Home post // August 29 
・本好きの下剋上 22 (91.27% → 94.25%) | 6.5k characters (204 204 / 216k char.)
Finally back home from trip. Got to read a bit on the airplane.
Almost done with book! 
August 28
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Club | Title | Type | Natively | Progress |
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IMC | 鋼の錬金術師 1 | manga | 31 | 140/270 pgs |
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BBC(former pick) | 時をかける少女 1 | book | 25 | 59 → 68/158 pgs |
August 29
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Club | Title | Type | Natively | Progress |
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IMC | 鋼の錬金術師 1 | manga | 31 | 140/270 pgs |
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BBC(former pick) | 時をかける少女 1 | book | 25 | 69 → 74/158 pgs |
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BBC | ウスズミの果て 1 | manga | 25 | 1 → 35/224 pgs |
yaaay more book clubs
30 August | Study Log
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Title | Type | Natively | Progress |
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ダンジョン飯１1 | manga | 30 |  68% → 82% |
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甘々と稲妻 4 | manga | 23 |  77% → 100% |
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トナリはなにを食う人ぞ ほろよい 12 | manga | 27 | 0 → 17% |
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逆転裁判1 | game | ??? |  1/5 cases |
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鋼の錬金術師 1 | manga | 31 | 78% |
- Chapter of だん飯, pretty easy chapter because it was mostly action or recap(ish).
- Chapter of 甘々と稲妻 to finish off the volume, need to buy more of this series.
- A new volume of one of my favourite shoujo 隣は何を食う人ぞ〜ほろ酔い〜 finally arrived. This series is still a bit difficult for me and requires concentration to read, but I really enjoy it and I’m so glad I can read it ‘relatively’ easy now.
Hello!!
I wanna jump on this wagon for the next one 
Everyone is linking “home post”, is this their original post on the thread that they update throughout the challenge?? New to the community culture haha
Yep! Usually it’s the post with the calendar template so you can click the boxes the days you’ve read. Some people also use their home post to like update a list of books they’ve finished during the challenge, etc.
Perfect! I’ll keep a look out for the next post!
| 08月22-26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 | 028/208 pgs |
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鋼の錬金術師 Vol 1 | Manga | 112 → 118/179 pgs |
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すみっコぐらし | Children’s Book | 019/107 pgs |
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ブルーロック Vol 6 | Manga | 012 → 074/192 pgs |
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十三機兵防衛圏 | Game | - |
Finished the first 4 chapters in Vol 6 of Bluelock. The last one was particularily nice to read, maybe only 3/4 look ups across twenty pages. 
FMA is a different story. Definitely been neglecting that due to it’s difficulty, but I’m falling behind a little with the club, so intending to just sit down and get through it today regardless.
August 30
NHK news, learned some nice words, and inspired by a book club I saw on here I’ve been reading the dictionary of basic japanese grammar, I do a couple of grammar points every day.
I tried to do it in the past but I would either stress about trying to remember every little nuance of every grammar point or stop doing it, so… it didn’t work out.
Now that I have a much better foundation of grammar and already know the basics hopefully it will go better. The example sentences are a nice way to practice some very quick reading and understanding evern if they are pretty basic for now of course. Still managed to learn the kanji for “soy bean” so I figure it will help.
30th august
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Title | Type | Natively | Progress |
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予知夢 | novel | 33 | pg 125-131 |
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ブレイブリーデフォルト | game | N/A | none |
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revenant gun | eng book | N/A | 57-edit |
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aDoAJG | grammar | N/A | pg 266-268 |
aDoAJG entries was ものか
this nhk article
smaller read cos i had a dentist appointment. 予知夢 had its first real science section and i mostly followed it so i’ll call that a win
Ok! After almost 2 weeks of no reading, today I close-read p. 3-16 of よつばと！ Vol. 5.
Vocab
自由研究: じゆうけんきゅう: research project
どんなのができるか楽しみ: I’m looking forward to seeing what you can do
あきもせず: persistently
出勤: しゅっきん: leaving for work
してこい: go ahead and do it
めいわく: annoyance, nuisance
じゅう: gun
へいき: all right, fine, okay; calm, composed
叩く: たたく: to hit
さわる: to touch
おこる: to get angry
超: ちょう: ultra-, super-
ぶき: weapon, asset
I’m going to try to do some reading each day over the Labour Day weekend; after that, I may tuck よつば away until Thanksgiving…
August 30th
| Title | Type | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| マスカレード・ホテル | Book | pg1-37 |
I am once again enjoying a physical book. Actually turning the pages motivates me.
August 30 | Home post
2500 characters from Island 
today, plus a little from Everlasting Flowers. VN plus VN and more VN!
Home post // August 30
・本好きの下剋上 22 (94.25% → 100%) | 12k characters (216k / 216k char.)
・本好きの下剋上 23 (0% → 4.38%) | 9.1k characters (9091 / 207k char.)
I finished book 
And started the next one. Hopefully it doesn’t take 2 weeks this time to complete another one.
Saturday 31 August
Have managed to read every day until yesterday when I broke my streak (big family reunion - just couldn’t find a free moment). But so far in this challenge have completed 壁の穴, Human Japanese Intermediate & am now working my way through “Sakura and Suzuki’s Long Distance Relationship” as well as Human Japanese Intermediate Extra. Hope to finish the first before the next reading challenge begins.
August 28th!
A chapter of 葬送のフリーレン today!
August 29th!
2 chapters of 桜井さんは気づいてほしい.
August 30th!
2 chapter of からかい上手の高木さん, finishing off volume 19. Only one volume left… I’m going to be really sad to reach then end of this after reading with the club for so long!
31 August | Study Log
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Title | Type | Natively | Progress |
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ダンジョン飯１1 | manga | 30 | 82% → 100% |
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トナリはなにを食う人ぞ ほろよい 12 | manga | 27 | 17% → 38% |
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逆転裁判1 | game | ??? | 1/5 cases |
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鋼の錬金術師 1 | manga | 31 | 78% |
- A quite dramatic and talky chapter of ダン飯 to close out this volume. 3 vols to go! (And all the omakes, which I skipped the first time around)
- A chapter of ほろよい before bed.
Today I had to choose between doing some more reading and making myself tamagoyaki + miso soup for lunch. Food won!
Thus ends my participation in the summer reading challenge for this year. I managed to read every day up to and including the first day of school! I also read through 3 volumes of よつばと！ (although I still have to re-read the third volume with vocabulary lookups). So I’m pretty satisfied with how I did. Next year I will end my commitment the day before school starts, because 1. let’s be real, and 2. I already have plenty of stress in my life and I don’t need my fun to be stressful too.
Good luck to those of you who will be pursuing the challenge through September! It’s been fun hanging out with you and I’ve made myself a good list of future readings based on your reports.
August 26th (Monday) to August 30th (Friday):
I increased my reading from 2 to 4 articles of NHK Easy (published on the same day). In addition, I read 2 episodes of Satori every day (sometimes more).
August 31th (Saturday):
I read 1 tadoku book, and several episodes of Satori.
August 30th
| Title | Type | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| マスカレード・ホテル | Book | pg37-52 |
| 変な家 | Book | pg22-32 (6%-11%) |