📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 ☃❄

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January 29th

ジョジョの奇妙な冒険8
44 - 53

Busy day yesterday. Some interesting panels in this section though. Idk if I’ll remember to post them later.

[windupbird]

Summary post

Day 29: January 29th
What did I read?: ペンギン・ハイウェイ
How much did I read?: 3 pages
How long did it take me?: 26 minutes

Well that didn’t take long, the penguins are here
Here’s our protagonist, studying the penguins very intently

[pocketcat]

@Voi

Yeah it’s mainly Akutagawa. I’m finishing up “in a grove” and it’s got rape, murder, and attempted suicide.

Souseki read more like Edgar Allan Poe, which does still have sensitive content ( depression, suicide) but somehow feels less…direct I guess?

Unfortunately suicide is a super common theme in classic Japanese writing. I actually accidentally read Akutagawa’s own, real, suicide note thinking it was just a short story titled ‘suicide note’ (遺書).

I’ve read a lot of classic literature by this point (it’s free on the internet, so why not) and dark themes abound, although there’s also heart warming stuff and thoughtful things without darkness. I wonder if the editors were trying for a holistic view of Japanese literature when picking the stories? ie, a bit of everything? Or they just went by popularity / things that are required reading in 国語 classes.

[WaniTsunami]

That sub chapter of Re:Zero 16 was just them EATING x______x for 11 pages. For which I spent 3 minutes on each page just begging for something, ANYTHING interesting to happen. It was just “You look cute in this Yukata!” “Let’s eat!”

So we went from getting closer as a group. Barging in on a meeting, and eating. GAAAAAH!

flipping table noises

[javerend]

１月２９日 (Home Post Link)

I sorta ended up going down a rabbit hole reading about 万葉仮名 and the 万葉集 more generally today. Very cool stuff, and adjacent to japanese reading, but I did not actually read any of it in japanese (even a modern jp translation). Eventually, that’s something that would be cool to try reading, but beyond me for the time being

Read:

• ホリミヤ ch 101 - all the chapters recently and after this are short, but this one is normal length for some reason

Word of the Day:
唇「くちびる」ー lips (also related: 唇音「しんおん」ー labial sound, and 唇歯音「しんしおん」ー labiodental sound)

@ChristopherFritz

Has anyone considered just writing Book○○er, and trusting the readers to fill in the correct site?

I support this motion 100%

@Roxcell

Yall on here reading some fun ass books but I am not ready for that

Hey everyone has to start somewhere! I bet you make it to fun stuff sooner than you think, you got this!

[natarin]

January 29 Home Post

Ended up even busier today unfortunately, so today’s “reading” is gonna just be my Japanese homework it’s all something!

[Roxcell]

Yas!!! I want to wait until after I take the JLPT N4 then reward myself with one. Maybe Cherry Magic. Let’s do it.

[alygator]

Home post

1 月 30 日
コナの大冒険 第34話

Kona considers what he could eat to survive in the wild. Poor guy. I totally feel for him with my ‘wild’ being Japan.

Vocab

• ウロウロ [うろうろ] loiteringly, aimless wandering, restlessly
• 根比べ [こんくらべ] endurance contest, test of endurance
• 枝 [えだ] branch, twig
• 苔 [こけ] moss
• 一口 [ひとくち] mouthful, bite
• カリカリ [かりかり] crunchy
• とうてい [到底] (cannot) possibly, no matter how, absolutely (usually with a negative ending verb)
• 涙 [なみだ] tears, lachrymal secretion

On that note, today i also learned a new english word thanks to Satorireader which is lachrymal, “of or relating to tears”

[ChristopherFritz]

Day 29: January 29th

××でも魔法少女になれますか? Volume 1 (44% ➨ 52%)
名探偵コナン Volume 13 (81% ➨ 91%)
ひよ恋 Volume 1 (0% ➨ 17%)

With two new manga on my “start reading sometime” list, I randomly picked a different one and started reading it today. I was looking for something to generate frequency lists from and landed on a series called 「ひよ恋」, then decided I’d read that.

[iciely]

18 pages of manga today turns out all I need to read more than a couple of pages in a day is be absolutely desperate to know what happens next.

Now to catch up on my wanikani reviews.

[Sylph]

January 27

Some ユージニア (82% → 86%).

