📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 ☃❄

[javerend]

２月９日 (Home Post Link)

Going to the arcade tonight, so didn’t have quite as much study time. Still squeezed in a ch though

Read

• 三ツ星カラーズ ch 6 - it felt like about 50% of the text in this chapter was puns/wordplay. I wasn’t sure if I was just like totally missing what was happening or if it was confusing because they weren’t really making much sense, so I went to read it in english and saw this lovely translators note:
  
  So it appears to not have just been me that was struggling I also see the book club had a fun time with this one

Word of the Day
笹「ささ」ー bamboo grass

[Natsuha]

Day 38
I continued reading the second volume of Kindaichi Shounen. This volume is pretty long around 250 pages. Like in Detective Conan the solutions to the cases are ridiculous and wouldn’t actually work in real life.

2837 pages read this year

[WaniTsunami]

After the JoJo Volume 5 trial by lore dump, I went back to One Punch Man and managed to get through the section that had been keeping me from reading. I know this arc is really good and the anime didn’t do it justice so I am happy to finally be over the hump. So One Punch Man is back on the menu, however its gonna be the manga that I read when I finish 推しの子 probably.

My daily schizo post will come later today as usual but that was a big deal for me to finally get past a section that seemed impossible before.

[lucylavelle]

February 9th!

Today I read 1 chapter of Shadows House.
I was aiming for 2 chapters today to bring me back in line with the book club - but at the end of last week I was two chapters behind, and now I’m only one chapter behind so thats still progress
I shouldn’t have any trouble catching up next week, I only fell behind because I wasn’t paying enough attention and missed the first week of the new volume.

(Home Post)

[enbyboiwonder]

Home

Played きみのまち ポルティア again today. Finally completed the bridge to the Eufaula Desert, so now I can romance Arlo without worrying about missing his quest!

I’d meant to start この本を盗む者は today, but uh, yeah, didn’t happen lol

[WaniTsunami]

Here’s my daily schizo post. So I am about 36% done with 推しの子第4巻 and finished my bit of 夜は短し歩けよ乙女 for the day. Feeling pretty good now, and limited my word look ups to stuff that blocked me from understanding but I seemed to have gotten everything going on regardless.

[natarin]

February 9 Home Post

Oops I accidentally ended up busy again today I got more 山猫 in today though, so that was cool. It all continues to be very interesting

@WaniTsunami

Practice is practice no matter how little it may seem.

Indeed, it all counts! We’re getting there

@omk3

What are these characters all of a sudden?

Is it bad that this kind of makes me want to read this book

[NicoleIsEnough]

@natarin

Is it bad that this kind of makes me want to read this book

If you like these things, then have yourself some Aozora

Just watch out for the 新字旧仮名 label (new kanji, old kana) in the list of works of a given author (e.g. here is the list for Mori Ogai: 作家別作品リスト：森 鴎外) or if you are really up for a challenge, then 旧字旧仮名 it is.
plus you might want some grammar resources depending on what you’re reading

Let us know how it goes!

[omk3]

February ９

狐火の辻, 51-70%

Finished the 何で chapter and I’m halfway through the 何故 chapter. Things are starting to fall into place, but now a more central mystery is being gradually revealed. Meanwhile, I still have no idea why this man, who we’re constantly reminded has unkempt hair, a squint, and uneven, yellowed teeth, uses あたし for himself. Maybe his whole way of speaking supports it and it just flies over my head? All in all, at 70% of the book you’d think I’d know more about the main characters, but they’re only main in that they’re recurring, and their role in all this is clearer than most. There are fragments from all sorts of points of view, but unlike Eugenia, they only serve as glimpses and teasers, not as a way to get to know that person in depth. It’s not that the characters feel two-dimensional, just that they still feel like strangers.

@natarin

Is it bad that this kind of makes me want to read this book

Not at all, but I wouldn’t recommend the book just for that, as it was only the ones I posted that I’ve come across so far. Just a short paragraph really, and a few others with older writing style and vocabulary but no special characters. Aozora would definitely be a better bet.

[Myria]

I guess I won’t be able to finish 闇祓 before the compulsive reader‘s club starts a new book (tomorrow ), but I’m at 35% now. And I feel kind of bad for hating on the ending of the first chapter so much. Chapter 2 is a lot of fun.

