５月６日
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Book | Type | Progress | Time |
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無職転生 ~異世界行ったら本気だす~ 1 | L31 | Light Novel | 33.54% → 34.14% | 22m |
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☆５月６日☆
Yup.
・45 pages of 震える天秤, reading through ch 28 and leaving off on pg 301
・11 pages of こころ, reading through ch 6 and leaving off on pg 27
震える天秤 is quite exciting at this point (less than 100 pages left!), but unfortunately it is midnight and I have to sleep.
Anyway, I wasn’t able to hook my Switch up to the TV and check if it still works fine that way (it should?) today, but I’m hoping I can tomorrow.
some vocab of note
服役 (ふくえき) [n., する v. (自)] penal servitude; serving time in prison
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I was initially just going to reply to say how much I also love Yotsuba and reading it before bed has been putting me in such a good mood to fall asleep BUT NOW I AM AFRAID OF REACHING THE END 
Maybe I should slow down…
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May 6th!
3 chapters of 絶対に風呂に入りたくない彼女VS絶対に風呂に入れたい彼氏 2
May 7th!
7 chapters of 絶対に風呂に入りたくない彼女VS絶対に風呂に入れたい彼氏 2
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7th may 
skipped manga, did more masquerade tho. next eng read is ‘grief is the thing with feathers’ by max porter cos i wanted something short and it was available at the library. edit: ohhh i do not have the context for this book but we’ll push through anyway! time to read some ted hughes, ig
| emoji | book | pages read |
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n1 vocab book | 32-35 |
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龍が如く８ | plot + side stuff |
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マスカレード・ホテル | 457-481 |
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劣等人の魔剣使い スキルボードを駆使して最強に至る vol 1 | 107-x |
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すばらしきこのせかい | x |
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grief is the thing with feathers | 0-62 |
today’s nhk article was this one (shiga prefecture PR)
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| Title | Today | Progress | |
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トモダチゲーム | ch.1 | 29% |
Can’t quite figure out whether the stakes will reach life or death levels, they might not which could make for an interesting change from what I’m used to.
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May 6th
Up to page 244, 36 pages read
New scroll! This one is pretty old being from around the 12-13th centuries, it is also divided into eight parts so there were a lot of accompanying pictures to show all the little details.
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YEAHHH YOUTSUBA LOVE
Haha, I know, it’s so sad when you finish or get caught up with a favorite series 
Maybe I’ll just have to turn right back around and start re-reading the series once I finish 
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２０２５年５月７日(水)
今日、チーズスイートホームの161章から162章を読んだ。それから、「大きな魚の家族」についての記事を読んだ。
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Book | Pages |
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チーズスイートホーム９ | 115 - 131 |
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和タのC | 1 |
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May 7th
SeaBed VN today. Such a beautiful VN! Equal parts yuri, slice-of-life and mystery. Mostly slice-of-life so far, but I’m sure I’ll see more of the mystery as I keep reading!
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Home | 5月7日
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Title | Type | Progress |
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ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石 II - L30 | Novel | p. 120 → p. 143 |
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Played Misao for two hours today. It was actually quite a bit of reading because I try to read every book/document/whatever that is possible to read in the game 
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5月8日 | 
: 1 book, 16 manga vols
| ? | Title | Type | Progress |
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ボッチ・だ・ロック 3 | Lvl 31 manga (club) |  62% |
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Read Real Japanese Essays: Contemporary Writings by Popular Authors | Lvl 29 graded reader |  48% → 57% |
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セックスの誘い方 ~社会人編~ | Lvl 24? manga | 35% → 51% |
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ガールクラッシュ 1巻 | Lvl 23 manga |  0% → 69% |
- 1/3 of a longer essay than usual about mathematics and genius. Quite an interesting piece actually.
- Chapter or two of せっくすの誘い. Will probably break after the next chapter for a bit given this is about twice a normal volume size.
- Started and read a lot of Girl Crush on Kindle Unlimited, an extremely stylish manga about becoming a K-pop idol. Happy to find it’s full furigana which helps because it’s a little bit beyond my level right now otherwise. But very readable and cool, I’m adding this to my to-buy list.
