖

Japanese Language Reading
#1177

Summary

Woop, we made it! Feel like I very much limped over the finish line as these last two weeks have been hectic but I have read something everyday, even of sometimes it was just a couple of satori reader stories. Decided that as today was the ‘last day’ I would make a bit of an effort to put some time into reading and ended up reading another 10% of NO.6. Was a pleasant read, things are starting to pick up pace!

Realistically, as I’m in a few different bookclubs and I want to keep reading No. 6, I’ll probably end up reading at least most days even after this challenge. Might count tomorrow as I missed one day. Anyway, I might try to do some kind of sum up, but tbh I think what I found with this challenge is that reading so much manga in the first month really built my confidence and stamina with that…and then the second month showed me that novels are very hard hahahha :sweat_smile:

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#1178

29.7.
Very long day at work, but I managed to read volume 22 of One Piece.

30.7.
23-25 of One Piece.

31.7.
26-32 of One Piece.

My goal of finishing off 1Q84 book 2-1 before the weekend totally didn’t happen. I’d planned to spread one piece out over the weekend, but on top of that one super busy Thursday I (unexpectedly) have to work tomorrow too, so I condensed the last of the One Piece volumes available for free right now into one big reading day. The volumes up to 32 become unavailable in the middle of my day tomorrow, and I didn’t want to risk not finishing in time.

I feel like I need a break now and read a novel or something. :joy:

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#1179

:ballot_box_with_check: Day 59

I read the whole of chapter 13 in 僕はブルー！It’s my second time to do that, since this book is wildly challenging for me. I have to admit that I can actually sit to read it without a dictionary for the most part. Compared to the beginning… That’s amazing.

I also read a bit of the news paper! Because of 僕はブルー、the economics page was actually the most accessable :joy::skull:

:ballot_box_with_check: Day 60

I woke up early today ready to tackle another chapter. I already read 1/3, and will take the rest of today to finish chapter 14!

Since I missed 2 days, I’m gonna post here to make up for those today and tomorrow :notes: (wrap-up post foreshadowing! Yes I’m a bit of a perfectionist :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: )

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#1180

Summary post

Day 61: July 31st
What did I read?: ふらいんぐうぃっち Vol 10 and 地縛少年 花子くん Vol 1
How much did I read?: 24 pages (1 chapter) and 32 pages (1 chapter)
How long did it take me?: 33 min and 1 hour 55 min (but this time for Hanako is super inaccurate because I was filling out the vocab sheet as I read and I definitely got side-tracked for a while trying to find an explanation of this one phrase)

I had a lot of vague anxiety floating around today for some reason, and it’s always hard for me to get myself to do anything that might actually be fun or interesting under the weight of that feeling. Well today, instead of wasting my day watching reruns and flipping through the same five websites/apps for hours like I usually do when I feel like this, I channeled my vague uneasiness/anxiety into…filling out the Hanako vocab sheet? :rofl: It really helped though, actually :joy:

I…feel like I should do a reflection on the challenge now, because it’s the technical end of the challenge, but I’m also going to keep going until Aug 15th…uh

I guess I will leave my full reflection for the 15th, but I do want to mention that I finished a whopping 12 volumes of manga this month, which is by far the most Japanese I’ve ever read in a month. I also want to say good job to everyone who is finishing up their challenge today! You made it! :clap: :clap: It’s been a great 2 months, and I feel like the supportiveness of people in this thread has really encouraged me and motivated me to read every day, so thank you ^^

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#1181

Finished all the grammar points of Tobira so now I’ll probably read through the articles in the book. A lot of them are kinda dry, but I’m still interested in it so I’ll read them.

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#1182

Wiki post

July 30 Update

Since I’m all caught up with this week’s ハイキュー！！ reading, I only really have a couple of things I can read now – 君の名は, and 僕のヒーローアカデミア (the other book I don’t have access to). So I just decided to read a few pages (~5) over 30 min today. Starting a new series is always difficult due to new style of writing, and that hasn’t changed here.