We left school (actually it’s a completely different setting, different characters, everything), and I like it. It’s about niceness, fake niceness, over-the-top niceness to a point where it’s obviously done with an underlying motive, and I’m really looking forward to seeing how this chapter will end. Surely the 闇祓い (hence the title) will make an appearance again, to have an overarching theme, but I hope we will have less „explaining negative character traits away by supernatural stuff“ / „they’re just that way because they’re not human, obviously no human could be like that“.

But there’s already a lot of mystery going on. And lots of weird undertones. Hoping for a real plot twist regarding the mysterious suicide at the beginning, and the suspicious Designer couple. Surely they must be involved! My theory is they’re luring people into the building and if they don’t fit their perfect ママお茶会 world they’re ostracized and driven to commit suicide. Haha.

[nyxqueenofshadows]

home post

10th feb

forced myself to slow down today, partly cos i have other stuff i’m supposed to be doing later but also cos if i don’t i’ll burn out read a couple chapters more of shimanami tasogare vol 4, some more characters with okinawa-ben but reading over it a few times helped me get the gist (or rather realise what i was looking at). also very strange reading a book set at christmas when we’re in february!

words that stood out: 足がかり (あしがかり, foothold), 云々 (うんぬん, and so on, etc.), 安らぐ (やすらぐ, to feel at ease)

[Sylph]

February 9

Read some more この本を盗む者は. Since I’m still using the free sample it’s kinda hard to see how far along I am.

[ChristopherFritz]

Day 40: February 9th

からかい上手の(元)高木さん Volume 11 (24% ➨ 31%)

ARIA The MASTERPIECE Volume 6 (11% ➨ 15%)

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@Sylph

January 9

Time travel?

[ekuroe]

11 Feb

今夜、世界からこの恋が消えても 0% → 2%

My digital book — recommended to me by my Korean friend, that I bought on Bookwalker this time last year but never read. 世界から猫が消えたなら will remain my main book, but reading on Bookwalker is more convenient when I’m out of the house.

[Sylph]

@ChristopherFritz

Time travel?

Ooops copypasting is dangerous You saw nothing Thanks

[WaniTsunami]

Finished 推しの子 4, read a chapter of One Punch Man 12, gonna a call it a night. Tomorrow is Jojo day lol. @DIO-Berry volume 6 of SBR is 3 chapters long and 181 pages. So the trend seems to be increasing. So expect one chapter for all of volume 9 at this rate.

[polv]

Feb 10, Fri of Week 7 of Winter Q1 2023

• ふしぎの国のバード Vol.2 Ch.7 二荒山(ふたらさん)温泉(おんせん)

Seen everyone but MC.

• うたわれるもの

Words of the day

• パブ = pub (a place to get a drink). Coupled with クラブ in context.
• トゲ = biting words = 棘(とげ)
• ぶちまける = to scatter out everything; to tell frankly = ぶち撒(ま)ける
• ついで = occasion = 序(つい)で. Probably usually ついでに, but ついでで in context.
• 勤(いそ)しむ = to work diligently = 励(はげ)む. Has Furigana.
• 抓(つね)る = to pinch. Has Furigana.
• おとぎの国(くに) = fairy land = . お伽(とぎ) / 御伽(おとぎ) has Kanji, but probably better remembered in Kana. Used in おとぎ話(ばなし) as well.
• 奇異(きい) = queer; strange
• 歌謡祭(かようさい) = song festival. Second Kanji is in Level 54.
• 代弁者(だいべんしゃ) = spokesperson; person speaking in someone’s stead
• 旅行家(りょこうか) = traveler
• 階級(かいきゅう) = social class
• 世論(よろん) = general public opinion. Also read 世論(せろん). (But no Furigana in context.)
• 軽卒(けいそつ) = rash / thoughtless = 軽率(けいそつ). Can also mean lightly-armored soldier.
• 高名(こうめい) = famous
• 被写体(ひしゃたい) = photographic subject; an object to be photographed
• 大衆文学(たいしゅうぶんがく) = popular literature
• 多彩(たさい) = a variety of
• 似顔絵(にがおえ) = portrait
• 版画(はんが) = woodblock print
• 書画(しょが) = books and painting = 書(しょ)と絵画(かいが)
• 店頭(てんとう) = storefront
• 拒絶(きょぜつ) = rejection; refusal
• 卑下(ひげ) = self-depreciation; self-abasement
• 荷鞍(にぐら) = packsaddle; saddle for carriage. Also there is 鞍(くら) = saddle, in context. Has Furigana for both words.
• 馬子(まご) = packhorse driver; the person pulling and leading an leading the horse. Has Furigana.
• 鶯(うぐいす) = Japanese bush warbler; Japanese nightingale / someone with beautiful voice. A nightingale would be 小夜鳴(さよな)き鳥(どり) or ナイチンゲール. Has Furigana.
• 湯治場(とうじば) = hot spring resort. Has Furigana.

