📚📚 Read Every Day Challenge - Winter 2024 🎍☃🌲

Feb. 2024

I read 2 chapters of 可愛いだけじゃない式守さん。 Then, because I couldn’t resist, I also read the omake to finish off the volume. Oops. So now I’m at two completed manga volumes in Japanese!

I put volume 2 in my cart but I’m holding off on checking out since I’m trying to resist BookWalker’s sales (and failing OTL)

:cat: Book Pages
:horse_racing: STEEL BALL RUN 1 31 - 90
:green_heart: doujin 27 pages
:musical_note: 気になってる人が男じゃなかった 47 - 68

I might have made a lifestyle change that’ll make reading a lot easier to commit to lol.

I also started Part 7 :horse_racing: of JoJo for uh reasons. If I fail at the reason, then I’ll share. If I succeed, maybe I’ll share. It depends.

As far as the actual manga :horse_racing: goes, the second half of the first chapter was incredibly hard but I think it’s because they talked about logistics in the most ridiculous terms possible. Chapter 2 was a hella lot easier. It’s still overall harder than the other Parts I’ve read so far though I think.

Not a Guy :musical_note: got confusing because I was using a second bookmark to mark where to stop but instead I started reading from that spot…

As for the doujin :green_heart: good spice. It was manga pages for a larger novel fanfic. I’d love to go back and read it once I can read that much text without mental blockage. Although I guess I’ll try Dracula again in May, so we’ll see how that goes.

25th feb

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so turns out the reason i’ve been finding everything so difficult lately is cos i was getting sick :expressionless: ah well, all being well it should clear up in a week :crossed_fingers:

pixiv and other stuff elsewhere both today and yesterday, not really got the energy for much more

Feb 25, Sun of Week 8 of Q1 2024

  • NARUTO Vol.21 end, Ch.184-190

  • DIJG : っぽい

  • 徒花異譚

Words of the day
  • (はな)(せい) = fairy (妖精(ようせい)) of a flower
  • 錦繍(きんしゅう) = beautiful fabric. (にしき) + 刺繍(ししゅう)
  • 払暁(ふつぎょう) = daybreak; dawn. (はら)う + (あかつき)
  • 深更(しんこう) = middle of the night. Second Kanji is indeed (さら)に, but also 夜更(よふ)かし.
  • 水泡(すいほう) = water bubble. Air bubble is 気泡(きほう).
  • 瀟洒(しょうしゃ) = elegant; refined; stylish. Second Kanji is from お洒落(しゃれ). First Kanji, probably water (氵) + 蕭々(しょうしょう)たる.
  • 玉虫色(たまむしいろ) = iridescent color. 玉虫(たまむし) is Buprestidae - Wikipedia (jewel beetle, but I don’t even know the word in English).
  • 上背(うわぜい) = stature; height
  • (きょう)() = to get excited and getting engrossed in. See also (きょう)()る.
  • 心根(こころね) = disposition; inner feelings
  • 盛夏(せいか) = mid-summer. Another word is 真夏(まなつ). Early and late are 初夏(しょか) and 晩夏(ばんか), and also, other seasons in On’yomi.
  • 居丈高(いたけだか) = domineering; over-bearing. Talking about mid-summer heat and the sun, in context.
  • うたぐり = doubt. From (うたぐ)る, which is a mix between (うたが)う and 勘繰(かんぐ)る.
  • 婀娜(あだ)っぽい = coquettish. Somewhat (あで)やか?
  • 体付(からだつ)き = body build; figure

:bookmark: Home post // Feb 25 :snowman_with_snow: :books:

・サイレント・ウイッチ VII (72% → 78%)

Read a bit in the morning. I probably won’t get much reading done next week, it’s going to be intense.

:cherry_blossom: :teapot: Home Post (and Thread)

2月25日日曜日

:heavy_heart_exclamation: Sakura and Suzuki on Satori Reader, ep. 39 to 43 (final episode).

It means I’ve finished reading my second series on Satori Reader :tada:
I liked it a lot and I think I could have read even more episodes of this story.
At the end, I was looking less and less at the translation of the full sentences, so I’m pretty proud, I feel I’ve improved.

At the same time, I keep reading the volume 11 of 薬屋のひとりごと, 4 or 5 pages a day before sleeping.

