January 10th
What did I read?: にわにはににん
How much did I read?: 5 pages
(Continued 4th Story: にわにはににん )
How long did it take me?: 33 min
Would have wanted to read more, but unfortunately was only able to get to reading quite late.
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I’ve been so busy today. Just errands and to-do tasks and N1 prep and ugh. I dragged myself through the ユージニア reading and now it’s past time to get into bed. 
I have a social engagement tomorrow so I don’t know if I’ll even have time for チュベローズ, but if nothing else Friday should be clear for reading! Maybe. A friend might be coming into town…
I had that thought to until the first line 
That is not a pretty boy trying to be pretty at all. It was clear from his interview too on the book channel that he really, really enjoys reading and he likes reading dark things. I wanna say he said something like “I hate happy endings” when talking about Catcher in the Rye.
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Belated update for the last couple of days. Although it looks like one day was much better than the other they sort of morph into one as I was on a plane.
9/1 14 pages Cells at Work (this week’s reading, finished chapter 2), 10 pages 夜カフェ (finished chapter 5), 4 pages おばちゃんたちのいるところ (story 10), 5 pages チュベローズ
10/1 3 pages チュベローズ (finished chapter 2)
So I did get quite a bit done, only book club reading left for this week is おばちゃんたちのいるところ story 11 which I’m planning to read on the Shinkansen. So,if I do any reading tonight it’ll probably be チュベローズ。
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softlyraining’s snowy book stack 
January 10th
The day kind of got away from me (translation: distractions EVERYWHERE), so I read a story on Satori Reader to keep the streak going. Hopefully I’ll focus more tomorrow so I can chip away at one of my books (maybe 冬物語, maybe 授乳).
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My vacation that I thought would provide ample reading time did not. I read a ton on the plane to the US, and then spent 2 weeks rereading the same 4 pages because I didn’t have any time to myself (not a bad thing per se). The flight back I got a big chunk done, but going forward I now know realistically what I can and can’t do when traveling. Even just watching Netflix was a tough one. Luckily my family was really into Violet Evergarden, so while I couldn’t get reading in, I got my listening in.
TODAY, I got one sub chapter done in 青ブタ. My hope is to finish one more today, and just keep this pace for the next week or two and finish either by the weekend or some time next week. I finished Stone Ocean and binged Chainsaw man, so I am on a reading kick (which is naturally what happens after binging a series apparently xD).
Sorry for the long post, just haven’t been updating anything since getting back on a normal sleep/eating/work schedule. My routine was totally shattered by this trip, but I somehow managed to retain what I was learning before the trip, which is a relief.
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January 10 Home Post
In classic fashion, finishing my previous project threw me for an absolute loop as to what to read next So I did a little bit of everything today. I started ノッキンオン・ロックドドア in keeping with my recent mystery theme, and I’m sure it’s doable but I always forget how rough starting a new book is 
so I didn’t get very far before I decided to play 13 Sentinels instead, where I was of course immediately dropped in the middle of an unprecedented amount of sci-fi mech jargon As such I only played that one scene before I was mentally over it, and then I finally went back to the バディミッションBOND drama cd I’ve been working on! It’s been a while lmao; I got through one more track with my whole listen-only-first then follow along with the scenario method and it was a good time as always.
Then I finally got somewhere and decided to fill my currently empty manga slot with some 地縛少年花子くん! I watched the anime/read some of the manga in English ages ago and I remember really liking it, so I thought it’d be a fun read and it definitely is. I love a manga with good art and it definitely delivers, it has great aesthetics and even the panel layouts are cool 
So yeah I read most of the first volume today, who knows what I’ll end up doing tomorrow but I certainly have options 
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Haha thank you!! 
Thank you! I really don’t know where it came from lmao, it absolutely wrecked my brain but I had to know
Same, it’s especially rough when it’s a standalone story, but thankfully 山猫 has plenty more to offer so I can placate myself with that knowledge It’s a matter of time! Not a book exactly but I suspect BU$TAFELLOWS will feel that way when we eventually get that far
Thank you!! I have no idea how I pulled it off haha, at what cost feels powerful though!
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Finished my last sub-chapter for the day. I am happy I am not doing an audiobook this time because I can skip the needless long pauses and don’t have to desperately search for the part am supposed to be on but somehow lost track of.
Being caught up I feel less pressure to read, so I am able to just kind of consume it the way I want and when I finish the book, I will be done with the series until the next entry. So I can focus on other book series.
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Day 10 Progress:
お隣の天使様 五冊 - 93.73% → 95.06%
Actually just a nominal reading day which is pretty sad because I wanted to finish the book… oh well.
Word of the Day:
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January 10
I read some more ユージニア (29% → 32%) and played BU$TAFELLOWS for half an hour.
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1 月 11 日
コナの大冒険 第23話 
Rushed through reading today but I still did it even with my brain barely functioning… Nothing much happened this episode anyway. Just running through the 自然界 with more 鹿.
God this week’s been tough and it’s only Wednesday…
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Hello everyone. I would like to join, even though I’m late. Actually I am not even late with reading, I have read every day since around christmas. Just late with joining here. I started to read Harry Potter, where I had a mini edition of the first half of the first book laying around for a while. Even around two months ago it was just to overwhelming just looking at the first page. But now it seems to be very doable for me do read it. Of course it helps that I still know a bit how the story goes…I also got the audio book and sometimes I read along while listening, which is also great help. Right now progress is around 63 %
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Finished Books:
13.02.: Harry Potter Book 1
Edit:
Oh and see what just arrived. I guess I’ll be reading a bit longer than the 2 months '
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Funny, 鰯 also occurred at my reading yesterday (but in hiragana only), as Harry and Ron eat these Beans that can taste like anything in the Hogwarts train.
