So I’ve been away for the weekend, which means I haven’t posted any updates on this thread in a while. I have been reading though! On the 8th, I read some more of the 本好きの下剋上 VN, then on the 9th, I read some of the 本好き manga again (it’s been a while, but I have it physically, so I took it with me for the trip… But then I only ended up reading it on the outbound plane). The next three days were a chapter each of ひなたちゃん, basically just for the purpose of keeping this challenge going, and finally, now that I’m home today, I finished out volume 4.
Hinata Volume 4 Comment
I did not expect Sakuya’s back story to be what it was. Honestly, volume 3 led me thinking it was going to be much darker.
Two chapters of Dungeon Meshi last night and this morning to stay on track. (I realised you can tell what chapters the anime will cover next based on the episode previews, since they just name them)
I also could have sworn I read JoJo on Sunday, not Saturday?? PS. Lol, misnumbered the past few days.
Seasons was about stars (13) and lovebirds (14).
I had thought this delightful doujin would arrive with the other but it did not! I’m just happy it arrived though. The listing says 56 pages, but that includes the cover pretty often, so I’m just going to count 55. It’s a join effort doujin with 2 artists sharing their takes on the same prompt. It’s great. Also a little maddening. The first artist is fine and uses language that’s frankly on my level. The second was more advanced. Luckily it was less philosophical than some of their other works, but pleassssse… I’m paying for spice not poetry.
I had a bit of extra time at work and thought I could knock out a chapter of Stake but not Ouran . I was right with like a minute to spare.
Midnight Drastic I picked up again because before bed is the perfect time for spice and also because I want to decrease my now reading pile. 9 books is ridiculous and if I knock out Midnight and Stake , then hopefully I can get back into the swing of Ouran although I have a feeling that I will probably consume Smoking 4 before finishing Ouran … Now that I think about it, there’s high odds that I’ll start switching back and forth between something spicy and JoJo for my pre-bed reading Oh well. Problems for future me.
another ouran chapter, just one left in the volume now (plus a side story). little break between story arcs featuring a mischievous little タヌキ cos why not. also finished vol 1 of No. 6 and though the last chapter was considerably messier than the first two i’ll keep reading! also featured a page or so of a character reading from macbeth, somehow marking my second ‘shakespeare in japanese’ in a week more pages in the bakumatsu book, would have been more but i got sidetracked reading the wikipedia pages for huis ten bosch and nagasaki holland village
today’s nhk articles were this one and this one, plus the entries on せい and せめて in aDoIJG
No. 6:
切開 - incision, operation, section
渾身 - putting in all one’s efforts, using one’s whole body
全快祝い - celebration of complete recovery from illness
After a long drought the villagers pray to the gods for rain and after many donations at the shrine rain arrives. A villager discovers that a fox keeps eating the tasty donations so he sets it upon himself to guard the shrine… but ends up eating the donations himself.
Words Found Baking in the Sun
鎮守「ちんじゅ」ー Local Shinto deity
雨乞い「あまごい」ー Praying for rain; rainmaking
工夫「くふう」ー Devising a way; contriving; working out; thinking up of
This week I’m still reading every day. Fujiki consulting services at 1 episode per day, and clearing my backlog. I finished Reading Road yesterday and 小さな森のオオカミちゃん 2 today!
One chapter of Komi-san and a funny forward foeward (as it was called in the book) to a writing craft non-fiction book. Not sure the foeward was useful to read in any way, but it was entertainingly written at least.
Seasons was about Nirvana Day, which I had a lot of trouble understanding tbh
Midnight Drastic was good but I was falling asleep so I kept accidently cat-napping until I finished the chapter around 4am. Just 2 left out of 6. I kinda want to finish it today but I really should do some chores…
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本好きの下剋上第一部４
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. I was right with like a minute to spare.
before finishing Ouran 
Oh well. Problems for future me.
ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 chapter 7
BASARA ~half of chapter 2
more pages in the bakumatsu book, would have been more but i got sidetracked reading the wikipedia pages for 
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Sakura and Suzuki on Satori Reader, ep. 30 to 32.
かえるくん、東京を救う (Super Frog saves Tokyo), short story by Haruki Murakami, 2 pages.
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