July 31 Update

More 僕のヒーローアカデミア for me today. It’s been a long day so I just wanted to get some quick reading in. Only took about 30 min to read ~8 pages.

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#1183

I really need to get around to doing that. We only studied about two-thirds of the textbook in class. That was in, uh… 2013…

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#1184

Quick report for the official end of the challenge:

On 29th and 30th I read さくらえび and finished it, so there is one thing less on my plate, finally!
On 31th I picked up 殺人出産 from the Murata book club. I had 3 weeks’ worth of book club reading left over, and so I read those 3 weeks and finished the book.
Now my Bookmeter statistics is happy :slight_smile:

For the challenge itself: I basically read every day anyways, so it was not much of a “challenge” for me. But there were 2 or 3 days where I might not have read due to general busy-ness, but this challenge pushed me to at least read a page or two. So that’s definitely a win! Also, I enjoyed keeping track of my reading here in the thread (although I only ended up reporting my status about once per week or so).
I think I might continue reporting in this thread as long as there are a few others around, to keep up the fun a little bit longer :wink:

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#1185

A happy statistic is the best statistic.

I don’t quite feel like letting go of this thread either yet…
I already had a good reading habit going, but I managed to focus my attention more on not bookclub related reading during the challenge. :blush:

To the detriment of my bookclub reading, but let’s ignore that for now. I’ll find a balance eventually. :muscle:

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#1186

Teasing Master Takagi-san v2c2 complete. Punchline was lost on me during the reading as I had to look phrase テスト範囲外 up and connect the dots.

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#1187

Thanks again for making this! It’s been the motivational push I’ve needed to get into a reading routine.

It’s been fun, and I’ve learnt a lot! It feels like I’ve made actual progress with reading and recognition, even if some days I’ve been questioning if I’m unlearning English. :rofl:

Everyone’s made great progress - I don’t know how some of you manage to read so much in a day, but congrats to everyone who has reached their goals!

I’ve still got until the 12th so I’ll be updating my log each day. Gonna try to keep reading each day afterwards too.

Also, @windupbird, you’ve convinced me (and I’m pretty sure many others here) to pick up that shark manga! :shark:

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#1188

It has become tomorrow :eyes:

During this challenge I have finished 4 books (two of them I started before June 1st) and 21 volumes of manga. (Thanks to a bunch of manga being for free for a limited time period on BookWalker!) I’m also 75% through Tsumetai Misshitsu with the book club, 70% into Honzuki 5 and 35% into Rezero 1. (Almost forgot to include, I finished YuruCamp 8 during the first week with the book club, too.)

Among the goals I set at the start, I didn’t finish YagaKimi 7 and 8 nor Urara Meirochou 2 as those ended up on the bottom of my list of priorities. And as expected, Honzuki 5-7 also ended up on the back burner. Was more of an extra challenge… until the sudden change of plans when I decided to binge-read manga instead, hehe. First time I’ve read 3 vol of manga in a day - I take that as a sign that my reading speed, comprehension and stamina has improved. Wiii :partying_face:

I don’t know what my previous record was, but I finished SAO 7 in 11 days. (Will need to know for next summer.) Which means I still got some way to go until I can match the speed of the senpais I mentioned in the first post :eyes: Is going to get busy, but will try to keep on reading even if I won’t post every day. Want to finish those books I’ve started, after all :3

I wish I had stats of how many new words I’ve learned, would’ve been fun to see. (I keep fantasizing about having stats for everything, but would be hard to keep track without some kind of ever-present software to do that for me :caught_durtling: #sci-fi )

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#1189

I’m so happy people found this thread motivating :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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#1190

Just read the first chapter of おにコロリ.

Then 20 pages of いこくい!! - かざりとエリーの放課後★異国ごはん a manga about two girls writing for a magazine about foreign cuisine.

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#1191

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Day 56 :ballot_box_with_check:
Satori Reader: Secret, Episode 10.

Day 57 :ballot_box_with_check:
Satori Reader: Secret, Episode 11.

Day 58 :ballot_box_with_check:
Satori Reader: Secret, Episode 12.

