# 📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 ☃❄ **URL:** \ **Category:** Reading\ **Created:** [December 28, 2022, 3:10am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883 "2022-12-28T03:10:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 35
**Author:** ![omk3](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/omk3/32/411137_2.png) [@omk3](https://community.wanikani.com/u/omk3)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/681 "2023-01-18T12:30:57Z")
**January 17** ✔🥃 **チュベローズで待ってる AGE32** , start-14% **January 18** ✔💃 **おばちゃんたちのいるところ** , 70-78% I’m still in a very unmotivated mood for some reason. Yesterday I started the second book of チュベローズで待ってる, just because other people in the club had already started and I wanted to read the spoilers. At first I read it without much interest, but it very quickly managed to reel me back in, so I read three chapters in a row and would probably have continued if I had the time. Then today I caught up with the Wild Ladies book club. Not sure if it’s my mood or the book, but it feels less interesting than it did in the beginning, and quite hard. I’m sure part of it is the short story format, but also some stories feel harder, and with less reward, than others. From today’s two stories, one I liked, but the other one, I didn’t get the point of it at all. If I have time/energy I may read some more チュベローズで待ってる today, or I may not. ---
**Author:** ![Cathm2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/cathm2/32/301717_2.png) [@Cathm2](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Cathm2)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 1:39pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/682 "2023-01-18T13:39:45Z")
Still not managed to read much. 18/1 6 pages シャドーハウス I leave Japan tomorrow 😭 So I’ll probably read on the plane, though I suspect I’ll need a nap too! I have a suitcase full of manga - I did buy the 10 volume pack I was looking at, plus volumes 13 and 14 - planning to go to the nearby Mandarake and buy 11-12 in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![nyxqueenofshadows](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/nyxqueenofshadows/32/400406_2.png) [@nyxqueenofshadows](https://community.wanikani.com/u/nyxqueenofshadows)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/683 "2023-01-18T14:31:26Z")
[home post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/22) **18th jan** continuing with 蟲師 vol 2, chapter 4 flew by! of the stories in this volume this is definitely the one i’ve liked the most so far, it has the same vibes as the stories that drew me in in the first one. it’s about a guy who’s been trying to capture a strange rainbow to show to his ailing father, but also about purpose in life (seems to be running theme in the volume actually…). like a lot of these stories the ending is a little bittersweet. probably the easiest chapter to follow too! words that stood out: 架ける (かける, just when i think i’ve seen all the かけるs, there’s another one for specifically for bridges (or in this case rainbows)), やけ (despair), 闇雲 (reckless, haphazard, abrupt. initially thought this had a similar meaning to 黒雲, which would have made sense in context, but no!), and 近しい (intimate, close. related to 親しい, which can be read the same way) ---
**Author:** ![Natsuha](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/natsuha/32/489971_2.png) [@Natsuha](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Natsuha)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/684 "2023-01-18T14:54:53Z")
Day 16 Today I only read 13 pages of a manga magazine. But at least I managed to pass the reading part of my japanese test. Should some miracle happen and I somehow manage to pass the writing and speaking part I will again have much more time for reading. 1422 pages read 18578 to go ---
**Author:** ![polv](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/polv/32/572691_2.png) [@polv](https://community.wanikani.com/u/polv)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/685 "2023-01-18T15:29:15Z")
**Jan 18, Wed** of [Week 4](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/57362/102) of [Winter Q1 2023 ☃❄](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/59883/11) - Happiness Vol.8-10 (end series) The answer is in author note of the last volume. - うたわれるもの > **Interesting words** > > - いきむ = to bear down during childbirth. Kanji form is 息(いき)む. > - うなされる = to cry out in own’s sleep. Kanji form is 魘(うな)される. > - のめす(.) = to make someone fall forward. Intransitive pair is のめる = to tumble forward. > - こうむる = to