August 10
| Type | Done today | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| 夜の名前を呼んで | Chapter 4 5 6 | Finished |
@soggyboy us every night racing to see who posts first
| 08月09-10日 | Type: | Progress: | |
|---|---|---|---|
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ブルーロック 戦いの前、僕らは。 潔・凪・蜂楽 | Light Novel | 016 → 017 / 208 pgs |
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鋼の錬金術師 Vol 1 | Manga | 037 → 047 / 179 pgs |
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十三機兵防衛圏 | Game | 30 mins |
Half the reading for the IMC, another page of the light novel, and also managed to fit in 30 mins of playing 13 Sentinels. Trying to find more sneaky ways to fit reading into my day to day, and the Switch seems a good option!
August 11
Read chapter 21 of Orange
Also finished the weekly read for Full Metal Alchemist! Apart a couple of pages, they went pretty fast!
Today: finished free-reading Chap. 28 of よつばと！ Vol. 5. So very cute!
10th +11th august
well, i didn’t read any raven stratagem, oops. i’ll get back on it next week, if i don’t i’ll forget who everyone is 
but, i did do a fair bit more jp reading, cos cmoa (like bookwalker but more adult-leaning and usually easier to buy from) were running a 99% off coupon up to roughly 1000 yen so i was reading sample after sample trying to find something i wanted that i could get maximum value out of. (went with a beginner’s guide to shogi).
August 11 | Home post
Today I finished chapter 6 of LOOPERS and read a little from Clannad on Swich. Just fir fun!
Home post // August 11 
・本好きの下剋上 20 (62.9% → 100%) | 68.9k characters (187k / 187k char.)
damn, what in the actual… The plot, I can’t believe it’s really happening. I can’t wait to pick up the next book, but I’m also kinda scared. It’s going to be the end of arc 4.
Lookups (60)
| Word | Notes |
|---|---|
| 出端をくじく | to kill someone’s enthusiasm |
| 鐘の音 | |
| れっきとした | |
| 先人 | |
| 傷心 | |
| 香炉 | |
| 焚く | |
| あまねく | |
| 奉る | |
| 諸共 | |
| 10 | |
| 誓願 | |
| 触れ | proclamation, official notice |
| 念頭に置く | to bear in mind |
| 慶事 | wk 59 |
| っぷり | manner, style e.g. 書きっぷり |
| 所感 | |
| 思い煩う | |
| 大口 | large quantity |
| 餞別 | |
| 巣立つ | |
| 20 | |
| 相場が決まっている | |
| 含有量 | |
| 激務 | |
| ろ過 (alt. form 濾過) | filtering |
| ろ紙 | filter paper |
| 事もなげに | なにも特別なことではないかのように、平然と行うさま |
| 伝導率 | conductivity |
| 逆戻り | |
| 物は言いよう | |
| 当たり障りのない | |
| 30 | |
| かまける | |
| 全盛期 | |
| 一点突破 | |
| 浮き彫りになる | |
| 一縷の望み | |
| 油断大敵 | carelessness is the great enemy |
| 示威行為 | |
| 瓜二つ | (as alike as) two peas in a pod |
| 宝の持ち腐れ | |
| 所在無げ | なすべきことがなくて退屈そうなありさま |
| 40 | |
| 急遽 | |
| 不摂生 | |
| 敷物 | 座るために下に敷くもの。布団・じゅうたん・毛皮など |
| レッテルを貼る | |
| 氷室 | |
| 心置きなく | frankly, without reserve |
| 頓着 | |
| 書見台 | |
| 代わり映え | |
| 情が薄い | |
| 50 | |
| 断続的に | |
| 滔々と | |
| 木偶の坊 | |
| 取り沙汰 | |
| 恋愛成就 | |
| 愚の骨頂 | |
| 穀潰し | |
| 保管場所 | |
| お鉢が回る | |
| 甘え上手 | |
| 60 |
1/5 cases
32%
Total pages read this week: 79
Finished ちいさな森のオオカミちゃん 2 this week! Also read a bit more of ルリドラゴン, 玉藻の恋, and となりのロボと!
August 11
| Type | Done today | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| クーク | Chapter 8 | Finished |
| 夜の名前を呼んで vol 2 | Chapter 6 7 | 21% |
| 魔女の宅急便 | 1k characters | 1/85k characters |
| 08月011日 | Type: | Progress: | |
|---|---|---|---|
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ブルーロック 戦いの前、僕らは。 潔・凪・蜂楽 | Light Novel | 017 → 019 / 208 pgs |
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鋼の錬金術師 Vol 1 | Manga | 047 → 059 / 179 pgs |
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すみっコぐらし | Children’s Book | 000 → 019 / 107 pgs |
Yesterday was a good day for reading! Finished off this week’s reading for 鋼. The first part of that was pretty tricky, but it got a bit easier towards the end.
Another page down for the Bluelock light novel. Other than a couple of unknown words, this went well, found myself enjoying it and wanting to read more, so probably pick a bit more up after work today.
And also yesterday the weather was super nice, so went and sat out and spent an hour reading through すみっコぐらし, which is a kid’s book containing two short stories.
I debated starting another manga, but since I’m less confident with longer form writing styles, and conjuctions and what not, I decided on this instead, which should also help with the Bluelock book.
12th august
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Title | Type | Natively | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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江戸時代大百科 1 | kids non-fiction | high 20s? | pg 30-32 |
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ブレイブリーデフォルト | game | N/A | none |
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raven strategem | eng book | N/A | 125-x |
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aDoAJG | grammar | N/A | pg 184-190 |
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寄生獣 7 | manga | 25 | 0-107 |
aDoAJG entries were かな and かのように
this nhk article
gonna move to doing half a volume of manga instead of a full one so i can start doing everything else more consistently again.
August 12 | Home post
Just a short trip to the Island 
today - 1700 character. I hope I have more time to read tomorrow!
Home post // August 12
・本好きの下剋上 21 (0% → 8.14%) | 16k characters (16 020 / 196k char.)
Almost forgot to post.
Book thoughts: シャルロッテ talking and giving accurate reports to her mom makes me feel like she’s more mature than her older brother. Meanwhile ハルトムート is a ローゼマイン maniac as always. Now that he is going to take フェルディナンド’s position as the 神官長, I know he’s supposed to support ローゼマイン, but… can he really support her? It’s different because he doesn’t know her backstory. フェルディナンド… I can’t believe he’s leaving 
The illustration at the beginning of the book shows a moment between ローゼマイン and フェルディナンド and it looks like a farewell moment… やだよ
Lookups (15)
| Word | Notes |
|---|---|
| 降り積もる | |
| 仕掛け人 | |
| 失脚 | |
| 日の目を見る | それまで知られていなかったものが世間に認められる |
| 皮算用 | |
| 取り付く島もない | |
| 上っ面 | |
| 確執 | |
| 節がある | |
| 掛かり切り | |
| 10 | |
| 邪推 | |
| 隠れ蓑 | |
| 増長 | |
| 角が立つ | |
| 腕が鳴る |
I feel like the amount of lookups is closely related to the x amount of k characters I’ve read, it’s kinda funny. Yesterday I had 60 lookups with 68.9k characters read and the day before it was 12 lookups through 11.2k characters.