2月24日 & 2月25日
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Had more busy days but read episodes 37 - 43 of Sakura and Suzuki. That’s the third series on Satorireader I’ve finished! Yayyy! Congrats on finishing the same series @macalys !

So thankful for Satorireader especially on busy days when all I have is time while commuting or waiting for someone! I still get to practice reading and listening on the go using the app. :slight_smile:

Oh and also thanks @Clovie @Akashelia @nyxqueenofshadows for the Kansai-ben resources!! I’ll be looking into them soon!

I translated all of the ingredients and measurements for a recipe in a kid’s cookbook. I also read pages 50-53 of a girls magazine called ちゃお, two level 1 stories, and one short N5 article from Watanoc.

2024-02-26T02:03:00Z

What does this mean? I googled but I’m not sure if I’m seeing the correct definition.

2024-02-25

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Date Name Type Amount Time
2024-02-25 :family_woman_girl: 老女的少女ひなたちゃん5 :green_book: Manga :white_check_mark: Chapter 40-43.5
:page_facing_up: 80 pages
:hourglass: 30m

Finished out yesterday’s reading with the second half of 老女的少女ひなたちゃん5. More detailed thoughts tomorrow, as my forum time is limited today

Oh, it’s just an internet slang thing for despair/frustration/easperation. It’s a little guy who’s on his hands and knees on the ground.

OTL
Another variation is
orz

So it’s more like an emoji (not an acronym)

26 Feb | Home

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:bride_with_veil: となりは何を食う人ぞ 〜ほろ酔い〜11 manga 27 0pg → 44pg
:cat2: また、同じ夢を見ていた book 25 24% (no change)
:squid: ダンジョン飯3 manga 29 84% (no change)
:candy: 不思議駄菓子屋1 book 24 30% (no change)
  • Decided why not to just finish up (what I have of) ほろ酔い (though actually maybe I should have done this week’s 駄菓子屋 reading?). Oh well, this is fine too. My usual no-lookup run will probably get through this today comfortably, then I have to decide what to start reading casually next… well, it’s not like I have a shortage of candidates.
  • I will say that I think I prefer reading on through a single series than my previous approaching of bouncing all over the place… but it’s not too often I have a whole stock of books to read since usually only the first few books of a series go on sale. Crafty booksellers!

Feb. 25

Read this week’s pages of 気になってる人が男じゃなかった for the BBC and a chapter of 小さな森のオオカミちゃん。She’s slowly becoming a big sister to more and more human girls, and it’s really cute.

:cat: Book Pages
:snowman_with_snow: 季節を愉しむ366日 Feb 22 and 23
:family_man_boy_boy: Fudanshi 3 (will add link later) start - 26

Seasons :snowman_with_snow: was about cat day and then I was too tired to catch up on the rest.

Wasn’t feeling that chapter of fudanshi :family_man_boy_boy: ngl

I thought I read more but no??

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Feb 25

  • :kimono: 舞妓さんちのまかないさん chapter 19, which along with the omake finishes up volume 2! There was one page that had me looking up a lot of desserts :drooling_face: and then I realized I was actually really hungry
  • :desert: BASARA chapter 6

Home Thread // February 24th, 2024

Name Progress State Finished
Markus’ Ascend (Part 1) 12/22 chapters (55%) Currently reading
The King’s Birthday 7/7 chapters (100%) :white_check_mark: Finished 19th Feb, 2024
Aryn’s wonderful world 6/6 chapters (100%) :white_check_mark: Finished 12th Feb, 2024
Aryn’s rescue 24/24 chapters (100%) :white_check_mark: Finished 9th Feb, 2024

Oopsie, looks like I forgot to post yesterday :sweat_smile: Only read two more chapters from Markus’ Ascend, hope to read all seven NHK Easy articles today.

2月26日
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I was able to read and parse through all of Week 8 of the ABBC’s Ruri Dragon in a day! :slight_smile: This was much easier than Week 6 and 7. I think it had less complicated grammar points.

I also read a story from snappyspanish.com titled ¿Por Qué Yo?

Congrats ! :tada:
From what I’ve been reading from you, I have the impresssion that you didn’t like this series as much as I did, though ?
What are you gonna read next on satori reader ?

I did enjoy it! I just didn’t like the parts where they were joking about getting hit on by other men/women.

I’m planning to read the Jam Maker next! :slight_smile: What about you?

Oh ok, glad it stopped soon then ^^

I was thinking about reading the same ! We’ll be in sync again :smiley: