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

Japanese Language Reading
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2024-03-24T01:01:00Z

You might want to join us over at the Spring challenge. It starts in April. This month is actually the off month.

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2024-03-23

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Date Name Type Amount Time
2024-03-23 :guitar: 気になってる人が男じゃなかった :green_book: Manga :arrow_forward: BBC Week 7+8
:page_facing_up: 45 pages		 :hourglass: 15m

Caught up with two weeks of the BBC today. If I’m totally honest, I hadn’t been feeling this book for a while, but it’s finally keeping my interest - the “oh she doesn’t know お兄さん is really her classmate” was hard to deal with from a second hand embarassment point of view. Now that it’s out in the open I’m enjoying the manga more

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24 March | Home

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:cat2: また、同じ夢を見ていた book 25 39% → 42%
:rock: ダンジョン飯５ manga 29 30% (no change)
:candy: 不思議駄菓子屋1 book 24 64% (no change)
  • Half the week’s reading for 同じ夢.
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:cherry_blossom: March 22 :frog:

:cat: Book Pages
:horse: ララの結婚 5 69 - 115

:cherry_blossom: March 23 :frog:

:cat: Book Pages
:musical_note: 気になってる人が男じゃなかった 117 - 138

LaLa :horse: is getting good enough that I might get vol 6 if it’s not listed at a brand-new price.

Not a Guy :musical_note: was good iirc but I’ve kinda forgotten lol. I did this week’s club reading.

Fun couple of days. Lots of good company and tomorrow has good company planned as well :smiling_face: I feel like life’s pretty good rn

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But @MGTJapanese please feel free to keep your March here! You can probably tell by the posts, but some of us continue the challenge even in the off month.

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Mar 24, Sun of Week 12 of Q1 2024

  • NHKにようこそ (7-11%)

  • DIJG : というより(は)(むしろ)

  • 逆転裁判 1 start Case 4

Words of the day
  • 人出(ひとで) = crowd
  • やり場(ば) = outlet, e.g. for anger. Like はけ口(ぐち).
  • 因縁(いんねん)を付(つ)ける = to pick up a pretext for a quarrel
  • 六法全書(ろっぽうぜんしょ) = Six Codes - Wikipedia, a complete book of the Six Major Laws
  • 売(う)り = selling point / sales
  • のぼり = a horizontal banner = 幟(のぼり)
  • 手回(てまわ)しがいい = well-prepared
  • 慇懃無礼(いんぎんぶれい) = superficially polite, but actually rude. 慇懃(いんぎん) on the surface, but actually 無礼(ぶれい).
  • 空転(くうてん) = (arguing) going in circle, going nowhere
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:calendar: 2024年3月24日 :calendar:

:question: Title Read today Currently at Notes
:desert_island: ISLAND 5k 375.000 char 22 new words
:orange_book: Secret 2 episodes 38/98 —
:bust_in_silhouette: シャドーハウス 3 chapters 4/175

Just started シャドーハウス so I have something to read in the evenings that’s not a VN, enjoying it a lot!

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:cherry_blossom: :teapot: Home post and thread

3月24日日曜日

:hibiscus: 薬屋のひとりごと volume 11, chapter 3, 7 pages.
I wanted to read more, but my brain protested it’s exhausted, so I’ll keep on another day^^

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:bookmark: Home post // March 24 :snowman_with_snow: :books:

・わたしの幸せな結婚 8 (45% → 80%)

Kyaa x3 They’re so cute!

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2024-03-24

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Date Name Type Amount Time
2024-03-24 :books: 本好きの下剋上第一部５ :green_book: Manga :white_check_mark: Bonus SS
:page_facing_up: 11 pages		 :hourglass: 40m

Yet another short story at the end of a manga volume in 本好きの下剋上。It’s good getting some physical novel-like reading in I suppose, though it does mess up my manga reading speed stats on Natively, lol.

Anyway, rather late in the week, but I got my finished manga volume for this week :slight_smile:

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25 March | Home

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:cat2: また、同じ夢を見ていた book 25 42% → 45%
:rock: ダンジョン飯５ manga 29 30% (no change)
:candy: 不思議駄菓子屋1 book 24 64% (no change)
  • The other half of the week’s reading for 同じ夢. We progress, step by step…
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Mar 25, Mon of Week 13 of Q1 2024

  • NHKにようこそ (11-14%)

  • DIJG : とかで

  • 逆転裁判 1 Case 4

Deep-voiced 異議あり!

Words of the day
  • 侘(わび)しい = miserable; lonely; cheerless
  • 陰々滅々(いんいんめつめつ) = gloomy and depressing. Nothing related to 隠滅(いんめつ).
  • 英気(えいき)を養(やしな)う = to restore one’s energy; to recharge one’s batteries
  • 挙式(きょしき) = (holding a) wedding ceremony
  • 励(はげ)みになる = to be motivating. 励(はげ)む is working hard.
  • ～を禁(きん)じ得(え)ない = cannot suppress
  • 標語(ひょうご) = motto; slogan
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:calendar: 2024年3月25日 :calendar:

:question: Title Read today Currently at Notes
:orange_book: Secret 2 episodes 40/98 —
:desert_island: ISLAND 5k 380.000 char 26 new words
:bust_in_silhouette: シャドーハウス 2 chapters 6/175
Secret Episode 30-40

So the protagonist and his friend (both Japanese) go on vacation to the US to hike in Yosemite Park. On their way up the Half Dome, a wildfire starts and they have to be rescued by helicopter, them and all the other hikers. I was like, wow very dramatic scenario, calm down now writers, but nope, it really did happen :open_mouth: Meadow Fire - Wikipedia

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

・わたしの幸せな結婚 8 (80% → 100%)

あっという間に終わったね TuT. This book was a collection of short stories. Those were good and I can’t wait for the next book to be released (hopefully continuing from where book 7 left off). Please let it be this year :pray:

For some reason, ‘speciaru gesuto’ is not katakana :eyes: omoshiroi ne

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2024-03-25

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Date Name Type Amount Time
2024-03-25 :gun: Persona 3 Reload :video_game: RPG :arrow_forward: 5/1 :hourglass: 1h
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:cherry_blossom: March 24 :frog:

:cat: Book Pages
:family_man_boy_boy: 腐男子家族 3 93 - 124

:cherry_blossom: March 25 :frog:

:cat: Book Pages
:horse: ララの結婚 5 116 - 143
:two_men_holding_hands: Cute Fluffy BL Short 22 pages
:dress: 女装してめんどくさい事になってるネクラとヤンキーの両片想い 1 33 - 60
:dagger: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 2 87 - 106

skldjfhewwhf I missed that I forgot to update yesterday lol.

I loved Fudanshi :family_man_boy_boy: this week. It revolved around the dad and his love life :smiling_face:

LaLa :horse: is going better than expected. I like they twist that they had and where the mangaka is going with this. It looks like I’ll probably order and read vol 6 although I still think the manga is continuing longer than it should.

The short :two_men_holding_hands: was a Renshuu book club pick. I hadn’t realized they update on Mondays too. I’ll probably start doing my Monday reading on Sunday for the most part. I had started doing it with JoJo :dagger: but I ran out of time the other day.

The crossdressing :dress: one was much better this week. I doubt I’ll participate in a spinoff club though.

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26 March | Home

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:candy: 不思議駄菓子屋1 book 24 64% → 71%
:cat2: また、同じ夢を見ていた book 25 45% (no change)
:rock: ダンジョン飯５ manga 29 30% (no change)
  • Week’s reading for 駄菓子屋. Loads of vocab in hirigana and was reading while distracted, so didn’t really enjoy this week’s one… stupid morning shifts…
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Mar 26, Tue of Week 13 of Q1 2024

  • NHKにようこそ (14-19%)

  • DIJG : ～たところ

  • 逆転裁判 1 Case 4 :parrot:

Words of the day
  • 止(と)まり木(ぎ) = a bar stool / a crossbar for a bird
  • 受(う)けが良(い)い = well received; popular
  • 造物主(ぞうぶつしゅ) = the Creator (of all things)
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:cherry_blossom: :teapot: Home Post (and Thread)

3月26日火曜日

Today I’ve begun ジャングルから脱出せよ - Jungle escape with the survival escape book game :smiley:
I’ve read 3 pages, the explanation (even if I know how a choose-your-own-adventure-book works, I wanted to get accustomed with the vocabulary) and the beginning of the story.
It’s nice to read on paper for a change, I can take notes^^

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27 March | Home

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:bacon: 焼いてる二人２ manga 25 0 → 45%
:candy: 不思議駄菓子屋1 book 24 71% (no change)
:cat2: また、同じ夢を見ていた book 25 45% (no change)
:rock: ダンジョン飯５ manga 29 30% (no change)
  • Casual read of 焼いてる二人２, may or may not finish today.
  • Not reading but started Ryu ga Gotoku: Infinite Wealth, which is good
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