Read 4 more pages of Forbidden Scrollery(2) now at 14/185 pages 7.5%.
I think it’s second day I’ve skipped IBC. However I’ve asked myself do I really miss it? is there a character whom I find interesting, and the answer after 3 weeks of reading is “no”.
Anyway my vacation is ending today, and IBC already cut time that I might spent on Touhou.
July 10th phraw, but sadly not for reading. Posting from end of day July 11th, because moving houses so behind on my updates.
July 10th からかい上手の高木さん 2 panels from page 5 of chapter 6.
Finished vol 5 of 蜘蛛ですが、なにか？ yesterday. I read over 60 pages almost in one sitting for the first time (in Japanese). The story escalated quite a bit in the last chapter, so felt compelled to keep going 
Besides, the last page was getting so close 
Took me 30 days to finish this LN (325 pages). My average pace was ~10 pages/day. Pretty much the same as when reading 氷菓 but the pages are bit larger in the LN, so I think the pace was a bit faster.
I looked up 516 words/expressions. This seems to amount to less than 2 words per page but in fact it’s much more. I just have to look up the same word over and over again. I’m too lazy to SRS it 
Now on to Vol 6 I need to find out what’s up with all the ＊spoilers＊
Just finished reading the last chapters of Polar Bear Café volume 1. I think it went pretty well, read 4 chapters per day. The start was a bit rough as the author also had to find the right balance with dosing the puns and events. It’s also a cute manga and it shows with the cover and the fontstyle. I would say it is beginner friendly with horizontal text (might be one of the few manga that has it), furigana and short chapters. Then again I found myself looking at a dictionary faster as the amount of vocab used was more varied and you gotta want to know them puns. As it’s a size smaller than regular manga volumes, the text is also smaller. In most cases that wasn’t an issue, only one panel was very hard to decipher. I really liked reading it more as I got further along, particularly the longer chapters have the better conversations.
Tomorrow I’ll start reading volume 2, trying to keep this good pace going.
Day 40
My new strategy of only looking up totally necessary words is working! I’m enjoying reading this book much, much more.
Today I read two-thirds of chapter 4 in ぼくはイエローでホワイトでちょっとブルー！
Hello, do you have space for one more in the reading room? I don’t have any page goals, just trying to do something every day.
Current book: ありす 19th vol 1 (wikipedia: ja en)
(using an English translation to catch story nuances after reading the Japanese … and trying hard not to read ahead in it )
Finished:
Possible future reading:
(Page # is where I left off…)
JULY 2020:
8: p9
9: p26
10: pg 28 
11: pg 37 (thanks insomnia!)
12: pg 40
13: -
14: pg 50
15: -
16: pg 57
17: pg 62
We’ve been waiting for you already! 
Excellent! Welcome aboard 
Summary post
July 11
・Finished Kono Oto Tomare vol 16 + 17 That’s all the free ones! 
Will read book club stuff tomorrow - totally neglected those during binge 
Well… went on a bit of a binge read this weekend - you know, for my level of Japanese reading - nothing like the ones I can do in English, but still pretty good. I read about 1.5 volumes of Love so Life over the last 2 days. Haven’t read that much in a while - there were a few chapters that were more direct continuations of the previous ones, vs more stand alone episodes, and I got hooked. Had to stop about halfway into volume 7 because my brain was getting sleepy. Things were cute, then ridiculous - I did a lot of complaining that characters were being stupid, which is pretty much par for the course of me enjoying something with any kind of romantic plot, because inevitably the characters are being a little dumb.
I also read the ABBC pick chapter for the week - haven’t followed along with a book club since my aborted attempt with Shirokuma Cafe a while (I think a couple years?) ago when grad school exams hit (though I have taken advantage of old threads when reading on my own) - I think it’ll be easier to stick with this one because I’m used to reading more now.
Following everyone’s progress is fun - I love finding out what other people are reading!
That chart is beautiful, what is generating that?and what is that left axis?
Update: oops, they’re labelled and my brain just skipped over it. Pages read ?!? =O
Day 41: July 11th
What did I read?: レンタルおにいちゃん Vol. 2 (finished) and Vol. 3
How much did I read?: 109 pages (3 chapters)
How long did it take me?: 1.25 hours
Poor Kanami, the last chapter of Vol 2 was rough. But now the tables have turned and Makoto’s “renting” her, which leads to an incredibly adorable chapter where Kanami asks Makoto what he wants to do instead of the other way around. Such sweet sibling energy between them, I love it 
Hoping I might be able to finish this series before my long weekend is over I really do need to clean my apartment at some point, too, though 
But I freaking hate cleaning ugh
That’s bookmeter.com where you can keep track of all the books 
If you sign up and link to your account here and/or in the tadoku thread, people can connect to you (and you can find their accounts and connect as well).
Thanks! Funnily enough the green from the charts made me think of Bookmeter, although pretty much all I knew about it was that people here seem to use it (and that it used a lot of green)
I have been kind of using Goodreads to track reading, but it isn’t particularly good, so I’ll try check Bookmeter out. I’ve emailed myself a reminder to checkout of Bookmeter, for when I’m less exhausted AKA more capable of actually reading the Japanese on the website =P
and since I’m here… Update time! Home post
July 11th からかい上手の高木さん Chapter 6 1 difficult panel and a few trivial ones.
Day 41
Finished chapter 4 in ぼくはイエローでホワイトでちょっとブルー、and read just a little bit of ふしぎ駄菓子屋銭天堂 volume 2, chapter 1.
5 more pages of Forbidden Scrollery(2).
Day 14
July 9
Day 15
July 10
Day 16
July 11
Day 17
July 12
So far Hanako-kun doesn’t look like my thing, but - it’s only the beginning.
It does mark 3rd series I’m currently doing where protagonist has something to do with farming:
Today I read 5 pages of ひげを剃る。そして女子高生を拾う。
Still not through the first chapter, but already seeing a lot of progress in known words and known grammar points from studying that makes reading manga a lot easier
July 8
Read 2/3 of 花のみぞ知る 3.
July 9
Read remaining 1/3 of 花のみぞ知る 3. In the end I still decided to sell the books - the art is lovely but the story just didn’t resonate with me. I still have 3 volumes of other stuff by her that I can admire/re-read in the future, so not as heartbroken as I thought I would be.
July 10-11
Was super busy for two days straight and as such fell off the reading challenge (and WaniKani) waggon. 
July 12
I had kind of already accepted that I’m still too tired to read anything today, but then late in the evening I thought I might as well read ONE page… and then I read 2. And then another. Ended up reading 12 pages of ふしぎ駄菓子屋 銭天堂 1.
This challenge is magical, I’d like to thank each and every one of you who post updates about your progress - peer pressure is the only reason I managed to read anything at all today.
Summary post
July 12
Didn’t get much reading done today. Gave Ningen Shikkaku a try, but wasn’t exactly what I needed to read right now, being a bit of a droopy plant the last few days, so to speak. Instead, re-read a bit of 冷たい密室と博士たち - Doctors in Isolated Room, chapter 1 part 6. Has been a while since last time, after all. Was all I managed today.
Long title, how to abbreviate… 
冷たい密室 
yeah
