I’m already in two local summer reading challenges so I may as well add this. Summer reading stuff plus reading a few posts on various forums really spurred me on to read something (textbook, graded reader, manga…) in Japanese every day so this challenge should work out well.
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Goals
Obviously the plan is to read something Japanese every day for the next 3 months. For me that will be textbooks (namely An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese), the graded readers published by Ask, and manga. I would also read the news but a. I’m doing two summer [book] reading programs and b. I’m at the point where NHK Easy News is too easy but anything else is too hard. It’s one of the main reasons why I picked up WaniKani again actually.
Participating in this to hold myself accountable in trying to read 黒牢城, aiming to hopefully finish before the movie adaptation gets released in my country. On the side, I’ll be rereading メダリスト and probably starting on 煙たい話.
My Natively (I’m always on the lookout for more books to add to my 積読 pile…)
Simply put, I don’t want to lose to other readers here, be it ABC, miscellaneous clubs, reading on one’s own (the freedom of choosing and really finishing the book).
I plan to make use of a book club if it holds my interest, but I might stop if it (as of then) too hard or what…
Goals
3 books (book clubs well considered)
40 manga volumes
5 manga series of at least 2 volume each (hopefully IMC and SRBC)
I brought so many books back from Japan that I need to read! My main goal is keeping up with reading in August once the school year starts and the kids are back, I think those first few weeks will be my biggest challenge motivation wise. This time I’d also like to read for the full three months.
As always, thank you for hosting yet another Read Every Day Challenge @DIO-Berry .
I’m looking to shift my focus back to reading and will be joining this challenge for the next two months.
While I will likely manage to read daily, I’m not sure if I’ll update daily; it’ll depend on how I feel. I will at least try and tick off the calendar regularly.
Hey everyone, I’m excited for another round of reading!! Really enjoyed the spring thread, so of course I’m back for the summer challenge, as well
I’m still planning to continue my manga reading as before, and I’m well on track to achieving my yearly goal: I wanted to read 100 books this year and now at halftime, I’m at 59. But I think I wanna include more (light) novel reading this season, as well In spring, I’ve read the first volume of Apothecary Diaries and that’s a series I want to continue
Maybe this time, I’m also counting video games as reading if I feel like a session actually had a significant portion of it. I’ve been playing Xenoblade 1 in June and I think a lot of my sessions where I progressed the story did also contain some good reading practice - not as much the sessions where I just do sidequests whose dialogue I skip and then just roam around the world So yeah, I think I’ll just decide on a case by case basis what to count
Thanks for organizing, Dio, and let’s get started!
I’m on a streak of reading every day of the year so far, so I really just want to keep that up. My goal is at least 20 minutes a day, but I’m giving myself a little grace for the occasional days that don’t even hit that mark.
I don’t want to overcomplicate my goals, so my main goal is trying to remember to balance my time spent reading with some WK study and grammar study that will benefit said reading. I have a backlog of stuff that I want to read now, so I’ll just add stuff as I go. The starting list consists of works that I’m in the middle of reading or ongoing series from the Spring thread.
I managed to keep it up for Spring 2026, I want to keep going for Summer 2026
I’d like to have more focus on novel/light novels this time rather than Manga. Reading manga has been a great confidence booster but I think I need to be exposed to more varied writing styles.
A bit of copy pasta from my listening challenge post:
I’m planning on retaking the JLPT N1 in December to improve from my previous score from 10 years ago. I got 105/180 then which is slightly above the passing grade of 100. I’m also planning on trying to move to Japan in the next year or two via HSP visa.
Apart from Japanese, I am also refreshing my Chinese, which was at intermediate B1-B2 level about 16 years ago but I haven’t kept it up since then. I’ve been working on it for the past two months, 95% on vocabulary lists so I need to include more input and output.
These are part of a project of mine to reach B2 level in 7 languages by the end of 2029. French, English and Japanese are already there. I’m working on Chinese at the moment and will be aiming to get HSK6 in the next year. Then depending on my situation I’ll pick between German (A2?), Italian (B1?) or Korean (A2?).
New challenge time! I don’t usually do a homepost (I never end up using it) but for this challenge, I’ll be continuing reading more Ranpo - and firstly reading the rest of his “陰獣”.
As for what next, I’m not sure yet… I do have an artbook I want to go through, so maybe that soon
“Read” the ダム現場のバラバラ殺人 sub-chapter… which is formatted like a newspaper article.
I was pretty happy with rereading through the whole book up to this point.
Today was my first new content in quite a while and it seemed appropriate with the new beginning.
I love reading challenges! I try and read every morning with coffee in bed for about 1.5 hours. When I read at night I can’t focus on the the words.
Major discovery today - I read novels on my Mac using the Kindle app and my thumb was getting tired from holding down the trackpad to get definitions. Found out I could adjust my settings to highlight with 3 fingers and that I can click by tapping with my pointer finger!!! I had no idea
迷犬マジック A book with 4 different “short” stories about a stray dog who comes into people’s lives and wonderful things start happening for them. Warm, slice-of-life fiction with a magical-realism for adults. Great for building vocabulary because each story repeats a lot of the same words that are dog related. I also like to listen to the audio version at the same time for listening practice.
I took advantage of the Satori Reader sale and am back on the app after being away for about two years. It’s really encouraging to revisit the stories now and notice that they don’t feel as challenging as they once did. I still save a few words to the flashcards, even though I’m not really a flashcard person. What helps me more is copying words I want to remember into my WaniKani notes with the title of the story or book where I found them, so I have some kind of hook to the word.
Completed Bartender 7/15-7/18
Starting this today (7/3). My friend read it in English and recommended it to me. I see that it was also read by a WK book club so all of the vocabulary is available and there’s an audiobook version! So excited… update 7/26: almost finished with chapter 2 and the suspense is really building now. Until this part, they spent an extraordinary time explaining the 間取り図 of the houses… Completed this very twisted tale! 8/16/26
Starting this book 8/18. It appears to be a series of short stories with magical elements similar to ふしぎ駄菓子屋 銭天堂 that takes place in a coffee shop with some time travel perhaps? Ok, this book had a lot of challenging phrases and the plot was moving too slowly to balance out the effort, also the Audible free copy expired so at page 48 I decided to set it aside.
I have set myself a slightly too ambitious study plan for the summer, so I’ve decided to pare it down and make reading some よつばと！ every day my minimum. Today I finished Chapter 39, so I am on my way.
If I keep this up, I will hit my yearly goals by the end of the month!! Just kidding, I was just motivated and had a good amount of breaks today But I want to stop reading for now, maybe play a bit more Xenoblade in the evening
Kelsy’s Summer 2026 Reading Challenge 
Spring 2026
In spring, I’ve read the first volume of Apothecary Diaries and that’s a series I want to continue
So yeah, I think I’ll just decide on a case by case basis what to count
pocketcalamity’s home post 
When I read at night I can’t focus on the the words. 
I reached level 60 this week!
update 7/26: almost finished with chapter 2 and the suspense is really building now. Until this part, they spent an extraordinary time explaining the 間取り図 of the houses… 
Completed this very twisted tale! 8/16/26