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夢みる太陽 Volume 3 (78% ➨ 100%)January 11th
Aria: the masterpiece volume 3 – progress report
Yesterday: Continued up to page 73, finished chapter 22.
Today: Continued up to page 82.
Well, I wanted to try reading a NHK easy news article today but upon seeing the topics (e.g. bird flu?, price increases? or COVID 
) of the last few days, I decided against it.
I clicked on another article that mentioned something along the lines of a bunny being appointed police chairman in honour of the year of the bunny or something, only to notice that it was tough to read and understand – and that the article belonged to the ‘regular’ NHK news. Long story short, today’s attempt at reading news was a failure. I’ll probably just look at the latest articles on NHK easy here and there until I find one whose topic I can stomach.
Therefore, I went back to Aria but since I had even less time to dedicate to reading, I didn’t get that far.
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Hahaha, I may as well turn this into my mental image of you in regards to any (coming) reading challenges.
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Word or expression of the day:
肌触り - (はだざわり) - the touch of, feel of, texture
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11th jan
and i’ve finished 蟲師 vol 1! except the 後書 but it’s long and handwritten and my brain doesn’t have it in me rn. this chapter actually related to the first, which i wasn’t expecting, and it gave the whole volume a nice circular feeling. on the whole even though lookups were occasionally tough with this one i had a great time with it and i’m really looking forward to the next volumes! i might go back to kiki for the rest of the week, it’s sitting at 50% finished and it’s kind of weighing on me ngl
words that stuck out to me: 沼 (ぬま, swamp, bog) just cos it was in there A Lot, 成れの果て (なれのはて, the mere shadow of one’s former self), and the ‘what is that’ kanji of the day 蠱 (まじ)
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Jan 11, Wed of Week 3 of Winter Q1 2023 
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SPY x FAMILY Vol.5 Ch.25
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うたわれるもの
Interesting words
- ちょっくら = a little while. Like ちょっと.
- スンゲー = すげぇ～ = 凄い
- やたら = randomly. Kanji form is 矢鱈, but perhaps as bad as 出鱈目 or 無理矢理.
- 尊ぶ = to value. Verb form of 尊い.
- 雄々しい = valiantly; courageously
- 超絶～ = extremely. Similar to just 超～.
- 拙速 = slipshod
- 月並み = cliched
- 着目 = giving one’s attention
- 看過 = disregard
- 協調 = cooperation with other people
- 理知的 = intelligent (な-adj). The noun is 理知.
- 図工 = drawing and manual arts
- 気品 = dignity; grace
- 無残 = cruel; merciless = 無惨. Using “remainder” Kanji confuses me a little.
- 内申点 = academic results. The results in 内申書.
- 出題範囲 = the range exams covers. 出題 is creating up of an exam (school exam / test).
SFX
- にまにま
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１月１１日 (Home Post Link)
Read:
- ホリミヤ ch 64, 65, 66 - had our new years shrine visit, almost on time!
- マジーク・ツリーハウス pg 81 → 86
Good Words
ホリミヤ
問「とい」ー problem question
訳「やく」ー translation
即答「そくとう」ー immediate reply
利益「りえき」ー profit, gains ( おみくじ )
修羅場「しゅらば」ー scene of carnage
揉む「もむ」ー to argue, to have a heated discussion
面積「めんせき」ー area (measurement)
愚か「おろか」ー foolish, stupid
小芝居「こしばい」ー skit, short acted scene
さっぱり ー feeling refreshed
マジーク・ツリーハウス
騎士「きし」ー knight
ヒヒーン ー neigh, whinny
やがて ー before long, shortly
湿っぽい「しめっぱい」ー damp, humid
霧「きり」ー fog, mist
覗く「のぞく」ー to take a quick look at
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January 11th progress update
Home Post
Reading よつばと！ Vol. 1
P. 114 → P. 131
Really long and tiring day so did not read much. This chapter is also fairly harder for me to understand than the previous ones, had to look up quite a lot of words.
However, @ChristopherFritz recommending https://ichi.moe/ helped a lot so thanks again!
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Day 11, 11th of January
Read more Kiki. Apparently I was wrong last time and it wasn’t Kiki’s father that teased her for flying into trees, but all the villagers exchanging looks and chuckling about how she tripped again.
Briefly tripped over a か at the end of a sentence until I remembered it might just be a “shall we?”
Let’s do a little summary so I can check my understanding later.
Kiki, über die Gerüchte erzählt wird, ist auch ungewöhnlich. Obwohl sie klein ist kann sie die Klocken läuten, die hoch auf den Baumwipfel sitzen.
Sie lebt in einem Haus östlich vom Stadtrand, und es steht ein grünes Schild mit der Aufschrift “verkaufe Schupfenmedizin” davor.
Wenn man durchs Tor geht, sieht man einen großen Garten und ein einstöckiges Haus.
The next sentences are either super long or too hard for me right now, so I’m just gonna see if I have a rough idea what’s going on instead of going into detail.
Im Garten (irgendwas mit vielen verschiedenen Planzen) (irgendwas mit üblen Geruch).
(blabla) In der Küche ist ein großer Kupfertopf. (blabla)
…aaand I’m out. Still too hard, gotta go through more vocab and grammar.
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