September 23rd!
Another long day, but it all turned out ok in the end so I’m in a much better state for reading today!
I read Chapter 23 of Happiness. My favourite character got hurt though 
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September 23 
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I ended up doing other stuff today so we’re gonna count the passage I read in class today, about robots! It all works 
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I played some more ACNH, though it didn’t end up being much today. I also didn’t really catch anything today, and I definitely didn’t catch any 海の幸 (what’s it called in the ENG? Seafood? Sea creatures? I don’t remember and it’s kinda been bugging me); I mostly just donated some stuff and found Gulliver’s lost phone parts. The way he talks is really annoying, but at least he generally switches off between hiragana and katakana every word, rather than it all being in katakana.
I also read 2 more chapters of HQ vol 28 and watched はじめてのおつかい ep 10-11.
Some vocab of note:
鮮烈 (せんれつ) [noun, な-adj.] vivid; striking
サバを読む (サバをよむ) [expression, マ五] to manipulate figures to one’s advantage; to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one’s age. Or, in this case, height. (I wonder how this came about from “reading mackerel”?)
八面六臂 (はちめんろっぴ) [四字熟語, noun] competent in all fields; jack of all trades; versatile; all-round
取り越し苦労 (とりこしぐろう) [noun] overanxiety; needless worry
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Day 85: September 23rd 
The project that’s kept me busy this week is almost complete (I think), so hopefully I can get in some Splatoon 3 extra reading this weekend.
からかい上手の(元)高木さん Volume 7 (59% ➨ 66%)
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ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 48
2 days ago
Start - 14
Yesterday whoops 
Today
14 - 18
I can’t believe Giorno jumped out a window like that. I had completely forgotten
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The Tanuki Falling Leaf Party: Date 20220924 
吾輩は狸である progress: 34.65% 
Wagahai-cat has no time for the troubles of humans, he just wants to sleep. But then proceeds to judge master for only managing to read a few lines of his book each night before dozing off… and he sleeps with his mouth open, such behaviour would never be seen in a majestic cat.
Japanese found within the acorns
Meowords
蚯蚓「みみず」ー Earthworm
窶れる「やつれる」ー To become haggard; to become gaunt
松風「まつかぜ」ー Sound of the wind blowing through the pine trees (new favourite word)
乳呑児「ちのみご」ー Suckling baby; baby (cradled) in arms
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I don’t practice reading as much as I should, but I have two weeks off work now and I want to start reading a manga series consisting of 4 volumes called 足芸少女こむらさん.
I attempted to read it around half a year ago but my lack of vocabulary had made it a really effortful process, though I did work through the first volume.
I opened the book up again rather recently and could now read it with much more ease, so I’m giving it another go and want to finish the series.
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September 24th!
I read Chapter 10 of Orange today. I had to look up way less vocab than I usually do so that was cool 
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2022-09-25T01:38:00Z
Well, I just finished 実は私は ３ today. That means I’ve read four whole volumes of manga in less than three months. That’s an improvement since I’ve started this reading challenge last year. My vocabulary is still lacking and my grammar is basic but I find myself recognising more and more kanji, especially ones that I’ve learnt on WaniKani. Reading manga is a great reinforcing tool for my memorisation of kanji.
I still have a week to go before the end of this phase of the challenge but I don’t want to start a new manga. So I’ll go back to what I used to do in my first challenge: reading anisong lyrics to the music. I wonder if the songs will be more comprehensible to me now. 
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September 24 Home Post
Busy again so just snuck in a teensy bit of ブルーロック for the sake of it, nothing too wild!
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Man, I was excited to get home from work today for all the reading I was gonna do, but today ended up being a bad brain day, and then the neighbors decided to have a party and blast music all evening and into the night (I definitely still heard some at 9:30, over my own music on headphones—not earbuds, which some people call headphones for some godforsaken reason when they’re not, on actual headphones—but it’s 11:20 now and thankfully all is quiet), which definitely didn’t help things, bleh
I played ACNH for a little bit, and since today the information center finished upgrading, that meant I still had quite a bit to read anyway. I hope no other day has an announcement as long as that…
I read 2 chapters of HQ vol 28 and 1 page of 明日をくれた君に.