January 28

Some ユージニア (86% → 89%) and played BU$TAFELLOWS for over 1.5h.

January 29

Finished ユージニア!! First book of the year finished. And played BU$TAFELLOWS for over an hour.

[nyxqueenofshadows]

home post

30th jan we’re almost in february, when did that happen???

weekend exhaustion shaken off, back to 蟲師! chapter 1 of vol 4 is an odd story but the art is as always lovely. not sure i liked the ending, but i see what it was going for. plus, we finally get an explanation of how ginko has been getting his letters!

words that stuck out: 拒絶反応 (きょぜつはんのう, (organ) transplant rejection, strong reaction against), 密室 (みっしつ, locked room), 手立て (てだて, method, means). also shoutout to 数多 for the reading only (あまた）

[NicoleIsEnough]

Home Post

This week was a bit of an up and down, but in the end it turned out quite okay.
Finished Tuberose Age32 (welp, NOT my favourite book, sadly), continued a bit with 1Q84 (until Ch. 15) and started Flesh&Blood Vol. 11.

And! I reached the break-even with my yearly reading goal, i.e. if I read in each subsequent month as much as I have read in this month, then I will make it. (And in case you didn’t notice, there are still two days left in this month! )
In other words, 834 pages down, 9,166 pages to go!

Plans for this week:

• Continue Flesh&Blood
• Slowly continue 1Q84
• Start この本を盗む者は (with the ABC book club)

[Cathm2]

29/1 2 pages おばちゃんたちのいるところ

30/1 2.5 pages おばちゃんたちのいるところ (finished story 15)

Going slow still. Just finished last week’s reading. And it’s Monday evening. And I’ve read nothing for the 5 book clubs this week

[WaniTsunami]

Read the rest of その着替え人形は恋をする 10. Tomorrow I’ll finish Blue Period 1 and start cramming the rest of Re:Zero 16.

[polv]

Jan 30, Mon of Week 6 of Winter Q1 2023

• はたらく細胞 Black Vol.6 Ch.33-34

Stress and concert, first half.

Words of the day

• そしり = criticism; disparagement. A Kanji form is 謗(そし)り.
• かけがえのない = irreplaceable. A Kanji form is 掛(か)け替(が)えのない.
• フヌケ = coward. Kanji form is 腑抜(ふぬ)け, so it’s the guts that broke.
• 怖気(おじけ)づく = to become nervous; to have cold feet = 怖(お)じ気付(けづ)く. Has Furigana in context.
• 打(う)ち勝(か)つ = to overcome difficulties
• 抑(よく)うつ = depression; dejection. Full Kanji is 抑鬱(よくうつ).
• 萎縮(いしゅく) = atrophy; shriveling. Has Furigana.
• 断裂(だんれつ) = snapping apart
• 減退(げんたい) = declination. 性欲減退(せいよくげんたい) in context.
• 渾身(こんしん) = using all one’s body. First Kanji seems to mean whole (body).
• 微弱(びじゃく) = feeble; weak. First Kanji in 微妙(びみょう) or 微塵(みじん).
• 副腎(ふくじん) = adrenal gland

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@javerend

唇「くちびる」ー lips (also related: 唇音「しんおん」ー labial sound, and 唇歯音「しんしおん」ー labiodental sound)

From here I’ve found 読唇術(どくしんじゅつ) = lip-reading. Quite amazing how it sounds similar to 読心術(どくしんじゅつ) = mind-reading. Level 47, btw, but On reading not introduced.

[Kappa421]

Calendar

夜市 is at 66%, iirc.
Spirit Circle volume 1 done

I guess I failed the challenge big time. I fell into a deep hole and did nothing for a couple of days
But getting back to it now. Started volume 2 of Spirit Circle and continuing Yoichi.

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@windupbird

What did I read?: ペンギン・ハイウェイ

It’s a nice book, one of my favorites. I also love the anime. Studio Colorido did a stellar job with it.

[Zakarius]

The Tanuki Kotatsu Reading Den

January 30th
新書太閣記 progress: 05.43% // Volume I: 63.01%

There’s been a few skirmishes so far, but today had the first large-scale battle happen.

