2024-02-17 – 2024-02-18
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| Date | Name | Type | Amount | Time |
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| 2024-02-18 |  セーラー服と機関銃 |
 Novel (IBC) |
 Prologue 0 → 2.5% 10 pages |
 30m |
| 2024-02-17 |  本好きの下剋上第一部１ |
 Jr Novel |
Chapter 14 15 pages |
 55m |
So yesterday I was away, so this is (hopefully the last) multiple update for this challenge. I read chapter 14 of 本好きの下剋上’s novel, and in the process figured out why I got so confused on chapter numbers (I’d been numbering them from adding +1 to my previous updates here, since the book itself doesn’t have chapter numbers, but I’d entered the wrong number in my first update for this thread, so actually all the chapter numbers were off by 2 in previous updates). So I’ll go back and fix those posts, but the page numbers in this thread and natively are at least correct.
Then today I read half of this week’s content for the IBC. This is the first full on novel novel I’m attempting in Japanese, and unlike 本好きの下剋上, I’ve got the regular edition and not the junior full furigana edition. So it’s just as well I invested in getting my ttsu + yomitan setup working, because I did a lot of lookups this week. It might be the yakuza language, or just the fact the book is 45 years old (if you read some 70s/80s English novel, the word choices are also different, after all), or the lack of furigana, but this weeks’ reading would have been a lot longer without that setup.
It does also mean the page counts for this book are going to be estimated, basically just multiplying the character count percentage by the total page number, so if you have the physical book and notice my pages-per-chapter is slightly off, that’s why.
Anyway, have 2 weeks off work, so I’ll probably try push to get 本好きの下剋上 1 finished off so I’m not juggling two novels when I go back to having regular amounts of time to spend on Japanese again.