March 31 
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Played some more BU$TAFELLOWS today (part of the proper reading schedule this time haha), business as usual! And with that winter is over huh; I was a bit all over the place this challenge 
I finished my first novel (山猫) early on, read some various manga, and played a good amount of VNs like BU$TAFELLOWS and Steins;Gate. I ended up pretty busy off and on but persisted regardless 
here’s hoping the next challenge goes well too!
30/3 16 pages 古見さん (finished this week’s reading), 26 pages シャドーハウス
31/3 8 pages シャドーハウス, read over couple of pages おばちゃんたちのいるところ with view to finishing that story
Mostly caught up other than the latter and a few entries for the dictionary (like 22…)
I think once you reach the end of chapter 68 you will catch up.
Edit - just saw your following post, so you know what I mean!
March 31
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A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar 
I had high plans for the last day of the winter challenge, but alas, I ended up just reading two sections of the new week of the dictionary club (that technically didn’t start until today (1st April) but eh). I would have read more, but my little cat was being very naughty and trying to play with some cables, so he wouldn’t let me.
I love my little Kiro boy but I really wish he’d grow out of attacking cables. I haven’t shared any pictures in a while, I’ll see about doing that soon in the spring challenge.
Overall, March was pretty so-so. Days of actually reading Japanese are fairly few, days of reading is more than not, but a lot of it is English reading, and some of that dictionary reading. And even so, I barely got anywhere with my English reading either because I spent very little time each time.
What about completely overall? Aka the whole challenge?
What did I finished during the whole challenge? 4 manga volumes in Japanese and I did some progress on BU$TAFELLOWS and Loopers. I read 13 books in English, most of them fiction, less than half of them rereads (I have not been exploring much new fiction for the past 5-10 years, and I think that is a shame). I have also read about 2/3rds of another nonfiction book which will be my second nonfiction book of the year when I finish it.
Anyway, overall I’m happy that I’m on top of the English reading. Reading 52 books in a year means I need to read 13 books per quarter. A bit sad that the majority of that was read during like one month. But if I start binging English reading once a quarter that will be a lot more often than once a year or maybe twice a year, so I’ll take it. ^^
I finished the レベル７ reading for this past week this morning, and yesterday after I posted I read two random 太宰治 short stories. Bad luck in that they both weren’t very good - I’ve loved everything else by him I’ve read.
Also I plan to not be obnoxious about this, but I’d like to plug the Natively Mystery book club which is now voting on the next pick! 
I admit I voted for the books I already own since I’m trying to be no-buy, but I’ll read along with whatever is picked provided it’s not a book I’ve already read.
Edit: I posted in the wrong thread 
New triforce blitz tournament just kicking off today, incidentally 
Oh yeah, I’m looking forward to it. 
Due to extreme busyness, i haven’t posted my March summary yet, so here it is:
What I read:
I missed 3 days completely and only managed to read 250 pages (in 28:45 h) in the whole month. 
Also, I only managed to finish one book in March, and that book is 夢十夜 with 34 pages 
but hey, book is book, eh 
Youch, so two updates, only one for now, the other this weekend maybe lol
March 22
Seasons 4/21 and 4/22
March 23
I might look up the name later but it was a manga I tried to read a year or two ago about a telepath and I did 10 pages pretty easily. Dunno if I really want to reread it though
March 24
56 pages of doujin and two pages of Seasons 3/23 and 3/24 which were both about boring flowers according to my notes
March 25
start - 29 of Crazy Diamond’s Demonic Nightmare. I decided to not finish reading it all the way through at this time. I just don’t like the story enough lol
March 26
Seasons 3/25 and 3/26 I don’t understand my notes lol
March 27
flowers? Probably Seasons 3/27
March 28
I didn’t read any books
March 29
Seasons 3/29 and 3/30. I think I missed 3/28 
I’ll have to double check. 3/30 had cool info about pollinating birds
March 30
Seasons 3/31 which had cool cross cultural comparisons about year starts/ends around the world, including even India. 30-70 of Crazy D. And various doujin pages 
I didn’t count it seems.
March 31
Seasons 4/1 - all about the start of the new year.
And that’s it for Winter. Hopefully I’ll have some graphs this weekend, but I have a feeling, they’ll look sad lol
Winter 2023 Post Mortem
It’s been a year since I started doing this challenge. While my stats for this winter aren’t so great, according to my data for the year, I am showing promise, which is nice. This winter in particular had an interesting wrap up, but I hope that this spring and in 2023 as a whole that I pick up more steam, finish JoJo this year, and make my reading goals