receive (damage, kindness). Kanji forms are 被(こうむ)る and 蒙(こうむ)る. > - サンマ = [Pacific saury (a kind of fish)](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9E). Kanji form is 秋刀魚(さんま). > - なれのはて = a ruin of what someone once was. Kanji form is 成(な)れの果(は)て. > - 弄(いじ)くる = to tamper with. Probably similar to 弄(いじ)る. Not sure about 弄(もてあそ)ぶ. > - 華(はな)やぐ = to become cheerful / to prosper > - 粋(いき) = stylish > - 余興(よきょう) = side performance > - 作法(さほう) = etiquette; manners > - 小言(こごと) = scolding > - ひ孫(まご) = great grandson = 曾孫(ひまご) = 曾孫(ひいまご). The 曾(ひい) can also be attached elsewhere, like 曾祖母(ひいばあ)さん. > - 収束(しゅうそく) = resolving to normal / convergence (e.g. of light) > - 還暦(かんれき) = 60th birthday anniversary. Probably I might learn the whole series of this later. > - 命中(めいちゅう) = hitting the mark. Somehow aim/target is a distinctive meaning of [命(めい)](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/kanji/%e5%91%bd/). > - 交錯(こうさく) = complication (complicate matter). Second Kanji from 錯覚(さっかく). > - 宿願(しゅくがん) = long standing desire > - 俯瞰(ふかん) = bird’s eye view > - 韜晦(とうかい) = concealing one’s talent > - 饗宴(きょうえん) = a feast; banquet. First Kanji is specifically used for banquet. > - 骨董(こっとう) = an antique > - 贋物(にせもの) = counterfeit; forgery = 偽物(にせもの) > - 無知蒙昧(むちもうまい) = ignorant > - 面目躍如(めんもくやくじょ) = demonstrative of one’s worth > > ### SFX > > - しみじみ = keenly; deeply; heartily > > ### Kanji > > - 曾(ソウ) (曽()) > > - 弄(ロウ) > > - 贋(ガン) ---
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[🦝 📚 **The Tanuki Kotatsu Reading Den** ❄ 🦝](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/19) **January 18th** 新書太閣記 progress: 02.61% // Volume I: 30.29% 🧂 How is it the 18th already?? Anyway, started and finished the next chapter: **塩** しお > **Words found under the kotatsu** > > **貧苦** 「ひんく」ー the hardships of poverty; serious poverty > **嫁入り** 「よめいり」ー Marriage; wedding > **錆刀** 「さびがたな」ー Rusty sword; useless sword > **齎す** 「またらす」ー To bring (news; knowledge etc.); to introduce; to bring out; to cause; to produce > **剃刀** 「かみそり」ー Razor > **夏木立** 「なつこだち」ー Grove in summer > **鬱蒼** 「うっそう」ー Thick; dense; luxuriant > > **Forms** > 繞る ＝ 巡る「ぬぐる」(to go around; to surround; to circle) > **Character Name List** > > Probably some spoilers, but this is a historic novel, so can spoilers really exist for things that have (for the most part) actually happened 🤔 > > **Main** > **Hideyoshi** : 豊臣秀吉「とよとみ ひでよし」 > – – – Childhood name: 日吉「ひよし」 > – – – Childhood nickname: 猿「さる」 > > **Volume I: 1535 - 15??** > **日吉「ひよし」- Hideyoshi (as child)** > Nickname: 猿「さる」 > > Family > 木下弥右衛門「きのした やえもん」- Father > 筑阿弥「ちくあみ」ー Step-father > 大政所「おおまんどころ」// also お奈加「おなか」ー Mother > おつみ - Older sister > 小竹「こちく」- Baby brother > 加藤清正「かとう きよまさ」// also 弾正「だんじょう」- Ojisan (only distantly related (before marriage)) > – Married to: おえつ (sister of お奈加) > > Friends & Acquaintances > 仁王「におう」- Big kid friend > 於福「おふく」(Nickname - full name: 福太郎「ふくたろ」) // 楊景福「ようけいふく」(Chinese name/birth name) - Timid kid friend (older than Hideyoshi) > – 五郎大夫 「ごろ だゆう」// 祥瑞「しょうずい」(Chinese name) - Father > – 梨琴「りきん」- Mother > 捨次郎「すてじろう」- Previous servant to 五郎, later the adoptive father of 於福, and owner of a tea ware shop - and employer of, and master to, Hideyoshi > > Others > 織田信秀「おだ のぶひで」- Daimyo > – 織田与三郎「おだ よさぶろう」- Younger brother > 今川義元「いまがわ よしもと」- Daimyo > 斯波義統「しば よしむね」- Daimyo (head of the Shiba clan) at Kiyosu castle > 渡辺天蔵「わたなべ てんぞう」- Nobushi > 蜂須賀小六「はちすか ころく」(also 正勝 「まさかつ」) - Daimyo > > > **Historical People** > > > > - 阿倍仲麻呂「あべ の なかまろ」ー Japanese scholar & poet (around 700AD) > > > > - 白楽天「はく きょい」ー Late 700s Chinese poet (Bai Juyi / Bo Juyi) also known as: 白楽天「はく らくてん」in Japan. > > > > - 道元「どうげん」(or 道元禅師「どうげん ぜんじ」ー Japanese Buddhist Priest, writer & poet (Early to mid 1200s) (also known as 栄西禅師「えいさい ぜんじ」) > > > > - 空海「くうかい」ー The one and only Kukai or Kobo Daishi - a Buddhist monk. Posthumously given the title of: 弘法大師「こうぼう だいし」born as: 佐伯 眞魚「さえき の まお」(late 700s to early 800s) ---
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**January 18th** ☃ [Home post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/13) ❄ **Card Captor Sakura volume 6 & volume 7 – progress report** **Yesterday** : Continued up to **page 175** **Today** : Continued up to **page 189** , finished **chapter 26** and **volume 6**. 🎉 Began reading **volume 7** , read up to **page 20**. I’m done with volume 6 and started the next one. The latter started with another introduction of all characters – yet again. That would be 3rd time? 🤔Are these introductions supposed to initiate the coming arc? Are they there because Card Captor Sakura used to be serialised in magazines or something and people needed a refresher after so many weeks? Frankly, I don’t quite care but it always confuses me a little (though I don’t hate them when it comes to reading them because they aren’t too hard to understand). > [@Memoria](#): > > I’m in this awful place where I feel like I might get sick any minute. Slightly itchy throat, but not enough to say I’m unwell. I hope you get well soon without getting sick in the first place! 🤞 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– _ **Word or expression of the day:** _ 迷惑 - (めいわく) - trouble, bother, annoyance, nuisance ---
**Author:** ![sddsdd](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/sddsdd/32/517529_2.png) [@sddsdd](https://community.wanikani.com/u/sddsdd)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/688 "2023-01-18T17:47:11Z")
[Home Post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/52) Day 17 Progress: お隣の天使様 5.5 SS冊子 - 13.47% → 16.54% Eugh… didn’t get to do any of my manga chapters yesterday because the manga hit a technical part (describing how to make lures) and it became too much of a hassle to read. Curse you, slice-of-life manga with a focus on a particular subject… Word of the Day: 我わが物顔ものがお - looking or acting as if one owned the place. Fairly obvious phrase but fitting all the same. > [@Memoria](#): > > I can’t believe I read manga like this all the time in middle school and thought it was great 😭 Middle/high school was a different time… the sheer amount of awful shoujo manga I would devour without batting an eye, sometimes I wish I could go back to those days of simple gratification lmao. ---
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## ❄`Day 18, 18th of January` ❄ 📖 [Back to my Home Post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/59883/17) Only [one story](https://drdru.github.io/stories/4_07_smith.html) today, got distracted. 😔 However, what a pleasant surprise: the new friend I saw yesterday in the preview has another appearance, and it’s even animated! He’s making equipment that is a sold in shop together with magic potions. ---
**Author:** ![Memoria](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/memoria/32/33259_2.png) [@Memoria](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Memoria)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/690 "2023-01-18T19:40:52Z")
❄ ☃ [Home Post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/21) ☃ ❄ ➳ **January 18th.** **What** : NHK Easy news **Pages** : One article. **Time** : 5 minutes. I think I’ve decided Wednesdays are the worst! You’d think it would be Monday, but I’m all charged up and okay again after the weekend. On Wednesdays I run out of steam and get home feeling like I’ve aged 5 years. Today I read one NHK news article and fell asleep on the couch 🫠 In better news, I went to Japanese class again. Today was the day I realized this course will mostly revolve around speaking… Which is… I have not been doing any speaking whatsoever since I started studying. We were doing basic introductions and the teacher told me to embellish my job title a little. Apparently university employees who are not researchers or teachers have low status in Japan? So she told me to call myself a 研究アドバイザー to sound more important lol. Speaking was fun and I think I’m finally mature enough to not be embarrassed when being corrected. Also I was complimented on my pronunciation. Maybe she was being polite but I’ll take it. It’s Wednesday, I deserve this > **Replies!** > > > [@Midnightblue](#): > > > > I hope you get well soon without getting sick in the first place! 🤞 > > Thank you! ❤ I appreciate that. > > > [@sddsdd](#): > > > > Middle/high school was a different time… the sheer amount of awful shoujo manga I would devour without batting an eye, sometimes I wish I could go back to those days of simple gratification lmao. > > Oh, totally. I could read for hours, days and weeks and never think about whether something was “good” or not. I’m getting picky in my old age and find myself dropping things immediately if they annoy me now, haha. ---
