July 13
I didn’t have much time I only read 2 pages Parasite Eve, some pages in manga magazines and did some catching up with the grammar club.
12524 pages read
Lol some members here have lots of books to read. As for me I only have 12 unread books in japanese. It’s probably a good time to buy some more. 
  Date |
book | time / pages  |
|---|---|---|
| 14/7 |  |
40min, 30p |
Read ch.127 for tomorrow’s bookclub, and also did looking up some words and filling vocab sheet. Also randomly read some of the wiki article on the series and some other google results while I was searching for something
*度肝を抜く どぎもをぬく= to astonish, to astound, to take (someone) aback, to boggle the mind (of someone)
*尻毛を抜く しりげをぬく= to take someone by surprise, to startle someone
*傍若無人 ぼうじゃくぶじん= behaving outrageously as though there were no one around, acting without consideration for others, arrogance, audacity, insolence
*自由奔放 じゆうほんぽう= free and uncontrolled, behaving with abandon, freewheeling
*反りが合わない そりがあわばい=unable to get along, not seeing eye to eye
７月１４日
極限脱出 9時間9人9の扉 (12k characters)
More juicy developments. I was going to go bed earlier but the game said no. And I said okay.
*尻毛を抜く
not the butt hair 
some of these Japanese expressions get me
Day 11: July 11th 
名探偵コナン Volume 16 (0% ➨ 5%)
Day 12: July 12th 
ひよ恋 Volume 3 (61% ➨ 91%)
からかい上手の高木さん Volume 13 (13% ➨ 13%)
名探偵コナン Volume 16 (5% ➨ 7%)
Day 13: July 13th 
ひよ恋 Volume 3 (91% ➨ 100%)
ひよ恋 Volume 4 (0% ➨ 29%)
It’s easy to see which days I go in the office to work because those are the days I read ひよ恋 on my e-reader.
Since Detective Conan sometimes requires too many lookups to be enjoyable on the e-reader, I may need to stick ARIA or ないしょのプリンセス on there. Or else break my “don’t start any new series yet” rule and put one of the series I expect to be an easy read on it.
I enjoy mine immensely.
Upsides:
Downsides:
I was going take a photo of the ghosting, but for some reason I cannot reproduce it now… It was happening when I read on it yesterday, and it’s been offline the whole time so no updates occurred. Odd.
July 14th!
Today I read a chapter of Teasing Master Takagi-san. It was a cute one 
(…they are all cute ones…)
Do you happen to have books recs/books you’re excited to read? 
Gonna be wrapping up コーヒーが冷めないうちに which is my first book, and I have no clue what to read next! Just want to get some perspective from someone who’s been piling on tsundoku lol
July 14
Read through page 32 of コンビニ人間, making me now officially caught up with the book club! Now I can ease off and start reading other stuff, too 
also read around 70 pages of 名探偵コナン vol. 1, getting to the start of File 7 - only around 50 more pages to go! Then home for more writing practice and an hour or so of playing Pokémon lol
織り交ぜる（おりまぜる）- to weave together, to interweave
語尾（ごび）- the end of a word/sentence
対照的（たいしょうてき）- contrasting
喋る（しゃべる）- to talk (first time seeing it in kanji!)
極秘（ごくひ）- absolute secrecy
I’m sure this is hard to speak to, but does anyone have any tips for drowning out the furigana noise? Something that I like with 見える子ちゃん is that it actually has very little furigana. I just took a quick look at D.N.Angel and was reminded how difficult it can be to just read kanji that I’m perfectly familiar with whenever there is furigana hanging out next to it.
You look like someone who would enjoy 世界から猫が消えたなら.
Are you planning to read the digital version? It helps that a lot of the furigana is slightly blurred (thanks to a lot of text being printed on dark backgrounds) and hard to read so if you don’t zoom in, it’s easier to ignore.
