📚📚 Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Spring 2026 🏫 🧑‍🏫

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Welcome to all the others who have joined in the meantime :slight_smile:
Let’s get started!

April 1st
Am a bit sick, but still managed to get some reading in. I read chapter 9 of 薬屋のひとりごと 1 (Apothecary Diaries) as well as chapter 38 of Frieren (the first chapter of volume 5) :tofugu:

Book Pages Percentage
薬屋のひとりごと 1 69–76 ?% → 22%
葬送のフリーレン 5 0–20 0% → 10%

I think one goal of mine will be finishing that first Apothecary Diaries light novel this month! It has 31 chapters in total and now I have finished 9. I’ve already decided that I won’t buy any new books before I have finished that one :laughing: I currently have this as digital only and it’s a bit of dilemma. On one hand, I much prefer physical books over digital ones. On the other, this book in particular has so many terms where I feel like I better look them up, and that’s much easier to do with a digital copy. On the bookwalker app on my iPad, I just press on a word for a bit longer to select and boom, look it up in the built-in dictionary. With physicals books, I usually don’t bother looking a term up unless I encounter it often enough that I am annoyed by not knowing it :face_with_peeking_eye:

Anyway, maybe towards the end of this first volume, I have a better idea of whether I could tackle this without so many dictionary lookups or not :eyes:

By the way, the digital edition of Apothecary Diaries volume 1 is still on sale until April 3rd. It’s only 191 Yen! 薬屋のひとりごと - ライトノベル(ラノベ) 日向夏/しのとうこ(ヒーロー文庫):電子書籍試し読み無料 - BOOK☆WALKER -