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５月７日
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Book | Type | Progress | Time |
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無職転生 ~異世界行ったら本気だす~ 1 | L31 | Light Novel | 34.14% → 34.76% | 20m |
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☆５月７日☆
・88 pages of 震える天秤, finishing the book!
I thought I would finish it tomorrow tbh, but I’m glad I was able to today, though it meant no Switch-playing (although I did hook it up to the TV real quick today to make certain it was just the display and not something else wrong with it, and as expected it displayed fine on the TV. So that’s good, at least). It was good, but I won’t be reading it again. There were some things about the MC that annoyed me too much. Also I expected some mention to be made about Tae killing her husband, but there was nothing beyond a police car going in that direction with the siren on not that long after Ritsu left the Ishibashi house for the last time. Not even in the epilogue. Hm.
some vocab of note
調べ (しらべ) [n.] tune; note; melody
・すぐ上から篳篥や箏、太鼓の調べが聞こえてくる。
黒山 (くろやま) [n.] large crowd; mass of people
箝口令を敷く (かんこうれいをしく) [expression, カ五] to impose a gag order
出鱈目 (でたらめ) [n., な-adj.] codswallop. I knew the word and (theoretically; it never really stuck) that it means “nonsense,” but I don’t think I’d ever seen it in kanji. 鱈 means “cod,” and while the origins of “codswallop” are unknown, and thus whether that “cod” is as in codfish or some other use of the word, but I still find it interesting that there’s a word in two very different languages containing their name for the codfish and meaning “nonsense.” (In JP, at the very least the 鱈 is 当て字; Goo辞書 says it has the meaning of “さいころを振って、出たその目のままにする.”)
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5月4日 (日)
- 六人の嘘つきな大学生 (67-72%)
- 空の軌跡
5月5日 (月)
- 六人の嘘つきな大学生 (72-74%)
- 空の軌跡
5月6日 (火)
- 六人の嘘つきな大学生 (74-79%)
5月7日 (水)
- 六人の嘘つきな大学生 (79-82%)
- 空の軌跡
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8th may
skipped manga again cos i wanted to finish masquerade, and i did! very glad the weird masquerade hallucination thing from the end of the film wasn’t in the book. there is one thing that bothers me, which is why didn’t maki go somewhere warmer until morning instead of staying there all night. she knew he wouldn’t come out again until morning, so she had no reason to spend the night there? ah well. enjoyed it, has a slightly meandering and overlong first half but a strong second half.
| emoji | book | pages read |
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n1 vocab book | 35-38 |
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龍が如く８ | tiny plot, mostly side stuff |
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マスカレード・ホテル | 481-end |
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劣等人の魔剣使い スキルボードを駆使して最強に至る vol 1 | 107-x |
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すばらしきこのせかい | x |
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grief is the thing with feathers | 62-end |
today’s nhk article was this one (e-sports. shoutout to the elderly taiko no tatsujin group in the second half)
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Counting reading subtitles as daily read.
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1/5 5 pages Mina’s Matchbox, 15 pages 銀の匙 (finished week 5), aDoAJG かつ
2/5 1 page Mina’s Matchbox, 16 pages 銀の匙 (read week 6)
3/5 4 pages Spy Family manga, 48 pages 約束のネバーランド
4/5 4 pages Spy Family manga, 30 pages 約束のネバーランド, aDoAJG きらいがある
5/5 14 pages Spy Family manga (finished mission 107), 50 pages 約束のネバーランド (finished volume 4, started next), aDoAJG ことか
6/5 10 pages 舞妓さんちのまかないさん (read chapter 81), 33 pages 約束のネバーランド, 8 pages 老女的少女ひなたちゃん
7/5 2 pages Mina’s Matchbox, 10 pages 銀の匙, 8 pages 老女的少女ひなたちゃん, 4 pages 約束のネバーランド
Overall my reading while in Japan hasn’t gone that well, mainly because I’ve had less free time and not many long journeys. Tomorrow likely similar but we’ll see. Could read on the way to Yamadera but then I need to take my iPad up the hill 
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May 7th
Up to page 264, 20 pages read
The next set of scrolls depict all the different levels of hell that monks go to if they commit sin and stray from their path.
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