Words found under the kotatsu

拙者「せっしゃ」ー I; me // (Humble & Archaic, mainly used by samurai)
諄々「じゅんじゅん」ー Earnestly; repeatedly; patiently
雑兵「ぞうひょう」ー Common soldier
空馬「からうま」ー Unburdened horse
旗本「またもと」ー Direct retainer of a shogun
苗代「なわしろ」ー Rice nursery; bed for rice seedlings
口達者「くちだっしゃ」ー Talkative; eloquent; fluent
猿楽「さるがく」ー Form of theatre popular from the 11C - 14C Japan

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

Volume I: 1535 - 15??
(Currently 1554/5)
日吉「ひよし」- Hideyoshi (as child)
Nicknames: 猿「さる」/ 針売り「はりうり」

Family
木下弥右衛門「きのした やえもん」- Father
– – 乙若「おとわか」- Old friend
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

Hachisuka Clan
蜂須賀小六「はちすか ころく」(also 正勝 「まさかつ」) - Head of the Hachisuka clan
– 七内「なない」- Younger brother
– Married to 松波「まつなみ」
– – 亀一「かめいち」- Son

Retainers:
– – 稲田大炊助「いなだ おおいのすけ]
– – 青山新七「あおやま しんしち」
– – 長井半之丞「ながい はんのじょう」
– – 松原内匠「まつばら たくみ」

– 国吉「くによし」- Gunsmith/blacksmith
– 渡辺天蔵「わたなべ てんぞう」- Deserter - Nobushi (Nephew to Koroku)
– 難波内記「なんば ないき」- Spy disguised as a Komuso
– 仁田彦十「にった ひこじゅう」- Subordinate

(蜂須賀正利「はちすか まさとし」- previous head of the Hachisuka clan)

Saito Clan
((questionable) Alliance with the Hachisuka clan)
斎藤 道三「さいとう どうさん」- Head of the Saito clan
– 斎藤義龍「さいとう よしたつ」(also: 高政「たかまさ」) - Son

明智 光秀「あけち みつひで」(common name: 十兵衛「じゅうべい」) - serves under Dosan
– 又市「またいち」- Underling / foot soldier

弥平治光春「やへいじ みつはら」- Retainer (cousin to Jyubei)
– 明智光安「あけち みつやす」- Father

Oda Clan
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

Shiba Clan
斯波義統「しば よしむね」- Head of the Shiba clan, at Kiyosu castle

Imagawa Clan
Retainers:
松下之綱「まつした ゆきつな」(common name: 加兵衛「かへい」)
飯尾豊前「いのお ぶぜん」
多賀能八郎「たがのう はしろう」(nickname: 能八「のうはち」)

Others
今川義元「いまがわ よしもと」- Daimyo

Historical People

• 阿倍仲麻呂「あべ の なかまろ」ー Japanese scholar & poet (700s)

• 白楽天「はく きょい」ー Chinese poet (Bai Juyi / Bo Juyi) also known as: 白楽天「はく らくてん」in Japan. (Late 700s)

• 道元「どうげん」(or 道元禅師「どうげん ぜんじ」ー Japanese Buddhist Priest, writer & poet (also known as 栄西禅師「えいさい ぜんじ」) (Early / mid 1200s)

• 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 / early 800s)

• 源頼政「みなもと の よりまさ」ー Prominent poet and warrior (1100s)

[Memoria]

Home Post

➳ January 30th.

What: ピーチガール２
Pages: 10
Time: 10 minutes.

Snooze… Monday… Tiny read today, but it counts!

@iciely

Did you have to buy the japanese version of the game or does it have a jp option? I adore klonoa and have been eyeing up the remake on switch and being able to do a little jp practice would be an incentive to pick it up

Oh, I’ve actually bought it on Steam! So I don’t know how the Switch version plays. I find it really easy to check on Steam whether games can be played in Japanese or not. According to this site, it only supports English, French and Spanish, but I know people buy on the Japanese store without any issues. Unfortunately, I don’t have any experience with doing that.

[midnightblue]

January 30th

Home post

Aria: the masterpiece volume 3 – progress report
Yesterday: Read up to page 143, finished chapter 24.
Today: Read up to page 158.

Ah, the return of mister ‘ore-sama’ – what kind of trouble has Akatsuki gotten himself into this time?

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Word or expression of the day:
干満 - (かんまん) - ebb and flow

Honourable mention(s):
買い占める - (かいしめる) - to buy up