Kanji

• 鞍(くら)
  • saddle
  • 鞍(くら)
    • 荷鞍(にぐら),     鞍替(くらが)え
  • アン
    • 鞍馬(あんば)

[Zakarius]

The Tanuki Kotatsu Reading Den

February 10th
新書太閣記 progress: 08.46% // Volume I: 98.12%

I feel I could have pushed to finish the last chapter and complete this volume, but don’t really feel like reading anymore. Tomorrow!

Words found under the kotatsu

稽古事「けいこごと」ー Accomplishments; taking lessons (in something)
交々「こもごも」ー Alternately; in succession
城下「じょうか」ー The land near a castle

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 1555)
日吉「ひよし」- Hideyoshi (as child)
Nicknames: 猿「さる」/ 針売り「はりうり」
Name serving Nobunaga: 木下 藤吉郎「きのした ときちろう」

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

Others:
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

堀田 道空「ほった どうくう」- Chief retainer
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
春日丹後「かすが たんご」- Military commander

Oda Clan
織田 信長「おだ のぶなが」- Leader of the Oda clan (Married to the daughter of Saito Dosan)
– 卯月「うづき」- Nobunaga’s faithful, old horse
– 織田信秀「おだ のぶひで」- Father and previous leader of the Oda clan
– – 織田与三郎「おだ よさぶろう」- Younger brother
– – 織田信行「おだ のぶかつ」(Other name: 信成「のぶなり」) - Son (half-brother to Nobunaga (different mother))

Retainers (Under Nobuhide rule):
平手 政秀「ひらて まさひで」
– 五郎左衛門「ごろうざえもん」(nickname: 五郎左「ごろうざ」) - First son
– 監物「けんもつ」- Second son
– 甚左衛門「じんざえもん」- Third son
– 雨宮勘解由「あめみや かげゆ」- Servant
林 秀貞「はやし ひでさだ」(common name: 新五郎「しんごろ」/ nickname: 佐渡「さどう」) (served under Nobunaga too)
– 美作守「みまさかのかみ」- Younger brother
青山 信昌「あおやま のぶまさ」(common name: 与三右衛門「よそうえもん」)
内藤 勝介「ないとう しょうすけ / かつすけ」

Retainers (Under Nobunaga rule):
柴田勝家「しばた かついえ」(Nickname: 権六「ごんろく」)

Others:
市川大介「いちかわ だいすけ」- Archery master/instructor
平田三位「ひらた さんみ」- Master of military strategy
藤井又右衛門「ふじ いまたえもん」- Head servant
がんまく - Former worker/servant, friend of Hideyoshi

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

Imagawa Clan
今川義元「いまがわ よしもと」- Daimyo

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」)

Takeda Clan
太郎義信「たけだ よしのぶ」- Commander
(Married to the daughter of Imagawa Yoshimoto to tie the clans)

Non-affiliated
上泉 信綱「かみいずみ のぶつな」(also: 上泉 伊勢守「かみいずみ いせのかみ」) - Founder of the 新陰流「しんかげりゅう」school of Kenjutsu
– 疋田小伯「ひきた しょうはく」- Disciple
– 神後五六郎「かんご ごろくろう」- Disciple

塚原 卜伝「つかはら ぼくでん」- Kensei; legendary swordsman

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)

• 平 重盛「たいら の しげもり」ー Military commander and court noble, claimed to be an ancestor of Oda Nobunaga (Mid-1100s)

• 桓武（天皇）「かんむ（てんのう）」ー 50th Emperor of Japan, claimed to be an ancestor of Taira no Shigemori, thus ancestor to Oda Nobunaga (Mid-Late 700s)

[Cathm2]

9/2 5 pages Spy Family
10/2 8 pages Spy Family (finished mission), 11 pages 夜カフェ (finished ch 9), 2 pages Orange

Managed to catch up a bit with 2 clubs earlier. Still 2 to catch up with.

[omk3]

February 10

狐火の辻, 70-84%

I’m getting impatient as I approach the end and really wanted to read more, but I’ve run out of energy. Never mind. Tomorrow I’m taking a break from this and starting ユートロニカのこちら側 with the informal reading group. Looking forward to it!