Day 59 :ballot_box_with_check:
Satori Reader: Secret, Episode 13.

Day 60 :ballot_box_with_check:
Satori Reader: Secret, Episode 14.

Day 61 :ballot_box_with_check:
Satori Reader: Secret, Episode 15.

Day 62 :ballot_box_with_check:
Satori Reader: Secret, Episode 16.

I’m back! I finally got time to squeeze in an episode a day while on vacation, though I was really sleepy some of those, and this series being a bit more challenging than the ones I’ve read so far didn’t help :sob: . But my stubbornness of not wanting to fail the streak kicked in and I got it done anyway. The vacation was great, it’s been a great week.

Congratulations to every one of you that is done with the challenge :confetti_ball: :tada: . I’ll see you in the next one! As for myself, I’m still on my way to 75 days, so I still have a bit to push through :sunglasses: .

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#1192

Summary post

Day 62: August 1st Almost put July 32nd lol whoops omg this date is even more off now, why
What did I read?: 囀る鳥は羽ばたかない Vol 1 and しまなみ誰そ彼 Vol. 2
How much did I read?: 9 pages and 32 pages (1 chapter)
How long did it take me?: 30 min and 51 min

Omg, why is Saezuru harder than like every other manga, like…look at the difference in time per page. :weary: (/whining) I’m already intrigued, though now that I understand what’s going on lol. And the second volume of しまなみ誰そ彼 is starting out good as well - finally found out who the heck that was at the end of volume 1. And the interaction between Tasuku and Tsubaki…maybe I’m naive but it would make me so happy if the feelings turn out to be mutual, they so cute. But idk, I feel like I don’t have a good enough read on this manga to be able to predict what will happen with that.

Yessss :shark: :shark: :shark: :shark: :shark: :shark: :shark: :shark:

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#1193

Home.
For the 1st of August I took a much needed break from reading.
Today, the 2nd of August, I wanted to try make some progress on my backlog of Takagi-san volume 1, so I decided to try read a page or so, and then I read 7 finishing chapter 8. Only 1 more chapter to go for volume 1 (+/- a bonus chapter) and I can call it done.

I’m not going to try reading every day as I think that might wear me out a bit, so I think I’ll be trying something like a “read most days / enough within reason” challenge. Maybe it will even become a “read a few days every week challenge”. Only time will tell.

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#1194

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I was able to finish reading through Polar Bear Café volume 4 yesterday, but was too tired to post an update, so I’ll do it now. It’s a good feeling to be able to read through a series and understand enough to continue reading. There’s definitely some chapters that are more difficult than others. For now I’m trying to not dwell too long on a sentence and just move on. Either it will make sense later or I can return to it later if I feel it is necessary. Wanna say having takoboto on my phone for quick looks during reading has been great, as I’m able to return to reading without too much distractions (I do tend to not rely too much on it).

Anyway was able to read for another month on consistent basis. I’ll go back through my remaining Yotsuba volumes starting today I think.

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#1195

Well - here we are in August - I managed to get to the end without missing any days. Best day of the challenge (I think) I read an entire volume of Love so Life - can be a relatively words manga, so proud of that. Worst day(s) were usually 2-3 chapters of Chi’s Sweet Home - usually I intended to do 1, but gave myself another once I started reading because there’s relatively little text.

At the end, I’m leaning into continuing the light novel I started - I suspect it will be difficult the whole way through, but I know I’ll learn a lot (and there are plenty more volumes I can pick up if desired).

Thank you @Redglare for organizing this - it’s definitely kept me on track this summer. Even if I don’t get much else done, I’m now up to 2 Japanese things in the day - WK and reading will happen.

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#1196

:ballot_box_with_check: Day 61

Read half of chapter 15 in 僕はブルー！Meant to read the full chapter, but the story went a little off main course and so I had to learn a bunch of new words about missing children and related statistics.

I officially caught up with the full number of days. Still got a bit to read, and wanna see how long I can keep the streak from here on, so I’ll see you guys again tomorrow!

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