📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 ☃❄

Summary post

Finished the challenge with a perfect score!

Jan
Week 52
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Feb
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9

= Japanese
= Japanese and Spanish

For my Spanish reading, according to my kindle, I am currently 29% of the way through Cantoras, so with that plus Sí, si es contigo, I read about 1.3 books in Spanish during the challenge. Not bad!

I’ve been a bit busy with non-Japanese writing projects, so I’ve fallen a bit behind on my translations, but I’m working on catching up now. I did finally complete Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling’s February 18 show (the translation was long enough, it had to be split into two posts :sweat_smile:), which was nearly as long as the Korakuen show the week before, hence how long it took for me to finish it.

I also just completed the TJPW portion of Keiji Mutoh’s retirement show on February 22. Beyond proud of the TJPW women for getting to have a match in the Tokyo Dome :pleading_face:. As Shoko pointed out in her comments afterward, TJPW started as a dark match at a DDT show at Ryogoku Kokugikan (and eventually were able to run that venue on their own), and now they’ve gotten far enough to have an under match at a Pro Wrestling NOAH show at the Tokyo Dome, so TJPW one day running a Tokyo Dome show all by themselves doesn’t feel entirely out of the question…

Here’s a photo of Shoko Nakajima, Yuka Sakazaki, Miyu Yamashita, and Rika Tatsumi after their match.

NOAH fans get spoiled by having transcripts of all the post-match comments up for free on the NOAH site. Sadly, TJPW doesn’t do the same for their shows, so I have to pay for access to shupro’s mobile site to get transcriptions the rest of the time.

I also put together a Notion account, including compiling my regular book reading progress and goals (not a lot of activity on that page :sweat_smile:), and a page for study and translation resources, which reflects a lot more of my efforts.

By my own count, I completed 11 translations during this challenge!

As usual, I’ll be shifting gears and focusing on listening during the off-month, though I’ll be keeping up with my translations and my normal wrestling watching habits, both of which are a combination of reading and listening practice. So I guess I’ll see some of you over in the listen every day challenge?

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