**Author:** ![Reyam](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/reyam/32/783994_2.png) [@Reyam](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Reyam)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/691 "2023-01-18T21:29:06Z")
**January 18th** ❄ [Home Post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/296) **Reading 僕だけがいない街 Vol. 1** page 39 → page 49 Finally got to read a bit today even though this week is pure chaos 😂 Prepping for the defense of my thesis but trying to make room for a bit of reading still. ✌ Also learned the best expression ever from today’s reading session: 惰眠をむさぼる = To sleep all day; to idle away one’s time ---
**Author:** ![Laser](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/laser/32/469389_2.png) [@Laser](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Laser)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 10:13pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/692 "2023-01-18T22:13:21Z")
[Homepost](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/435) Today I reread the whole chapter 8 of Harry Potter 1 while listening to the audio book. I don’t do this for each chapter, but sometimes I feel like it. There are alot of words that I can get the meaning but have no idea how to pronounce them. So the audio can help immensely and I don’t need to look everything up in a dictionary. Unfortunately however, the audio book does not use the exact same text as the print version. Anyways, phrase of the day: うずうずする - itching to do something / being impatient to do something Happy reading! ---
**Author:** ![Natsuha](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/natsuha/32/489971_2.png) [@Natsuha](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Natsuha)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/693 "2023-01-18T22:40:12Z")
Day 17 I read some more Bakemonogatari Vol.3. It seems I am slowly getting used to the difficulty. Reading the manga was pretty tiring until now. Now it’s hard to put the manga down I want to know what happens next. 1475 pages read 18525 to go ---
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🔖 [Home post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/59883/30) // Jan 18 ☃ ❄ ・ 本好きの下克上 16 (75% → 80%) My shoulders don’t know what ‘relax’ is anymore. * * * > **Summary** > > > [@iterimpius](#): > > > > Oooooooooh!!! Finally someone! I’m loving this story so much! I wante to ask you, did you read both novel and manga? I wonder if i should try the novel, I’m dying to know more about this story and characters… 🥺 > > I’d say go for it! 👀 ✨ I’ve only read the novels. In fact, I got into the series after seeing Naphthalene posting about the first book and giving it high reviews. I was intrigued, especially after seeing the gorgeous cover 😂 (It was also on sale on bookwalker, but I couldn’t stop after finishing the first book, so I ended up getting the rest of the books, one by one, hehe.) > > ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/9/8/1/98186e2916c25310002073539fd16632458ba92d.jpeg) ---
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☃ ❄ **January 18** ❄ ☃ [Home Post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/59883/4) BU$TAFELLOWS 💰 This first chapter never ends, guys. 😭 I just keep reading and keep reading and there is more. Like it is totally enjoyable but I’m trying to catch up with the club and at this stage, I’ll be lucky to finish chapter 2 before chapter 4 starts next week… … … … Favorite phrase/word from today: ケースバイケース I might be close to the end of the chapter but it is almost midnight here and I just had another very large speech bubble/text box again with probably multiple words I need to look up, so I quit for the day. I also had to shovel a lot of heavy snow today because when it snows at around the freezing point (0C), it is so wet… And here I hoped I’d turn my schedule around after getting back from the US where I had a very different schedule, and yet I find myself pushing towards midnight like always… 😕 ---
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I read the second half of Tuberose (sorry, I never remember how to type that word and I’m on mobile so it’s even worse). I thought it would take the whole flight but instead I had 45 min leftover to stew on _that ending_. What a ride. The second book is longer so I probably won’t do the whole thing in one go, but I’ll see how far I get with it on my return flight in a few days. I also need to go finally catch up to the thread! ---
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❄ 🧧 **１月１８日** 🧧 ❄ ([Home Post Link](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/18)) Read: - 夜カフェ pg 17 - just one page, words were slippery today - ホリミヤ ch 82, 83, 84, 85, 86 - in some of these my comprehension dropped a ton, not sure if I was just super tired or if they were written in kind of a convoluted way. > **Good Words** > > **夜カフェ** > 二言三言「ふたことみこと」ー a few words > > **ホリミヤ** > 緊張「きんちょう」ー tension, strain > 寝坊「ねぼう」ー sleeping in late > 凄まじい「すさまじい」ー terrible, dreadful > 沈黙 「ちんもく」ー silence, hush > 油断「ゆだん」ー negligence > 週刊「しゅうかん」ー weekly publication > 鋭い「するどい」ー sharp, pointed > 陥る「おちいる」ー to fall (into) > 吐く「つく」ー to tell (a lie) > 個性的「こせいてき」ー individual, idiosyncratic > 裏技「うらわざ」ー secret trick > モテモテ ー sexy, popular, well-liked > つまむ ー to pinch, to hold between one’s fingers (here, one’s nose) ---