Some vocab of note:
おのぼりさん [noun] countryside people (in town); visitor from the country; out-of-towner; country bumpkin (visiting the big city). In this case, it was おのぼりカラスさん lol
はるばる [adverb] from afar; over a great distance; all the way
秋めく (あきめく) [自カ五] to become autumnal
In the name of book clubs, I did end up getting another book haul. A third of them are current/upcoming/future book club books, and the rest, aside from the first バッテリー novel, are either single-volume stories or continuations of ones I’ve already started. They’re scheduled to get here on the 11th, so I’ve got time to finish at least a few more on my 積読 pile before then. Hopefully, lol
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I’m technically not participating in this challenge ‘officially’ since it ended, but I just passed my yearly goal of 5000 pages read and wanted to celebrate somewhere. 
Last year I had the same goal and ended at 5528 and this year, assuming I keep roughly the same pace, I should end at around 6800 pages. I guess maybe now I should reframe it from ‘goal’ to ‘minimum’ to acknowledge my reading speed increasing.
For comparison in 2020 I read 2327 pages so the year over year increases appear to be slowing. I guess the next goal-type step would be 10k pages, but honestly 10k+ pages a year would be in the ballpark of 30+ books in a year and that feels like it would tip from ‘enjoyable’ to ‘painful’ unless I was purely reading light and breezy content.
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からかい上手の高木さん Volume 8 (55% ➨ 66%)
orange Volume 3 (31% ➨ 54%)Sep 25, Sun of Week 13 of Summer 
2022
I should progress a little before planning and discussing the next week (Monday).
I finished HUNTER x HUNTER Vol.7 yesterday, perhaps read about half of volume in one day; and somehow keeping consistency of at least 1 volume per week.
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September 22-25 
十角館の殺人, chapter 9
Grammar: Yeah, I gave up on that. I may restart it next month? We’ll see.
So I read a little ahead of the mystery club and I’m now all done with next week’s reading portion. This was a huge chapter compared to the previous ones, but easy to read, because so much happened. I’m now seriously torn. I want to read ahead so much - there’s only a week remaining after this one, and we’re so close to the final solution to the puzzle. But I also want to speculate like crazy. I have so many theories in my head, it would be nice to take my time and try to put them in some kind of order. So in theory I should read something else this week and then read with the club again. Will I have the self-control to do that? 
Stay tuned to find out.
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The Tanuki Falling Leaf Party: Date 20220925
吾輩は狸である progress: 35.30% 
All are sleeping soundly, except Wagahai-cat who is judging everyone in their sleep.
But what’s that noise, an intruder? (!!)
Japanese found within the acorns
Meowords
天真爛漫「てんしんらんまん」ー Naivete; simplicity; innocence
凱歌「がいか」ー Victory song
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September 25th.
Today I intended to read two chapters of Shadows House, but i missed the second chapters end so I ended up reading three 
This story gets more and more interesting with each chapter. It was actually pretty tough to make myself stop reading even though I’d already gone too far!
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September 25
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耳をすませば - This week’s reading
Billy Summers - 2 chapters so far today
So I keep reading only every few days. But I did do the weekly reading for 耳をすませば. Keeps being interesting. Wish we read it a little quicker so I’d get to understand what the story was about. xD
Also started a new novel in English, this time by Stephen King. His author voice is very strong, and I started reading it right after an almost nap (I was daydreaming, thinking about things and kinda slipped a little into sleep). And my fourth covid shot hit me the hardest (somehow each one gets a bit worse 
), so I’ve been tired. I only stopped reading because I needed to make dinner (in fact dinner is being made as I write this, I wasn’t gonna watch water coming to a boil, was I?), and my head feels very stuffed. But I think it is more the almost nap, than the book.
His author voice/stories are very compelling. But they sure take you for a ride. (I haven’t read much by him, but I instantly slipped into the story and it felt familiar because of King’s strong author voice. I haven’t read this novel before.)
I have a feeling that I need to dive back into the book quick though, if I want to keep reading it at all, so I don’t associate it with this feeling of brain-tired-to-the-point-of-feeling-like-it-is-stuffed-with-candy-floss. So might read more today.
But I think I’ve also decided I want to challenge myself to read all of volume 2 of Orange before October starts, that would achieve two goals: I’d actually finish something this month which would be nice, and I’d be so much closer to catching up to Orange. (My original thought was to challenge myself to catch up, but that is 6 chapters and I only have five days (not including today), so that is a bit much to ask from my current pace.)
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Stuff happened, haven’t been reading much lately, but I’m ready to get back on the horsie. As such, I’m behind on both of the book clubs I’m in (Loopers and Spice & Wolf), so it’s time to play catch-up.
Today I reread parts of Spice & Wolf (24-26%).
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ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 48
18 (no progress)
だめだね だめよ だめなのよ
Had to pick between sleep, showering, and reading last night. I chose showering lol
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