７月１４日 (Home Post Link)
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If it’s 積読本 confession time… I thought my stack was bad but now I feel a little better (I try to only put stuff i own physically on there, i don’t want to know what it is with all the digital stuff I have… 
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I’ve also banned myself from buying any new stuff until it gets at least back under 100 volumes 
Fair point. 7" screen “helps” with that too XD
Probably just need to get used to it.
I assume all of you with a tsundoku in the hundreds must be including manga, and probably whole series? Otherwise I’ll be doubly impressed!
For reference i have completed 19 novels this year, so a 21 book tsundoku means I probably couldn’t finish my unread books this year. And with the speed I tend to buy more books, likely not next year either. If these were manga, it would be somewhat easier to make a dent in them.
Yesterday I did finish this week’s あん like I was planning. Unsure what I’ll read today (if I find the time), but I’m definitely in the mood for something spooky, or at least weird. I think the Japanese have the right idea with horror stories in the summer. 
Bonus update: I managed the energy to at least get a couple thousand characters deeper in 硝子の塔の殺人, and I’m at least over 5% done. I also learned that ttsu has a progress bar:
This feels worse than just looking at “5.47%” haha. Outside of the exceptions of certain descriptive parts I don’t find this difficult to read, but it still takes a lot out of me. With the exception of the Soseki stuff, which was very short form, guess I’ve been chilling in easier media, or stuff that at least paces itself with easy conversations interspersed, for a bit (and sometimes voice acting, too, helping to take some of the burden of remembering off me).
I read the book while listening to the audiobook at the same time (both audible and audiobook.jp have their own versions for it). It definitely helped me with speed. Something to consider if you like to have voice acting while you read.
I began スーパーの裏でヤニ吸うふたり with the BBC today! I read pages 3-5 and while the grammar wasn’t terrible, the amount of unknown vocabulary for me was. I knew at my level, though, that this was going to be challenging. I will continue to aim for two to three pages a day and ask questions to the club as need be; they have already been super helpful.
Excited to see what awaits poor Tayama!
Oh thanks, good to know! I’ll consider it. Would surely help me out in that way. Normally I’m using visual novels and the like so I benefit from still advancing line by line to catch any words I miss – would have to weigh the speed benefit against how much I think I’m gonna miss / how frequently I’d have to stop it to get something.
Just gonna say that I did pause the audiobook a lot to look up words or consider what I just heard/read. Not everyone would enjoy doing that of course, and only you know what works best for you, I’m just saying this so I don’t give the wrong impression I read the whole book at fluent audiobook speed.
Even with frequent pausing it still helped me read faster though, and it definitely helped with not needing to work out whether someone said something angrily, or timidly or whatever, because the actors did the work for me.
| 8日 |  |
桜蘭高校ホスト部 | 1 | 76% → 85% |
| 9日 | |
桜蘭高校ホスト部 | 1 | 85% → 88% |
 |
コンビニ人間 | 11% → 15% | ||
 |
アオのハコ | 2 | 23% → 33% | |
| 10日 |  |
夜カフェ | 1 | 57% → 62% |
| 11日 | |
夜カフェ | 1 | 62% → 71% |
| 12日 |  |
三ツ星カラーズ | 1 | 20% → 31% |
| 13日 | |
夜カフェ | 1 | 71% → 77% |
| 14日 | |
夜カフェ | 1 | 77% → 83% |
|
コンビニ人間 | 15% → 18% |
Fortunately 桜蘭高校ホスト部 was a little easier to read again (compared to the week before). Unfortunately we voted, that for the next volume weekly parts of 35 pages will be okay 
I hoped that we would split those chapters. I will try reading volume 2 along with the club, but if it still feels too tedious I might drop it and come back to it later. But I want to give volume 2 this chance 
Compared to this, コンビニ人間 feels so much easier. I guess this is thanks to the excellent vocabulary sheet 
I have no problems at all (until now) to read the weekly parts in one sitting. When I arrive at the last line for the week I am in fact always surprised that I already reached it.
And as you might see, I am currently trying to finish volume 1 of 夜カフェ. I want to get this off my reading-list. I kind of like it, but it is not interesting enough to get me hooked. So I just want to finish it and start something else instead