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January 18th! I didnt read as much as I’d have liked to today. I got half way though a chapter of Shadow’s House but I kept falling asleep ☹ I’ll read the second half of the chapter tomorrow I suppose! ([Home Post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883/25)) ---
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While I like Steel Ball Run, I am finding that I want to read Re:Zero more… I was anticipating I would be in watching “anime-mode” but apparently I am still in reading mode… I’ll finish volume 2 and take a break and maybe come back to it when I get my new Kindle (since mine is over 12 years old and its harder to read small text). ---
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**January 17th** I unfortunately only did my speaking practice on the Aomi Japanese app today. And the app unexpectedly updated and partially reset my progress?!?! D:\< On my profile, it still acknowledges the number of words I learned, but on the main page, it says I’m in week 1, day 1 when I’m supposed to be in week 4 by now! So that’s seriously annoying. They also seem to have increased the number of items a day from 24 items to 33 items, and that just feels too much to do all in one day, everyday. So from now on I’ll be breaking up each training session across 2 days. It feels less satisfying that way, but oh well. **January 18th** What did I read?: **魔女と猫の話** How much did I read?: 8 pages (Continued **1st Story** ) How long did it take me?: 1 h 11 min Suzu essentially tells her cat to get lost, but soon realizes the repercussions of doing so… I get that he isn’t quite what she wanted, but _I_ still think he’s cute. She complains about him being a glutton, but Suzu, that’s basically every cat ever… 😅 I learned a new cat-related word today: ぶち猫! It apparently means a bicolour cat, typically black and white. The ぶち part means “spots.” While I haven’t verified this or anything, I somehow get the impression that Japanese has more specific words for non-pedigree cats than English does, which I think is neat~ > **Replies** > > > [@Book9](#): > > > > Woop woop! 🎉 > > Thank you for celebrating with me! > > > [@Zakarius](#): > > > > That face 😂 > > And congrats on your first manga! 🎉 > > I know, right?! XD > And thank you! > > > [@iterimpius](#): > > > > oh my goodness this looks soooo cute!! I’ll be looking forward to more kitties, if you care to share as you read! > > I know, I was so excited to read it! And yes, I intend to share a kitty picture at least once per story! (There are 7.) > > > [@alygator](#): > > > > I’ve been reading through your posts about the books you’re reading and your selection is so cute! I actually bought にわにはににん just the other day and now I’m thinking of buying 魔女と猫の話 too. Getting way ahead of myself though… I’m probably not even close to the level I can read those… Just piling up for when I have better grammar foundations. 😅 Thanks for all the cute ideas though! > > Oh, that’s actually so nice to hear! And you got にわにはににん! 😃 But yeah, it’s definitely not a beginner’s manga, heh, heh. It took me quite some effort to work through it (no furigana!). Would you be interested in me scanning my handwritten notes that I took while reading it? It’s not a complete vocabulary list, since I only put down words I didn’t know (although that’s still quite a lot of them, eheh), but maybe would still be helpful? My handwriting is legible, I would say (although I might be biased! XD). I understand you don’t intend to read it anytime soon, but I could share them with you now for the future or you could just let me know later when you do want them, whenever that might be. Or maybe you’d rather wait until you’ve reached the point that you wouldn’t need a vocabulary list in the first place. But I thought I’d just put out the offer in case you’d be interested! > > And so you know, although 魔女と猫の話 does have a higher word count per page than にわにはににん, it has furigana and seems to have more everyday-life vocabulary (the latter really seemed to be going for a more literary-vibe). [Previous page](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883.md?page=34) [Next page](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2023/59883.md?page=36)